NPR: All Songs Considered
In NPR Music's All Songs Considered, host Bob Boilen brings you an eclectic mix of fresh music by emerging and breakout bands and musical icons.
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Brass Bed, Bombino, KEN Mode, Waxahatchee, More
This week All Songs Considered, is brought to you in ...
This week All Songs Considered, is brought to you in part by the letter B. Robin Hilton starts it off with Louisiana natives Brass Bed and the group's addictive rock-pop stylings with the song "Cold Chicory." Bob Boilen introduces a track that he can't help but shout about by the Nigerian artist Bombino. The Tuareg guitarist supplies an edgy new cut from his new record Nomad, produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. We also hear a track off of the new record from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds called Push The Sky Away; and Waxahatchee draws us in with the heartfelt and intimate "Hollow Bedroom." Brainstorm speeds things back up with the group's infectious and blissful "She Moves." We close with a visit from NPR Music's resident Viking Lars Gotrich, who introduces us to KEN Mode's blistering (and appropriately titled) cut "Your Heartwarming Story Makes Me Sick." 1. Brass Bed - Cold Chickory 2. Bombino - Amidine 3. Benoit Pioulard - Margin 4. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Water's Edge 5. Waxahatchee - Hollow Bedroom 6. Brainstorm - She Moves 7. KEN Mode - Your Heartwarming Story Makes Me Sick
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Bryan Ferry Guest DJ
This week, host Bob Boilen sits down with Roxy Music ...
This week, host Bob Boilen sits down with Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry to chat about the universal allure and importance of love songs. Ferry has had a long and transformative career, beginning with his years in the rock group Roxy Music, to a solo career that's spanned forty years and fourteen albums. Though Ferry has long had a well-earned reputation for being a romantic crooner, he tells Bob "it's always easier for me to write the sad songs and sing the sad songs. The moments I feel more creative are when I'm feeling introspective and maybe a bit sad. It's rather a lonely occupation, writing songs." Ferry recently released his innovative and completely surprising new album, The Jazz Age, which re-imagines classic Roxy Music tracks, as well as songs from Ferry's solo career, as 1920s-era instrumental jazz songs. On this edition of All Songs Considered, we'll hear a few of those songs, along with some of Ferry's personal (and sometimes heartbreaking) favorites, from artists such as Otis Redding, Aaron Neville, The Shirelles and Al Green. 1. Otis Redding: That's How Strong My Love Is 2. Roxy Music: Love Is The Drug 3. The Bryan Ferry Orchestra: Love Is The Drug 4. The Bryan Ferry Orchestra: I Thought 5. Al Green: Let's Stay Together 6. Bryan Ferry: Make You Feel My Love 7. Aaron Neville: Tell It Like It Is 8. The Shirelles: Will You Love Me Tomorrow 9. The Bryan Ferry Orchestra: Reason Or Rhyme
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New Music From The Knife, Four Tet And (Oh Yeah) My Bloody Valentine
We had this show all wrapped up last Friday. It ...
We had this show all wrapped up last Friday. It was totally in the can! Then My Bloody Valentine dropped its highly anticipated new album over the weekend and threw our previously recorded show into total chaos! But hey, it was worth it. We (and all the other My Bloody Valentine fans out there) have been waiting more than 20 years for this! Hear a new cut from the album and tell us what you think in the comments section. Also on this week's episode: Bob and Robin contemplate their own mortality while sharing some of the great music they've been listening to, including Youth Lagoon's upcoming release, Wondrous Bughouse; a jubilant premiere from Cloud Cult; a dreamy sample from storyteller Grouper; the gorgeous instrumentals of Malian musician Ballaké Sissoko; and a track from another much-anticipated album, courtesy of Swedish electronica giants, The Knife. Plus NPR Music's Sami Yenigun stops by to share a brand new track from "KH," otherwise known as electronica heavyweight Four Tet. Artists Featured On The Show My Bloody Valentine Album: m b v Song: She Found Now Youth Lagoon Album: Wondrous Bughouse Song: Dropla Grouper Album: The Man Who Died In His Boat Song: Vital Cloud Cult Album: Love Song: Complicated Creation Ballaké Sissoko Album: At Peace Song: Maimouna Four Tet Album: TEXT022 Song: TEXT022 The Knife Album: Shaking The Habitual Song: Full Of Fire
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A Secret Atoms For Peace Track, Roxy Music As '20s Jazz, More
On this week's episode, hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton ...
