On the Experience this week we have brand new music from Dan Auerbach’s other band, The Arcs; Brit DIY-shoegaze duo, Jadu Heart; Blondshell, who opens for Suki Waterhouse at the Basement East on Saturday, February 4; and Nashville musicians Brian Brown and Michigander. We also check out Celia Gregory‘s conversation with Brooklyn’s Nick Hakim ahead […]
Tis the season for artists of all sorts to take another thousand (or three) cracks at scoring a holiday classic with the usual Santa’s bag of mixed results. We’ve done our best to sort through the gifts – leaving out the ones we hope came with receipts – and spotlighting the songs worth keeping for […]
For hosts on an NPR Music radio station that started in 2020, and is based just an hour’s drive from the Manchester, Tennessee property that hosts Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, the delayed, then rescheduled hootenanny (set for September 2021) was an exciting prospect. And then Mother Nature had other plans. So after cancellations due […]
Big release week on the New Music Experience with new records out from Calexico, Lucius, Daniel Rossen, The Regrettes, Orville Peck, Omar Apollo, Kae Tempest, Father John Misty, and, of course, Nashville-based impresario and Detroit Tiger fan Jack White. We start the show highlighting a highly anticipated album from a band no one anticipated, not […]
It lends to reason that cool creative people (musicians and songwriters) would find muse in other cool creatives, so a lot of tunes packed into this week’s Thematic Static — songs about famous people — are about fellow artists, singers and actors. We were inspired by Nashville Artist of the Month COIN‘s new track “Brad […]