The World Cafe

Mon - Thu, 8pm - 10pm

Every day, The World Cafe with host David Dye serves up an eclectic mix of music from blues, rock, and world, to folk, and alternative country. Each show features live performances and interviews with celebrated & emerging artists. The Cafe also presents segments on books, movies, TV and plays related to music.

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December 12, 2012

8:00 PM
Tanacara
Artist : Gonzaghuinha
Album : Brazil Classics: Beleza Tropical, Vol. 2
Composer :
Label : Luaka Bop
8:01 PM
She Cries Your Name
Artist : Beth Orton
Album : Trailer Park
Composer :
Label : Arista
8:05 PM
Dizz Knee Land
Artist : Dada
Album : Puzzle
Composer :
Label : Blue Cave
8:10 PM
Heartbeat
Artist : Kopecky Family Band
Album : Kids Raising Kids
Composer :
Label : Kopecky Family Band
8:13 PM
You Did
Artist : Chuck Prophet
Album : Age of Miracles
Composer :
Label : New West Records
8:17 PM
Heroes
Artist : Callers
Album : Reviver
Composer :
Label : Partisan Records
8:23 PM
Nico Canmore
Artist : Yukon Blonde
Album : Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Composer :
Label : WXPN
8:24 PM
Radio
Artist : Yukon Blonde
Album : Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Composer :
Label : WXPN
8:28 PM
Sweet Dee
Artist : Yukon Blonde
Album : Recorded Live for the World Caf¿
Composer :
Label : WXPN
8:33 PM
Stairway
Artist : Yukon Blonde
Album : Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Composer :
Label : WXPN
8:38 PM
Nico Canmore
Artist : Yukon Blonde
Album : Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Composer :
Label : WXPN
8:44 PM
Radio
Artist : Yukon Blonde
Album : Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Composer :
Label : WXPN
8:45 PM
Shadow People
Artist : Dr. Dog
Album : Shame, Shame
Composer :
Label : Anti
8:50 PM
She’s Got a New Spell
Artist : Billy Bragg
Album : Worker's Playtime
Composer :
Label : Yep Roc Records
8:53 PM
Charmer
Artist : Aimee Mann
Album : Charmer
Composer :
Label : Superego
8:57 PM
Mean Monsoon
Artist : Dan Auerbach
Album : Keep It Hid
Composer :
Label : Nonesuch
8:58 PM
Tanacara
Artist : Gonzaghuinha
Album : Brazil Classics: Beleza Tropical, Vol. 2
Composer :
Label : Luaka Bop
9:00 PM
The Goodbye Look
Artist : Donald Fagen
Album : The Nightfly
Composer :
Label : Warner Brothers / WEA
9:04 PM
Bright Lights
Artist : Gary Clark Jr.
Album : Bright Lights EP
Composer :
Label : Warner Brothers
9:10 PM
Walk Like a Giant
Artist : Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Album : Psychedelic Pill
Composer :
Label : Reprise / WEA
9:15 PM
Lover of the Light
Artist : Mumford & Sons
Album : Babel
Composer :
Label : Glassnote
9:20 PM
Chinese Translation
Artist : M. Ward
Album : PostWar
Composer :
Label : Merge Records
9:24 PM
Lay Low
Artist : My Morning Jacket
Album : Z
Composer :
Label : ATO / Red
9:24 PM
Teardrop Windows
Artist : Benjamin Gibbard
Album : Former Lives
Composer :
Label : Barsuk
9:27 PM
Last Goodbye
Artist : Jeff Buckley
Album : Grace
Composer :
Label : Sony
9:32 PM
Love Don’t Leave Me Waiting
Artist : Glen Hansard
Album : Rhythm and Repose
Composer :
Label : Anti
9:36 PM
Steel & Blood
Artist : Minus the Bear
Album : Infinity Overhead
Composer :
Label : Dangerbird Spain
9:37 PM
The Jailer
Artist : Erin Mckeown
Album : Manifestra
Composer :
Label : TVP Records
9:40 PM
The Boy in the Bubble
Artist : Paul Simon
Album : Graceland
Composer :
Label : Warner Brothers / WEA
9:44 PM
Shuggie
Artist : Foxygen
Album : We are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Music
Composer :
Label : Jagjaguwar
9:47 PM
There She Goes
Artist : The La’s
Album : The La's
Composer :
Label : London / UMGD
9:50 PM
Helena Beat
Artist : Foster the People
Album : Torches
Composer :
Label : Sony
9:56 PM
Mind’s Eye
Artist : Josh Ritter
Album : The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
Composer :
Label : Sony

