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Soundcheck
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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South African Guitarist Derek Gripper, From the 2025 New York Guitar Festival
Derek Gripper is a classical guitarist from South Africa who has somehow found a way to play West African music for the 21-string harp, or kora, on th...
Troubadour and Guitarist Steve Gunn Creates Sonic Landscapes, In-Studio
Guitarist Steve Gunn has established himself as a singer/songwriter and as an ace collaborator with artists like Hiss Golden Messenger and Kurt Vile. ...
Clarinetist Michael Winograd Infuses Klezmer Traditions With Jazz
Klezmer music may have its roots in the Jewish communities of Eastern Europe, but it found a home here in NY in the 1920s and 30s, and the klezmer rev...
British Band Public Service Broadcasting Teaches History Lessons With 'The Last Flight'
The British band Public Service Broadcasting describes their work as "Teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future", (Bandcamp). T...
Cellist Rebecca Foon's Delicate Layers of Song on "Black Butterflies"
Rebecca Foon is best known as a cellist – she’s been a pivotal figure on the Montreal scene, playing with bands like Thee Silver Mt Zion and her world...
Best of Soundcheck 2025, Part 2
Listen to music from South African-born, UK-based cellist and vocalist Abel Selaocoe; Hot Psychedelic Gnawa Blues By French-Moroccan band Bab L’ Bluz;...
Best of the Soundcheck Podcast 2025, Part 1
Hear music by Portuguese fado singer Carminho; Grammy-winning classical quartet Third Coast Percussion performing music written for them by the late I...
Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O, In-Studio (Encore Edition)
New York-based drummer and educator Matt Wilson has performed with and/or played on many recordings by other musicians - Joe Lovano, John Scofield, Ch...
Jazz-Leaning Donny McCaslin Band Grooves With Crunch, In-Studio
Saxophonist and composer Donny McCaslin has been playing with jazz luminaries like Maria Schneider and Dave Douglas, and leading his own band, for a c...
Composer and Producer Kelly Moran's Prepared Piano Meets Electronica, In-Studio
New York-based classically trained composer and musician Kelly Moran’s music draws on everything from classical to dance to metal, but ends up soundin...
Montreal's Psych-Art Rockers The Besnard Lakes, In-Studio
The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse. The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night. The Besnard Lakes Are The Last Of The Great Thunderstorm Warnings. The...
Brooklyn Band Momma Plays Unplugged, In-Studio
The Brooklyn band called Momma revolves around the singing and songwriting team of Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten who combine gauzy vocal harmon...
Icelandic Pianist Eydís Evenson Shares Elemental Lessons of LIfe and Nature
The Icelandic keyboardist and composer Eydís Evensen has released three albums of music that blends classical lyricism with the repeating patterns of...
Boyish Brings Walls of Guitars to the 'Gun' Show, In-Studio
The L.A-based, Brooklyn-born band called Boyish is built around the songwriting of India Shore and Claire Altendahl, and while they’ve been releasing...
English Singer Patrick Wolf Plays Artful Baroque Pop, In-Studio
English singer and multi-instrumentalist Patrick Wolf built his sizable reputation on a blend of Baroque pop and arty, classically-informed folk-rock....
Dusty Psych-Soul and Fiery Groove From Black Pumas (Archives)
Both old and new, Austin-based band Black Pumas is centered around guitarist and producer Adrian Quesada and 27-year-old songwriter Eric Burton. Gramm...
Soundcheck Special - American Musicians Ashley Jackson and Ken Pomeroy
Listen to music from American musicians, the harpist Ashley Jackson and the Oklahoma-based Cherokee singer and songwriter Ken Pomeroy. Both sets come...
Irish Folk Duo Ye Vagabonds Go Backwards to Look Forwards
Ye Vagabonds are brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn. They grew up in rural Carlow but moved to Dublin in 2012 and became known on the traditional...
Indigenous Latin-Jazz-Ambient-Soul From Cochemea, In-Studio
Cochemea is a sax player, composer and arranger who spent some years playing vintage-style soul with Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings, as well as stints w...
Polish Pianist and Composer Hania Rani Expands Her Sonic Palette with 'Non Fiction'
The now London-based Polish pianist and composer Hania Rani quickly attracted fans with her 2019 album of solo piano works in the post-classical style...
Master Violinist, Vocalist, and Composer L. Shankar, In-Studio
Master violinist/vocalist/composer L. Shankar (aka Shenkar) has spent the past four decades developing a personal style that ranges from strict Indian...
Tommy Emmanuel, C.G.P., Chases the Ecstatic Via Guitar Instrumentals, In-Studio
The Australian-born musician and songwriter Tommy Emmanuel is a virtuoso guitarist and Grammy winner who has played with everyone from the legendary C...
Guitarist and Songwriter Brad Barr Stretches Out In a Trio, In-Studio
The Barr Brothers, the indie-folk-rock band from Montreal, have just released their first album in eight years called Let It Hiss. Brad Barr, the band...
Portuguese Singer Carminho Distills the Fatal Romanticism of Fado
The Portuguese singer and songwriter Carminho is one of the leading singers in the style known as fado – the deeply soulful, melancholy music that is...
Mexican Songwriter and Producer Silvana Estrada Shares Her Heart And Finds Joyful Melodies
The Mexican singer Silvana Estrada made an immediate impression with her debut LP Marchita back in 2022. Quickly hailed as a unique voice in Latin mus...
Singer-Songwriter Meklit Embeds Ethiopian Traditions and Connects Cultures, In-Studio
The singer Meklit, born Meklit Hadero in Ethiopia, is based in the Bay Area, where she has released a number of albums that blend jazz, pop, and soul...
Canadian Singer and Composer Patrick Watson Features Other Voices, While Recovering His Own
Canadian singer and composer Patrick Watson has been making records for almost a quarter century – with a cinematic blend of indie rock, cabaret pop,...
The Antlers Consider Nature Under Siege in New Song Cycle, In-Studio
American indie rock band The Antlers began almost 20 years ago as a solo project from singer and songwriter Peter Silberman. While the previous album,...
Bell Jazz Award Winner Sullivan Fortner's Joyful Piano Adventures, In-Studio
GRAMMY-winning musical omnivore Sullivan Fortner merges New Orleans grit and spice with invention (and not just J.S. Bach), for an alchemical jazz tha...
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...