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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,...
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Spanish-born Pablopablo, Bending Latin Music Traditions
The Spanish-born singer, songwriter and producer Pablopablo recently released his debut LP, but he’d already built up an impressive array of writing a...
The Sensational Blues Guitarist Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, At Last, In-Studio
Christone "Kingfish" Ingram has been steeped in the Blues since he was eight years old, when he visited the Delta Blues Museum as a student in Clarksd...
47SOUL Brings the Shamstep Party With a Message (Archives)
“Shamstep” band, 47SOUL, take their name from the Arabic name for the Levant region – Bilad al-Sham, with members from Jordan, Washington DC, and Isra...
Revisiting The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (From the Archives, 2019)
The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is a musically free-ranging band of brothers from the south side of Chicago. Their music draws from funk, funky jazz, Afro...
Rumbo Tumba Crafts Argentinian Electro-Traditional Music, In-Studio
Rumbo Tumba is the project of the Argentine musician Facundo Salgado, who uses a looping station and a battery of handmade, traditional South American...
Bill Frisell & Skúli Sverrisson Live at the 2025 New York Guitar Festival
From the 2025 New York Guitar Festival, hear music from legendary American jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and Icelandic bass player Skúli Sverrisson, who...
Homegrown Brooklyn Bluegrass From Cole Quest & The City Pickers
Cole Quest & The City Pickers are a bluegrass band from Brooklyn, and if that surprises you, well, the fact is New York City has had a long, strong bl...
Soundcheck Special – “Blues Is the Roots”
The Soundcheck Podcast series offers up music from recent sessions, all revolving around The Blues –at the root of so much popular music, and where th...
Wry and Lyrical Balladeer Ron Sexsmith, Solo, In-Studio
Canada’s Ron Sexsmith is a songwriter whose fans include Elvis Costello, Elton John, Paul McCartney, and a few other folks who know a thing or two abo...
Songwriter Cass McCombs Addresses the Mundane and the Mythic
Distinctive songwriter Cass McCombs takes a broad view of the American experience – from the mundane to the mythic. His new songs from a wide-ranging...
Omar Sosa Trio Goes Outside the Box, In-Studio
Pianist and composer Omar Sosa draws on his own Afro-Cuban heritage, American jazz, and spiritual and meditative practices from around the world to cr...
Plainspoken Texas Troubadour Rodney Crowell Lives for the Moment
“Failed bull-rider turned seminal songwriter” (Red Light Management), native Texan Rodney Crowell is considered to be one of the chief architects of A...
Guitarist Mary Halvorson and Drummer Tomas Fujiwara, From the 2025 New York Guitar Festival
From the 2025 New York Guitar Festival, listen to a live set by the adventurous guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson along with drummer/composer Tomas Fu...
A Kind of Nordic Blues From Tord Gustavsen Trio (Archives)
Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen and his trio, featuring new bassist Sigurd Hole and long-time collaborator, drummer Jarle Vespestad, combine together...
Adrian Quesada Revives Dramatic Vintage Latin Pop, With Guest Vocalists
Adrian Quesada is probably best known as one of the two co-founders of the psychedelic soul band Black Pumas, but the guitarist and producer has also...
Anand Wilder's Sonic Adventures in Psych-Pop, In-Studio
The New York-based singer, songwriter, and producer Anand Wilder was a cofounder of the experimental indie band Yeasayer, and more recently has pursue...
Inuk Singer-Songwriter Elisapie Transforms Her Heritage
The singer Elisapie is an Inuk musician, filmmaker, advocate, and writer who has become a nationally-celebrated figure in Canada – her portrait appear...
Guitar-Oriented Rock Band We Are Scientists' Twist on Nostalgia, In-Studio
Named after being mis-identified while returning a uHaul, the pop’n’roll band We Are Scientists has been making melancholic, nostalgic, and melodic so...
Eleanor Friedberger Is (Goth) Dancing (Mostly) on Her Own (Archives)
Eleanor Friedberger, best known as one half of the indie rock duo The Fiery Furnaces, has recently shifted her musical landscape, swapping out live in...
Rachael & Vilray Serve New Old-Timey Songs With a Sly Wink, In-Studio
The duo of Rachael & Vilray turns the idea of "Everything old is new again" on its head – making new things that sound really old. Over the course of...
