World Cafe

World Cafe is produced by @WXPNFM in Philadelphia. It is hosted by Raina Douris (@RahRahRaina), along with contributing host Stephen Kallao (@stephenkallao).

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i love getting to interview @puptheband on @WorldCafe -- feels like such a full circle moment, and they are also the best

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"The blues is life," says guitar phenom @callmekingfish. We're delighted to have Christone back on the show to perform songs from his latest album, "Hard Road."

Plus, he talks to Kallao about what he's looking for from a new generation of blues musicians.

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Jarvis Cocker of @welovepulp might finally be growing up. The British rock band recently released their first album of new music in almost 24 years. It's called More.

Today, Cocker talks with Raina Douris about how he wrote this new album in a very different way.

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A few years ago, Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz rechristened their band with a new name, @watchhouseband. It was a bold move for the duo that invited a lot of questions.

Today, Watchhouse joins us to talk about their new album, Rituals.

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When Aoife O’Donovan, Sara Watkins and Sarah Jarosz reconnected in 2021, the bluegrass supergroup wasn't intending to make a new album. But the songs just came to them.

Watch I'm With Her perform songs from their latest album, Wild and Clear and Blue live for World Cafe.

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Hear a live performance from @goosetheband in today's session. Plus, all four band members join @RahRahRaina for a chat about their ravenous fanbase and their own devotion to the world of jam bands.

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Since going solo in 2017, @SELFESTEEM___ has become one of pop music’s most irreverent voices.

In today’s session, she joins us to talk about taking control of her career and what happens when the success you’ve dreamt of ... actually happens.

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Getting into dangerous situations "for the story" used to be an attractive prospect for Mike Hadreas of @perfumegenius. Now nearly 20 years sober, he has adopted a different outlook on life, and his musical storytelling has flourished as a result.

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The latest album from LA rapper, singer and producer @duckwrth is called All American F*Boy – and he’s using that not-so-flattering term to describe... himself.

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T minus 3 days before the release of @TheSwellSeason's new album!

Earlier this year, @RahRahRaina sat down with Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová to talk about their first record in 16 years. Do you wanna re-listen with us, while we wait for the release of Forward this Friday?

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You may not recognize @LudovicoEinaud 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.

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They say all roads lead to Rome, but for @lailaalabastro, 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.

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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.

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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.

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"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," @d4vddd on World Cafe.

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Forty years ago this year, in Philadelphia, one of music's most influential singing groups was born: @BoyzIIMen

Today, @John_Liberator sits down with @RahRahRaina to talk about the influential R&B group, the subject of John’s new book Boyz II Men: 40th Anniversary Celebration

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On her debut album, At The Beach, In Every Life, @gigi4perez 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.

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@TundeAdebimpe's debut solo album, Thee Black Boltz, had an unlikely origin: a break-in.

It would be the beginning of a new chapter for the co-founder of @tvontheradio.

more at https://t.co/Id6FH1nRiC

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When putting together her debut album, @uwademusic 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.

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Texas singer-songwriter @benkweller 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.