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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)
Week of May 28: This week, returns for Buddy Guy and Jake Shears, a benefit song from Hurray For The Riff Raff for Puerto Rico, and an expansive hip-hop/orchestral collaboration. (article)
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)
Week of May 21: This week, Neko Case gets dark, Fantastic Negrito gets darker, and Nine Inch Nails… You get the idea. (article)
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)
This week, shades of blue from the Ruen Brothers and from Kelsey Lu, and a message from Sioux sacred lands by Gang Gang Dance. (article)
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)