Studio Sessions

Ali Shaheed Muhammad of A Tribe Called Quest and Adrian Younge are The Midnight Hour. The duo released a self-titled debut and are responsible for composing the soundtrack to Marvel's Luke Cage.

Listen back to some of the best World Cafe interviews and performances of the past year including Courtney Barnett, David Crosby, Natalie Prass and many more.

Party band, piano rock, juke jointing. This band can do it all.

Dessa, a raconteur rapper and slick singer who studied philosophy and dabbled in slam poetry, is one of the most anomalous artists in music today.

There's a beautiful reflectiveness within Birdtalker's song that comes from Zack Green's soul-searching and Dani Green's skill with story and metaphor.

Yes, the band makes party music, but the members have worked incredibly hard to get here, surviving hurricanes and discrimination in the music business.

Case reflects on a solitary childhood, the fire that consumed her house, the subjugation of women and the fate of humanity, and performs songs from her latest album, Hell-On.

The message of Turner's new album Be More Kind applies both to the ways we treat the world around us and the way we treat ourselves.

Songwriting and musicianship aside, one of the things fans latch on to is that this band feels like a good hang.

The members of the trio talk about All of This Life, their relentless work ethic and the surprising similarities between touring in a rock and roll band and growing up on a dairy farm.