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WNYC, New York Public Radio, brings you Soundcheck, the arts and culture program hosted by John Schaefer, who engages guests and listeners in lively, inquisitive conversations with established and rising figures in New York City's creative arts scene. Guests come from all disciplines, including pop, indie rock, jazz, urban, world and classical music, technology, cultural affairs, TV and film. Recent episodes have included features on Michael Jackson,Crosby Stills & Nash, the Assad Brothers, ...
In this podcast we like to talk about video games, anime, movies, life and anything else we feel like. Come listen to Shaefer, Roman, and Reid argue about the most broad variety of things you've ever heard in a podcast.
Welcome to the Lori Burke podcast. A place for you to dream big, expand your awareness, and believe in the power of the human spirit. I share the people in my life who have inspired me, who dare to share their magic. I talk about what’s lighting me up at the moment. I'll take you on the journey with me from being a teacher to musician to ever expanding entrepreneur and podcaster. I share from my perspective as a woman, a wife, a mom, a friend, and a curious human being. This podcast is a lit ...
Get green building tips, pointers and updates from industry professionals in the Ozarks. Members of the Home Builders Association of Greater Springfield tell you how to make your home more cost effective and environmentally sensitive.
In the Life After College Works Podcast, Jason Reid interviews past College Works alumni to pick their brains about what makes them such successful entrepreneurs. This is the perfect podcast for anyone between the ages of 18-25 to learn more about how to be successful after they graduate from college.
What do you stan? Hosted by real Pop-Culture Professors, Caitlin Bitzegaio and Lauren Brickman, We Stan Together podcast is smart people about dumb topics. The history of pop culture is a rich, wild, and ever expanding playground. Not to mention, a full time job. Who has time to read every Insta post, think piece, and Twitter thread? Don’t worry, we did, so you don’t have to. We’ll be your CliffsNotes to pop culture. Listen in each week and you’ll be a hit at whatever happy hour, office func ...
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"Women Over 40 and How to Interpret the Language of the Body" with Michelle Aspinwall, Medical Intuitive
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Come along with me on my journey to discover how a woman over 40 can:1. Use the language of the body to dive deeper into understanding where our dis-ease starts.2. Heal by listening to the whispers of the body.3. Recognize our patters in order to shift them. 4. Connect with Michelle in her healing modalities! Michelle has gifted us with a free guid…
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Punks Gogol Bordello, Doing the Work of Catharsis
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The 8-piece multicultural gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello is based here in New York, but its founder, the vocalist, songwriter and all-around ringleader Eugene Hutz, was born in Ukraine. At the best of times, Gogol Bordello wants you to dance, and party, but also to think. Now, for Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora, these are not the best of times,…
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The Fantastic Playfulness in Kimbra’s Skewed Pop
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New Zealand pop star Kimbra plays within the confines of pop music, bending and skewing and tone painting, according to her needs. Now based here in New York, Kimbra first made waves in 2011 when she teamed up with Gotye on his international hit “Somebody That I Used to Know.” We know her now as a Grammy winning creator of arty and experimental pop…
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Meridian Brothers Tweaks Traditions of Salsa and Cumbia
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Meridian Brothers, founded by musician Eblis Álvarez, fuses a love of classic salsa with cumbia, vallenato, spacey psychedelia, and wacky samples for a playful dance party. With a body of songs containing some poignant social commentary about our obsession with technology, fear of war, police brutality, and other issues, the music hearkens to the s…
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Rachael & Vilray Slyly Extend the American Songbook Tradition
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The duo of Rachael & Vilray courtesy of Rachael Price, lead singer of the popular band Lake Street Dive, and the New York-based singer and guitarist Vilray may sound like classic guitar jazz right out of the 1920s-1940s; Vilray’s guitar chops dip into the style of the great “gypsy-jazz” guitarist Django Reinhardt; and Rachael Price croons into an o…
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Ranky Tanky Shares Uplift and Joy With Gullah-Rooted Soul
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The band called Ranky Tanky won the Grammy for best Regional Roots Album back in 2020. The group is based in Charleston, SC, and their regional roots are in the Gullah music of the coastal southeastern states, the Sea Island music; their name comes from a Gullah phrase for “get funky”. Gullah culture comes from the descendants of Africans captured …
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Saxman, Bandleader, Astronomy Buff Marcus Strickland's Twi-Life
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Sax player Marcus Strickland has worked with many notable jazzers, including Roy Haynes, McCoy Tyner, Wynton Marsalis, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Dave Douglas, and Keyon Harrold. He also leads his own band Twi-Life, which inhabits an Afro-futuristic space at the crossroads of Hip Hop, Soul, and Jazz. Twi-Life's album, The Universe's Wildest Dream, conceptu…
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Cambodian Psychedelic Pop Band Dengue Fever's Noir Romanticism
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Los Angeles-based band Dengue Fever blends 60's Cambodian pop and psychedelic rock with danceable grooves and ghostly noir romanticism. Cambodian Chhom Nimol fronts the band and sings mostly in her native language, she's basically from "a family best considered as a Cambodia pop music dynasty-- a not unlike a Cambodian version of the Jacksons", (Ba…
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"How to Connect to Nature to Heal Intuitively" with Katie Forse, Author of Heart Centered Leadership.
