Music Interviews

Mac DeMarco talks with NPR about how his relationship with his father influenced the music on his last album, This Old Dog.

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This Old Dog: Mac DeMarco On Growing Up And Getting Personal

8:11pm March 11, 2018

by Alexi Horowitz-Ghazi

Musician Mac DeMarco has garnered the image of an impish pop-rock troubadour, but many of the songs on last year's This Old Dog tackle his conflicted relationship with the father he never knew.

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The Breeders' All Nerve — the band's fifth album, and first in 10 years — is out now.

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The Breeders Are 'All Nerve' After A Long Hiatus

10:15am March 11, 2018

It's been 25 years since the lineup that made 1993's seminal Last Splash recorded together. The band's fifth album, All Nerve, is a triumphant reflection on a difficult past.

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Jaime Wyatt On Her 'Felony Blues'

8:08am March 10, 2018

A new country artist on the scene bares her hardscrabble life of drug problems and jail time in an autobiographical album, Felony Blues. Jaime Wyatt talks with NPR's Don Gonyea.

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Eddie Kramer On World Cafe

1:47pm March 09, 2018

by Talia Schlanger

The producer shares stories from the road and the studio plus new Jimi Hendrix recordings from the posthumous album, Both Sides of the Sky.

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Guest DJ: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats Hop Across An Eclectic Playlist

12:10pm March 09, 2018

by Bob Boilen

Rateliff and Night Sweats band member Mark Shusterman take us on a tour of their favorite music and the historical standouts that influenced them.

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Jimi Hendrix performs at the Hollywood Bowl in Sept. 1968.

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Eddie Kramer Completes Posthumous Jimi Hendrix Trilogy With 'Both Sides Of The Sky'

8:00am March 09, 2018

by Vince Pearson

Producer and engineer Eddie Kramer brings continuity and freshness to Hendrix's posthumous canon with a new album.

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BØRNS On World Cafe

12:49pm March 08, 2018

by Talia Schlanger

The avant-garde electro-pop artist talks about getting praise from Prince and working with Lana Del Rey.

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats' new album Tearing at the Seams is available March 9.

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Nathaniel Rateliff Keeps Secrets For Himself On 'Tearing At The Seams'

6:19pm March 07, 2018

Rateliff discusses his songwriting process on Tearing at the Seams, the latest album with his band, the Night Sweats.

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World Cafe Nashville: Caitlyn Smith

4:00pm March 07, 2018

by Ann Powers

Smith's high register conjures thoughts of purple mountain majesty and when she drops into a murmur, it feels like she's telling you a secret she's never told anyone before.

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My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields Gets Deep Into 'Loveless'

2:11pm March 06, 2018

by Bob Boilen

The sound-obsessed frontman for My Bloody Valentine explains why he's reworked his ground-breaking album yet again, and his plans to release new music.

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