American Song Now

Spinning on Air | May 18, 2010
In this special two-hour (7-9 pm) edition of the show for WNYC's American Music Festival, host David Garland illuminates the extraordinary vitality of current American songwriting by drawing on Spinning On Air's library of unique in-studio performances. Hear daring, powerful, personal songs by genre-bending innovators Deerhoof, Dirty Projectors, Larkin Grimm, Feathers, Sufjan Stevens, Akron/Family, Lisa Germano, Death Vessel, Weird Weeds, Devendra Banhart, Wooden Wand, Diane Cluck, David Deporis, Rio en Medio, and many others.

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