Hearing (& Counting) Double During WNXP’s Fall Fund Drive

This week is ALL ABOUT THE MEMBER LOVE on our young independent radio station, during our second-ever fund drive where we connect what YOU hear with what YOU give to power the music, context and community found on WNXP. In celebration of a generous matching donation from local bar and record store combo Vinyl Tap […]

Record of the Week: Adrianne Lenker’s ‘Bright Future’ Live from Greenwich Village with Nick Hakim special

Adrianne Lenker is reaching the status of folk hero. Her band, Big Thief, bucks all conventional music business wisdom and releases 20-song double albums with long winding titles and singles that are over six minutes. Because they have been true to themselves, they have released a string of albums that have been widely acclaimed and […]

Record of the Week: Bats’ ‘Good Game Baby’

Nashville native Jess Awh hated country music…until she moved away and started missing home. Now she’s back and she’s written an album that is country in its core but also dabbles in long extensions of layers of found sound that she has been collecting since she was 15, and big droning guitar. For her fellow […]

Record of the Week: Alanna Royale’s ‘Trouble Is’

Alanna Royale always loved performing. Growing up she would always sing and dance, but there was a moment in high school when she realized something that she was good at would be her calling. She was getting tutored by a fellow student in her school, Mary Habib. After they were done with their tutoring session, […]

Songs featuring choirs

The inspiration for this themed show (which then turned into two shows) was the new Sufjan Stevens record Javelin and its return to heart-swelling choral parts that emphasize the emotion in Stevens’ lyrics. Who knew that songs featuring choirs could span so many genres and generations over two hours of your requests? You can hear […]

Brittany Howard is going to make her dreams come true

By the standards of the 2020s, when younger audiences metabolize music so quickly that performers need to keep a constant flow of memeable, streamable content coming, Brittany Howard‘s been laying low. Since wrapping the tour promoting her 2019 solo album Jaime and commissioning remixes of it from peers, she’s resurfaced only a handful of times […]

Record of the Week: Megan McCormick’s ‘Are and Be’

There’s a slightly accusatory tone to Megan McCormick’s song “Wasting My Time.” Sometimes dwelling on and repeating lines, other times hurtling through them in a blur, she’s singing about an intimate mismatch between people. Their feelings and intentions were fundamentally incompatible, and she fears that she squandered precious time and energy trying to bring them […]

Nashville’s R.A.P. Ferreira drops new album, ‘ASIATIQUE BLACK WIZARD LILY FUNK’

Nashville’s R.A.P. Ferreira, a whimsical rapper known for his wordplay, and also a former WNXP Nashville Artist of the Month, dropped an eight-song, nineteen-minute album that was composed, written and recorded in the last seven days at his record store, Soulfolks Records and Tapes here in Nashville.   The title of the album is ASIATIQUE BLACK […]