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Host Talia Schlanger presents World Cafe, which features ten hours each week of new and significant music and the artists who create it. Serving up a blend of blues, rock, world, folk, and alternative country, live performances, and intimate interviews, the two-hour daily program is produced by WXPN-FM in Philadelphia.
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 from the App Store & Google Play.
Bettye LaVette’s album Blackbirds is filled with her interpretations of songs by some of her favorite black women jazz singers – with the notable exception of the title track. Bettye talks about the record and what The Beatles’ “Blackbird” means to her, next, on an encore World Cafe.
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.
Find our complete programming schedule here.
(Photo: Bettye LaVette On World Cafe - Mark Seliger/Courtesy of the artist)
The Irish band Fontaines D.C. released their debut album, Dogrel, in 2019 and critics loved it. The BBC named it Album of the Year. So when Fontaines D.C released their sophomore record, A Hero’s Death, a little more than a year later, the expectations were high. The album does not disappoint. You can hear live performances from Fontaines D.C., on the next World Cafe.
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.
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.
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.
A few months into the pandemic, Phoebe Bridgers released her sophomore solo album, Punisher. It quickly became an album for the moment – one that could make you feel less alone in a time of self-isolation. Phoebe talks about this moment we’re in, about how making the album was not an isolated experience at all, and about teaching her friend and collaborator Conor Oberst about memes, on the next World Cafe.
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.
Find our complete programming schedule here.
(Photo: Phoebe Bridgers – Frank Ockenfels/Courtesy of the artist)
- Brothers Osborne on World Cafe – Monday at 2pm
- Matt Berninger of The National Performs New Songs Live on World Cafe – Friday at 2pm
- Kurt Vile Performs New Music Live on the Next World Cafe – Thursday at 2pm
- An Encore Session with Mike Hadreas as Perfume Genius on World Cafe – Wednesday at 2pm
- Bill Callahan Performs Live From His Home in Austin, Texas on World Cafe – Tuesday at 2pm
- An Encore Session with Mavis Staples on World Cafe – Monday at 2pm
