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With John Schaefer on vacation this week, Soundcheck is turning to special guests to fill the host chair and revisiting some of our favorite interviews and studio performances. First... (episode)
<p>Popular children's author and illustrator Sandra Boynton talks about her latest project, <em>Frog Trouble</em> -- a book and album of country songs sung by some of the biggest names in the business.</p>
With John Schaefer on vacation this week, Soundcheck is inviting special guests to fill the host chair and revisiting some of our favorite interviews and in-studio performances. Firs... (episode)
Singer and harmonica player John Németh makes vintage-sounding soul and blues tunes with help from his veteran band The Bo-Keys. Hear Németh and Bo-Keys front-man, Scott Bomar, discus...
Soundcheck guest host Kurt Andersen talks with the former First Lady of France about her fourth album, Little French Songs, released earlier this year -- and she performs a bilingual ...
The two sisters who make up First Aid Kit create wistful folk on their new record Stay Gold. Hear them talk about the record with Death, Sex & Money host Anna Sale, and perform live i...
With John Schaefer on vacation this week, Soundcheck is turning to special guests to fill the host chair and revisiting some of our favorite interviews and studio performances. In th... (episode)
With John Schaefer on vacation this week, Soundcheck is turning to special guests to fill the host chair and revisiting some of our favorite interviews and studio performances. Today... (episode)
<p>Watch Moby perform an extended session of new songs from <em>Innocents</em> and old classics in the <em>Soundcheck</em> studio.</p>
<p>Moby shares three favorite songs he discovered through college and public radio for Soundcheck's Pick Three series.</p>
In this episode: Recently Soundcheck and NPR’s Latino USA teamed up during the Latin American Music Conference for a special night of music and conversation at WNYC's Greene Space. Ho... (episode)
In this episode: Soundcheck goes to the movies, with three music documentary films. First: The new documentary We Like It Like That looks at the roots of New York boogaloo music in t... (episode)
Director Mathew Ramirez Warren and boogaloo bandleader Joe Bataan to talk about the new documentary We Like It Like That, which offers a glimpse at boogaloo and New York's Latin music...
The documentary Mateo tells the story of Matthew Stoneman, a red-haired white guy, who learned mariachi music and a bit of Spanish while serving time for robbery in a California priso...
The documentary Brasslands follows a New York-based Balkan brass band to the world's biggest brass band competition, in an otherwise tiny town in Serbia. Along the way, the filmmakers...
In this episode: In August 1994, 27-year-old Jeff Buckley quietly released Grace, the only full-length studio album the singer-songwriter would put out before his death three years la... (episode)
Professor and author of the 33 1/3 book on Grace, Daphne A. Brooks talks about her favorite tracks from Jeff Buckley's alternative rock masterpiece from 1994, his early days performin...
Whether you know the original, or covers by Jeff Buckley, Imogen Heap or Rufus Wainwright, Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" has, against all odds, become one of the most widely recorde...
In this episode: Sharon Jones is one of soul music’s most magnetic and energetic stars. But last year, she was diagnosed with cancer – and it almost took her life. Now, seven months a... (episode)
Sharon Jones is known for her vintage soul sound and her irrepressible on-stage energy. But a recent battle with cancer put her career on hold — and made her doubt that she'd ever sin...
<p>WDET's Ann Delisi shares her three favorite songs from the summer of 1994. </p>
<p>Watch the Wisconsin indie pop sextet perform songs from its charismatic and soaring debut album.</p>
In this episode: Soundcheck's Summer ‘94 retrospective continues: Comedian Hari Kondabolu looks back on an album so near and dear to his heart that it that inspired his very first AOL... (episode)
Comic and writer Hari Kondabolu talks about his longstanding obsession with Weezer, pick his favorite Weezer songs, and discuss the heartbreaking disappointment that comes with being ...
In our occasional series That Was A Hit?!? pop chart analyst and contributor to NPR Music and Slate Chris Molanphy returns to our studio to tell the story of 1994's summer smash "Regu...
In this episode: Last week, the jazz world lost Charlie Haden, who died at the age of 76. One of the most influential bassists of all time, Haden played with luminaries like Ornette C... (episode)
Last week, the jazz world lost the renowned and influential bassist Charlie Haden, who died at 76. Nate Chinen, the jazz and pop critic for the New York Times, reflects on Haden's div...
<p>It's been nearly three years since her last album, <em>101</em>, but Keren Ann seems to have shown no signs of slowing. Hear the diverse songwriter and composer perform in the <em>Soundcheck</em> studio.</p>