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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 originals to covers of Black Sabbath an... Jul 31, 2025
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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, a song that was later sampled b... Jul 28, 2025
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Adventurous Harpist Brandee Younger Finds Joy With 'Gadabout Season'
Harpist Brandee Younger continues to expand boundaries and stretch limitations of the harp. She and her trio play from her latest, 'Gadabout Season', in-studio. Jul 24, 2025
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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 harp of Venezuela, and Joe Troop... Jul 21, 2025
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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 album, Late Great, runs the gamut o... Jul 17, 2025
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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 selling John Butler Trio, three o... Jul 14, 2025
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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 sophisticated, electronically-ting... Jul 10, 2025
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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 reflection on life’s major transitions... Jul 7, 2025
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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, Orchestra Baobab, for six years. In 2... Jul 3, 2025
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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 in an irresistible cumbia-surf mix. Jun 30, 2025
