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Guitarist, composer, and musical innovator Kaki King plays music from her forthcoming album and talks Big Issues: getting COVID19, the mysterious creative process, and fingernail care. (episode)
Nine Inch Nails leader and Oscar-winning composer Trent Reznor has created innovative and abrasive music. He and collaborator Atticus Ross discuss their score for Gone Girl. (From 2014.) (episode)
Jake Blount is a singer, fiddler, banjo player, and scholar of old time American music. He joins us remotely to play tunes and dig deep into African roots from his record, Spider Tales. (episode)
Hear the extraordinary wah-wah drenched, and fuzzed-up Hallelujahs of the funk-soul-rock-n-gospel group from Texas, The Relatives. Hear their 2013 set, live from The Greene Space. (episode)
John Darnielle leads the Mountain Goats. This spring he recorded a new boombox album in quarantine. He shares that story and a brand new song from his porch in North Carolina. (episode)
Nashville-based Luke Schneider plays with Margo Price and Orville Peck, but his latest is an ambient atmospheric album of pedal steel guitar. He joins us from Third Man Records' Studios. (episode)
The British artist Jessie Ware reflects on making her album, 'Tough Love' - from writing a song with Ed Sheeran, to hanging out with Benny Blanco's bulldog. (Originally from 2014.) (episode)
John Cale dropped by in 2012 to talk about his days with The Velvet Underground, and played songs with his band from Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood, in-studio. (From the Archives.) (episode)
With Nina Simone on the wall of her home studio, composer/producer Emily Wells presents songs in their most elemental form, along with a new song written this March - “I’m Numbers.” (episode)