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 Jupiter One The New York-based indie rock band, Jupiter One, quit their day jobs in the Big Apple Circus to start making music together. And they don't clown around on their new album, 'Sunshowers,' which is upbeat and really danceable. They drove up the Cross Bronx to FUV's Studio A to chat with Alisa Ali. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Black Hollies The Black Hollies are a young-band, but they like and produce an older sound. Their second album 'Softly Through the Light' is a highly-danceable record that uses sixties instruments and recording techniques for a vintage feel. Justin Angelo Mori discusses what it's like touring with the older equipment in Studio A with FUV's Russ Borris. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ray Davies Being knighted a Commander of the British Empire would probably make you a 'well-respected man about town,' but even before knighthood Ray Davies of the Kinks has been a well-respected man of music for more than four decades. Recently, the Rock and Roll Hall-of-Famer stopped by Studio A to talk to FUV's own Dennis Elsas about his new album 'The Kinks Choral Collection' which features a sixty-odd piece chorus tackling a portion of The Kinks' prolific singles catalog. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Warren Haynes (New!) To say Warren Haynes is a very good guitarist is an understatement. Rolling Stone has ranked him as the 23rd 'Greatest Guitarist of All-Time' and he has garnered seven-grammy nominations. But as he told WFUV's Darren Devivo during a recent session in Studio-A, he is also a very busy guitarist. And it's no wonder, he has his own record label, a solo-career plays in three major touring bands: The Allman Brothers Band, The Dead, and Gov't Mule. It is with his Gov't Mule hat that he stopped ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website April Smith and the Great Picture Show They're so new they don't even have a studio release—yet. April Smith and The Great Picture Show have been making waves across the New York City bar and club circuit, and have gotten the attention—the good kind—of the celebrity blogosphere. April stopped by WFUV's Studio A to talk with Rita Houston about how her early music influences of the The Andrews Sisters and Fats Waller, can exist in her repertoire alongside her other favorites like Tom Waits and PJ Harvey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website One Eskimo Their first album garnered them international attention and a spot opening for Tori Amos, and that was just One Eskimo's music. They also funded their own music video, featuring themselves as animated characters, which was so well-received it was picked up for full-scale production by Warner Brothers. WFUV's Alisa Ali sat down with Kristian Leontiou and the rest of One Eskimo to talk about their self-titled debut album, their cartoon characters, and their unique creative process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions were formed and are based in Long Island, but spent some time in Chicago maturing their sound, and then explored the rainforests of Costa Rica to gain inspiration for their most recent LP. So it was easy for them, geographically speaking, to hop across the Whitestone Bridge to join Alisa Ali in WFUV's Studio A for a conversation and acoustic performance featuring songs from their latest album, 'You Can't Take it with You.' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions were formed and are based in Long Island, but spent some time in Chicago maturing their sound, and then explored the rainforests of Costa Rica to gain inspiration for their most recent LP. So it was easy for them, geographically speaking, to hop across the Whitestone Bridge to join Alisa Ali in WFUV's Studio A for a conversation and acoustic performance featuring songs from their latest album, 'You Can't Take it with You.' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website As Tall As Lions As Tall As Lions were formed and are based in Long Island, but spent some time in Chicago maturing their sound, and then explored the rainforests of Costa Rica to gain inspiration for their most recent LP. So it was easy for them, geographically speaking, to hop across the Whitestone Bridge to join Alisa Ali in WFUV's Studio A for a conversation and acoustic performance featuring songs from their latest album, 'You Can't Take it with You.' Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neko Case A little bit country, a little bit rock 'n roll, and a lot obsessed with tornadoes — Neko Case is back with a new album called "Middle Cyclone." The sounds on the record are about as varied as the lyrical content but her unmistakable voice ties it all together, along with the help of an impressive list of musical friends. Hear more about the record and how a few of the songs sound acoustically, as Neko chats with host Claudia Marshall in 'FUV's Studio-A. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charlie Mars Charlie Mars' fifth album 'Like a Bird, Like A Plane,' has recently been released, and the Mississippi-originated singer-songwriter stopped in for an acoustic performance and conversation with Alisa Ali over at FUV's studio A. He talked about the constant touring of his early days, and how it wasn't till he struck a jackpot—not on tour—but at a casino that he was able to find some time to focus more on his songwriting and the direction of his sound. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rickie Lee Jones (new!) It's been three decades since Rickie Lee Jones released 'Chuck E's In Love' and 'Coolsville' and while the songs made her an overnight sensation her career has never burned out. She has been constantly exploring new genres in her music and new depths in her songwriting. She sat down in studio A with WFUV's John Platt to talk about her latest album 'Balm in Gilead' which explores her familial and spiritual roots. Rickie also talked about her deep connections with her fans. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Auerbach As a producer and one half of The Black Keys, Dan Auerbach is already busy guy. But a solo record somehow fit into his non-stop schedule, as did a few more layers of sound. Hear the results on the album "Keep It Hid" and in Dan's recent conversation with host Russ Borris at 'FUV. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 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