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What’s it like to have a song go viral on TikTok and rack up half a billion plays on Spotify? We find out when host Stephen Kallao talks to up-and-coming New Zealand artist Benee. Her debut album Hey U X features appearances from Lily Allen and Grimes, and musically pulls from influences like Groove Armada and Radiohead. It’s coming up on the next World Cafe.

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This month marks 60 years since the very first Newport Folk Festival. NPR has been covering the event since its rebirth in 2008. Jay Sweet, now the executive producer, was mostly responsible for the festival's revival, booking unexpected bands and reinvigorating the spirit of the annual gathering. It's long been a place where musicians would collaborate and make music often steeped in social justice. On this Newport Folk Festival preview edition of All Songs Considered we'll look specifically at the newer faces at this year's festival, including lesser-known artists Yola Carter, Illiterate Light, Courtney Marie Andrews and the debut performance of a new, influential band of well-known women known as The Highwomen. That collaboration includes Brandi Carlile, Amanda Shires, Maren Morris, and Natalie Hemby.

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(Photo: Douglas Mason/Getty Images/via NPR)

You don't have to win a Nobel Prize to be a TED speaker. Each year, TED has an international callout to find BIG ideas -- ideas that could come from anyone or anywhere.

TED curator Cloe Shasha Brooks leads this massive global search, and she brings host Manoush Zomorodi a selection of the most exciting ideas that have come through TED's idea searches and ended up on the TED stage.

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(Photo: Manoush Zomorodi, Host Of TED Radio Hour - Wanyu Zhang/NPR)

Next time on the TED Radio Hour: Risk. Why do some people embrace it... when others are scared of it? We often celebrate risk takers... in business... technology... or sports.... even while many of us shy away from it ourselves. Why are some people are better at judging risk? And is it possible, through careful planning, to actually eliminate risk? Host Guy Raz explores how the uncertainty in everything that we do... presents some kind of risk...

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Having finally left 2020 behind us, let’s get 2021 off to a good musical start with some brilliant fresh sounds.  Host Fiona Ritchie has selected an hour’s worth of great music from Celtic roots for you to discover.

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We remember one of Ireland’s most influential artists in the music he recorded and produced over three decades. Host Fiona Ritchie features legendary Celtic music groups: Skara Brae, The Bothy Band, Relativity and Nightnoise, along with other recordings featuring the guitarist, producer, compose and singer who contributed to over 100 albums. Hear how Micheál Ó Domhnaill (1951-2006) helped shape the sound of Celtic music on The Thistle & Shamrock.

The Thistle and Shamrock can be heard Saturday mornings at 11 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB App from iTunes & Google Play!

(Photo: This week's show is a tribute to Mícheál Ó Domhnaill (right), seen here with Kevin Burke, whom he recorded with - Courtesy of Compass Records)

Discover the contemporary appeal of verses written over 200 years ago. Host Fiona Ritchie is not alone in her belief that the songs of Scotland’s National Bard are as relevant and popular today as they were when they were first written.  Interpreted by the fresh \ voices of today’s singers, it’s easy to forget that Robert Burns’s songs have been sung around the world for generations.  Join us to embrace this timeless music on The Thistle & Shamrock.

The Thistle and Shamrock airs Saturdays at 11:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the go - download the FREE KRCB mobile app from the App Store & Google Play!

(Photo: Scottish bard Robert Burns – Flickr)

This week on the Mountain Stage, host Larry Groce welcomes Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets, Patty Griffin, Craig Finn & the Uptown Controllers, and Shook Twins.

(Photo: Nick Lowe & Los Straitjackets perform on Mountain Stage)

Nick Lowe has been writing songs for over 50 years, including classics like “What's So Funny ‘Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding” and “Cruel to Be Kind.” But in the ‘70s, he was known for his work as a producer – at the upstart label Stiff Records – and it was there that he first started working with a young Elvis Costello. We’ll hear about that era today, as well as his recent work – a new EP with Los Straitjackets, called Lay It on Me Baby. And Nick performs live from his home in London. That’s coming up, on the next World Cafe with host Stephen Kallao.

