WFUV's Take Five Podcasts

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Daily show (M-F) for music lovers: Exclusive WFUV in-studio sessions from New York City, hosted by Rita Houston. Live performance and conversation with favorite artists and new talent from the worlds of rock, singer-songwriters, blues, roots, world & more. Primary Format : Adult Contemporary Language : English Also Listed as: City : New York City State/Province : NY Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of WFUV\'s Take Five Podcasts Methings.com listings of WFUV\'s Take Five Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of WFUV's Take Five Jim James My Morning Jacket's grown from a Kentucky bar band to one of rock's best live acts, and they prove it on record too with the new album "Evil Urges." WFUV's Rita Houston was there to catch the band debuting tunes at SXSW this year, and heard what Jim James had to say about the recent changes in the band's sound. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Piers Faccini Piers Faccini's first band, Charley Marlowe, came out of a performance poetry project with Francesca Beard, and when that came to an end in 2001, he threw himself into his painting, and became a darling of the gallery world. However, music and songwriting is still very much part of his oeuvre, and as he told FUV's Claudia Marshall his new album, Two Grains of Sand, is heavily influenced by his recent spate of traveling, and his recent experiences with the music of South Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fanfarlo While a lot of bands like to craft intricate sounds on their albums, when they go on the road they'll often forgo band members for synthesizers, laptops, and ipods. Not so, for the UK band Fanfarlo, which features a touring crew of six multi-instrumentalists and vocalists along with the occasional guest musician. They've brought them all across the pond to talk with WFUV's Rita Houston about their debut album 'Resevoir' and while they're not an American-band, they don't necessarily mind ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ray Lamontagne Soulful songwriter Ray Lamontagne sounded wise and weary beyond his years on his debut album "Trouble," and while that's a constant in his core sound, he's made a few changes on his new album, "Gossip in the Grain." One song started as a ballad and now features a horn section, and Ray explained a few other sonic differences during an interview with WFUV's Rita Houston. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Author Elijah Wald During his prolific career as music writer, Elijah Wald has published books about bluesman Robert Johnson, folk artist Dave Van Ronk, and Mexican drug ballads. He dropped by 'FUV to talk with host Nora Flaherty about his latest and easily most controversially-titled book, 'How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music' and did a little spinning as a guest DJ. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website White Rabbits The Alternate Side favorites 'White Rabbits' stopped by to play some live songs and talk about working with Spoon's Britt Daniel on their latest album 'It's Frightening...' But, as they told FUV's Alisa Ali, what's really frightening is the mess in their DUMBO, Brooklyn practice space. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Karl Denson's Tiny Universe Karl Denson got his start as Lenny Kravitz's sax player, but in his two-decade plus career he has gone from being a sideman to the master of his own universe—a tiny universe. While the Karl Denson Trio is in the jazz scene, his Greyboy All-Stars have the funk scene, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe have become major players on the jam band scene. And when Karl sits down with Claudia Marshall in FUV's studio A he talks about his new album, 'Brother's Keeper.' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Todd Snider (new!) While other Seattle musicians like Nirvana and Pearl Jam introduced audiences to grunge rock in the early 1990s Todd Snider was coming out of that same Northwest scene playing Americana music chock full of humorous lyrics delivered by a trove of hardscrabble narrators. He sat down in studio A with FUV's John Platt to discuss his latest album, 'The Excitement Plan,' which features more of his standard down on your luck characters and top-notch production from Don Was. (10/28/09) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Imogen Heap (new!) Fans of Shrek or Zach Braff movies might know Imogen Heap better as one-half of the English electronic group Frou Frou, but she can craft complex cinemactic sounds without the help of Hollywood or a bandmate, as her last solo album 'Speak for Yourself' had two Grammy nominations. She stopped by WFUV's studio A for a live performance and chat with FUV's own Alisa Ali about her latest solo work 'Ellipse' which she crafted in her ancestral English country home. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Mead (new!) Singer-songwriter David Mead has dabbled in big, pop production in his career, but stripped things back on his new album 'Almost and Always' to put the spotlight on lyrics and vocals. A solo set in 'FUV's Studio A had the same focus, as David joined host Claudia Marshall in a return visit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sondre Lerche Sondre Lerche was born in Bergen, Norway, but he grew up steeped in 80's pop music, and a love of The Beach Boys' era California sound. As he tells WFUV's Alisa Ali His new album 'Heartbeat Radio' is a record that shows off these affinities with lots of big sounds and production elements. In Studio A, he tries to recreate those big compositions using only his voice and an acoustic guitar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mew When Mew formed outside of Copenhagen in 1994 they basically created the Danish Indie Rock scene. Recently, they were in town as the opener for Nine Inch Nails, and managed to stop by 'FUV's The Alternate Side to talk with Rich McLaughlin about their narrative-driven (and ironically titled) new album 'No more stories...' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colin Hay (new!) Colin Hay, the Scotland born, Australia-raised singer-songwriter who fronted the band "Men at Work, has been a California man for many years. And he's out to prove it with his new solo album, 'American Sunshine,' which leads off with the song 'Oh California.' Colin gives us a live performance of that song, during a conversation with Claudia Marshall in WFUV's Studio A. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kings of Convenience WFUV's Kara Manning talks with the Norwegian folk duo Kings of Convenience about their album 'Declaration of Dependence.' It is their first new release in five years, and while that is a large gap between albums, Erlend and Eirik explain that they definitely were kept busy during the time since 'Riot on an Empty Street' was released in 2004. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kristina Train WFUV's Rita Houston introduces us to Kristina Train, whose voice harkens back to the glory days of Stax Records, and brings to mind the microphone commanding singing of Laura Nyro and Alison Krauss. Kristina's debut album, 'Spilt Milk,' was produced by Jimmy Hogarth the wunderkind producer behind such FUV faves as Sia, KT Tunstall, and Duffy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amy LaVere Genres from punk to classic country find a place in Amy LaVere's sound, and they're all linked together by her voice and her instrument of choice — the upright bass. Her latest album is called "Anchors & Anvils," and Amy brought her band to 'FUV to share a few live songs during an interview with host Rita Houston. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Bazan Seattle songwriter David Bazan takes another step outside his Pedro The Lion past with his first full-length solo record, called "Curse Your Branches." Lyrically, he's also taking a leap by discussing his struggle with religion, but the heavy subject matter doesn't detract from the music at all. Hear for yourself as David and his band perform a few songs during an interview with 'FUV's Russ Borris. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Langhorne Slim (new!) After walking the "rebel side" of folk on his last album with The War Eagles, Langhorne Slim takes a step forward in songwriting on his new record, "Be Set Free." He got to share that mix of raw vocal energy and direct, poignant lyrics on a few impressive stages this past year, and on the stage of 'FUV's Studio A, Langhorne spoke about gigs and the goals for the album with host Claudia Marshall. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Erin McKeown (new!) With a collection of standards and a live record, Erin McKeown kept busy in the four years between albums of original material, but the time was also well-spent honing and shaping a new batch of tunes. New sounds also come into play on the resulting record called "Hundreds of Lions," and Erin talked with host Darren DeVivo about the factors of time, money, and inspiration behind it, when she stopped by 'FUV's Studio A. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Regina Spektor Regina Spektor wanted to get the songs just right for her new album "Far," and so she took 3 years and 4 producers to flesh out all of that music in her mind. But it all works on piano too, and that's how Regina performed a couple of new tunes during an interview with 'FUV's Kara Manning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website