Elbow, 'All Disco' (Live)
Watch the U.K. band perform a track from its latest release Little Fictions, an album about the joy of new love and fatherhood.
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The Thistle & Shamrock: The Gathering
We feature family torchbearers for tradition — and forces for innovation in vocal and instrumental music — the Brennans, the Fishers, the Cunninghams and the O'Domhnaills.
Reggie 'Combat Jack' Ossé, Hip-Hop Journalist And Podcaster, Dies At 48
Entertainment lawyer-turned-hip-hop podcaster Reggie Ossé started his interview show, The Combat Jack Show, on a lark, but it turned into an essential document of rap in the Internet age. He was 48.
Goran Bregović Reconciles Religion With Music On 'Three Letters From Sarajevo'
"I like to understand music as a conversation," the Balkan singer says. "Music is language."
Big Thief, 'Mythological Beauty' (Live)
The Brooklyn folk-rock band performs a powerful story-song about family and pain live in the KCRW studio.
Curtis Harding On World Cafe
The young Atlanta-based artist has an old soul — key word, "soul." Hear a performance of songs from his new album, Face Your Fear.
The Best Reissues Of 2017
It was a good year for previously unheard songs from classic albums and discoveries of studio works and live performances that never saw the light of day.
Define Your Line: Rapsody On Coexisting In Rap's Power Gap
As women lit up hip-hop this year, an old idea persisted that only one female MC can wear the crown at a time. Our year-end series continues with an artist determined to coexist without compromise.
World Cafe Remembers The Musicians We Lost In 2017
We were lucky to have some of the artists who died in 2017 pass through the World Cafe to perform. Listen back to their sessions.
Alt.Latino Celebrates The Last Day Of Hanukkah With Music Of Sarah Aroeste
A Jewish-Latin connection that goes back centuries is celebrated in the work of a New York-based singer and composer.