First Listen: Andy Shauf, 'The Party'
On his new album, the Canadian singer-songwriter crafts a batch of connected vignettes, offering up tiny observations from a single night.
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Guest DJ Junot Diaz: 'It Takes Guts To Be Alive'
An encore presentation of an all-encompassing conversation with award-winning author Junot Diaz. Diaz also picks an exciting assortment of bachata and urban merengue to play on the show.
Watch Underworld Perform 'Low Burn' Live In The Studio
The pioneering electronic band performs an emotional song from its new album for KCRW.
First Listen: Bob Dylan, 'Fallen Angels'
This is the second volume in which Dylan sings the Great American Songbook, recorded at the same time (and with the same core band) as his 2015 album Shadows In The Night.
Car Seat Headrest Is Gloriously Morose In 'Teens of Denial'
Will Toledo, the singer-songwriter who performs under the name Car Seat Headrest, is ambitious and passionate on his new album. Critic Ken Tucker says the record will make you want to sing along.
First Listen: The Echocentrics, 'Echo Hotel'
Listening to Adrian Quesada's latest project is like stepping into an alternate reality — an unhurried place with time to contemplate love, loss and longtime friends.
Rokia Traore On World Cafe
The Malian singer explores the meaning of home in her new album, Né So. Hear the live session.
Songs We Love: James Blake, 'I Need A Forest Fire (Feat. Bon Iver)'
On a quietly violent new collaboration, the duo confronts their own debt to the soul of gospel music while acknowledging their inevitable distance from it.
The Thistle & Shamrock: Tales Of The Riverbank
Rivers run through many of our well-loved and best-known landscapes. Music, old and new, celebrates our rivers as sources of life and of timeless inspirations to song-makers.
What's Your Favorite Song This Week?
There's been no shortage of new music to listen to these past couple of weeks. Have you fallen in love with a new song that you can't stop listening to?