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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

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

April 10, 2020|Eric Holland

Listen: Jesse Malin in conversation.

Margaret Glaspy (photo by Josh Goleman, PR)

Margaret Glaspy: Q&A

April 09, 2020|Kara Manning

As the second artist interviewed for FUV's new Quarantined Artists series, Margaret Glaspy tells us about her new album, Dev...

M.Ward: Q&A

April 02, 2020|Kara Manning

It's strange poetry indeed to release an album called Migration Stories while travel is virtually impossible during the...

Amy Winehouse (from "Amy," A24 Films, PR)

On Amy Winehouse: Nick Shymansky Interview

July 23, 2015|Kara Manning

Four years ago, on July 23, the dynamic, intuitive and soulful singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse died at her London home...

The Walkmen: TAS In Session

June 18, 2012|Kara Manning

Watch and read: The Walkmen in session.

Megafaun: TAS In Session

November 07, 2011|Kara Manning

Megafaun has released three albums since they formed from the ashes of DeYarmond Edison back in 2006. However, it's the...

TAS In Session: Laura Marling

September 12, 2011|Kara Manning

Laura Marling's first two albums garnered her critical huzzahs, Mercury Prize nominations and even a Brit Award, but her...

Tracey Thorn: Q&A

March 22, 2011|Kara Manning

Tracey Thorn talks gardening with FUV.

Q&A at SXSW: J. Mascis

March 18, 2011|Russ Borris

Watch: DJ Russ Borris caught up with a weary J

Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore, courtesy of White Satin Gloves

TAS SXSW Preview: Tennis

February 25, 2011|Kara Manning

Read: A chat with Tennis.

Esperanza Spalding (photo by Holly Andres, PR)

Esperanza Spalding: Five Essential Aretha Franklin Songs

September 14, 2016|Kara Manning

"[Aretha's] whole musical spirit speaks to me."

White Denim with James Petralli second to left (photo by Drew Anthony Smith, PR)

White Denim's James Petralli: Five Essential Led Zeppelin Songs

August 31, 2016|Kara Manning

A heartfelt and pretty hilarious essay

Jesca Hoop's Five Essential Patti Smith Songs

August 24, 2016|Kara Manning

Hoop found an early kinship with Smith.

Ruby Amanfu (photo courtesy of Press Here, PR)

Ruby Amanfu's Five Essential Marvin Gaye Songs

August 17, 2016|Kara Manning

Music fans who caught Ruby Amanfu's transcendent set at the 2016 Newport Folk Festival discovered what her collaborators...

Lucius' Holly Laessig and Jess Wolfe (photo by Piper Ferguson, PR)

Lucius' Five Essential Talking Heads Songs

August 10, 2016|Kara Manning

Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig: a thank you from one New York band to another.

Matt Berninger of The National, photo by Caroline Inzucchi

The National's Scott Devendorf: Five Essential Grateful Dead Songs

August 03, 2016|Kara Manning

"Gorgeous, abstract, and open."

Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus (photo by Holly Andres, PR)

Tune-Yards: Five Essential Radiohead Songs

July 27, 2016|Kara Manning

Merrill Garbus: "I'd get chills."

Augustines Billy McCarthy, Eric Sanderson and Rob Allen (photo courtesy of the band, Facebook.com)

Augustines: Five Essential Radiohead Songs

July 26, 2016|Kara Manning

Eric Sanderson: "works of art that led with the heart."

John Doe's Five Essential Ramones Songs

July 20, 2016|Kara Manning

At SXSW this past March, punk icon John Doe, who co-founded X with guitarist Billy Zoom, took part in a Grammy Museum panel...

Margaret Glaspy (photo by Ebru Yildiz, PR)

Margaret Glaspy's Five Essential Joni Mitchell Songs

July 13, 2016|Kara Manning

Margaret Glaspy's dynamic full-length debut, Emotions and Math, is a thrilling joyride of sinewy, bluesy rock and pretty...

Soak's Bridie Monds-Watson (photo by Joshua Halling, PR)

Soak's Five Essential Joni Mitchell Songs

July 12, 2016|Kara Manning

Derry-born Bridie Monds-Watson, who records as Soak, was born in 1996, two years after Joni Mitchell released Turbulent...

Car Seat Headrest's Will Toledo (photo courtesy of Matador Records, PR)

Car Seat Headrest's Five Essential Beck Songs

July 06, 2016|Kara Manning

Picks from a lo-fi brother

Norah Jones: Five Essential Willie Nelson Songs

August 16, 2017|Kara Manning

The friend and fellow Texan narrows down the Willie catalogue.

Original photo by Larry Philpot, www.soundstagephotography.com via Wikimedia Commons

Willie Nelson

August 14, 2017|Laura Fedele

Willie Nelson made it okay to be a freak, not just in country music but in life. [Playlist]

Joe Jackson

August 07, 2017|Kara Manning

An artist of endless elasticity and restless genius. [Playlist]

Press photo from the 1999 No Exit album on Beyond Records

Blondie

July 31, 2017|Kara Manning

Downtown ambassadors from the '70s who've never abandoned what made them great. [Playlist]

Tom Petty

July 24, 2017|Kara Manning

Petty always pushed to record fresh material, rather than just leaning on the laurels of his past. [Playlist]

Mavis Staples

July 17, 2017|Laura Fedele

Her big heart and sharp mind beg for a personal, creative connection with artists everywhere. [Playlist]

My Morning Jacket

July 10, 2017|Kara Manning

Alt-country psych-rock inclinations, yearning melodies and ferocious reverb: Live, they are legendary. [Playlist]

U2

June 26, 2017|Kara Manning

Unlike the roar or swagger of a lot of all-male bands, U2's mightiest songs are unapologetically emotional. [Playlist]

Chuck Berry

June 19, 2017|Paul Cavalconte

Lennon: "If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry." [Playlist]

(Photo via flickr.com/m01229, CC BY-NC 2.0)

Summer of Love

June 12, 2017|Kara Manning

It's been a fifty-year embryonic journey since the Monterey International Pop Festival. [Playlist]

Patrick Carney and Dan Auerbach (Original photo by Danny Clinch)

The Black Keys

June 05, 2017|Kara Manning

Sinewy dynamics, acerbic humor, flourishes of hip hop, and raw, dirty blasts of rock bliss. [Playlist]

Brandi Carlile

May 29, 2017|Laura Fedele

Why we got on board with this talented charmer, and stayed on board. [Playlist]