WNYC's Soundcheck
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, Rackett, The Replacements, and James Brown.
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21 Episodes of this Podcast:
New York's "Underground Economy" (Soundcheck: Friday, 20 November 2009)
Published: 2009-11-20 13:26:00Making a living has never been easy for subway musicians but some say it's only getting tougher. Some buskers are striking up deals with corporate sponsors. Others complain that transit police have been cracking down on performers. Today, we get several views on New York’s “underground economy.”
Joining us is Luke Ryan, a musician who struck a deal to be in a deodorant campaign; Heather Haddon, a reporter at amNewYork newspaper, and Steve Zeitlin, executive director of the organization City Lore.
They Might Be Giants (Soundcheck: Friday, 20 November 2009)
Published: 2009-11-20 00:00:00Are you confused by cosmology? Do you really understand photosynthesis? The brainiacs of They Might Be Giants want to help demystify those scientific concepts and many others, by playing songs from their new album, Here Comes Science, live in our studio.
They Might Be Giants perform an all ages in-store at Barnes & Noble in Union Square on Thursday, Dec. 3 at 6 p.m. More information here.
Grant-Lee Phillips (Soundcheck: Thursday, 19 November 2009)
Published: 2009-11-19 17:49:00Singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips has led a notable solo career since the breakup of his band Grant Lee Buffalo. But lately, he’s finding the whole band thing to be pretty irresistible. He even roped his opening act, The Winterpills, into serving as his touring band. He joins us to perform songs from his newest album, Little Moon, live in our studio.
The Plight of Jazz in New York (Soundcheck: Thursday, 19 November 2009)
Published: 2009-11-19 14:06:00The recent recession took its toll on New York's jazz community, especially musicians and small venues. And earlier this year, JVC withdrew its sponsorship of the JVC Jazz Festival, leaving the city without a major summer jazz festival for the first time in almost 40 years. Today: how the city's jazz artists and clubs are keeping their head above water. We talk with New York Times jazz critic Nate Chinen.
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New York Music, Block to Block (Soundcheck: Wednesday, 18 November 2009)
Published: 2009-11-18 14:04:00In 1927, the Harlem renaissance peaked and Duke Ellington’s orchestra became the house band for The Cotton Club. Fifty years later, 1977 gave rise to hip hop's innovators and seminal albums from the CBGB crowd. We talk to author and music journalist Tony Fletcher about his new book, All Hopped Up and Ready To Go: Music From the Streets of New York, 1927-77, a look at local neighborhoods that served as laboratories for some of the most influential music of the 20th Century.
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Rickie Lee Jones Live (Soundcheck: Wednesday, 18 November 2009)
Published: 2009-11-18 00:00:00Thirty years after she won a Grammy for best new artist, singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones has an album that she says feels like her debut. The so-called “Duchess of Coolsville," joins us to talk about the healing aspect of her new album, "Balm in Gilead," and to perform live in the studio.
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High Drama: Pop vs. Score (Soundcheck: Tuesday, 17 November 2009)
Published: 2009-11-17 15:50:00Soundcheck Smackdown goes Hollywood! Today: music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas, who compiled the hit soundtrack to the new Twilight film New Moon, and Variety film writer Jon Burlingame debate which makes for better movie music: pop music or original score.
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Dionne Warwick (Soundcheck: Tuesday, 17 November 2009)
Published: 2009-11-17 00:00:00In a career spanning nearly five decades, Dionne Warwick has earned five Grammy Awards and 56 Billboard Hot 100 hits, including "Say a Little Prayer" and "Do You Know the Way to San José." In the 1960s and early '70s she was a muse for the songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, who wrote specifically for her cool, sophisticated alto voice. Now 68, Warwick shows few signs of slowing down, and joins us in advance of a concert with composer Michel Legrand.
Dionne Warwick performs with Michel Legrand and singer Mario Pelchat at Avery Fisher Hall on Saturday, Nov. 21, at 8:00 p.m. More information here.
Too Close for Comfort? (Soundcheck: Monday, 16 November 2009)
Published: 2009-11-16 14:49:00Residential sounds are the number-one noise complaint in New York City, according to the City's 311 complaint hotline. Today, Arline Bronzaft, chair of the noise committee at the city's Council on the Environment, tells us how to cope in the latest installment of Soundcheck’s monthly series on noise.
Weigh in:Do you have noisy neighbors? Any confrontations? Learn to live and let live?
Forro in the Dark Live (Soundcheck: Monday, 16 November 2009)
Published: 2009-11-16 13:19:00When the rhythm known as forro made its way from the Northeast of Brazil to the Lower East Side it lost the accordion, gained more drums…and some American pop. New York-based outfit Forro in the Dark has featured David Byrne in its first album and for their new album, Light A Candle, they gather Brazilian Girls' Sabina Sciubba and singer-songwriter Jesse Harris. They’ll play live in our studio.
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