On this week's episode, hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton are back with their latest mix, including a hard-to-find track from Thom Yorke's latest project, Atoms For Peace. The song "What The Eyeballs Did," doesn't appear on the band's upcoming album, Amok. But if you do some digging on the group's website, you'll find a hidden link to download it. Also on the show: Bob and Robin travel back in time to hear Bryan Ferry's Roxy Music re-imagined as '20s jazz instrumentals. Seriously. No singing. Just swingin' jazz instrumentals. Plus: A hazy, country-tinged track from Night Beds; the shape-shifting sounds of Unknown Mortal Orchestra; soaring pop from the band Caveman and the crazy-catchy debut album from Ex Cops. Atoms For Peace Album: What The Eyeballs Did (Single) Song: What The Eyeballs Did Night Beds Album: Country Sleep Song: Even If We Try The Bryan Ferry Orchestra Album: Jazz Age Song: Do The Strand Unknown Mortal Orchestra Album: II Song: One At A Time Caveman Album: Caveman Song: In The City Ex Cops Album: True Hallucinations Song: James
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Thom Yorke and Friends Talk Atoms For Peace
The musicians who make up Atoms For Peace are an ...
The musicians who make up Atoms For Peace are an unusual bunch on the face of it, but when you hear their music, it all makes sense. The rhythm is so intense and the way it mixes/clashes with all the electronic sounds is pretty thrilling. Thom Yorke pulled the group together to support his 2006 solo album The Eraser. It includes Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, Brazilian percussionist Mauro Refosco (he's played with the Red Hot Chili Peppers as well) and then drummer Joey Waronker, who has played with R.E.M., Elliott Smith and Beck. Now Atoms For Peace has its own record, called Amok, coming out at the end of February. This past summer, Thom, Nigel and Joey were in New York City. While they were there, we spoke to them from our studios in Washington, D.C., and now you can listen to that rather casual conversation about many matters, from how the group makes its music to why shy people are attracted to DJing.
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Jack White's On Bluesman Charley Patton, New Tegan & Sara And A Song For Mali
1. Alessi's Ark: "The Rain" from 'The Still Life' 2. ...
1. Alessi's Ark: "The Rain" from 'The Still Life' 2. Rhye: "The Fall" from 'The Fall' 3. Tegan And Sara: "I Couldn't Be Your Friend" from 'Heartthrob' 4. Final Fantasy: "None Of You Will Ever See A Penny" from 'Has A Good Home' 5. RVIVR: "Spider Song" from 'Spider Song' 6. Fatoumata Diawara: "Mali Ko" 7. Charley Patton: "Mississippi Boweavil Blues" from 'The Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order, Volume 1'
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GlobalFEST 2013
Every January for the past decade a dozen or more ...
Every January for the past decade a dozen or more bands from around the world have gathered in New York City for globalFEST - one long, frenzied night of live music showcasing the diverse cultures, histories and numerous sonic branches of "World Music." This year's lineup included Zimbabwe legend Oliver Mtukudzi and his band The Black Spirits, Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara, Chicago's wildly exuberant marching band Mucca Pazza, and much, much more. For this week's edition of All Songs Considered, NPR Music's Anastasia Tsioulcas, NPR contributor and Afropop.org senior editor Banning Eyre, and Rob Weisberg of WNYC (who also hosts WFMU'sTranspacific Sound Paradise) join Bob Boilen to revisit some of the highlights and favorite discoveries from this year's globalFEST. Oliver Mtukudzi and The Black Spirits GlobalFEST is generally a place to discover young new talent, but occasionally the producers welcome familiar friends to their party. This year, it was Zimbabwe's Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, who has been an African musical icon since the late 1970s, who brought that sense of homecoming to GlobalFEST with his band, the Black Spirits. Kayhan Kalhor And Erdal Erzincan The soulful Persian classical virtuoso and composer Kayhan Kalhor has long been interested in creating artistic bridges to other musicians and styles. At this year's edition of globalFEST, he revived a partnership that initially began about a decade ago with a Turkish master artist, the baglama player Erdal Erzincan. La Santa Cecilia Based in Los Angeles and fronted by the smoky-voiced Marisol Hernandez, this fast-rising band splices and dices an array of Mexican and South American sounds in their songs, from Mexican norteño and ranchera to Colombian cumbia. Christine Salem As the globalFEST evening wound down, much of the buzz about who was the biggest find of the year centered around a seemingly unlikely figure: the vocalist Christine Salem, who made her New York City debut in this performance. Fatoumata Diawara Undoubtedly one of the breakout stars of this year's edition of globalFEST, the Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara had the crowd wrapped around her finger. Gifted with enormous stage presence and great looks, Diawara put on a tightly choreographed set that screamed with energy and edged towards rock and funk. Mucca Pazza The circus came to globalFEST in the form of Chicago's Mucca Pazza, a group of 30 clowns who could barely be contained in the cavernous ballroom at Webster Hall. They wore mismatched, thrift-shop marching band getups and sported a full range of brass, drums, violin, accordion and electric guitar — plus a gaggle of nerdy cheerleaders. A Tribe Called Red The night ended with bumping beats down at Webster Hall's Studio space with the Ottowa-based Native collective called A Tribe Called Red. They call their style "pow wow step": an imaginative and dance floor-ready blend of beats, aboriginal singing and dancing, and visuals and audio samples that turn "Indian" stereotypes on their heads.