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(Photo: Nick Lowe – Courtesy of the artist)

Nicole Atkins has released Italian Ice just in time for beach days, even if you won’t be heading to the beach this particular Summer. Nicole, who grew up in New Jersey, took inspiration from the Jersey shore for the new album –And there’s a certain song that inspired the single, “Domino.” We’ll find out about that in her conversation with host Raina Douris today. And Nicole performs some of the new music, live. On the next World Cafe.

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(Photo: Italian Ice, by Nicole Atkins – Album cover)

As a pregnant teen, Nicole Lynn Lewis felt ashamed. Now she knows many pregnant teens share the problems she had--including an abusive boyfriend and being temporarily homeless. On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks to her about her memoir Pregnant Girl, and about founding Generation Hope, which assists young parents who manage to go to college, as she did. Join us.

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(Photo: Courtesy of the author)

Tonight, emerging songwriter Nicolette Gottuso joins Jon to share some new music at the break of this budding new year.

After Nicolette's song and chat, Jon slings the North Bay's finest music from past and present. So tune in!

KRCB's North Bay Songwriters Radio Show airs every first & third Thursday. Hosted by local songwriter, Jon Gonzales / streaming @ radio.krcb.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

(Photo courtesy of Nicolette Gottuso)

On the next Fresh Air.  Terry Gross talks with Nina Totenberg, NPR’s longtime legal affairs correspondent, and a founding mother of NPR. They will talk about the Amy Coney Barrett confirmation hearings, how Trump has transformed the supreme court and the federal appeals courts, and Nina’s long friendship with RBG, Join us. 

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(Photos: Courtesy of NPR)

We asked listeners to send us their best coincidence stories, and we got more than 1,300 submissions! There were so many good ones we decided to make a whole show about them. From a chance encounter at a bus station to a romantic dollar bill to a baffling apparition in a college shower stall.

This American Life is heard every Friday night at 7:00 pm; repeating every Saturday morning at 9:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / Streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org /  On-demand with the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes App Store & Google Play!

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Jessica Alva. Khadija Rose Britton. Hanna Harris. Anthonette Christine Cayedito. If you haven't heard of these women, it’s no surprise. They’re four of the untold number of Indigenous women and girls who have been murdered, kidnapped or gone mysteriously missing. A significant number of victims are from communities that are subjected to the harmful presence of fossil fuel and mining companies. Add to this a dysfunctional police and legal hierarchy, and little recourse to prosecute predators for their crimes. In this program, powerful Native women leaders reveal this crisis, and describe how they are taking action and building growing movements, including with non-Native allies. Morning Star Gali, Ozawa Bineshi Albert, Simone Senogles, Kandi White, and Casey Camp Horinek.

The coronavirus pandemic has completely upended the presidential campaign. No more door knocking, no more big rallies. What it means for President Trump and Joe Biden on the next All Things Considered from NPR News.

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Lately, there’s been a lot of talking…A lot of arguing, debating, and just plain chatter. But today, you can find a moment to clear your head with World Cafe’s all instrumental episode. No words, all music. Host Raina Douris takes us through a two-hour mix of instrumental jams, from George Benson, Fleetwood Mac, Beastie Boys, and many more. Coming up, on the next World Cafe.

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Noah Gundersen and his band perform music from Noah’s latest album, Lover on the next World Cafe. Noah also talks about the psychedelic experience he hopes to have, the essential need for empathy during divisive times and we’ll find out what happened after Noah and Taylor Swift both released albums called Lover on the same day.

World Cafe airs weekdays at 2:00 pm on KRCB-FM Radio 91 /  streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org  / Listen live on-the-go with the FREE KRCB Mobile App! Download it today for your favorite mobile device.

