Texas-Born Folk Artist Jana Horn Weaves a Gentle Atmosphere, In-Studio

Drifting between melancholy and optimism, Jana Horn writes conversationally, blurring the line between speech and song.

Hear her perform with her band and chat with our host, John Schaefer, for the latest edition of our Soundcheck podcast.

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Alternative Rock Artist Mike Doughty Reinterprets Musical Memories, In-Studio | Soundcheck | WNYC Mike Doughty is many things; a solo artist, founding bandmember of Soul Coughing and Ghost of Vroom, and a published writer – who not only wrote two memoirs but also an oratorio based...

The latest guest of our Soundcheck podcast is singer-songwriter @mikedoughty.bsky.social, who paid a visit to the WNYC Studios with his long-time collaborator Andrew “Scrap” Livingston to play a few songs for us.

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Annahstasia: "Be Kind" (In-Studio) YouTube video by New Sounds

And be sure to watch the YouTube videos we shared on our channel from this set. This is "Be Kind":

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Offering an inimitable aural experience, folk singer-songwriter Annahstasia performs a solo set at @wnyc.org studios for the latest edition of our #SoundcheckPodcast.

Listen to her performance and interview on our website, or wherever you get your podcasts: www.wnyc.org/story/soulfu...

#4960, With Pete M. Wyer and the Queens College Vocal Ensemble | New Sounds | WNYC Hear London composer Pete M. Wyer's Street Motets for New York City, performed live in the studio. Plus, Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Lang’s poor hymnal, and music from Voces8.

Start your day with some magical choral music from Pete M. Wyer and the Queens College Vocal Ensemble. Available now on our website and the @wnyc.org app!

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Storyteller Dessa Calls Attention to Current Events, In-Studio | Soundcheck | WNYC Rapper, singer, and songwriter Dessa is a longtime member of Minneapolis’s influential Doomtree collective, has toured and recorded with orchestras, and been artist-in-residence at Th...

Catch up with our Soundcheck podcast! Today, we have rapper/singer @dessadarling.bsky.social on the show.

Listen to her live performance and interview from our studios on our website, or wherever you get your podcasts:

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Argentine Singer and Guitarist Marilina Bertoldi Rebrands Rock 'n' Roll, In-Studio | Soundcheck | WNYC Argentine singer-songwriter Marilina Bertoldi’s brand of rock 'n' roll contains multitudes between the old and the new. Her electric guitar, though it may only be a decade old, has al...

Listen to Marilina Bertoldi's fiery performance from our studios with Manu Fernandez on drums, as well as her words on life on the road and the creative process behind the latest album PARA QUIEN TRABAJAS Vol. I, which recently earned Bertoldi a Latin Grammy nomination.

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The New Pornographers Test New Grounds with New Songs, In-Studio | Soundcheck | WNYC Canadian indie rock collective The New Pornographers has a history that spans almost three decades. Leaving nine albums behind, the band enters a new era with The Former Site Of, whic...

A.C. Newman of The New Pornographers pays a visit to our studios with bandmember Kathryn Calder, accompanied by session musicians Lilah Larson and Adam Minkoff for a special live performance and an eye-opening interview for the latest episode of Soundcheck.

#LiveMusic

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KID for @newsounds.bsky.social.

Delving back into this music on the road next month. Find tickets: donnymccaslin.com/tour

Cole Quest & the @citypickers are a homegrown New York-based bluegrass band. (Quest is the grandson of the folk icon Woody Guthrie) The band shreds with high-spirited energy and that high lonesome sound, in-studio for the #SoundcheckPodcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlK9...

Healer, entertainer, and crooner, #FantasticNegrito “hides behind the flashy jacket” and turns his trauma into art, with a lot of Loving. He and his band play some of his blues-stomp-and-roll, in-studio for the #SoundcheckPodcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Osx...