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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 Johnson and Mike Stern

Top Albums of 2014 #4 Johnson&Stern: Eclectic

I first heard Eric Johnson’s guitar playing when his debut album Tones came out in the mid 1980s. I had never heard anything like it. Nobody had heard anything like it! Since then whenever the Austin native put out something new, I felt I owed it to myself to hear […]

Spoon

Top Albums of 2014 #5 Spoon: They Want My Soul

Follow the link to hear songs from Spoon’s eighth studio album played live and a conversation with the fab Alisa Ali and enjoy a flashback to the fellas at Governors Ball (as well as The Strokes) in this video…

Nick Lowe

Nick Lowe’s Cool Yule

British rocker Nick Lowe put out an appealing Christmas album last year called Quality Street and he’s bringing his Quality Holiday Revue back to the Bowery Ballroom tonight (Sunday the 14th of December 2014) and the Music Hall of Williamsburg next Saturday 20th of December 2014.  Here’s a look back […]

Eric Holland with Craig Finn of The Hold Steady

Top Albums 2014 #8 The Hold Steady: Teeth Dreams

The Hold Steady have become an essential New York band since coming together in Brooklyn about eleven years ago.  Three of the guys live in Greenpoint within a few blocks of each other with the remaining members in Manhattan and Memphis.  I spoke with Craig Finn and Tad Kubler (pronounced […]

Thurston Moore

Thurston Moore Plays Freebie In Marlin Room

Cool event last night at the intimate Marlin Room (capacity 500) at Webster Hall with Thurston Moore. It was a free show presented by Norton Antivirus and Pandora that you had to RSVP for and it featured an open bar – really!  The former Sonic Youth guitarist/singer is now living in […]

The Orwells

Top Albums of 2014 #9 The Orwells: Disgraceland

The Orwells’ frontman Mario Cuomo told me he really didn’t like the process of recording albums very much.  What he loves is playing live.  Despite that being the case, the young quintet from outside of Chicago copped a spot in my top ten album list for 2014.  They’re in a TV […]