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When the members of Palmyra met on the campus of James Madison University, they knew pretty early on that this was going to be a truly collaborative project. Today, Mānoa Bell, Teddy Chipouras and Sasha Landon talks to Kallao about their new album, Restless.

After the birth of her daughter, Laura Marling thought it might be the end of the road for her songwriting career. "And I was so pleasantly surprised by that not being the case," she says. In this session, Marling joins us to talk about her latest album, Patterns in Repeat.

On their latest record Mourners, Polish rock band Trupa Trupa wasn’t afraid to confront their country’s past. In today's World Cafe, frontman Gregory Kwiatkowski talks about how that history has shaped his life.

On his latest record, Nels Cline pays tribute to a dear friend: bassist and singer Satomi Matsuzaki of Deerhoof. The Wilco guitarist calls it “a celebration of her strength and charisma." Listen for more inspired moments from Cline's Consentrik Quartet.

Even if you don’t recognize @amyallenmusic by name, you’ve definitely heard her work. From Sabrina Carpenter’s Espresso to songs sung by Selena Gomez and Harry Styles, Allen is behind A LOT of hits. Today, raina douris sits down with Allen to talk about her own self-titled album.

Benjamin Booker's new album pulls no punches, sonically or lyrically. LOWER is his first full-length album in eight years, and it'll occasionally disorient you, corner you and make you sit in discomfort. It's also absolutely magnetic.

For Julien Baker and TORRES, there was something freeing about getting to create within the world of country music. “It felt really good to – more than accept – but embrace that we were writing within a tradition," says Baker.

After starting his career with Massive Attack, Tricky went solo in the mid-90s. Today, John Morrison joins raina douris to talk about the record that turned Tricky into a legend: 1998’s Angels with Dirty Faces. Check out the latest installment of The Culture Corner out now

not to be ANNOYING (just kidding i don't care) but the World Cafe youtube channel is very close to hitting 100k subscribers and it would make me look like a really cool bigshot if you could help us get there

Noah Lennox of Animal Collective has made a few 21st century classics performing solo under his Panda Bear moniker, like Person Pitch and Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper. His latest album, Sinister Grift, oozes with the confidence of an artist who can trust the process.

From mountains to mushrooms, Hannah Cohen's home in the Catskills is ripe with inspiration. “I came across this Earthstar mushroom a couple years ago and was just totally flabbergasted because I'd never seen a mushroom in that shape before."

Texas singer-songwriter Ben Kweller joins us in the studio to reflect on the years that followed his son Dorian's passing, how music helped him find a way through the grief, and how Dorian's memory helped him find his way through the music on Cover the Mirrors.

When putting together her debut album, uwade was writing indie folk songs that sounded contemplative, gentle and filled with emotion. But, Florilegium also has “a little salt and pepper,” as Uwade’s mom would say.

On her debut album, At The Beach, In Every Life, gigi embraces grief and questions religion as a queer woman. It's also a record that's joyful, with a smash hit serving as a declaration of love that anyone can wrap their arms around.

Forty years ago this year, in Philadelphia, one of music's most influential singing groups was born: Boyz II Men Today, John Morrison sits down with raina douris to talk about the influential R&B group, the subject of John’s new book Boyz II Men: 40th Anniversary Celebration

"So, Withered [my debut album] is kind of that nostalgia bait project, where I'm physically taking myself from where I was in the closet with the Bandlab and all those EPs and taking myself back to that area. Symbolically, back to the dirt," d4vd on World Cafe.

Cinephiles know, there's plenty to obsess over when it comes to Italian film 📽️ On today's Sense of Place: Rome, host Raina Douris visits Four Flies Records, a label dedicated to archiving film scores of Italian B movies.

When we first started researching bands for our Sense of Place: Rome series, the very first one that jumped out was @weirdbloomboy. Their music sounds like it could have traveled here through time from a garage in the 1970s.

They say all roads lead to Rome, but for Laila Al Habash, pursuing a music career meant taking a road away from Rome. Now located in Milan, today's guest draws on both her mother's Italian side and her father's Palestinian heritage.

You may not recognize Ludovico Einaudi by name, but there's a good chance you've heard his compositions—Einaudi is the most streamed living classical composer on Spotify. "I need to work around something that I feel is moving — something in my heart, in my belly," he says.