Decade of Difference: Foster the People
Foster the People is an indie pop band formed by Mark Foster in 2009 after he spent a few years struggling to gain a foothold in the LA music industry. After graduating high school in [...]
Decade of Difference: Randy Newman
Randy Newman was amongst a wave of singer songwriters coming of age in the early 70s but unlike most of his peers, Newman brought influences from New Orleans R&B and pop music to his work. [...]
Joe Pug Discusses “New World Order” of Live Music and New Album The Diving Sun
Joe Pug talks about quarantine projects like his weekly YouTube show Sunday Songs, upping his output of episodes for podcast The Working Songwriter, and his new album The [...]
Decade of Difference: Shelby Lynne
It took a decade of recording experience producing ten albums before Shelby Lynne received her first Grammy - oddly enough in the Best New Artist category. Lynne had spent the years searching for her musical [...]
Parker Millsap Talks About ‘Be Here Instead’ and Performs Live
Parker Millsap connects with WNRN from his home studio on the outskirts of Nashville, TN to talk about his fifth album Be Here Instead and how building the songs musically changed the [...]
Decade of Difference: Paul Carrack
Among pop music’s most successful journeymen, Paul Carrack has found success with a variety of bands over his four decade career as a songwriter, keyboardist and vocalist. As a teen in Sheffield, England Carrack made [...]
Lake Street Dive’s Sound and Songwriting Expand on ‘Obviously’
Mike “McDuck” Olson from Lake Street Dive talks about the group’s devotion to the hook, shy collaborative style, and the spark that new bandmate Akie Bermiss [...]
Valerie June Talks Memphis, Meditation, & The Making Of Her Latest Album
Valerie June talks with Tad Abbey about her latest album Moon and Stars: Prescriptions For Dreamers, how her meditation practice helped form and focus the genre-blending sound on this new album, and drops [...]
Manchester Orchestra Explore ‘The Million Masks of God’
Andy Hull and Robert McDowell from Atlanta, GA’s Manchester Orchestra connect with Lindsey Goldin from their home/converted recording studio in the Atlanta suburbs to talk about the group’s forthcoming new album The Million Masks [...]
NPR Heavy Rotation: Jose Gonzalez “El Invento”
Recently our Managing Producer Desiré Moses shared one of our favorite new songs with NPR Music for their Heavy Rotation series. See the full list of 16 songs that Public Radio can't get enough [...]
Stream Our Latest Sessions
New Home Studio Sessions are premiering the week of March 15th! Tune in every day at noon to hear interview and performances from emerging artists like Sofia Valdes and Julien [...]
Julien Baker Home Studio Session
Julien Baker talks about the making of her critically acclaimed new album Little Oblivions (out now on Matador Records), songwriting, and diving deeper into production for the sound of this record, plus she [...]