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Near and Far
Fix The Best New Artist Grammy: Dump It
Marc Hirsh argues that the Best New Artist award, the kids’ table of the Grammys, ought to go the way of the dodo bird, for everyone’s sake and everyone’s sanity.
Inspiration Or Embarrassment? Lang Lang And Metallica Teaming Up At Grammys
Both the band and the piano superstar know a thing or two about shredding. Perhaps these odd bedfellows have more in common than meets the ear.
Lucius on World Cafe
A five-piece band from Brooklyn, Lucius is led by two singers, Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, who met at Berklee College of Music in Boston. They crafted their unique vocal sound over the decade they’ve worked together, and now even dress alike.
On ‘Hard Working Americans,’ Songs For The Ordinary Joe
Todd Snider, Widespread Panic’s Dave Schools and Duane Trucks perform in a new band that specializes in covering working-class songs.
Hurray For The Riff Raff’s New Political Folk
The New Orleans-based bandleader Alynda Lee Segarra talks about the wide range of political and musical inspirations — from her Puerto Rican background to the Occupy movement and women’s rights in India — behind her band’s new album, Small Town Heroes.
Gem Club’s Ghosts And ‘Roses’
All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton share the sadness and beauty of Gem Club’s new album.
San Fermin on World Cafe
The band’s debut album is full of stately folk-pop music. But its arrangements also owe a lot to songwriter Ellis Ludwig-Leone’s classical roots, as well as his work with arranger Nico Muhly.
600 Suggestions — And Counting — For Our Cabin Fever Playlist
Melissa Block and Robert Siegel update listeners on some of what the open flood gates of social media brought us when we asked for suggestions for our Cabin Fever playlist. Hint: It was a deluge of great, funky, upbeat, sunny songs prescribed to cure the winter blahs.
D.C. Area Fanzine Collection Focuses on DIY Publishing
Fanzines have long been a staple of passionate music fans with a typewriter, camera and opinions to burn. Rolling Stone…
Guess Who’s Singing The National Anthem At The Super Bowl?
We won’t guess what her odds were, but it’s superstar soprano Renee Fleming.
Robbie Fulks On World Cafe
The singer discusses flat-picking, his frustrating career in Nashville, and Gone Away Backwards.
World Cafe Next: Lake Street Dive
The quartet, which met at the New England Conservatory in Boston, combines great instrumental virtuosity with a love for roots-influenced music with jazzy flair.
Mavis Staples On World Cafe
Staples’ gospel-rooted solo recordings have captivated artists such as Bob Dylan and Prince, and helped pave the way for contemporary soul music. Over the course of her 50-year career, Staples has become a legend on the strength of her huge vocals and messages of hope.
Lafayette Gilchrist: An Old Soul, At Ease In A Modern World
On Gilchrist’s The View From Here, go-go dance beats inform his piano the same way freight-train boogie-woogie does.
Of Montreal On World Cafe
Hear the indie-rock band perform songs from Lousy With Sylvianbriar, recorded live in Philadelphia.
The ‘Ode To Joy’ As A Call To Action
Melissa Block talks with Kerry Candaele, director of the documentary Following the Ninth. The film explores how Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony continues to “offer hope in an unhappy world.”
From D.C. To DMZ: Aspiring Rappers Travel To North Korea To Film Video
Neither had Pacman nor Peso had ever been far from D.C., but in December the young rappers — born Anthony…
Uneven But Vital, Bruce Springsteen Has ‘High Hopes’
His 18th album is a mixed-bag assortment of covers and originals brimming with undimmed eagerness.
Bob Boilen’s 116 Favorite Concerts Of 2013
A year of live concerts, by the numbers: 662 total shows featuring 549 bands playing in 139 venues in 21 cities. For the All Songs Considered host, it was a perfect year.
New Year, New Mix: St. Vincent, Bruce Springsteen, Damien Jurado, More
Hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton are back from their holiday journey to the heartland, rested and ready to celebrate the new year with a batch of new music from some of their favorite artists and latest discoveries.