WFUV’s longtime pals Deer Tick celebrated the release of their new album, Emotional Contracts, with a visit to our Bronx studios in June 2023. In this WFUV Live session, American alternative rock-folk band Deer Tick was loose and having a few laughs while warming up and they tore through three […]
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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 […]
Enjoy this performance in the WFUV series “Marquee Live at Home” of Kathleen Edwards playing from her homebase in Ottawa, Canada. I interviewed her between songs in this 5-song set. The link to the interview and performances is here.
Tom Rush Talks Songwriting & Performing – Schimmel Center at Pace University December 9, 2016 When Tom Rush was a student at Harvard University in the early sixties, he hosted a Tuesday evening radio program on the college station WHRB called Balladeers that featured his own performances on the air as […]
Martha Wainwright CD Release Party At Le Poisson Rouge – November 18, 2016 Martha Wainwright is the daughter of two accomplished singer songwriters: American Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian Kate McGarrigle who died almost seven years ago. She inherited great expectations along with royal musical blood. Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole is the […]
Billy Bragg & Joe Henry Ride Train, Release Album Together On Saturday -October 1st, 2016 – Billy Bragg and Joe Henry celebrated the unleashing of their first album recorded as a duo, Shine A Light, with a show at Society of Ethical Culture. Recently these two collaborated on Bragg’s excellent […]
Meet Peter Calo I first met Peter Calo in the fall of 2013. My friend John Platt, who hosts a great show on WFUV called Sunday Supper, asked to MC a show he was playing at The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock (a.k.a. the UUCSR) where they do a thing […]
Glen Hansard Interview NYC Shows The man is an astonishing performer. Absolutely thrilling performance turned in at The Beacon Theatre last Tuesday – December 2nd, 2015 – featuring songs from the new record Didn’t He Ramble not to mention a genius cover of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks. This is the second […]
Upon hearing Shawn Colvin had a new album of covers, Uncovered, her first such collection in 21 years, I looked forward to the album release with something similar to the feeling of sitting down for brunch at La Bonbonniere. That is, I knew I was going to be happy. There […]
Quintessential New Yorkers Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel played to a half million in Central Park 34 years ago, September 19, 1981. The previously out-of-print recording of the event is back, as are vinyl versions of all their studio albums. Both have their own gigs in town next month… the […]
Moving to Los Angeles would be an intense experience for almost anyone but for Laura Marling, who grew up on the English countryside, it precipitated what the folk-rock singer-songwriter – half jokingly – called an existential crisis. Here she talks about that city which was an inspiration for her latest release […]
Public Enemy’s Chuck D coming over to say hi to Madisen Ward And The Mama Bear at SXSW in Austin was indicative of the kind of magnetism this mom and son folk duo have. Their songs exist outside any specific time or place and they deliver them with affection and […]
An important reason Canadian singer-songwriter Bruce Cockburn writes such powerful political songs is his first hand experience. A new memoir Rumours of Glory from the folk-rock artist recalls visiting places around the world, often places wracked by war, that informed his lyrics. He highlighted the songs he wrote about in his […]
English singer-songwriter Laura Marling released her new album Short Movie today and is in Brooklyn at Warsaw tonight! Here’s a bit of our conversation a couple of days ago in Austin at SXSW about the record and how America, and Americans, affected the artist and played a role in its […]
Most family projects involve clearing out a garage or attic. Not this one. When Teddy Thompson, who has lived in NYC for 15 years, thought it would be good to get the family together, he hatched a scheme for an album that came to fruition and was released in November. […]
Holiday Cheer for WFUV is a brilliant annual event – the last 5 years of its 10 year life at The Beacon Theatre – that raises dough for non-commercial New York City rock radio station WFUV, as well as her sister The Alternate Side. The last few years have featured […]
The irrepressible Billy Bragg dropped by the FUV studios in The Bronx to give a taste of his philosophy as well as his latest album. Full radio interview and three complete songs on video HERE.
