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The late funk and R&B singer Charles Bradley recorded for Daptone Records (Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Budos Band.) He joined us live to sing tunes from his first LP, back in 2011. (episode)
Lean and urgent like the best of the early punk rock bands, Brooklyn's Parquet Courts (sometimes Parkay Quarts) makes short rides in a fast machine. Here's their in-studio from 2013. (episode)
Russian-born, New York-raised singer and pianist Regina Spektor packs surprises (and charm and wit) into her songs. She plays in-studio, from a 2012 session. (episode)
Pianist, composer, and bandleader Jon Batiste comes from a New Orleans music family, and he does it all: jazz, funk, R&B, and classical. Batiste and Stay Human played in-studio in 2011. (episode)
Possessed of the greatest patterned shirt collection in all of folk-alt-psych-pop-dom, the singer-songwriter-guitarist Robyn Hitchcock visited Soundcheck in 2006 with the Venus 3. (episode)
Revisit an explosive performance by the late, great soul singer Sharon Jones with her band, the Dap Kings, from The Greene Space, celebrating their 2010 record, "I Learned the Hard Way." (episode)
Revisit a performance from the post-punk art rock band band Art Brut. They'd just released the 2009 album "Art Brut Vs Satan." (episode)
Bill Withers, the artist behind the classics “Ain’t No Sunshine,” “Lean On Me,” and “Just the Two of Us,” died on Friday at 81. As a remembrance, we revisit this 2010 interview. (episode)
Back in the before, New Zealand singer-songwriter Kimbra joined us with her band and an impressive array of pedals, playing songs from Vows. Here's that 2012 in-studio. (episode)