Music Features

Nicole Atktins (photo by BarbaraFG, PR)

Nicole Atkins: Q&A

May 29, 2020|Kara Manning

Quarantined Artists is a new FUV feature that includes online Q&As and on-air conversations with musicians dealing with life...

Lucinda Williams (photo by Danny Clinch, PR)

Lucinda Williams: Q&A

May 21, 2020|Kara Manning
Lu on her 14th: 'Good Souls Better Angels'
X (left to right: DJ Bonebrake, Billy Zoom, Exene Cervenka, John Doe: photo by Kristy Benjamin, PR)

John Doe of X

May 18, 2020|Eric Holland
John Doe on life in lockdown
Thao Nguyen of Thao and the Get Down Stay Down (photo by Shane McCauley, PR)

Thao Nguyen: Q&A

May 12, 2020|Kara Manning
Thao Nguyen's unveiling of her inner truth continues.
Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield (photo by Molly Matalon, PR)

Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield: Q&A

May 07, 2020|Kara Manning

When Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield decided to give up drinking following her tour behind 2017's rambunctious Out in the...

Jade Bird (photo courtesy of Glassnote, PR)

Jade Bird

April 30, 2020|Kara Manning

Quarantined Artists is a new FUV feature that includes online Q&As and on-air conversations with musicians dealing with life...

Real Estate's Martin Courtney (photo by Shawn Brackbill, PR)

Real Estate's Martin Courtney

April 28, 2020|Eric Holland

Quarantined Artists is a new FUV feature that includes online Q&As and on-air conversations with musicians dealing with life...

Norah Jones (photo by Diane Russo, PR)

Norah Jones: Q&A

April 23, 2020|Kara Manning
Norah Jones made her way through quarantine with Pick Me Up Off the Floor.
Bettye LaVette (photo bettyelavette.com)

Bettye LaVette

April 22, 2020|Eric Holland
On her pandemic stay-at-home life in West Orange, NJ, and also her album 'Blackbirds.'
Brian Fallon (photo by Kelsey Hunter Ayres, PR)

Brian Fallon

April 20, 2020|Eric Holland

Quarantined Artists is a new FUV feature that includes online Q&As and on-air conversations with musicians dealing with life...

Craig Finn (photo by Sherwin Lainez, PR)

Craig Finn

April 16, 2020|Eric Holland

Quarantined Artists is a new FUV feature that includes online Q&As and on-air conversations with musicians dealing with life...

Jesse Malin (photo by Steven Sebring, PR)

Jesse Malin

April 10, 2020|Eric Holland

Quarantined Artists is a new FUV feature that includes online Q&As and on-air conversations with musicians dealing with life...

Essential debuts (collage of album covers by Laura Fedele, WFUV)

Debuts

January 10, 2019|Kara Manning
The culmination of years of hard work, lucky breaks, missteps, epiphanies, and dreams. [Playlist]
Jealous of the Birds' Naomi Hamilton (photo courtesy of Big Hassle, PR)

Jealous of the Birds: Five Essential Cat Power Songs

December 17, 2018|Kara Manning
Naomi Hamilton is a big fan of Chan Marshall, and explains why.
Tom Waits (AP Photo via Marketwired)

Tom Waits

December 06, 2018|Darren DeVivo
A musician of endless vision, invention, and reinvention. [Playlist]
Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack (photo by Shervin Lainez, PR)

Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner: Five Essential Björk Songs

November 21, 2018|Kara Manning
"Discovering the music of Björk when I was a teenager changed the course of my life."
Shannon Shaw (photo by Alysse Gafkjen, PR)

Shannon Shaw: Five Essential John Prine Songs

November 15, 2018|Kara Manning
With a keen love for the effortless twists of his observant lyricism.
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls (photo courtesy of Propeller Publicity, PR)

Indigo Girls: Five Essential Joni Mitchell Songs

November 07, 2018|Kara Manning
Emily Saliers: "Picking five essentials from Joni Mitchell is torture."
Paul Weller (photo courtesy of the artist)

Paul Weller

November 01, 2018|Kara Manning
Some songwriters never get the international due they deserve. [Playlist]
Jimi Hendrix (image from promotional photo of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, via Wikimedia Commons)

Jimi Hendrix

October 08, 2018|Kara Manning
On earth for a fleeting moment in time, he left a legacy of volcanic grace and brilliance. [Playlist]
Cat Power (photo by Stefano Giovannini, courtesy of the artist)

Cat Power

October 05, 2018|Kara Manning
We honor this late night consoler of the lonely and sculptor of intimate masterpieces. [Playlist]
Marlon Williams (photo by Steve Gullick, PR)

Marlon Williams: Five Essential John Prine Songs

September 28, 2018|Kara Manning
The New Zealander's canny understanding of the legacy of his forebears gives him an eclectic range.
1968 (Collage compiled by Laura Fedele, WFUV)

The Essential Music of 1968

September 20, 2018|Dennis Elsas
Essay and playlist from Dennis Elsas
1978 (collage compiled by Laura Fedele, WFUV)

The Essential Music of 1978

September 13, 2018|Paul Cavalconte
Essay and playlist from Paul Cavalconte
Son Little (photo by Cynthia Perez, PR)

New FUV Faves: Week of August 8

August 09, 2022|WFUV Staff

A quick snapshot of some of the new releases you'll be hearing on WFUV this week:

Son Little "6 AM"
Longtime FUV friend...

Lizzo (photo courtesy of Atlantic Records, PR)

New FUV Faves: Week of July 25

July 27, 2022|WFUV Staff

New releases this week from Lizzo, Margo Price, Rachel Chinouriri, and Tegan and Sara.