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Producer, songwriter, badass and musician Neko Case is about to unleash her latest record, "Hell-On." She brings her touring band to play some of new these tunes in-studio. (episode)
Hear "humanised" electronic music by Rival Consoles, aka UK-based producer Ryan Lee West, in-studio. His music combines warm analogue synthesizers along with acoustic instruments. (episode)
Part book club, part composer collective, five-piece band Oracle Hysterical's "Hecuba" is both chamber song-cycle and art-rock concept album. They'll play songs from it in-studio. (episode)
Pianist, composer, and bandleader Vijay Iyer and his sextet bring the fiery funk, jazz, and electronics along with deep earthiness, in-studio. (episode)
The latest achievement of The Magnetic Fields is "50 Song Memoir," an ambitious album containing one song for each year of Stephin Merritt's life. He and Sam Davol perform in-studio. (episode)
Niger's guitar giant Bombino makes powerful, hypnotic Saharan guitar rock that celebrates his desert home and Tuareg culture on his latest, "Deran." Bombino plays these songs in-studio. (episode)
Bay Area band, The California Honeydrops, are an old school party of country-blues, Southern soul, New Orleans second-line, and R&B. They'll play new tunes with soulful groove in-studio. (episode)
Self-reliant singer/songwriter Eleanor Friedberger, (Fiery Furnaces) has gone synthier and smokier on her latest, "Rebound." Hear these darkly poetic, groovy, and smoky songs, in-studio. (episode)
The American band Speedy Ortiz makes pop-with-teeth, full of stinging lyrics and surprising twisted riffs. The band plays new tunes from "Twerp Verse" in-studio. (episode)