(Photo: Noah Gunderson performs on World Cafe)

The consequences of capitalism during the pandemic have revealed glaring failures and monstrous brutalities. It’s a highly unstable economic system, careening from crisis to crisis. For a handful it produces unparalleled levels of wealth. But for the many, if they even have a job, it’s a pay check to pay check existence. What are the priorities? The U.S. spends close to a trillion on the military. That’s more than the next ten countries combined. Compare that with the less than $50 billion allotted to the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. With robust funding it’s very likely we would have been better prepared for the pandemic and would not be the world leader in deaths. The future? We will move toward a more humane and decent society or continue on our present destructive path.

Noam Chomsky, by any measure, has led a most extraordinary life. In one index he is ranked as the eighth most cited person in history, right up there with Aristotle, Shakespeare, Marx, Plato and Freud. The MIT professor’s contributions to modern linguistics are legendary. In addition to his pioneering work in that field he has been a leading voice for peace and social justice for many decades. He is the author of scores of books, his latest is Consequences of Capitalism.

Alternative Radio airs the 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th Sunday mornings at 10:00 am on KRCB-FM Radio 91 / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Comcast channel 961 throughout the Bay Area / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross speaks with Kazuo Ishiguro, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2017.  His novels Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go were adapted into films. Born in Nagasaki 9 years after the atom bomb, he moved with his family to England when he was five. Join us.

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(Photo: Kazuo Ishiguro - Rick Eglinton/Toronto Star via Getty Images/NPR)

On this episode of Art of the Song, we talk with Noel Paul Stookey, founding member of the 1960s folk group, Peter, Paul and Mary, and co-founder of Music To Life Dot ORG.

Created in 2000 by Noel and his daughter, Elizabeth Stookey Sunde, Music to Life builds on the strong historical legacy of social movements’ use of music to educate, recruit, and mobilize. Their mission is to amplify an organization’s message, spark engagement with a cause, and empower activist artists to stand on the front lines of social change.

We spoke with Noel Paul Stookey about the early folk scene in Greenwich Village, and Hope Rises, a compilation album of 15 Music To Life artists from around the country, with diverse backgrounds and styles.

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Norah Jones is a household name – So it may come as a surprise that it took her a while to find her voice in the beginning. She joins host Raina Douris today to talk about her journey since those early days when she broke out with her debut, Come Away with Me. Since then, Norah has continued to evolve through collaborations with artists like Herbie Hancock and Danger Mouse. And tomorrow, she releases another – Her new record, with Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, is called Pick Me Up Off the Floor. We’ll hear some of the new songs, on the next World Cafe.

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(Photo: Norah Jones - Courtesy of the artist)

Come Away with Me turned Norah Jones from a total unknown to a multi-Grammy Award-winning artist. That early fame has allowed her maximum artistic freedom, like unexpected collaborations with artists from Dolly Parton to Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day. Her latest release, Begin Again, is a collection of singles recorded over the past year. Today, we’ll hear about what it’s like to be a touring mom and what she wants from a live audience. That’s coming up, on the World Cafe with host Talia Schlanger.

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Join Jon Gonzales for some North Bay Songwriters pre-weekend blues. Here's a video by North Bay/San Diego songwriters Nathan & Jessie (and produced by local producer Michael Lindner) that Jon will be slinging tonight, along with a plethora of Sonoma County & beyond music makers.

KRCB's North Bay Songwriters Radio Show airs every first, third, and sometimes fifth Thursdays, hosted by local songwriter, Jon Gonzales. Listen on-air at 91.1 & 90.9 FM / streaming @ radio.krcb.org / Download the FREE KRCB App @ iTunes & Google Play!

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On the next Morning Edition, a new study suggests that not all sitting is created equal. Some types may be more unhealthy than others. Also, in northern Iraq, will ISIS fighters who committed war crimes be brought to justice? One woman who was held captive tells her story of survival. Stories from around the world, plus some that affect YOUR world on the next Morning Edition from NPR News.

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The pandemic isn’t the end of the world, but your anxiety about the virus may make you feel like it is. On the next fresh air, we talk with Mark O’Connell about his new book Notes from an Apocalypse. It’s about people preparing for the end of the world as we know it--as a result of a pandemic, environmental catastrophe, nuclear war, or comet crash. Join us.

