John Schaefer appears in the following:
Weekly Music Roundup: NY Gypsy All Stars, Susana Baca, elbow
Monday, October 04, 2021
New Sounds
This week, a cross-cultural premiere, a new elbow song with an old elbow title, and a stunning soul revue from the Apollo featuring Charles Bradley. Plus, new Susana Baca, and more.
Mandala Lab Opens At The Rubin Museum
Friday, October 01, 2021
WNYC’s John Schaefer walked through the Lab with Tim McHenry of the Rubin Museum and composer Bora Yoon.
Weekly Music Roundup: Ben LaMar Gay, Alt-J, Japanese Breakfast
Monday, September 27, 2021
New Sounds
This week, echoes of summer from Alt-J and Ben LaMar Gay feat. Ohmme; a video game soundtrack from Japanese Breakfast; and South African electronic music producers Native Soul.
Weekly Music Roundup: Buena Vista Social Club, Larkin Poe, Makaya McCraven
Monday, September 20, 2021
New Sounds
The Buena Vista Social Club keeps on giving; orchestral blues-rock from Larkin Poe; and music for autumn in New York by Makaya McCraven. Plus, brass band hijinks from Fanfare Ciocarlia.
Weekly Music Roundup: ABBA, ÌFÉ, and Curtis Harding
Monday, September 13, 2021
New Sounds
ABBA is just as ABBA as ever; Afro-Cuban futurism from ÌFÉ; and Curtis Harding’s vintage soul. Plus, Brooklyn singer and rapper Spencer., and a tongue-in-cheeky love song by Sean Rowe.
Weekly Music Roundup: Baracutanga, N.C. Sacred Soul, and FPA
Monday, September 06, 2021
New Sounds
This week, premieres of Latin folk-fusion from Baracutanga and Carolina soul from Big James Barrett and the Golden Jubilees, plus Kanye and Drake race to the bottom.
Weekly Music Roundup: Marissa Nadler and Lee "Scratch" Perry RIP
Monday, August 30, 2021
New Sounds
This week, a subversive murder ballad from Marissa Nadler, an answer song to all those internet cat videos from Caribou, and the loss of Jamaican music legend, Lee "Scratch" Perry.
Producer Picks: 'John Schaefer On Protest Music'
Thursday, August 26, 2021
A re-air of our evening special from last summer, 'WNYC At Curfew,' amidst the racial justice protests. Alison discusses the history of protest music with WNYC's John Schaefer.
Weekly Music Roundup: Daptone Records @20, Parquet Courts, and Lorde
Monday, August 23, 2021
New Sounds
A celebration of old-school soul from the Apollo Theater, Parquet Courts' ode to crowded city streets, new age pop from Lorde, and a creeptastic film score by Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe.
Weekly Music Roundup: Big Thief, Aluna, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
Monday, August 16, 2021
New Sounds
This week, musical returns for Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, Big Thief, and Aluna. Plus, new music by harpist Brandee Younger, shoegazers Yeah Baby, and NY garage rockers Loose Buttons.
Weekly Music Roundup: The Weeknd, Adia Victoria, RZA
Monday, August 09, 2021
New Sounds
New music from some of the usual suspects (The Weeknd, RZA) and unusual ones (Adam Driver? Marion Cotillard?). Plus, Adia Victoria's A Southern Gothic and Julie Fowlis with Hawktail.
Weekly Music Roundup: Prince, Billie Eilish, Bomba Estereo with Yemi Alade
Monday, August 02, 2021
New Sounds
This week, posthumous Prince, Brazilian Billie Eilish, and Yola’s summery pop. Plus, Colombian dance band Bomba Estereo and Nigerian superstar Yemi Alade, and Los Tangueros del Oeste.
NYC's Asian American Classical Community Meets Hate with Music
Monday, July 26, 2021
With live performances slowly returning, we're checking in with different corners of New York City's music scene to see how musicians have weathered the pandemic.
Weekly Music Roundup: Beverly Glenn-Copeland Meets Kelsey Lu, Elvis Costello Meets Juanes, and Joan As Police Woman
Monday, July 19, 2021
New Sounds
Hear new takes on old songs by Derek & The Dominoes, folk singer Shirley Collins, Elvis Costello, and Beverly Glenn-Copeland. Plus, JG Thirlwell as Xordox and new Joan As Police Woman.
Weekly Music Roundup: Jorge Drexler, Courtney Barnett, Attacca Quartet
Monday, July 12, 2021
New Sounds
This week, Jorge Drexler’s Uruguayan gospel, Quantic’s cumbia-rock, classical electronica from Attacca Quartet, and Courtney Barnett’s eventual return.
Weekly Music Roundup: Rival Consoles, Laura Mvula, The Go! Team
Monday, July 05, 2021
New Sounds
The British are coming (again) in The Go! Team, Laura Mvula, and Rival Consoles, supergroup Big Red Machine reconvenes, and a new (old) kind of Latin music from John Linnell.
NYC's Cumbia Scene Looks Forward
Friday, July 02, 2021
As New York gets started on what looks to be a summer of live performances, we're checking in with different corners of the city's music scene.
Weekly Music Roundup: Caroline Shaw and So Percussion, Helado Negro
Monday, June 28, 2021
New Sounds
This week, new music from composer and vocalist Caroline Shaw with So Percussion, Toronto rapper Shad, and American musician Helado Negro; also RIP Jon Hassell and Frederic Rzewski.
Madonna, The Beastie Boys, and The Talking Heads - Museum Takes A Look Back At The 80s
Thursday, June 24, 2021
The Koch administration was too busy pulling the city back from near bankruptcy to bother with cabaret laws, so club sprouted up all over the city.
Weekly Music Roundup: Amythyst Kiah, Shungudzo, Yves Tumor
Monday, June 21, 2021
New Sounds
Tennessee-based songwriter Amythyst Kiah's bluesy-Americana, new music band Wild Up records the outsider art of Julius Eastman, a glam-dance track by Yves Tumor, and Shungudzo's debut.
