Kimberly Junod

5 days ago | wshu.org | Kimberly Junod |Miguel Perez |Miguel Pérez

What is your biggest fear? What's that thing that makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up? Makes your skin crawl? Makes you feel that pit in your stomach? Fear can be unpleasant, but it's also a survival instinct. Sometimes, it can even be fun, like when you watch a scary movie. In today's session, recorded in front of an audience at World Cafe Live in Philly, Bartees Strange talks about his new album, Horror. It's an album that sees him facing fears, dissecting them and being shaped by them.

1 week ago | npr.org | Stephen Kallao |Kimberly Junod

"Afterlife" "I Can't Imagine (Why You Feel This Way)""Somethin' Ain't Right" "Comeback Kid" Sharon Van Etten has made a series of impressive solo albums, but for her latest project, Van Etten's backing band got top billing. Enter: The Attachment Theory, featuring longtime collaborators Devra Hoff, Teeny Lieberson and Jorge Balbi. Van Etten says it all started with something she almost never does: studio jams. "It happened pretty naturally," she says.

2 weeks ago | npr.org | Stephen Kallao |Kimberly Junod

"Wake the Dead" "Betty's Song" "Sally Was a Cop" "Freckle Song" Chuck Prophet is proof you should always stick around for the afterparty. Prophet was playing a gig at Make-Out Room, in San Francisco, and he stuck around for the venue's cumbia night. He immediately fell in love with the music. Prophet says it was one of the pleasurable things that kept him company during the COVID lockdown, while he was recovering from lymphoma.

2 weeks ago | wshu.org | Raina Douris |Kimberly Junod

In every musician's career, there are the songs that stand out among the rest. Perhaps it's a song that changed everything for them, the song they grew to love, or the song that was the hardest to write. Those are the songs we want to learn more about on a new World Cafe feature called Backtracking. The premise is simple: We'll give artists a long list of prompts they can choose from. Then, they'll look back through their catalog and pick the song that fits best.

2 weeks ago | npr.org | Raina Douris |Kimberly Junod

Keith Urban on World Cafe Download Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1242780126/1268761185" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> "Straight Line" "Somebody Like You" "Somewhere in My Car" "Break The Chain" In every musician's career, there are the songs that stand out among the rest.