WNYC, New York Public Radio, brings you Soundcheck, the arts and culture program hosted by John Schaefer, who engages guests and listeners in lively, inquisitive conversations with established and rising figures in New York City's creative arts scene. Guests come from all disciplines, including pop, indie rock, jazz, urban, world and classical music, technology, cultural affairs, TV and film. Recent episodes have included features on Michael Jackson,Crosby Stills & Nash, the Assad Brothers, Rackett, The Replacements, and James Brown.
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WNYC, New York Public Radio, brings you Soundcheck, the arts and culture program hosted by John Schaefer, who engages guests and listeners in lively, inquisitive conversations with established and rising figures in New York City's creative arts scene. Guests come from all disciplines, including pop, indie rock, jazz, urban, world and classical music, technology, cultural affairs, TV and film. Recent episodes have included features on Michael Jackson,Crosby Stills & Nash, the Assad Brothers, Rackett, The Replacements, and James Brown.
The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is a musically free-ranging band of brothers based between Brooklyn and Chicago. They'll bring their tight funky brassy jazzy groove to play in-studio.
Rumbo Tumba is the project of the Argentine musician Facundo Salgado, who uses a looping station to record and mix traditional wooden instruments in real time. He plays in-studio.
Soundcheck offers a special selection live performances and brief interview clips from artists around the world who share a connecting sonic thread: the blues. Hear Ruthie Foster, Fantastic Negrito, Bab L’Bluz, Yemen Blues, Mdou Moctar and more.
The Tord Gustavsen Trio combines folk influences and church music for unhurried embraces of melody in a kind of 'Nordic Blues.' They play new tunes from 'The Other Side,' in-studio.
Named after being mis-identified while returning a uHaul, the pop’n’roll band We Are Scientists delivers melancholic, nostalgic, and melodic songs, familiar and fun. They play new tunes from their latest, Qualifying Miles, in-studio.
Self-reliant singer/songwriter Eleanor Friedberger, (Fiery Furnaces) has gone synthier and smokier on her 2018 record "Rebound." Hear these darkly poetic, groovy, and smoky songs, in-studio. (Archives)
The duo of Rachael & Vilray offers a contemporary take on tin pan alley, the great American songbook, and vintage small combos singing around a single microphone. They play their new, yet old-sounding, guitar-jazz songs in-studio.
WNYC, New York Public Radio, brings you Soundcheck, the arts and culture program hosted by John Schaefer, who engages guests and listeners in lively, inquisitive conversations with established and rising figures in New York City's creative arts scene. Guests come from all disciplines, including pop, indie rock, jazz, urban, world and classical music, technology, cultural affairs, TV and film. Recent episodes have included features on Michael Jackson,Crosby Stills & Nash, the Assad Brothers, Rackett, The Replacements, and James Brown.
