Five Essential Songs

"Discovering the music of Björk when I was a teenager changed the course of my life," writes Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak in her "Five Essential Björk Songs" for FUV Essentials — just in time for the Icelandic musician's 53rd birthday on November 21.

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Ask Indigo Girls' Emily Saliers about the songwriters who m

Liverpool's Miles Kane was signed to a record deal when he was only a tee

[Ed. Note, October 2018: John Prine, along with the Lone Bellow and Shannon Shaw, will be performing at Holiday Cheer for FUV on December 3.  Tickets are available now. Prine's latest album is The Tree of Forgiveness, released in the spring of 2018. It's his first collection of original songs since 2005's Fair and Square].

John Prine, along with the Lone Bellow and Shannon Shaw, are headed to the Beacon Theatre on December 3 for 2018's

For PJ Harvey's birthday on October 9, FUV asked Wolf Alice's Ellie Rowsell if she might have some favorite Harvey tunes. So from a 2018 Mercury Prize winner to a two-time recipient of the award, this is Rowsell's "Five Essential PJ Harvey Songs" for FUV Essentials.

Asking celebrated guitarist J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. to write about another guitar god, Jimi Hendrix, is a dream pairing come true — here are Mascis's choices for his "Five Essential Jimi Hendrix Songs" for FUV Essentials.

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As fate would have it, Villagers' Conor O'Brien's new album, The Art of Pretending to Swim, comes out the very week that Paul Simon plays his final live shows before retiring from touring.  O'Brien, who deeply admires Simon and saw the "Homeward Bound - The Farewell Tour" in Amsterdam, writes about his "Five Essential Paul Simon Songs" for FUV.