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9:02am

Tue May 21, 2013
World Cafe

The National On World Cafe

Credit Diedre O'Callaghan / Courtesy of the artist

The National's rise has been slow and steady, to match the growth and evolution of its dour but beautiful rock sound. In this installment of World Cafe, the band tells host David Dye how sleep deprivation led its members to craft more straightforward songs on their new album, Trouble Will Find Me.

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1:45pm

Mon May 20, 2013
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Next: Hanni El Khatib

Originally published on Mon May 20, 2013 2:12 pm

Credit Courtesy of the artist

Hanni El Khatib is a first-generation American who grew up with a Palestinian father and a Filipino mother in San Francisco. His music has origins in '50s and '60s soul, blues, R&B and garage rock, with all those influences filtered through an intense love of punk music.

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5:03pm

Sun May 19, 2013

3:08pm

Fri May 17, 2013
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Frightened Rabbit On World Cafe

Originally published on Sat May 18, 2013 8:57 am

Credit Tim Richmond / Courtesy of the artist

Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchinson has been creating compelling, sometimes even uplifting, songs about abject failure since the Scottish band's first album, Sing the Greys, came out in 2006.

On this installment of World Cafe, Hutchinson tells host David Dye how the entire band was involved in writing lyrics for its new album, Pedestrian Verse. The singer also discusses Frightened Rabbit's unique experience during a recent tour of northern Scotland.

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9:54am

Fri May 17, 2013
Music

Dawes Monday Night on the World Cafe @8pm!

Credit Noah Abrams / http://dawestheband.com/

Dawes' latest rock record, Stories Don't End, is their much-anticipated third release and first on their own label. 

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5:07pm

Thu May 16, 2013
World Cafe

Latin Roots: Son Jarocho

Originally published on Sun May 19, 2013 9:23 am

Credit Courtesy of the artist
  • Listen To Latin Roots: Son Jarocho

4:29pm

Thu May 16, 2013
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Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside On World Cafe

Originally published on Thu May 16, 2013 5:07 pm

Credit Liz Devin / Courtesy of the artist
  • Listen To Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside On World Cafe

Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside's music was raw and forthright from the beginning, when its album Dirty Radio came out in 2011. The Portland band captures the energy of early-'50s music, with blues and country influences that earned it a rockabilly designation early in its career.

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4:02pm

Wed May 15, 2013
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RNDM On World Cafe

Credit Courtesy of the artist

RNDM is a new band featuring Joseph Arthur, Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament and drummer Richard Stuverud. Ament and Arthur met when the latter opened for Pearl Jam on tour.

Ament tells World Cafe host David Dye that he was mesmerized by Arthur's ability to create band sounds by looping his guitar and vocals. He also describes how RNDM formed and explains the process behind creating its debut album, Acts.

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1:48pm

Tue May 14, 2013
World Cafe

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Dawn McCarthy On World Cafe

Originally published on Sun May 19, 2013 9:49 am

Credit Lindsey Rome / Courtesy of the artist

In this installment of World Cafe, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (the stage name of Will Oldham) and Dawn McCarthy perform their own versions of classic Everly Brothers songs — as heard on their latest album together, What the Brothers Sang.

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2:58pm

Mon May 13, 2013
World Cafe

Next: Laura Stevenson

Originally published on Mon May 13, 2013 9:18 pm

Credit / Courtesy of the artist
  • Hear Two New Songs By Laura Stevenson

Laura Stevenson describes herself as an "unfunny Woody Allen," which is another way of saying that her work channels her obsessions with death and doubt. On her third album, Wheel, she finds a way to make it all sound downright jaunty.