The Expansive Textured Ambient Songs of Vines, In-Studio
New York based composer Cassie Wieland first unveiled her ambient songwriting project she calls Vines in 2023. Now she’s released a full LP under the...
Afrofuturist Hip Hop From Indianapolis Supergroup 81355, In-Studio
Indianapolis-based group 81355 (pronounced ‘bless’) is a collaboration between the rapper/singers Oreo Jones and Sirius Blvck, and the lyricist/produc...
The Bad Plus Keeps On Making Their Own Rules
In 2000 the Bad Plus helped usher in the new century with what looked like a 20th century jazz piano trio, with music ranging from groove-based origin...
The Pop Precision of Cautious Clay, In-Studio
Cautious Clay is the stage name of singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Josh Karpeh. He burst out of the gate with his song “Cold War” in 2017...
Adventurous Harpist Brandee Younger Finds Joy With Gadabout Season
Bandleader, educator, and improviser Brandee Younger plays the harp. But while she has classical training and knows her way around Ravel and Debussy,...
Larry & Joe's Venezuelan and Appalachian Folk Music Has No Borders
Larry & Joe is a duo that blends the traditional folk music of Venezuela and Appalachia. The duo consists of Larry Bellorin, who has mastered the folk...
Songwriter Laura Stevenson Rebuilds and Calls The Shots
American singer-songwriter Laura Stevenson has found a musical home in the area between indie rock and confessional singer/songwriter folk. Her new al...
Australian-American Songwriter John Butler Soul-Searches and Sublimates
John Butler has been one of Australia’s most successful independent musicians over the past quarter century. Much of that time he’s led the platinum...
Puerto Rico's Buscabulla and Their Ever-Evolving Dreamy Pop
The band Buscabulla began here in New York over a decade ago, when singer Raquel Berrios and multi-instrumentalist Luis Del Valle began making their s...
Brooklyn Band Wet, In-Studio
New York indie-pop group Wet, sometimes melancholic, sometimes bright, and always soulful, has just released Two Lives, a memoir-ish bittersweet refle...
Senegalese Singer Cheikh Ibra Fam's Music as a Force for Good
Cheikh Ibra Fam is a singer and songwriter from the West African nation of Senegal; he toured the world singing with Senegal’s famous dance band, Orch...
New York's La Banda Chuska Plays Cumbia-Surf, In-Studio
New York group La Banda Chuska combines the psychedelic takes on the sounds of 1970’s Peru and Colombia and brings them to the beach party resulting i...
The Wonder of Disiniblud (Rachika Nayar & Nina Keith): Electronic Fantasies at Play
When we last heard from Rachika Nayar, she was creating warped textures from her guitar and the software program called Ableton. Our introduction to N...
Singular Artist Shamir's Last Solo Act: Celebrating Community
The Philadelphia-via-Vegas artist, singer, and songwriter Shamir has had a decade long career as a musical shapeshifter. Shamir has marked his ten yea...
Juneteenth 2025 Special Edition
Listen to a Juneteenth edition of the Soundcheck Podcast, with music celebrating African-American culture and history. Juneteenth marks the day that t...
Another Side of Guitarist Marc Ribot: Intimate Songs With His Voice
Guitarist Marc Ribot has established himself as one of the most versatile , distinctive, in-demand guitarists anywhere. He’s played with Tom Waits, Ma...
Alt-Pop Band OK Go Bubbles With Shifting Perspective
The melodic power pop band OK Go, as much a visual art ensemble as they are a rock band, has just released its first new album in over a decade. It’s...
Brooklyn Rider, Cross-Pollinating Chamber Music for 20 Years, and Counting
The string quartet known as Brooklyn Rider features the usual two violins, viola and cello. And that’s about all that’s usual with this band. Over th...
Kentucky Singer/Songwriter S.G. Goodman Passes Down Stories in Song
Kentucky-based singer and songwriter S. G. Goodman blends a deeply-rooted Americana sound with indie rock and sharply observed tales of life, love and...
Brooklyn Bhangra Party With Red Baraat, In-Studio
The brass and dhol-led party band Red Baraat began as a Punjabi wedding band here in New York, but for the past 15 years they’ve brought their raucous...