Seasons & episodes
S7 · E14Jake Bugg 2014-03-10
Watch the 20-year-old English singer-songwriter, who has worked with superproducer Rick Rubin.
S7 · E15Diane Cluck 2014-03-17
On record, Cluck's elastic voice and fingerpicking are impressive. Live, they jam the senses.
S7 · E16Joseph Calleja 2014-03-24
All the world's top opera houses want the young tenor with the old-school approach.
S7 · E17The Haden Triplets 2014-03-31
When the sisters cover classic country music together, the result is a treat and a trip in time.
S7 · E18The Both 2014-04-07
Singer-songwriters Aimee Mann and Ted Leo unite from opposite ends of the volume knob.
S7 · E19Tom Brosseau 2014-04-12
The North Dakota singer-songwriter possesses one of the most arresting voices in folk music today.
S7 · E20Courtney Barnett 2014-04-14
Barnett tells stories like your best friend, provided your best friend is a funny Australian poet.
S7 · E21Usman Riaz 2014-04-19
A young Pakistani musician treats the guitar as percussion — with surprisingly shimmering results.
S7 · E22Federico Aubele 2014-04-21
The Argentine singer uses his dark, husky voice to produce a specific effect in these three songs.
S7 · E23Quilt 2014-04-26
Interweaving harmonies and guitar lines set the tone for these soft, benevolent, dreamy songs.
S7 · E24Johnnyswim 2014-04-28
Impossibly telegenic and charming, the band mixes booming intensity with polish and sparkle.
S7 · E25Cian Nugent 2014-05-03
The Dublin guitarist runs through a ragtime jaunt, a basement-bar choogle and a sad-sack closer.
S7 · E26Public Service Broadcasting 2014-05-05
The duo's sample-laden instrumental music is entertainment as education for the head and feet alike.
S7 · E27Timber Timbre 2014-05-10
See the swamp-folk band play a characteristically eerie and mysterious set in the NPR Music offices.
S7 · E28Chvrches 2014-05-12
The Scottish synth-pop band turns up with a small arsenal of synthesizers to perform three songs.
S7 · E29Iestyn Davies 2014-05-17
See the countertenor and lutenist Thomas Dunford perform John Dowland's melancholy songs.
S7 · E30Ages And Ages 2014-05-20
The band makes the kind of music that can at least briefly restore your faith in humanity.
S7 · E31Yasmine Hamdan 2014-05-24
The Lebanese singer-songwriter is one of the most groundbreaking musicians in the Middle East.
S7 · E32Hozier 2014-05-27 · 15 min
Andrew Hozier-Byrne wraps his rich, vital, soulful voice around songs rooted in the blues.
S7 · E33Juana Molina 2014-05-31
Molina sounds as if she'd been raised by wolves and discovered the world of music on her own.
S7 · E34Simone Dinnerstein 2014-06-02
Watch the celebrated pianist make Bach's Two-part Inventions sing and zing.
S7 · E35Marian McLaughlin 2014-06-07
A quirky and wistful performer with a string section, McLaughlin makes music like few others.
S7 · E36Eliot Fisk And Paco Peña 2014-06-14
A classical virtuoso and an equally captivating flamenco player combine for a set of duets.
S7 · E37Rodney Crowell 2014-06-16
The country singer-songwriter performs with the ease and swagger of a man comfortable in his ways.