FUV Essentials

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As Radiohead returns in July 2018 for a four-night stand at New York's Madison Square Garden, we're celebrating the music of this beloved #FUVEssentials band.

In May, Halo Maud's Maud Nadal opened for Phoenix during their five-show residency at Paris's La Gaîté Lyrique. She says that the French band is the most generous she's ever met — and she returned that generosity by choosing her "Five Essential Phoenix Songs" for FUV Essentials.

Phoenix is a beloved and much-needed ambassador of French joie de vivre in the States. As the band returns to New York for a five-day residency at Brooklyn Steel, we're celebrating the quartet as one of our FUV Essentials.

As Lucinda Williams' groundbreaking album, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, marks its 20th anniversary — it was released on June 30, 1998 — Margo Price gets ready for her third straight appearance at Willie Nelson's 2018 Fourth of July Picnic.

Jim James has released an eclectic third solo album, Uniform Distortion, and announced a solo acoustic autumn tour. And he's an avid student of Neil Young's music.

The "U2 Experience + Innocence Tour" is bound for the New York area for four shows, playing Madison Square Garden on June 25, June 26 and July 1 and Newark's Prudential Center on June 29, as the Irish rockers support their latest album, Songs of Experience.

Ahead of performing two concerts at Bard College's Fisher Center of nothing but Aimee Mann covers, called "All the Presidents Mann," on June 29, actress, activist, and singer Martha Plimpton chooses her "Five Essential Aimee Mann Songs" for FUV Essentials.

WFUV will broadcast Aimee Mann's sett from the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, live from the Prospect Park Bandshell, on Thursday, June 21, beginning just after 9 p.m. EDT.