Radio Deluxe returns for another New Year’s Eve program on WNYC. Join musician John Pizzarelli and singer Jessica Molaskey, as they get together in their "deluxe living room" to make music, play CDs and have fun with their musical guests and introduce listeners to a new generation of performers who ...
On today's show: We're replaying some of our favorite interviews from the past year. Kurt Eichenwald looks at how some of the decisions made in the first 500 days that followed the 9/11 attacks have dramatically reshaped the world in the years since. Junot Diaz talks about his new book of short stories, This Is How You Lose Her. Luis Rodriguez tells us how he escaped from gang life. And William Bryant Logan talks about airlife would not exist without it, yet we take it for granted.
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Today on Soundcheck, we revisit a few of our favorite segments from 2012.
First, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Junot Diaz talks about his latest collection, This Is How You Lose Her. It's about a young man named Yunior, who was born in the Dominican Republic and grows up in New Jersey -- much like the author himself. Diaz tells us about the music that moves him, and shares a personal "Pick Three."
Then, we hear from the woman who produced the famed "Golden Record," a compilation affixed to the twin spacecrafts NASA launched in 1977 to explore the furthest reaches of the solar system.
And, New Orleans music iconoclast Dr. John discusses Locked Down, his 2012 album produced by The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach.
Q is an energetic daily arts and culture program from the CBC hosted by Tom Power.
For this New Sounds, John Schaefer sifts through the avalanche of CDs (and digital offerings) which has piled up in his office to find a sampling of new releases worthy of showcasing in tonight's New Sounds program. Also, he'll look back at some of the things that came out during 2012 that might have gone unnoticed on the chaos that is his desk, and ahead to some of the things that 2013 holds.