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Katie Forse is an Intuitive Healer. She is the curator of the Intuitive Healing Shop and creator of the WHISPER healing method. Her mission is to show wild hearted women how to bring fluidity to their journey of healing by embracing life’s ebb and flow along the way. She believes that when we connect with nature, energy and intuition, the whispers …
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Jazz-Looking Chamber Music by Joshua Redman and Brooklyn Rider (Archives)
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Hear unpredictable and graceful melodic lines traded by sax and strings, as tenor sax superstar Joshua Redman and string quartet Brooklyn Rider, along with all-star rhythm section of Scott Colley (bass) and Satoshi Takeishi (percussion) take over the studio. It's chamber music with swoops, dives, groove and bite in original and newly-arranged music…
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Singer and Composer Alev Lenz's Continuing Adventures in Collaborations and Sync
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Turkish-German singer and composer Alev Lenz has been something of a serial collaborator, working with sitarist and composer Anoushka Shankar, Lisel (Eliza Bagg), Sand Dunes, synthesist and producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, French-Cuban vocal duo Ibeyi, and Roomful of Teeth, to name a few. During the interview, Lenz describes her creative process, an…
Listen to more highlights from this off-again-on-again year of live performances from the Soundcheck Podcast. These bright spots come by way of Mexican singer-songwriter and arranger Silvana Estrada, London-based tuba player Theon Cross, and the psychedelic cumbia of Combo Chimbita, recorded live at Brooklyn Bowl. Also, listen to music by Cuban-bor…
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Poetic Balkan-Klezmer Balladry From Montréal's Black Ox Orkestar
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Montréal’s Black Ox Orkestar has been making 'music of the Jewish diaspora not tied to any state' since the early 2000’s. Orkestar is a name you’ll see a lot in Balkan music; it’s simply Serbo-Croatian for orchestra or ensemble. But the musicians were also in much-admired post-rock bands like Silver Mt Zion, and Godspeed You Black Emperor, so after…
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The Quiet Brilliance of Guitarist, Collaborator, and Troubadour Steve Gunn
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One of the marks of a dedicated and accomplished artist is that they continue to level up, testing their own limits and working to break out of habits and patterns. New York-based guitarist, singer/songwriter, and collaborator Steve Gunn is such a one; he can tap into Indian classical modes, inhabit the drone of minimalist founding father La Monte …
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"How to Pivot and Heal In Relationship With Ourselves and Others" with Life and Relationship coach, Cassie Zeeb.
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Cassie Zeeb is a Life and Relationship Coach who helps women feel less anxious in their relationships. She is a trained mental health counselor who turned to life coaching because she believes that everyone has the capacity to feel better outside of a mental health diagnosis. She founded The Happy Hearts Project as a place for women to find communi…
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Combo Chimbita at Brooklyn Bowl, Celebrating New Sounds, Part 2
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The four members of Combo Chimbita are from Colombia. But they met and formed their band here in New York. From their home base in Queens, Combo Chimbita plays a kind of tropical futurist pop that combines elements of Afro-Colombian spirituality, razor-sharp social commentary, and booty-shaking dance rhythms. Hear their set, live from the New Sound…
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Brazilian Musician Rogê Brings the Spirit of Samba From Rio de Janeiro
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The Brazilian singer and guitarist named Rogê made his mark playing his own brand of samba and samba funk in the clubs of Rio de Janeiro. [Samba in Brazil is rather like the Blues in America, a statement and sound born of the forced migration of Africans, and in both styles, these musical roots grew up and out into many more kinds of popular music.…
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"How to Follow Your Passion For Fashion and Start a Clothing Line Before You're Ready" with Shaefer Santos, CEO of Hey Friends!
