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
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-05-17 03:16
- last episode published
- 2024-05-16 12:00
- publication frequency
- 3.52 days
- Contributors
- WNYC Studios
- Author
- Explicit
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- Number of Episodes
- 697
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- Categories
- Society & Culture Performing Arts TV & Film Music Technology Gadgets Arts
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| 2024-05-16 | Singer Kiran Ahluwalia was born in India, grew up in Canada, and is largely based here in New York. Her music reflects her transcontinental upbringing, as she mixes the sounds of traditional South Asian song forms with Western rock and jazz. A two-time... |
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| 2024-05-13 |
Shabaka's Latest Adventure: Connecting to Nature and Breath With Flutes Shabaka Hutchings, now Shabaka, has been a crucial and connected London-based musician for years, leading arena dance-jazz band Sons of Kemet, cosmic psych-dub-funk trio The Comet Is Coming, and the collaborative band Shabaka & the Ancestors. He be... |
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| 2024-05-09 | José James has often been called a “jazz singer for the hip hop generation,” having come to jazz through tracing hip hop samples and over the course of twelve records, he’s also incorporated R&B, soul, rock, funk, and Latin music into his songs. Wh... |
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| 2024-05-06 | American indie rock-chamber collective, San Fermin, has been making lush, wide-angled Baroque-pop songs for more than a decade. The band was founded by keyboardist Brooklyn-based Ellis Ludwig Leone, who has multiple creative outlets as a songwriter, cl... |
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| 2024-05-02 |
Cameroonian Composer Blick Bassy's Folk, Soul and Electro Songscapes France-based Cameroonian musician and composer Blick Bassy’s quiet and beautiful songs fall somewhere on the spectrum of soul, folk, and electro, while the sounds of West and Central Africa have continued to resonate and embody a deep reverence for the... |
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| 2024-04-29 | Vocalist and songwriter Lizz Wright is usually referred to as a jazz or gospel singer, and she certainly does sing both of those styles. But she’s also comfortable with blues and R&B and the Great American Songbook. Her latest album is called Shado... |
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| 2024-04-25 | Reyna Tropical is led by guitarist, singer, songwriter and co-producer Fabi Reyna, who is the founder of She Shreds Media, dedicated to women and non-binary guitarists. Investigating landscapes of the tropical diaspora - from Cartagena, Colombia to Faj... |
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| 2024-04-22 | Brooklyn-born rapper, producer & founding member of Flatbush Zombies, Erick the Architect released his debut solo LP, I’ve Never Been Here Before, in February. While it’s full of trenchant social commentary, it’s also focused on dealing with loss a... |
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| 2024-04-18 | Deerlady is the name of the band led by singer and bassist Mali Obomsawin and guitarist and singer Magdalena Abrego. Mali was part of the folk rock trio called Lula Wiles; then she released her album of Indigenous jazz called Sweet Tooth in 2022, drawi... |
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| 2024-04-15 | London vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and producer Cosmo Sheldrake creates songs and sound worlds out of people, places, creatures, plants, fungi, and collected sounds. With his combination of traditional instrumentation and electronic production, fie... |
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