On today's New Year's Day show, we're replaying some favorite interviews from last year. Wyclef Jean tells about his journey from Haiti to the housing projects of Brooklyn to Newark and onto the world stage as a member of the Fugees. Director Penny Marshall talks about her life and career in front ofand behindthe camera. Supreme Court lawyer Linda Hirshman tells the story of the gay rights movement. Plus, the one and only Joan Rivers.
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The Peabody Award-winning program features Terry Gross’ fearless and insightful interviews with big names in pop culture, politics and the arts.
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Today on Soundcheck: New music galore! Hear about three new bands to watch out for in 2013 from eMusic editor-in-chief J. Edward Keyes.
Then, we take you on your first blind date of 2013 -- a musical blind date, that is. The Nashville-based band Night Beds won’t release their debut album until February, but they perform live in our studio, and talk about their responses to our super-official Blind Date Questionnaire.
And, music journalist and photographer Laina Dawes talks about her new book, What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal.
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Listen to music built around the sound of delay, both digital and tape looping on this New Sounds program. We’ll hear from the most recent offering by Phillip Schroeder, “A Passage Through A Dream.” It’s a record featuring the layered sounds of piano and clarinet, processed through digital delay, resulting in "lush kaleidoscopic textures." (The composer's own words.) Also, the otherworldly waves of drone created by Terry Riley’s use of loops and delay on "Poppy Nogood And The Phantom Band All Night Flight, Vol. 1."
