Miguel Perez

The cohort of five acts performed live in Philly as part of the artist development program.

Enjoy a playlist of cuts from the legendary musician, who turns 82 this year.

The British duo Sleaford Mods talks about the influences behind their latest album, UK GRIM.

The Nashville-based musician talks about writing and recording Love You Anyway.

Bartees chats with World Cafe about his sophomore album, Farm to Table, and advice he has for artists on the rise.

The musician talks about the message behind her mesmerizing fifth studio album, And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow.

World Cafe celebrates some of the greatest guitar players of all time, who just happen to be women.

The Nashville, by way of Los Angeles, singer and virtuoso guitarist experimented with punk and folk music for the last decade, often to dazzling results.

For Valentine's Day this year, World Cafe is embracing the single life with a cathartic mix of songs about everything but gushy, romantic love.

Lafourcade discusses De Todas las Flores, her first album of entirely new material in seven years.

The Chicago band pulls from a mix of Latin influences to create their unique take on psychedelic rock.

Oliver Sim, the bass guitarist and vocalist for The xx talks about making "Hideous Bastard," his striking debut solo record.

In this session, Pavement percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Bob Nastanovich talks about the band's enduring legacy and discovery by younger fans.

Julieta Venegas, a legend of Latin American pop music, released her first album in seven years, called "Tu Historia."

For their third album, Chopper, Kiwi Jr. wanted to invoke a feeling — not of location or mood, but of time; specifically, that time between sunset and sunrise.

In this session, we talk to Lee Loughnane and Robert Lamm from the road about their new album, film and the stories behind some of their biggest hits — plus, they share live performances.

He's a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist who took up a side hobby as a ballistic missile defense specialist — and added counterterrorism expert for good measure.

Bjork's Fossora peers down into the soil, in a love letter to fungi. "Bubbly and fun" is how she describes her new album.

In this session, all three members of the band join World Cafe to talk about how they went from "almost ending" to getting a brand new start.

In this session, frontman Taylor Goldsmith talks about how he was inspired to fight short attention spans with longer, proggier, jazzier songs that sound nothing like what Dawes have done before.