The Heavy - Words and Music - 2010

February 03, 2010|Alisa Ali

The Heavy have never met a genre they couldn't co-opt. Their first album, Great Vengeance and Furious Fire, had samples of...

Echo and the Bunnymen - Words and Music - 2010

February 02, 2010|WFUV Staff

Nneka - Words and Music - 2010

February 01, 2010|Rita Houston

Nneka was raised in Nigeria, but it wasn't until she went abroad to Germany that she started singing in earnest. Her first...

Chris Smither - Words and Music - 2009

January 21, 2010|Darren DeVivo

Chris Smither's new album is called, 'Time Stands Still,' and while he may have earned the right to stop the clock after a...

Lissie - Words and Music - 2009

January 18, 2010|Alisa Ali

Lissie got her start opening for Lenny Kravitz, when he checked out her MySpace page. Now, she's been touring with Ray...

Buffy Sainte-Marie - Words and Music - 2010

January 13, 2010|John Platt

Host John Platt got to sit in with Buffy Sainte-Marie during her visit to FUV to discuss 'Running for the Drum,' her first...

Jess Klein - Words and Music - 2010

January 12, 2010|Claudia Marshall

Our claims to Jess Klein as a New Yorker were always a little tenuous. She was born in Rochester, began singing in Jamaica...

The White Buffalo - Words and Music - 2010

January 11, 2010|Russ Borris

When Jake Smith decided he was going to start making music, he thought he might need a name with a little more sticking...

Meaghan Smith - Words and Music - 2010

January 07, 2010|Darren DeVivo

While Meaghan Smith would not be the first classically trained singer we've had in studio-A, she might be the first...

Harper Simon - Words and Music - 2010

January 06, 2010|Rita Houston

Former member of Menlo Park, part of The Heavy Circles, and son to one half of Simon and Garfunkel, Harper Simon, talks...

Blind Boys of Alabama - Words and Music - 2010

January 05, 2010|Darren DeVivo

From Glee Club to Grammy Winners, The Blind Boys of Alabama share some of their seven decades long history with FUV's Darren...

Lou Barlow - Words and Music - 2009

December 17, 2009|Rich McLaughlin

Lou Barlow is one of the pioneers of the indie lo-fi scene and a founder of the bands Dinosaur Jr., Folk Implosion, and...

Florence + The Machine - Words and Music - 2009

December 15, 2009|Rita Houston

Florence and The Machine's debut album is called Lungs and it's apparent that singer Florence Welch has quite a pair of them...

Ben Gibbard and Jay Farrar - Words and Music - 2009

December 10, 2009|Alisa Ali

Jay Farrar of the Midwestern alt-country group Son Volt and Ben Gibbard of the Seattle Indie Rock group Death Cab for Cutie...

Mark Knopfler - Words and Music - 2009

December 07, 2009|Claudia Marshall

For a man that's sold over one hundred million albums, it is not all that surprising that Mark Knopfler has his hands in one...

Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons- Words and Music- 2009

December 02, 2009|Rita Houston

The son of a Baptist preacher and a mother who played piano for the church choir, it was seen as an act of rebellion for...

Rosanne Cash - Words and Music - 2009

December 01, 2009|Rita Houston
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The Avett Brothers - Words and Music - 2009

November 30, 2009|Alisa Ali

There are only two brothers in the North-Carolina Indie-folk group The Avett Brothers, Scott and Seth, but when one of the...

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