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1 week ago | 
xpn.org | Miguel Perez |Miguel Pérez
World CafeThis week, you’ll find new music from some of the artists we’ve had on the show recently, like Lucy Dacus and Sharon Van Etten, plus new music from Shamir, Turnstile and Pulp. When it comes to the airwaves, World Cafe is NPR’s most popular music radio show. More than 300 public radio stations from all corners of the country carry the two-hour program.
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1 month ago | 
kpbs.org | Miguel Perez |Miguel Pérez
We are almost there, folks. As we speak, the sun's subsolar point is racing northward, toward the celestial equator. In about a week, the vernal equinox will finally bring the official start of springtime in the northern hemisphere. There are already signs. Daffodil leaves are peeking out of the cold dirt. Soon, strawberries and cherimoyas will fill farmer's market bins, and the chirps of bluebirds and grackles will saunter in from freshly opened windows.
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1 month ago | 
wrvo.org | Miguel Perez |Miguel Pérez
We are almost there, folks. As we speak, the sun's subsolar point is racing northward, toward the celestial equator. In about a week, the vernal equinox will finally bring the official start of springtime in the northern hemisphere. There are already signs. Daffodil leaves are peeking out of the cold dirt. Soon, strawberries and cherimoyas will fill farmer's market bins, and the chirps of bluebirds and grackles will saunter in from freshly opened windows.
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1 month ago | 
npr.org | Miguel Perez |Miguel Pérez
Photo illustration by Miguel Perez/WXPN We are almost there, folks. As we speak, the sun's subsolar point is racing northward, toward the celestial equator. In about a week, the vernal equinox will finally bring the official start of springtime in the northern hemisphere. There are already signs. Daffodil leaves are peeking out of the cold dirt. Soon, strawberries and cherimoyas will fill farmer's market bins, and the chirps of bluebirds and grackles will saunter in from freshly opened windows.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Miguel Perez |Miguel Pérez
March’s roaring lion arrived with winds that kept our woods in perpetual motion and sent leaves blowing everywhere. It was warm one day, then cold …
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1 month ago | 
npr.org | Miguel Perez |Miguel Pérez
Photo illustration by Miguel Perez/WXPN If there's one thing I am loath to do, it's wake up early. So it's with great reticence that I accept the turning back of the clocks this Sunday for daylight saving time. Luckily, there's a great deal of music that does an excellent job of stretching time like putty — turning our minutes into hours. Do you know what I mean?
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1 month ago | 
npr.org | Stephen Kallao |Miguel Perez |Miguel Pérez
Mdou Moctar on World Cafe Set List "Takoba""Imouhar""Modern Slaves" Nigerien singer, songwriter and guitarist Mdou Moctar is known for his electrifying Tuareg rock performances, but his latest album sees the band unplug. Tears of Injustice, a re-imagining of 2024's Funeral for Justice, sees the band stripping away the amplification and distortion of their signature sound.
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1 month ago | 
npr.org | Miguel Perez |Miguel Pérez
Clockwise, from top left: Marian Anderson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Maybelle and Sara Carter, and Helen Kane Photo illustration by Miguel Perez/WXPN hide caption toggle caption Photo illustration by Miguel Perez/WXPN To commemorate Women's History Month, World Cafe is looking back on a century's worth of music history. Every week in March, we're pinpointing distinct moments of every year from the past 100 years, a quarter century at a time. Today, we'll explore 1925 to 1949.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Miguel Perez |Miguel Pérez
Nero’s grand palace reopens: Visitors can now explore the legendary Domus AureaRoman Emperor Nero is most famous in popular imagination for playing the fiddle while Rome burned. Now his grand royal residence is once again open to the public.
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1 month ago | 
npr.org | Raina Douris |Miguel Perez |Miguel Pérez
Set List "After The Harvest""That Day Must Surely Come""Plus & Minus""Babylon" 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 Backtracking, a new World Cafe feature. The premise is simple: We'll give artists a long list of prompts they can choose from.
