World Cafe

Weeknights at 7pm
David Dye

 

The premier public radio showcase for contemporary music serving up an eclectic blend that includes blues, rock, world, folk, and alternative country. 

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Playlist

December 11, 2012

7:00 PM
Tanacara
Artist : Gonzaghuinha
Album : Brazil Classics: Beleza Tropical, Vol. 2
Composer :
Label : Luaka Bop
7:01 PM
The Infanta
Artist : The Decemberists
Album : Picaresque
Composer :
Label : Capitol
7:06 PM
Breezeblocks
Artist : AltJ
Album : An Awesome Wave
Composer :
Label : Atlantic
7:09 PM
Making Plans for Nigel
Artist : XTC
Album : Drums & Wires
Composer :
Label : Geffen
7:13 PM
When You Were Mine
Artist : Prince
Album : Dirty Mind
Composer :
Label : Warner Brothers / WEA
7:17 PM
Manic Monday
Artist : The Bangles
Album : Greatest Hits
Composer :
Label : EMI Special Products
7:20 PM
Girls Just Wanan have Fun
Artist : Cyndi Lauper
Album : She's So Unusual
Composer :
Label : Sony
7:26 PM
Raining
Artist : Susanna Hoffs
Album : Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Composer :
Label : WXPN
7:31 PM
Picture Me
Artist : Susanna Hoffs
Album : Someday
Composer :
Label : Welk Records
7:33 PM
Picture Me
Artist : Susanna Hoffs
Album : Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Composer :
Label : WXPN
7:40 PM
When You Walk in the Room
Artist : Susanna Hoffs
Album : Recorded Live for the World Cafe
Composer :
Label : WXPN
7:43 PM
I Ran (So Far Away
Artist : A Flock of Seagulls)
Album : A Flock of Seagulls
Composer :
Label : Jive
7:45 PM
Flashlight
Artist : The Amamzing
Album : Gentle Stream4
Composer :
Label : Partisan Records
7:49 PM
Blue
Artist : The Jayhawks
Album : TomorrowThe Green Grass
Composer :
Label : Columbia Europe
7:52 PM
Hold on When You Get Love and Let Go When You Give It
Artist : Stars
Album : The North
Composer :
Label : ATO
7:57 PM
Burning Down The House
Artist : Talking Heads
Album : Speaking In Tongues
Composer :
Label : Warner Brothers / WEA
8:00 PM
Tanacara
Artist : Gonzaghuinha
Album : Brazil Classics: Beleza Tropical, Vol. 2
Composer :
Label : Luaka Bop
8:01 PM
Hilo
Artist : Antibalas
Album : Security
Composer :
Label : Anti
8:05 PM
Misfits and Lovers
Artist : The Wallflowers
Album : Glad All Over
Composer :
Label : Sony
8:09 PM
When Will I See You Again?
Artist : Anders Osborne
Album : Black Eye Galaxy
Composer :
Label : Alligator Records
8:14 PM
Appetite
Artist : Prefab Sprout
Album : Two Wheels Good
Composer :
Label : Island
8:18 PM
Splitter
Artist : Calexico
Album : Algiers
Composer :
Label : Anti
8:21 PM
Ana
Artist : Los Straitjackets
Album : Rock en Espa¿ol, Vol. 1
Composer :
Label : Yep Roc
8:22 PM
Cayucas
Artist : Cayucas
Album : Like Wildfire
Composer :
Label : Secretly Canadian
8:25 PM
Caroline No
Artist : The Beach Boys
Album : Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys, Disc 2
Composer :
Label : Nettwerk Records
8:27 PM
Tell Me A Tale
Artist : Michael Kiwanuka
Album : Tell Me A Tale
Composer :
Label : Interscope
8:32 PM
Lazarus
Artist : David Byrne & St. Vincent
Album : Love This Giant
Composer :
Label : 4AD
8:35 PM
Civil Twilight
Artist : The Weakerthans
Album : Reuinion Tour
Composer :
Label : Epitaph / ADA
8:38 PM
How Soon is Now
Artist : The Smiths
Album : The Singles
Composer :
Label : Koch Records
8:39 PM
Peach Blossom
Artist : Eels
Album : Wonderful Glorious
Composer :
Label : Vagrant
8:43 PM
Too Much Time
Artist : Captain Beefheart
Album : The Spotlight Kid/Clear Spot
Composer :
Label : Reprise / Ada
8:46 PM
That’s Still Mama
Artist : Cody ChesnuTT
Album : Landing on a Hundred
Composer :
Label : Vibration Vineyard
8:50 PM
Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Artist : Tame Impala
Album : Lonerism
Composer :
Label : Modular Interscope
8:53 PM
Are You Gonna Waste My Time?
Artist : Zeus
Album : Busting Visions
Composer :
Label : Arts & Crafts
8:56 PM
"January 1979
Artist : Mewithoutyou
Album : Catch Us For the Foxes
Composer :
Label : Tooth and Nail Recording
World Cafe
8:30 am
Wed December 28, 2011

Dawes On World Cafe

Credit Courtesy of the artist
Dawes performs live on today's World Cafe.

Although Dawes' members have only been together since 2009, the L.A. band's romantic roots rock sounds like the product of an entirely different era.

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World Cafe
1:30 am
Wed December 28, 2011

Bon Iver On World Cafe

Credit D.L. Anderson
Justin Vernon, a.k.a. Bon Iver.

It's a stretch to call "Beth/Rest" the year's most divisive song, but it's hard to discuss Bon Iver's second album without weighing in on its '80s-style closer. Next to the lush, impeccably crafted grace that precedes it, "Beth/Rest" couldn't be more jarring: With its electric keyboards, saxophones and epic guitar solos, the track could double as the lost love theme to a misbegotten action movie in which Morgan Fairchild seduces a suave diamond thief played by Lou Diamond Phillips.

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World Cafe
7:30 am
Tue December 27, 2011

Elton John And Leon Russell On World Cafe

Credit Courtesy of the artists
Elton John and Leon Russell appeared on World Cafe.

From his start with the band Bluesology in 1961, multi-award winner Elton John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight) has time and time again proven himself to be one of the most iconic singer-songwriters of our day. Rising to international fame by the 1970's with the hit "Your Song," Elton has since released an overwhelming number of studio albums, many of which have climbed their way to the top of the charts.

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