What adds to Lido's Polaris Prize and Grammy award-winning resume is her ability to command the stage as a live performer.

For 50 years, Keb's made music that's resonated deeply with people — and he's nowhere close to calling it a career. His latest album is Good to Be.

A well-deserved break — and building their own studio — was the spark the group needed to make 'The Dream,' their most adventurous album yet.

Amythyst Kiah's debut solo album, Wary + Strange, with its unusual combination of roots influences and alternative sounds, features the Grammy-nominated song, "Black Myself."

'The Overload' released in January on Island Records and quickly made a splash, debuting at No. 2 on the UK albums chart. Hear a live performance.

Roberto Carlos Lange, who performs as Helado Negro, lived in Brooklyn until a 2-week trip to Texas to work on an art installation turned into a 6-month stay that led to Far In.

It's a confessional, intimate album a world away from Midtown Manhattan.

Big Freedia may not be the earliest pioneer of bounce, the high-energy genre that calls New Orleans home, but she has been its most well-known ambassador.

It's an introspective, direct album with heartfelt lyrics and, of course, impeccable production.

World Cafe gets up close and personal with Snail Mail's Lindsey Jordan in this mini-concert from upstate New York, performing songs from her latest album Valentine.

In this session, Eilish joins us from the couch at her parents' house to talk about her latest album, Happier Than Ever.

Like magic, these live performances have the same amount of precision and craftsmanship as the album versions do. Hear The War On Drugs perform, live in, studio for the World Cafe.

The South Carolina band recorded a session featuring tracks from its record Time in the Sun from Sputnik Sound in Nashville.

The not-so-thin Duke chatted about Berlin, glam rock and how a boring suburban childhood pushed him to seek out new ideas.

Kiah talks music and history with Nashville correspondent Jessie Scott, exploring how she crafts lyrics from both lived and observed experiences.

For the first time in over two decades, Fleck has returned to the genre with My Bluegrass Heart, an ambitious double album.

In this session, Yola talks about what it means to "own thyself," shedding an inferior version of herself, working with Brandi Carlile and playing Sister Rosetta Tharpe for a new movie about Elvis.

In our World Cafe First Times series, we'll dig into our archives to hear some very early performances from artists destined for big, big things.

We've chosen 30 artists who are 30 years old or younger that we believe are poised to be the next generation of World Cafe stars. Each week, we'll reveal one of the artists on that list.

The World Cafe caught up with Chris Vos and Alex Stiff from the band to talk about the new faces working on their latest album.