Podcast
World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
WXPN's live performance and interview program featuring music and conversation from a variety of important musicians
- Music chart
- #85
- Episodes
- 50
- Releases
- Daily
- Typical length
- 24 min
- On air since
- 2026
- Latest episode
- 10 hours ago
Episodes
50 episodes, newest first
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19 min
Tune in to a mini-concert with Fantastic Cat
Show notes
The supergroup Fantastic Cat's latest album, Cat Out of Hell, is filled with irreverent and charmingly honest songwriting. Hear them perform a mini-concert on the latest episode of World Cafe.
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33 min
Willow Avalon on her latest album, 'Pink Pocket Pistol'
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Willow Avalon is making room for a kind of country song where women can sing about more than just broken hearts. On her new album, she draws on the traditions of her rural Georgia upbringing.
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30 min
Orville Peck on his latest album, 'Mule'
Show notes
Orville Peck is famous for wearing a mask, but his new album, Mule, is a deeply personal, vulnerable, chronological account of the year he got sober.
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32 min
Low Cut Connie on his latest album, 'Livin in the USA'
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Low Cut Connie has always been about letting loose. But on Livin in the USA, frontman Adam Weiner wrestles with a country filled with fear and division.
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25 min
Tune in to a mini-concert with Stephen Wilson Jr.
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The Indiana singer-songwriter is nominated for four Country Music Association awards at next month’s ceremony, including male vocalist and new artist of the year.
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29 min
Like a pink-haired gladiator, Adéla enters the pop arena hellbent on victory
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From ballet school to Dream Academy, the Slovakian singer and dancer has been training her whole life for pop stardom.
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11 min
Revisiting Funkadelic's 'Maggot Brain'
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World Cafe correspondent John Morrison talks about the way Jimi Hendrix influenced the band’s playing, and digs into some of the very specific, emotional direction George Clinton gave in the studio during the recording.
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47 min
Metric on their latest album, 'Romanticize The Dive"
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The Canadian band talks about how their latest record looks back on the "indie sleaze" era, plus they play a stripped down set of songs.
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35 min
Personal Records: Jen Agg
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The restaurateur and star of the new Food Network show Restaurant Impossible: Last Call shares the songs that shaped her.
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14 min
How a Midwestern landfill inspired Fruit Bats' latest album
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Eric D. Johnson, who performs as Fruit Bats, talks about making The Landfill.
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22 min
How being 'fake brave' helped The Army, The Navy find real confidence
Show notes
The bond between Maia Ciambriello and Sasha Goldberg, who perform together as The Army, The Navy, is at the heart of their debut album, Fake Brave Life.
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12 min
Before the Breakthrough: Selena
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For Hispanic Heritage Month, World Cafe is diving into the late Tejano performer's ascent to stardom.
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26 min
For Alabama Shakes, making music together again was like 'riding a bike'
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The trio returns with their first studio album in 11 years.
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26 min
How Brian Jackson reimagined some of his legendary work with Gil Scott-Heron
Show notes
Jackson and Scott-Heron created some of most memorable protest music of the early '70s, through the duo’s combination of jazz, soul, funk and spoken word poetry. Fifty years later, Jackson’s new album, Now More Than Ever, revisits some of their most iconic songs.
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21 min
The Womack Sisters leaned on each other to keep their musical ambitions alive
Show notes
BG, Zeimani and Kucha Womack are music royalty — nieces to Bobby Womack and the granddaughters of Sam Cooke. Their debut album comes after a series of tragic setbacks.
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37 min
John R. Miller takes to the road on 'The Great Unknowing'
Show notes
Miller's new album is a sort of travelogue inspired by his years as a traveling musician, but it’s also an exploration of quieter moments.
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11 min
Before the Breakthrough: Los Lobos
Show notes
For Hispanic Heritage Month, World Cafeis diving into the East Los Angeles band's career and music before "La Bamba" changed everything.
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39 min
'You gotta make it wiggly': How The Wiggles set the standard for kid's entertainment
Show notes
Plus, the Australian children's music group perform a cover of Olivia Dean's megahit, "Man I Need."
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30 min
For Michaela Anne, the 'humdrum is holy'
Show notes
The singer-songwriter found her way out of a two-year songwriting drought after finding inspiration in the "absolute magic" of everyday life.
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18 min
Tune in to a mini-concert with Friko
Show notes
The Chicago band performs music from their sophomore album, Something Worth Waiting For.
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