Soundcheck from WNYC
WNYC, New York Public Radio, brings you Soundcheck, the arts and culture program hosted by John Schaefer, who engages guests and listeners in lively, inquisitive conversations with established and rising figures in New York City's creative arts scene. Guests come from all disciplines, including pop, indie rock, jazz, urban, world and classical music, technology, cultural affairs, TV and film. Recent episodes have included features on Michael Jackson,Crosby Stills & Nash, the Assad Brothers, Rackett, The Replacements, and James Brown.
- Website
- http://www.newsounds.org/shows/soundcheck
- Description
- Live performances and conversations in which artists talk about their work, their process, and themselves. Genre-blind but open-eared.
- Language
- š¬š§ English
- last modified
- 2024-11-23 14:43
- last episode published
- 2024-11-21 12:00
- publication frequency
- 3.52 days
- Contributors
- WNYC Studios
- Author
- Explicit
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- Number of Episodes
- 751
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- Categories
- Society & Culture Performing Arts TV & Film Music Technology Gadgets Arts
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| 2024-11-21 | The singer, guitarist and songwriterĀ JoseĢ JuniorĀ recently released his debut album, called Spanish Leather,Ā a mix of indie rock, Latin pop, and psychedelia, with the songs pretty evenly split between English and Spanish. TheĀ album isĀ about overcoming t... |
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| 2024-11-18 |
Dorado Schmitt and Sons Bring the Hot Club Jazz Manouche, In-Studio In the 1930s the style known as "jazz manouche" took over France and soon spread around the world, led by musicians like the legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt and the violinist Stephane Grappelli. That hot swinging style, a combination of American j... |
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| 2024-11-14 | The Australian-born, California-based singer/songwriter and producer RY X seems to have multiple careers: writing intimate, diaphanous folk/pop songs that offer connection and vulnerability; collaborating as a producer, singer, or DJ with some of the b... |
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| 2024-11-11 |
Low Cut Connie Cheekily Serves Up Gritty RockenRoll, In-Studio Philadelphia-based garage band Low Cut Connie is led by pianist, and songwriter Adam Weiner, who has been sexing up piano-based party rockenroll for quite some time. Along the way, critics anointed them with either or both the words āscuzz(ball)ā and ā... |
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| 2024-11-07 |
Danielia Cotton Brings a Little Bit of Country, and a Little Bit of Soul, In-Studio Danielia Cotton is a singer, guitarist, cancer survivor and marathon runner. The sounds ofĀ classic country and soul are at the heart of Cottonās music, although her last couple of releases have seen her incorporating everything from indie rock to blues... |
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| 2024-11-04 |
Nick Lowe's 'Second Act' As a Tender Singer-Songwriter, In-Studio English singer, songwriter, and producer Nick Lowe came out of theĀ so-calledĀ pub rock scene in the UK in the 70s,Ā andĀ made his mark as a producer (Elvis Costello, Graham Parker, The Pretenders,Ā The Damned), had a "short-livedĀ career as a pop star, and ... |
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| 2024-10-31 |
Brazilian Pianist Amaro Freitas' Futuristic and Spellbinding Music Brazilian pianist and composer Amaro Freitas is from the city of Recife, on the northeastern edge of Brazil, a city rooted in African culture. But his latest album, YāY, looks in a different direction. The title, spelled YāY, is an indigenous Amazonian... |
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| 2024-10-28 |
Songwriter and Musician Fantastic Negrito Turns Trauma Into Art The story of Fantastic Negrito is one of those stranger-than-fiction tales ā born Xavier Dphrepaulezz and raised in a strict Muslim home, he had an aborted career as an R&B star under the name Xavier, a near-fatal car accident, a seven year break f... |
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| 2024-10-24 |
Hermanos GutiĆ©rrez: Two Guitars Are Enough, Live, From National Sawdust Hermanos Gutierrez is a band formed of the brothers Alejandro and EstevanĀ GutiĆ©rrez, based in Switzerland, who make instrumental music that looks to mid-century Mexican popular song, draws on the sounds of 60s surf guitar and the nocturnal landscapes o... |
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| 2024-10-21 |
Loup Barrow's Otherworldly Music For Cristal Baschet, In-Studio The Cristal Baschet is a very unique, rare, and delicate otherworldly-sounding glass organ comprised of 56 chromatically-tuned glass rods . Only a handful of musicians on this planet play the instrument professionally; one of them is Loup Barrow, a Fre... |
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