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Hollandude Rewind

Rewind to January 2017 for an interview with multi-instrumentalist Indie rocker Andrew Bird where he describes the creative process behind his latest release Are You Serious. Also shown is a concert excerpt at Carnegie Hall.

Andrew Bird Goes Top Shelf All The Way For Are You Serious

The latest album by Andrew Bird represents, as the artist phrased it in an interview conducted last month at Carnegie Hall, an attempt to go top shelf all the way.  That is, he didn’t start recording until he had explored myriad permutations of each song.  He turned them upside down and […]

Lenny Kaye at WFUV

Lenny Kaye Talks Nuggets

Here’s a quick peek at the interview – video courtesy of WFUV graduate fellow Maya Sargent Listen to full interview with music here: I’m very happy to be able to post this full one hour radio show recorded 7/19/2023 from 9 – 10p on WFUV. I’ve always been a huge […]

Hermanos Gutiérrez

Hermanos Gutiérrez Back With 5th Album “El Bueno Y El Malo”

The music of Hermanos Gutiérrez brings you to another place. It’s a place of saguaro cacti and miles of sun-baked sand. If you’re a fan of spaghetti Westerns, it may suggest a love of Ennio Morricone and perhaps even evoke images of characters named Blondie, Angel Eyes, and Tuco in […]

Charley Crockett

Charley Crockett New Album “The Man From Waco”

American blues, country, and Americana singer, guitarist, and songwriter Charley Crockett is back with a new album, The Man from Waco. It’s a laconic, elegant song cycle that tells the story of a fictional character who has some things in common with the artist but who has a life of […]

Sting The Bridge

Sting Offers Insights Into New Album “The Bridge”

Sting is the rarest of artists. In 1978 – the year he first visited New York, “Roxanne” established him as one of the great voices in music and a formidable songwriter who would go on to pen the most played song on the radio ever. (Which one is revealed in […]

Jesse Malin 2021

My Top 10 Songs and Albums of 2021

Jesse Malin Photo Credit: Gus Philippas These are my top 10 songs and albums of 2021, and discovery of the year, as compiled for the WFUV post, The Best of 2021 Staff Picks. Top 10 Songs 1 Wolf Alice: Smile2 Wet Leg: Chaise Lounge3 Spoon: The Hardest Cut4 My Morning […]

DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS

Durand Jones & The Indications are Back with Private Space

The song “Witchoo” explodes right out of the speakers. It’s undeniable and a no-brainer pick for one of my top ten songs of the year. (And now that it’s October I better start pondering what the other nine are.) It turns out the band behind the song have crafted an […]

David Gray Skellig

David Gray Discusses New Album Skellig

I had a chance to speak with British singer-songwriter David Gray for WFUV about his album Skellig that came out earlier this year.  He’s an excellent conversation partner and he offered great insight into the album while also sharing some fascinating and entertaining tidbits drawn from his lifetime.  Here’s the unedited Zoom […]

Eric Holland with Drenge

Hang With Drenge At WFUV

The Loveless brothers Eoin (pronounced Owen, pictured above) and Rory, better known as the hard-rocking English band Drenge, have a name that sparks associations with grunge. That parallel isn’t necessarily incorrect since fans of Soundgarden’s sonics might appreciate the sludgy goodness that this duo have crafted on their second album, […]

Warren Haynes

Warren Haynes New Album: Ashes & Dust

Long time Allman Brothers guitarist Warren Haynes has released an album unlike any in his tremendous career.  Ashes & Dust was made with Railroad Earth at The Barber Shop Studios in Hopatcong, New Jersey.  Haynesy explained that he’d been collecting songs for years that were the kind of thing that […]

Super Furry Animals

Super Furry Animals, Jicks Do 4 Knots Festival

Welsh rockers Super Furry Animals were a tasty take and Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks didn’t disappoint as the 5th annual Village Voice 4 Knots Festival made the transition to a ticketed event and enjoyed its new digs on Pier 84 on Hudson River Park after 4 years at South Street Seaport, […]

Micky Dolenz

Micky Dolenz Records Album At 54 Below

Micky Dolenz recorded an album to be released in September 2015 over three shows at Manhattan supper club 54 Below last week.  The Monkee and childhood television actor, who has a brilliant run on stage as well, draws upon all of it in his show A Little Bit Broadway, A Little Bit Rock […]

Paul Weller

Paul Weller Interview

Before his recent gig at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, I had a rare chance to sit down with an artist who has given us decades of innovative and engaging work: Paul Weller.  The Modfather discussed his accomplished new album Saturns Pattern, among other things, and you can listen […]

Leon Russell in A Poem Is a Naked Person

Leon Russell Movie: A Poem Is A Naked Person

Early 1970’s Leon Russell is certainly worthy of a documentary and this one, A Poem Is a Naked Person, has style.  Filmmaker Les Blank was a character in his own right and somewhere along the filming fell out of favor with the artist.  The film ended up on the shelf […]

Dave Douglas at Montreal Jazz Festival 2015

2 Minute Tour Of Montreal Jazz Festival 2015

I’m mad about hanging out at the Jazzfest – this year’s Montreal Jazz Festival 2015 being no exception.  I ran amok with my video camera and got a taste of groups as far afield as Novalima, The Barr Brothers and Cibo Matto.  Catching the Wayne Shorter Quartet was a highlight […]

Christopher Owens

Christopher Owens Plays Baby’s All Right

Christopher Owens has written some amazing songs – both as a solo artist and as the lead singer and songwriter for now defunct indie rock band Girls – and there’s more on his new album Chrissybaby Forever.  We grabbed some stoop time before his show at Baby’s All Right in […]

Eric Holland with Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast

Best Coast Do WFUV, Head To Northside Festival

Before heading to Brooklyn for a Northside Festival show, rock duo Best Coast dropped by WFUV radio for a session. Their gig (with 3 additional touring members) is this Saturday June the 13th; the multi-faceted event runs June 8 – 14 2015. Prepare for the show by enjoying 2 interviews with the […]