Stevenson came to her more folk leanings from roots in punk, as well as a musical family; her grandfather, choral director Harry Simeone, was responsible for "Little Drummer Boy." Listen to two songs from Wheel on this page.

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3:40pm

Fri May 10, 2013
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Clive Davis On World Cafe

Credit Dan Hallman / AP

At 81, music mogul and Columbia Records president Clive Davis has slowed down just enough to write his autobiography, The Soundtrack of My Life. The book, which describes how he's consistently made hit records, has itself become a bestseller.

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2:44pm

Fri May 10, 2013
World Cafe

Rod Stewart On World Cafe

Originally published on Fri May 10, 2013 3:40 pm

Credit Penny Lancaster / Courtesy of the artist

Rod Stewart has little to prove as a rock star. He's been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame twice, once solo and once with The Faces. More recently, he's had enormous success with a series of standards titled The Great American Songbook, and published an autobiography that inspired him to return to songwriting.

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4:34pm

Thu May 9, 2013

3:30pm

Thu May 9, 2013
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The Slide Brothers On World Cafe

Credit Brad Gregory / Courtesy of the artist

Calvin Cooke, Aubrey Ghent and brothers Darrick and Chuck Campbell are The Slide Brothers. The band's self-titled album debut album was produced by Robert Randolph, the spectacular young pedal-steel guitarist who became the first player from the Sacred Steel tradition to break out to a wider audience.

On this installment of World Café, the band plays three songs from its album and tells host David Dye about the difference between performing for the congregation at Church of the Living God and playing on club and concert stages.

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3:05pm

Wed May 8, 2013
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Phosphorescent On World Cafe

Credit Steve Gullick / Courtesy of the artist

It's easy to hear the steady growth in the music of Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck since the release of his band's 2009 Willie Nelson tribute album, To Willie. In 2011, Here's to Taking It Easy was a sprawling, languid epic written with his road band's performances in mind.

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4:44pm

Tue May 7, 2013
Music

New Music From The Polyphonic Spree, Jon Hopkins, Eleanor Friedberger, More

Originally published on Tue May 7, 2013 2:33 pm

Credit Courtesy of the artists

This week, All Songs Considered goes big with massive, heart-thumping new music from the gloriously exuberant, sprawling pop group The Polyphonic Spree, and the brilliantly experimental folk-rock band Akron Family. We also check out a gritty album from a Swedish group known as Goat, whose music is part prog-rock, part Afro-pop and undeniably awesome.

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3:52pm

Tue May 7, 2013
World Cafe

Hey Marseilles On World Cafe

Originally published on Wed May 8, 2013 2:01 pm

Credit Hayley Young / Courtesy of the artist

Seattle's Hey Marseilles formed around the collaboration between singer Matt Bishop and guitarist Nick Ward, back when the two were students at the University of Washington. The band has since grown into the septet that recorded Hey Marseilles' sincere and endearing new album, Lines We Trace.

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2:29pm

Mon May 6, 2013
World Cafe

Next: Treetop Flyers

Originally published on Mon May 6, 2013 8:14 pm

Credit Courtesy of the artist
  • Hear Two New Songs By Treetop Flyers

The members of London's Treetop Flyers capture the sound of California folk-rock in the '60s on their debut album, The Mountain Moves. They met on the periphery of the London folk scene that gave the world Mumford & Sons and Laura Marling.

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11:16pm

Fri May 3, 2013

2:32pm

Fri May 3, 2013
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds On World Cafe

Originally published on Fri May 3, 2013 7:39 pm

Credit Cat Stevens / Courtesy of the artist

Australian singer-songwriter Nick Cave recently re-formed his band The Bad Seeds, minus founding member Mick Harvey on guitar, to record a new album called Push the Sky Away. On this installment of World Café, you'll hear a tremendous performance from the elegant, intensely emotive band.

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