Soundcheck from WNYC
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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
- 2024-12-11 05:46
- last episode published
- 2024-12-09 12:00
- publication frequency
- 3.52 days
- Contributors
- WNYC Studios
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 756
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Society & Culture Performing Arts TV & Film Music Technology Gadgets Arts
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Episodes
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| 2024-12-09 | Guitarist Jeff Parker is probably best known for his work in the Chicago-based post rock band Tortoise, but he’s had a prolific career as a soloist and a sideman. In the past few years he’s been leading his ETA IVtet, an all-star group of musicians (sa... |
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| 2024-12-05 | Pom Pom Squad is the band led by singer and guitarist Mia Berrin; their debut album, Death of a Cheerleader, offered a gimlet-eyed, often ironic view of pop culture through a queer lens. Now Pom Pom Squad has released its sophomore LP called Mirror Sta... |
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| 2024-12-02 | Grammy and Mercury Nominated and Brit award-winning songwriter Laura Marling has mapped out new musical territories, including chamber pop and electronics. Her latest record, Patterns in Repeat was written following the birth of her daughter in 2023 an... |
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| 2024-11-28 | Mulitple Grammy winning singer, songwriter and producer Rodney Crowell was one of the founders of the style that’s come to be known as alternative country. His career has been marked by notable collaborations, like the one with Emmylou Harris that brou... |
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| 2024-11-25 |
The Timeless Original West Georgia Blues of Jontavious Willis Jontavious Willis is a blues singer and guitarist from west Georgia, hence the title of his recent album, West Georgia Blues. He’s not even 30, but Willis has an old soul – he loves the blues musicians from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s, and when he writes h... |
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| 2024-11-21 | The singer, guitarist and songwriter José Junior recently released his debut album, called Spanish Leather, a mix of indie rock, Latin pop, and psychedelia, with the songs pretty evenly split between English and Spanish. The album is 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 “scuzz(ball)” and “... |
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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 of classic country and soul are at the heart of Cotton’s music, although her last couple of releases have seen her incorporating everything from indie rock to blues... |
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