World Cafe

Monday - Thursday, 1-3pm and Friday 2-3pm

World Cafe is a cutting edge, two-hour program of alternative contemporary music. It offers a broad range of innovative sounds drawn from American as well as international music. It includes music that is familiar but also showcases works by new and emerging artists.

Genre: 

Playlist

December 27, 2012

1:00 PM
Tanacara
Artist : Gonzaghuinha
Album : Brazil Classics: Beleza Tropical, Vol. 2
Label : Luaka Bop
1:01 PM
Locked Down
Artist : Dr. John
Album : Locked Down
Label : Nonesuch
1:06 PM
Dark Star
Artist : Polica
Album : Give You The Ghost
Label : Totally Gross Nation
1:11 PM
Heavy Cloud, No Rain
Artist : Sting
Album : Ten Summoner's Tale
Label : A&M
1:15 PM
Easy Way Out
Artist : Gotye
Album : Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Label : WXPN
1:24 PM
Somebody That I Used To Know
Artist : Gotye
Album : Making Mirrors
Label : Universal Republic
1:30 PM
State of the Art
Artist : Gotye
Album : Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Label : WXPN
1:38 PM
Easy Way Out
Artist : Gotye
Album : Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Label : WXPN
1:42 PM
Eyes Wide Open
Artist : Gotye
Album : Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Label : WXPN
1:47 PM
Eyes Wide Open
Artist : Gotye
Album : Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Label : WXPN
1:48 PM
Waiting In Vain
Artist : Bob Marley & The Wailers
Album : Exodus
Label : Island
1:52 PM
Tell Me A Tale
Artist : Michael Kiwanuka
Album : Tell Me A Tale
Label : Interscope
1:57 PM
Worms
Artist : Yeasayer
Album : All Hour Cymbals
Label : We Are Free
2:00 PM
Tanacara
Artist : Gonzaghuinha
Album : Brazil Classics: Beleza Tropical, Vol. 2
Label : Luaka Bop
2:01 PM
Gatekeeper
Artist : Feist
Album : Let It Die
Label : Interscope Records
2:03 PM
Itchycoo Park
Artist : Small Faces
Album : There Are But Four Small Faces
Label : Sony
2:06 PM
Happy Pills
Artist : Norah Jones
Album : Little Broken Hearts
Label : Blue Note
2:09 PM
Everybody Here Wants You
Artist : Jeff Buckley
Album : Sketches For My Sweetheart the Drunk
Label : Sony
2:14 PM
Untitled (Love Song)
Artist : Counting Crows
Album : Underwater Sunshine (Or What We Did On Our Summer Vacation
Label : Collective Sounds
2:19 PM
Cool Enough
Artist : Nicole Atkins
Album : Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Label : WXPN
2:21 PM
Submarines
Artist : The Lumineers
Album : Recorded Live For the World Cafe
Label : WXPN
2:27 PM
Ho Hey
Artist : The Lumineers
Album : Recorded Live For the World Cafe
Label : WXPN
2:29 PM
Dead Sea
Artist : The Lumineers
Album : Recorded Live For the World Cafe
Label : WXPN
2:34 PM
Stubborn Love
Artist : The Lumineers
Album : Recorded Live For the World Cafe
Label : WXPN
2:39 PM
Ho Hey
Artist : The Lumineers
Album : Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Label : WXPN
2:40 PM
Revolution Girls
Artist : Mariachi El Bronx
Album : II
Label : Witchita
2:44 PM
Ring of Fire
Artist : Johnny Cash
Album : Love, God, Murder
Label : Lost Highway
2:47 PM
The Lady of Leitrim
Artist : Megan Reilly
Album : The Well
Label : Carrot Tope
2:51 PM
Tiger Lily
Artist : Luna
Album : Bewitched
Label : Elektra/ADA
2:56 PM
Disclaimer
Artist : The Dears
Album : Missiles
Label : Arts & Crafts

Pages

3:34pm

Mon June 3, 2013
World Cafe

Next: The Oh Hellos

Originally published on Tue June 18, 2013 5:39 pm

Credit Wonderfully Made / Courtesy of the artist
  • Listen To Two Songs By The Oh Hellos

Tyler and Maggie Heath, siblings from San Marcos, Texas, self-released their independent album, Through the Deep, Dark Valley, in October of last year. It was the culmination of a collaboration that began a couple years ago, when they wrote their first song together — for their mom. She liked it, but more importantly, they liked the process.

Read more

12:12pm

Fri May 31, 2013
World Cafe

Jamie Lidell On World Cafe

Originally published on Fri May 31, 2013 6:21 pm

Credit Lindsey Rome / Courtesy of the artist

British producer and singer Jamie Lidell is one of electronic music's funkiest solo practitioners. When Lidell visited World Cafe in 2006 to support his successful album Multiply, he told host David Dye that he had been called the "one-man human funk tornado" — a moniker he earns yet again in this session.

In this installment of World Cafe, Lidell plays songs from his new self-titled album and discusses the process of making the record at his new home studio in Nashville.

Read more

5:02pm

Thu May 30, 2013
World Cafe

Latin Roots: Canto Cardenche, The Sound Of Sorrow

Credit courtesy of the artist

11:24am

Thu May 30, 2013
World Cafe

Petula Clark On World Cafe

Credit Clement Schneider / Courtesy of the artist

Petula Clark's new album, Lost In You, is her first since 2004. The 80-year-old actress, singer and entertainer launched her career in film and on the radio; she even entertained the troops in WWII, and was later known for her worldwide hit "Downtown."

Read more

11:31am

Wed May 29, 2013
World Cafe

Red Baraat On World Cafe

Originally published on Thu May 30, 2013 6:32 pm

Credit Erin Patrice O'Brien / Courtesy of the artist

At a Red Baraat show, the combination of Punjabi Bhangra music, New Orleans-style jazz, go-go and even hip-hop is so seamless — and the vibe of the party is so exuberant — that barriers fall down. That unique sound is what Red Baraat's leader, Sunny Jain, had in mind when he formed the band in Brooklyn in 2008.

Read more

Pages