Sense Of Place North Carolina: Mac McCaughan
Hear the Superchunk and Portastatic leader perform material from his first solo album under his own name.
Music & Culture
Henry Threadgill Doubles Up On 'Old Locks And Irregular Verbs'
The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer doesn't play on his new jazz album, but critic Kevin Whitehead says Old Locks and Irregular Verbs is nevertheless a perfect introduction to Threadgill's voice.
Got A Broken Heart? Hit The Karaoke Bar With Luke Bell's 'Sometimes'
The country singer's VHS-quality video gathers friends in a bar to laugh and forget the pain.
Songs We Love: T-Rextasy, 'Gap Yr Boiz'
With a quick wit and a feminist punk ethos, T-Rextasy offers a perfect anthem for anyone who finds joy in hate-reading travel blogs and punching up at privilege.
How The Music Of Woods Comes Together
Singer-guitarist Jeremy Earl talks through the influences behind one song on the psychedelic folk band's latest album, City Sun Eater In The River Of Light.
In Children's Music, Diana Panton Finds A Few Lessons For Adults
"The way a child thinks is a good model for us sometimes," Panton says. Though I Believe In Little Things is her first album for kids, the jazz musician says she hardly changed her approach.
First Listen: The Jayhawks, 'Paging Mr. Proust'
The long-running roots-pop band's new music nicely re-creates a honeyed, harmony-rich sound while still expanding it in subtle, appealing ways.
Josh Ritter On Mountain Stage
The folk-rock singer-songwriter performs songs from Sermon On The Rocks, live in West Virginia.
Sense Of Place North Carolina: David Childers
Meet a powerful folk-rock songwriter who's also a painter and a practicing lawyer.
Sense Of Place North Carolina: Squirrel Nut Zippers
Hear a 1996 session featuring the Chapel Hill swing-revival band, which had a huge hit with "Hell."