Superchunk Home Studio Session
Hear Superchunk play live and talk about new album Wild Loneliness (out now on Merge Records) in our latest Home Studio Session with host Desiré Moses.
Decade of Difference: Chris Stapleton
Kentucky native Chris Stapleton turns 44 today. The singer songwriter got his start as a songwriter with over 170 songs to his credit, including six number one country hits. His own music has produced hits [...]
Decade of Difference: Tommy Emmanuel
Australian Tommy Emmanuel’s award-winning career as a guitarist mixes blues, country, rock, classical, and Spanish music. He spent years as a respected session musician and songwriter before launching a solo career in 1988. He has [...]
Decade of Difference: Lowell George
Best known as the founder and original bandleader for Little Feat, Lowell George first performed in public on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour at age six, playing harmonica with his brother Hampton in a duet. [...]
Decade of Difference: Herbie Hancock
Award winning jazz musician Herbie Hancock turns 80 today. His career spans six decades and helped redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section. Multiple Hancock compositions are considered jazz standards and his work in [...]
Decade of Difference: Shovels & Rope
Husband and wife duo Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent play under the band name Shovels & Rope, but it was a moniker neither expected to last. Cary Ann met Michael while performing as a [...]
Phish Phriday 4/8
This week, the Wayback Machine transports us to 1993, when Phish performed at the American Theater in St. Louis. Dubbed the "Roger Proposal" show when Trey Anastasio's friend Roger Holloway opened the second set [...]
Decade of Difference: Kraftwerk
Would electronic music exist if there had been no Kraftwerk? Most likely the answer is “Yes,” but it might sound a lot different if the band had not forged a path for its development. Starting [...]
Decade of Difference: Janis Ian
After a career spanning more than five decades, singer-songwriter Janis Ian plans to bid farewell with her latest album and tour. The Light at the End of the Line is her first new original material [...]
Decade of Difference: Merle Haggard
On this day in 1937, Country Music Hall of Fame member Merle Haggard was born in Oildale, California. Haggard recorded 38 #1 country songs in the ’60s thru the ’80s, but he started out on [...]
Decade of Difference: Muddy Waters
Playing at the blues bars of Chicago’s South Side in the 1940s, Muddy Waters began to assemble what appeared to be an early incarnation of a rock band. Waters found he couldn’t command much attention [...]
Phish Phriday 4/1
This week, the Wayback Machine takes us back to the the Memphis Pyramid. Before it became a Bass Pro Shops megastore, it was called Pyramid Arena and Phish performed there in 1999! Here is [...]