I spoke with Josh Ritter about his new EP of rare and unreleased songs, See Here, I Have Built You A Mansion. Josh also created the cover art and is an engaging conversationalist. Hear our conversation here.
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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.
Chrissie Hynde, the coolest woman in rock, is in excellent form in this freewheeling conversation highlighted by her naming her favorite three Pretenders songs. The occasion was the release of Hate for Sale by The Pretenders, the follow-up to 2016’s Alone. It features the return of original stickman Martin Chambers […]
Steve Earle’s new album is called Ghosts of West Virginia. In this recorded interview, Steve chats with me about what inspired the songs on the album and covers some wide-ranging topics. Steve performs 4 of the songs in a WFUV Live session. The interview can be heard, and performances can […]
Photo credit: Natalia Mantini Kim Gordon’s No Home Record is a tough, sexy album and it sounds exactly like what you’d expect from her solo debut, after three decades spent in her former band, Sonic Youth. Often dissonant, occasionally menacing, and never boring, Gordon’s new album provides squalls of guitar […]
“THE BRUCE PROJECT” PREMIERES ON SEPTEMBER 23 A live music special for Bruce Springsteen’s 70th birthday This Monday the 23rd through Thursday the 26th, between 6 and 10 (but only 6-9 on Monday as explained below) in the evenings I’ll be asking listeners to become members as WFUV’s fall membership […]
Photo Credit: Gus Philippas From 1986 to 1993, the body of work created by the original Pixies — the Boston-based quartet of singer/guitarist Black Francis, drummer David Lovering, guitarist Joey Santiago and bassist/vocalist Kim Deal — was as distinctive, exciting, and influential as any rock band of that era. After years of […]
It was more than a little fun throwing back 40 and 30 years the last couple of weeks. Here’s what made it on the radio… 1979 6pm Bee Gees: Tragedy Public Image Limited: Swan Lake (Death Disco) Joan Jett: I Love Rock n Roll (w Sex Pistols) The Clash: Spanish […]
This past Thursday on WFUV, all the jocks immersed themselves and anyone listening in the world of 1969. With references to cultural tidbits from politics, film, television, popular culture, and only one mention that it was my birth year, we did a deep dive on the phenomenal music that year […]
Early in Jack White’s career, when he partnered with Meg White in The White Stripes, it would be reasonable to say that he was a disciple of Leonardo da Vinci, who is credited with the quote, “Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.” White consistently put limitations on the duo, […]
The Tedeschi Trucks Band is a rare outfit. It’s a group steeped in rock, in blues, in soul, in jazz, in American music, and with the musicianship and spirit to immerse themselves in songs and allow the songs to go where they want to go. It’s tough keeping any band […]
Bettye Lavette put on a typically thrilling show at The Iridium last night. She highlighted songs from her most recent album Things Have Changed which is up for Best Americana (Americana?) Album Grammy later this month. She has also been nominated for Best Traditional R&B Performance (that sounds more like […]
The Revivalists, a New Orleans octet, are riding high these days. They’ve got a couple of big hits under their belt with Wish I Knew You and All My Friends and they’ve recently taken the bold musical step of adding a second drummer to their live shows. Vocalist and guitarist David […]
With ties to the Catskills as well as New York, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds have built a reputation as a stomping, brass-soaked, eight-piece live band rooted in traditional rhythm and blues. The band’s new album, Gold, is released as a solo work by Sister Sparrow although The Dirty […]
Andrew Hozier-Byrne, who records as Hozier, is friendly and unassuming in person. I met him on a Friday afternoon in September in the photograph-lined offices of Columbia Records on Madison Avenue following a busy week in which the 28-year-old Irishman performed three sold-out shows at the Beacon Theatre and also […]
Last Friday I had the opportunity to guest host Rita Houston’s Whole Wide World free form radio show on WFUV. As is my habit when I fill in on the WWW, I cooked up a theme that would be enjoyable to explore. Last fall, it was my pleasure to interview […]
I spoke with Steven Van Zandt at Carroll Studios in Hells Kitchen before the group blasted through a pair of tunes from the Soulfire album for WFUV Public Radio. Vaz Zandt spoke about his latest album but also looked back on how a hurricane helped he and Southside Johnny create […]
Adam Clayton of U2 called me while I was on air at WFUV on Wednesday night! The occasion was the release of You’re The Best Thing About Me, the first new album track from Songs of Experience which will be released on December 1st. They also performed the song on the […]
As a founding member of Sonic Youth, Lee Ranaldo etched his name into the canon of New York rock artists during his 30-year tenure with the group, from 1981 to 2011. His inventive guitar playing, built upon unusual tunings, sprung from the city’s downtown experimental ‘No Wave’ scene and had […]
Some of The Black Angels’ publicity shots are trippy as befits the band. They are clearly at the head of the contemporary psychedelic rock class and arguably leading this year’s rock charge regardless of sub-genre. They are by no means passe trippy-dippy nor do their sounds feel like they […]
When Boston, Mass came out in 1985, it became one of my favorite records of my high school experience in Pepperell, Massachusetts. I connected with it sonically, locally, and emotionally. I still do. Five years ago, the Del Fuegos indulged me with an interview and session at WFUV as part […]
Ramones Live At WFUV And At Queens Museum – always but especially this week at WFUV…til July 31, 2016 at Queens Museum This week WFUV is celebrating the Ramones as an essential artist. I’ll be doing a 30 minute set of their music on the air at 90.7 FM NYC […]
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down captured 4-4-16 at WFUV HERE you go! The fabulous Thao and I in a conversation airing on WFUV tonight (at 8 on 90.7 FM and WFUV.org) and a generous 3 songs on video: Astonished Man, Departure, and Guts…which the woman has shown plenty […]
WWW of Guitar 3-11-16 It was a fun one on Friday! The Whole Wide World of guitar 3-11-16. It’s in the archive HERE. The link will stay live for 2 weeks so until 3/25 or 3/27 at the latest. As the Grant Green track got an especially good response, here’s […]
Wild Belle Session At WFUV – Recorded 1-20-16 It’s natural for (the fabulous and pictured) Natalie Bergman to look up to her brother Elliot, who is eight years older, and who introduced her to the intoxication of performing on stage when he brought her out on tour when she was […]