Search results for

A group of young women of gothic sensibility have banded together to make music based on lyrics and poems from the Middle Ages. On Weekend Edition Sunday, guest host John Nielsen talks with two of the Mediaeval Baebes about their latest album, their love of dead languages and the Dorian scale.

Robert Randolph of Robert Randolph and the Family Band talks about his song, "Going in the Right Direction" from the CD Unclassified. They are scheduled to perform at the Grammy Awards on Sunday.

The Duluth, Minn., trio called Low are known for slow, quiet songs. But on their new album, The Great Destroyer, the band sets a different course.

Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the new solo effort Happiness in Magazines, from Graham Coxon who was the lead guitarist for the British band Blur.

Jazz vocalist Anita O'Day. She joined Gene Krupa's band in 1941. She later sang with Stan Kenton. She is still performing today (Original broadcast: 12/3/87).

A remembrance for jazz pianist Mal Waldron, who has died at the age of 77. Waldron accompanied Billie Holiday in the 1950s, and played in bands with great artists like Charlie Mingus and John Coltrane.

Liane Hansen speaks with New York-based composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel. His CD of chamber works written over the past decade, called Soul Garden, is on CRI Emergency Records. Bermel also fronts a rock band, Peace by Piece, with a CD available on Miscellaneous Records.

Music reviewer David Greenberger tells us about a new release by The Posies. The band split up in the late nineties, but a new four-CD box set features outtakes and other previously unreleased material. It's called At Least, At Last.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Chris Collingwood and Adam Schlesinger, co-founders of the pop band Fountains of Wayne. Their new CD, Welcome Interstate Managers, is on S-Curve Records.

Rock historian Ed Ward offers a retrospective on the Australian group The Go-Betweens. The band has a new album, Oceans Apart, and is currently on tour.