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Michelle Zauner has an incredibly rich creative life. She makes music as Japanese Breakfast with her collaborator Craig Hendrix, she directs music videos for people like Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst and she's currently writing a 90-thousand-word book based on a New Yorker essay she wrote called…

After releasing his first single 50 years ago, today’s guest shares songs from his 2019 album, It Rains Love. It’s Lee Fields. He’s holding down the fort in an ever-shrinking circle of classic-era soul singers, with one of the heaviest bands around – The Expressions. We’ll hear a live performance…

Craig Finn, frontman of The Hold Steady, has released the third album in a series of solo records that’s become a proper trilogy. It’s called I Need A New War. He joins host Stephen Kallao today to discuss why he enjoys working solo, but he’ll also tell a few stories about life on the road with The…

The powerful voice of Eric Burton caught the attention of Grammy-winning producer Adrian Quesada. At the time, Quesada was searching for a singer to fit the soulful songs he was creating in his Austin studio – Last year, they formed Black Pumas. The pair stops by today to share the story that…

Guster has been making well-loved alt-rock, including their big hit “Fa Fa”, for over 25 years, and they still manage to surprise themselves with their new music. There’s a whole lot of trippy and textured sounds on their latest album, Look Alive, and the American band even experiments with a…

Today, host Stephen Kallao is joined by blues royalty – It’s Cedric Burnside. He grew up in Benton County in rural Mississippi, where he was raised by his grandfather, the late bluesman, R.L. Burnside. We’ll hear about his childhood, living with his granddad in a sharecroppers’ house with no…