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Hey Friends! Ok, I had to say that. It's the name of the amazing clothing line started by today's guest! Shaefer Santos is a young entrepreneur (20 at the time of this recording) whose love of fashion and business started very early. She started her first clothing line at age 16 and has been actively growing and pursuing her dream ever since! We sa…
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Barn-Burning Dance Tunes From Appalachian Road Show
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Nashville-based Appalachian Road Show are veterans of the bluegrass, folk, and roots music scenes who polish the raw emotion in tunes inspired by the Civil War and America’s barn dance eras. The American roots music supergroup features Todd Phillips (bass, bowed bass, vibraslap, vocals), Zeb Snyder (guitars, slide guitar, vocals), Jim VanCleve (fid…
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"How to Create A Joyful Morning Routine" with Jenny Lee, Mindset and Health Coach and owner at BeeVibe
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Jenny Lee is the owner and founder of BeeVibe, a lifestyle and mindset health coaching business, where she teaches women how to create a joyful morning routine that fits their lifestyle and flows with what they naturally love to do! Jenny and I met in an amazing podcasting class lead by Cathy Heller. She and I connected in class easily and we both …
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Songwriter Jesse Harris Plays At Subverting and Bending Time
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Songwriter Jesse Harris has been a standout musical figure since the 1990s in New York, as a singer and guitarist, and lately as a producer. When his friend Norah Jones swept up all the Grammys back in 2003, it was for an album featuring five of Jesse’s songs, including his Grammy winning song of the year “Don’t Know Why”; other interpreters of his…
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Timeless, Modern Soul by Thee Sacred Souls, In-Studio
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Thee Sacred Souls is a group of 20-somethings who blend the sounds of Chicano soul with its Philadelphia, Memphis, and even Panama counterparts. Their debut self-titled LP, on Daptone Records, is a smooth and sultry type of timeless soul, featuring Josh Lane’s effortless crooning vocals. Their 'retro' sound is inspired by everything from trailblazi…
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Gentle Psychedelic Soul of Crooner Nick Hakim
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New York singer/songwriter Nick Hakim has been producing records of gently psychedelic soul here for almost a decade. Occasionally, he drops the gentle psychedelia in favor of something more obviously trippy – it happens several times on his newest album, Cometa. (The title is Spanish for “kite,” although the American-born Hakim sings in English.) …
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Arabic Poetry-Infused Chamber Jazz by Layale Chaker and Sarafand (Archives)
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Violinist and composer Layale Chaker has done something exquisite in her music with the Ensemble Sarafand from the record, Inner Rhyme: she has gone about capturing the “shape and essence of epic testimonials on life, death, war and love that make the heart of Arabic poetry,” (Layale Chaker.) It’s an alchemical wedding of music derived from the for…
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Robyn Hitchcock's Playful and Poignant Songs, In-Studio
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Who wants to know what The Shuffle Man knows? The playful and surreal British musician and songwriter Robyn Hitchcock does. His latest batch of songs, 'Shufflemania!', is primed for the sub-personalities within - feathery serpent god, the shuffle man, vampire, scorpio tv detective. Robyn’s love of trams and Raymond Chandler are steady, as is his ab…
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British Singer-Songwriter Beth Orton Collaborates With Herself On 'Weather Alive'
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British singer and songwriter Beth Orton has found distinctive ways to blend her folky acoustic guitar-playing with the sounds of the electronic music world. But her latest record, Weather Alive, settles in a distinctly personal space where genres don’t so much collide as fade away, and the basis for the album wasn't guitar, but tracks she recorded…
The three singers who lead the group Say She She all like different things: 70s style New York dance music, classic soul and R&B, the swirling psychedelia of Turkish pop or Hindi film music. The resulting global pop is something close to ‘discodelic soul’ and revolves around the sweet harmonies of the three singers. Say She She has just put out a d…
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U.K. Punk Trio Big Joanie Makes Space, Takes Space
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Black Feminist Punk trio Big Joanie formed in London, but are now based over various cities in the U.K. Their sound is “punk” and… also looks to Riot Grrrl jaggedness and DIY sensibilities, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and girl group harmonies. Their 2022 album, Back Home, sees the band ruminating on the ideas of home, whether that’s in the U.K., back…