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(Photo: Notes from an Apocalypse by Mark O’Connell, book cover)

This week, we'll listen to some great new music from The New Masters, Philip Bailey of Earth Wind and Fire fame, and the new album from Resavoir, along with classics from Gary Burton, and even Orbital.  

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(Photo: Phillip Bailey - Craig ONeal [CC BY 2.0])

Let's get in the holiday spirit with music from Willie Colon & Hector Lavoe, John Zorn, Stevie Wonder, James Brown, Wynton Marsalis, and more!

Notes from the Jazz Underground with host Paul Abella airs Saturday nights at 11:00 pm on KRCB-FM / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB Mobile App from the App Store & Google Play!

(Photo: Willie Colon & Hector Lavoe - JimmyPerez60, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

This week, you'll take a listen to some of the titans of the avant-garde...Yusef Lateef, Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, Dewey Redman and a few modern players pushing Jazz's boundaries, too!

Notes from the Jazz Underground with host Paul Abella airs Saturday nights at 11:00 pm on KRCB-FM / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB Mobile App from the App Store & Google Play!

This week, we'll dive deep into the Miles Davis archival release of the Rubberband sessions from 1985-86, and while we're there, we'll hear other Miles albums from that period, like Tutu, Amandla, Doo Bop and Live Around the World. 

Notes from the Jazz Underground airs Saturday nights at 11:00 pm on KRCB-FM / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB Mobile App from the App Store & Google Play!

(Photo: Miles Davis Rubberband cover – Fair use)

This week, we take a final look back at the music of 2019... and play some of the fantastically good stuff that I didn't get a chance to play throughout the year. Kendrick Scott's Oracle, Jeff Parker, Dave Douglas and more make appearances for a grooving and hard-hitting hour of Notes from the Jazz Underground. 

Notes from the Jazz Underground with host Paul Abella airs Saturday nights at 11:00 pm on KRCB-FM / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Download the FREE KRCB Mobile App from the App Store & Google Play!

(Photo: Kendrick Scott Oracle cover art – fair use)

The new southern gothic Netflix drama series The Devil All the Time is based on the award-winning novel by Donald Ray Pollock.  On the next Fresh Air, we’ll listen back to Terry’s interview with him.  And the two creators of the Hulu comedy show PEN15, who co-star as middle school versions of themselves. Season two begins next week.   Join us. 

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(Photo: Courtesy of the author)

On the next Fresh Air, novelist Sigrid Nunez. Her new book is about the fear that climate change, a pandemic, and far-right regimes will spell the end of civilization and the death of the planet.  It’s also about facing mortality as an individual, and the relationship between a writer dying of cancer and the friend she asks to stay with her. Join us.

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(Photo: What Are You Going Through, by Sigrid Nunez – Book cover)

Today, Novelist Yaa Gyasi. Her first novel Homegoing, published in 2016, was about the legacy of slavery and won a National Book critics circle Award, a Pen Hemingway award, and the National Book Foundation’s 5 under 35 honors.   Gyasi’s latest novel is Transcendent Kingdom.  The novel draws on Gyasi’s life as the daughter of immigrants from Ghana.

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(Photo: Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi – Book cover)

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NPR correspondent Aarti Shahani has a new memoir - in it, the story of when her family brought her from India to the United States. Her father was a scholar who could speak six languages, but her parents struggled to make ends meet in New York City. She talks to Steve Inskeep about her new book. Plus, China celebrates 70 years of the People's Republic on the next Morning Edition from NPR News.

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(Photo: Aarti Shahani - Nickolai Hammar/NPR)

The 92nd annual Grammy Awards are on Sunday and NPR Music’s Stephen Thompson, co-host of the podcast “Pop Culture Happy Hour”, joins the Raina and Kallao to discuss the big categories, including Record of the Year, Best New Artist, and Album of the Year. Plus, we’ll break out some of our favorites from Billie Eilish, Lizzo, Lil Nas X, Lana Del Rey, Vampire Weekend and more.

