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Composer, guitarist, and instrument builder Paolo Angeli incorporates still more inventive modifications on his prepared Sardinian guitar. He performs new music from 'Nijar', in-studio. (episode)
This week, Irish music, new and old, from Fontaines D.C. and Lankum; also, American singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams, Bootsy Collins, and Wild Up’s Survey of Julius Eastman. (article)
British singer, songwriter, and wicked guitarist Richard Thompson OBE joins us today to unleash solo acoustic versions of new songs from his 2018 record, the 13 Rivers, (Archives). (episode)
The NYC group Zelenaya mixes the haunting three part vocal harmonies of traditional Eastern European folk music with the doom-laden guitars and pummeling drums of heavy metal, in-studio. (episode)
Tuareg singer and guitarist Mdou Moctar and his band combine rock and psychedelia, call-and-response and accelerating threes, melting faces and stunning audiences. They play in-studio. (episode)
New albums by The Decemberists and Staples Jr. Singers; singles by Joan As Police Woman and Meshell Ndegeocello, separately and together. Also, So Percussion & Caroline Shaw, and STEFA*. (article)
Ringdown, the indie-pop duo of composer/violinist Caroline Shaw and folk-rock songwriter Danni Lee Parpan, makes music about love and heartbreak - and dancing. They play in-studio. (episode)
Brooklyn combo Tipa Tipo fuse the spirit of '70s soft rock and disco with Latin rhythms, in a very danceable way. They play songs from their album, Cintas, in-studio, with more cowbell. (episode)
This week, Moses Sumney returns, Raye shows off, and Robert Plant & Alison Kraus remake a Led Zeppelin remake. Also, Angélica Garcia, Landless, and beabadoobee. (article)
L.A.-based composer and songwriter Julia Holter’s experimental pop glides, flows, and transforms into minimalist songscapes. She and her band play in-studio. (episode)