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Composer Vijay Iyer, poet Mike Ladd, Iraq War veteran and poet Maurice Decaul, and a live band play selections from Holding It Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project, in-studio, (Archives.) (episode)
Week of Oct. 26: This week, electronica Santeria by ÌFÉ, orchestral Sigur Ros, and… Pelé?! Plus, a pandemic collaboration from Shara Nova, Gaby Moreno, and German choir Cantus Domus. (article)
Wrap yourself in twangy and fuzzy songs from Brighton-based Juanita Stein and her band. They play tunes from Juanita’s latest solo album, ‘Snapshot,’ made in tribute to her late father. (episode)
Sam Amidon explores classic folk tunes – shape note anthems, murder ballads, traditional songs - and sets them in the “imagined space of an album fantasy world.” He joins us remotely. (episode)
This week, dance music from James Blake, a classic protest song remade by the Resistance Revival Chorus, and songwriter Omar Apollo dials in Mexican sounds from Indiana. (article)
Songwriter Thao Nguyen's 2013 album with The Get Down Stay Down, 'We The Common,' marked a turning point both in Nguyen's career and in her life. They played in-studio. (Archives, 2013.) (episode)
Naomi Shelton And The Gospel Queens (Daptone Records) play spirit-lifting songs, in-studio. Alabama native Shelton channels the human condition and personal burdens. (Archives, 2014) (episode)
The New Zealand singer-songwriter Aldous Harding writes captivating and intense, yet bleak and fragile songs. She plays her melancholic folk in-studio. (From the Archives, 2016.) (episode)
Week of Oct. 12: This week, a premiere from The Unders, old music reappears in new albums by Kronos Quartet and Yo La Tengo, plus eerie art-pop by Montreal violist Linaire. (article)
Lomelda is the stage name of Texas-born, LA-based singer-guitarist Hannah Read. She plays her inventively-arranged songs spanning folk, indie rock and Baroque pop, solo and remotely. (episode)