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(Photo: Stephen Thompson - Alexandria Lee/NPR)

We chat with Sam Sifton of The New York Times about the rituals and foods of Sunday supper—from easy duck confit to bacon fried chicken. Plus, we hear from reporter Amy Guttman about a bar in London that was once an underground public loo; we make an herb soup from Sardinia, and Adam Gopnik tells us why he thinks Montreal bagels are the best in the world.

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(Photo: See You on Sunday by Sam Sifton, cover – Fair use)

We’ll preview our October features, Prince and The Replacements, with selections from across their vast catalogues. 

Strange Currency with host Jedd Beaudoin can be heard Fridays at 8:00 pm on KRCB-FM / streaming @ norcalpublicmedia.org / Listen on the FREE KRCB Mobile App which you can download from the App Store & Google Play.

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(Photo: Prince - Nicolas Genin/CC BY-SA 2.0)

This week on American Routes, we’ll ride along with fiddler and singer Alison Krauss on her journey through bluegrass and country, from small-town Illinois all the way to Nashville. Then it’s Hurray for the Riff Raff, a New Orleans folk band fronted by Alynda Segarra, whose roots are in the Bronx. Segarra tells of her own time traveling as a teenager and what has inspired her to reconnect with her Puerto Rican heritage. En route we’ll hear tunes from Chuck Berry, Bob Wills, Nina Simone and Tom Waits.

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(Photo: via American Routes)

If you only know the Icelandic band Of Monsters & Men for their indie folk hit “Little Talks,” their new album may come as a surprise. Fever Dream has a noticeably different sound, thanks in part to writing big songs on a tiny synthesizer, called an OP-1. We’ll get a little demonstration of the instrument in studio. Plus, the band explains what inspired the sonic shift, and what it’s like for them to think in Icelandic but sing in English. Of Monsters & Men join host Stephen Kallao, on the next World Cafe.

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(Photo: Of Monsters And Men are an Icelandic folk-rock band - Hörður Sveinsson/Courtesy of the artist)

Old 97s have been through a lot together over the 27 years they’ve been a band. Frontman Rhett Miller talks about how they’ve made it through those ups & downs, including his own decision to get sober – and he performs songs from their new album Twelfth in front of a live virtual audience on the next World Cafe.

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Listen for music from Old Crow Medicine Show’s 2017 re-creation of Bob Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde as well as music from Dom Flemons Presents Black Cowboys. 

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(Photo: Old Crow Medicine Show - Sean Russell [CC BY-SA 2.0])

Mark Lynas. Via Milk Street RadioJournalist Mark Lynas campaigned against genetically modified foods. Then in 2008, he changed his mind. On this week's episode, we talk to Lynas about his journey from anti-GMO activist to pro-GMO advocate. Plus, we discuss the strange eating habits of the world’s most infamous dictators; Dan Pashman teaches us how to outsmart a buffet; and we grill up pork skewers from Thailand.

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As author Michael Pollan observes: “The two biggest crises humanity faces today are tribalism and the environmental crisis. They both involve the objectifying of the other - whether that other is nature or other people.” How do we re-weave that web of relationships, and focus on our likenesses rather than our differences? In this program, racial justice advocates john a. powell, Eriel Deranger and Anita Sanchez explore how overcoming the illusion of separateness from nature and each other requires building bridges rather than burning them. They say the fate of the world depends on it.

Our nation’s dependence on fossil fuels has led to climate disruption and inequality. Underserved communities are the ones most harmed by pollution, lack of green space and heat-related illness. Transitioning to clean energy would seem to be the obvious answer. But in the process of trying to right old wrongs, do we risk leaving some communities behind? What does a just transition to a cleaner, greener economy look like?

Guests:
Vien Truong, Principal, Truong & Associates
Darryl Molina Sarmiento, Executive Director, Communities for a Better Environment
Kevin de León, President pro Tempore Emeritus, California State Senate

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(Photo: Courtesy of Climate One)