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New Music From Tom Waits & Keith Richards, Ra Ra Riot, Villagers, More
On this edition of All Songs Considered we've got a ...
On this edition of All Songs Considered we've got a bunch of new-year premieres for you, including a special collaboration between Tom Waits and Keith Richards. The two veteran musicians recorded a song together for a new compilation album called Son Of Rogue's Gallery, and we guarantee it's not at all what you'd expect. Do the word's "sea chantey" mean anything to you? Also on the program: A curious and captivating new song from Ra Ra Riot; the ghostly and gorgeous voice of Lisa Germano; a stunning sophomore release from the Irish band Villagers; the trippy Canadian rock group Elephant Stone; Dutch pop singer-songwriter Blaudzun; the infectious, '60s-inspired psych-pop duo Foxygen and the electronic dance band STRFKR returns with a moodier new record called Miracle Mile. Songs Featured On This Episode Cover for Son Of Rogues Gallery Tom Waits & Keith Richards Tom Waits & Keith Richards Album: Son Of Rogues Gallery Song: Shenandoah Villagers Album: Awayland Song: Waves Elephant Stone Album: Elephant Stone Song: Heavy Moon Lisa Germano Album: No Elephants Song: Ruminants Blaudzun Album: Heavy Flowers Song: Elephants Ra Ra Riot Album: Beta Love Song: Is It Too Much Foxygen Album: We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic Song: San Francisco STRFKR Album: Miracle Mile Song: Beach Monster
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2013 Winter Music Preview
On this edition of the program, All Songs Considered hosts ...
On this edition of the program, All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton invite a gaggle of other NPR Music peeps on the show to share some of the records they're most looking forward to in 2013. Hear new music from Low, fierce world rhythms from Red Baraat, a traditional latin love song from Ileana Cabra, a marriage of hip-hop and new jazz from Jose James, trippy electronica from FaltyDL, rapper Earl Sweatshirt and more! Low Album: Invisible Way Song: Plastic Cup Phosphorescent Album: Muchacho Song: Song For Zula Red Baraat Album: Shruggy Ji Song: Dama Dam Mast Qalandar The Black Twig Pickers Album: Rough Carpenters Song: Rough Carpenters FaltyDL Album: Hardcourage Song: She Sleeps (Ed MacFarlane) Earl Sweatshirt Album: Chum (Single) Song: Chum Jose James Album: No Beginning No End Song: It's All Over Your Body Ileana Mercedes Cabra Album: La Pared/The Wall Song: La Pared/The Wall Josh Ritter Album: The Beast In Its Tracks Song: New Lover
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A Holiday Party For The Ages, From All Songs Considered
We decided to go all out for this year's All ...
We decided to go all out for this year's All Songs Considered holiday party. The guest list for this (trust us!) unforgettable night of music and tall tales included Kishi Bashi, Dan Deacon, Carrie Brownstein and Nellie McKay. We hosted the festivities at a secluded cabin we rented one weekend in a snowy woods. It was a chilly night, but we had a roaring fire, plenty of eggnog, vegan haggis and lots of holiday songs to keep everybody warm! Songs Featured On This Episode Happy Xmas (War Is Over) Artist: The Polyphonic Spree Album: Holidaydream: Sounds of the Holidays, Vol. 1 I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm Artist: Julian Koster Album: I've Got My love To Keep Me Warm We Need A Little Christmas Artist: Sufjan Stevens Album: Silver & Gold Electronica Hanukkah Artist: Dan Deacon Album: Electronica Hanukkah It Doesn't Feel Like Christmas Artist: Sam Phillips Album: Cold Dark Night It's Christmas, But It's Not White Here In Our Town Artist: Kishi Bashi Album: Holiday Flexi Single Baby, It's Cold Outside (Performed by Sharon Van Etten and Rufus Wainwright) Artist: Various Artists Album: Holidays Rule I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (Performed By The Civil Wars) Artist: Various Artists Album: Holidays Rule Father Christmas Artist: Telekinesis Album: Peace On Earth: Vol II A Christmas Waltz Artist: Nellie McKay Album: A Christmas Waltz Back Door Santa (Performed By Clarence Carter) Artist: Various Artists Album: Christmas Soul [Rhino]
