Punk rock + mariachi music = Mariachi El Bronx. They visit the Cafe and talk with Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social and perform live. www.npr.org/2026/04/08/n...

New Goose. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RzU...

From Liverpool, soul and R&B singer MT Jones performs a mini concert. He's from the UK but sounds like he's straight out of Motown. Dig in. www.npr.org/2026/04/07/n...

Happy new song release day to our pal Kurt Vile. We're loving the song and the video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDq6...

Big Thief return to the Cafe w/ performances from their recent album, Double Infinity, and talk with Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social abut changes in the band and their lives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=quG1...

Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social talks with @timheidecker.bsky.social about the songs that defined him for "Personal Records." www.npr.org/2026/03/31/n...

Anthony Davis and Sean Daley (Ant and Slug) of Atmosphere talk with the Cafe's @kallao.bsky.social about their new concept lp, Jestures, and look back at 30 years of making music together. www.npr.org/2026/03/30/n...

Flea is on @npr.org's @worldcafe.bsky.social to talk with host @kallao.bsky.social about his new album ‘Honora.’ You can hear it at www.nonesuch.com/journal/listen-flea-nprs-world-cafe

I talked to Flea about his debut solo album, Honora. He's a remarkable human being and I was hanging on every word, especially when it came to the Nick Cave partnership. Really proud of how this one turned out, please give it a spin! @worldcafe.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5rc...

How Flea made his solo debut jazz album. The Cafe's @kallao.bsky.social talks with the Red Hot Chili Pepper's bassist about his trumpet playing, his lifelong love of jazz, and the LA jazz music community who helped him record the album, Honora. www.npr.org/2026/03/27/n...

Our friend Langhorne Slim returns to the Cafe studio to perform songs from his new album and talk with Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/03/26/n...

A live performance from The Nude Party and conversation with the Cafe's @kallao.bsky.social about their new album, Look Who's Back. www.npr.org/2026/03/24/n...

In Philly, at @wxpnfm.bsky.social where we make the Cafe, we've had the pleasure of working with the incredible Kathy O'Connell - host of the long running kids (and parents!) show, Kids Corner. Congrats to Kathy on a great run and for always making us smile in the office.

Mitski on Shirley Jackson, cats, and being the wrong kind of woman. Loving this album.

We've got a very special studio session w/ Mitski and her band recorded at The Power Station in NYC, and Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social talks with Mitski about her fantastic new album Nothing's About To Happen To Me. www.npr.org/sections/wor...

We're super stoked cause it's @ratboysband.bsky.social on the Cafe day today. We've got a not to be missed Interview w/ @kallao.bsky.social and a studio performance of songs from their new album, Singin' to an Empty Chair. www.npr.org/2026/03/18/n...

One of our longtime friends and favorites on the Cafe, Iron & Wine makes a return visit to the Cafe. He talks with Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social about songs from his new album and his catalogue for an episode of Backtracking. He also performs live in concert. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J98t...

Folks, Vince Gill continues to be the honest to goodness Truth. We sit down again to talk about his massive year long project to celebrate 50 years of making music. He's my favorite person to talk to, bar done. Up later today for @worldcafe.bsky.social but catch it on @wxpnfm.bsky.social at 2pm EST

Country music legend Vince Gill stockpiled more than 100 songs in the last few years, and he's releasing a new EP every month for a year. The project is called 50 Years From Home. Gill talks with the Cafe's @kallao.bsky.social about the massive project. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social talks with singer-songwriter Jobi Riccio, who performs live with her band. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMdi...

Kashus Culpepper talks with Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social about how he went from performing cover songs to his new full-length debut album, Act I, and with his band performs in front of a live audience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvQF...

Great to see @andrinaturenne.bsky.social featured on @worldcafe.bsky.social

Via our friends at KRVS in Lafayette, Louisiana, here's a mini concert with @andrinaturenne.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/03/02/n...

Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social welcomes Cate Le Bon and her band into the studio for a special performance and conversation about Cate's new album, Michelangelo Dying. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKcJ...

We wrap up our Black History Month series with our Culture Corner contributor John Morrison and Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social with our final segment on the impact of music of the African disapora. www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n...

Happy to have Soccer Mommy back on the show, this time w/ a mini concert from the @wxpnfm.bsky.social XPoNential Music Festival last September. xpn.org/soccer-mommy...

Doing some @worldcafe.bsky.social stuff at The Power Station today. Dang, there were some records made here!

The legendary producer, musician and President of @bluenoterecords.bsky.social Don Was brings his new band, The Pan-Detroit Ensemble, into our studios to perform and chat with the Cafe's @kallao.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/02/20/n...

Watch @hannahjadagu.bsky.social absolutely crush her World Cafe session -> youtu.be/-MTpddYUeoo?...

With the release of her excellent new (and sophomore) album Describe, we had to have @hannahjadagu.bsky.social Hannah Jadagu return to the Cafe with her band, this time with an audience. The Cafe's contributing host @kallao.bsky.social talks with Hannah about the new lp. www.npr.org/2026/02/17/n...

Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social chats with Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol from Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie about their new movie and music that defined them in a new segment, "Personal Records." www.npr.org/2026/02/16/n...

Working on Friday's @worldcafe.bsky.social playlist for hour 2. Love this second set because Body Movin's main sample is a steel drum version of One Como Va - www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXl5...

Hell yeah www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NG2...

In the latest edition of "Backtracking," Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social met up with the legendary Lucinda Williams at Lu's bar and restaurant in NYC for a wide ranging conversation about her new record and highlights from her back catalogue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NG2...

Flock of Dimes is the solo project of Jenn Wasner, a founding member of Wye Oak. Jenn and the band came into our studio at @wxpnfm.bsky.social to perform a mini session of songs from her new lp, The Life You Save. www.npr.org/2026/02/12/n...

One of the most expressive singer-songwriters of her generation, Sarah McLachlan's deeply felt and virtuosic performance is miraculous. n.pr/3M9F0rT

Thank you Jenn for playing some songs in our studio!

This is Lorelei - Nate Amos - is featured in the studio to perform and chat with Cafe contributing host @kallao.bsky.social about the Nate's collection of songs and how he draws inspiration from Cher and bluegrass. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uq8...

On our recent Sense of Place Baltimore series, Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social explores the vibrant Baltimore club music scene with Abdu Ali and DJ Ducky Dynamo. www.npr.org/2026/02/03/n...

Last Fall we welcomed Christian McBride into our studios for a performance and an interview w/ the Cafe's @kallao.bsky.social. Congrats to Christian for his Grammy win. Watch the session here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vEi...

Big congrats to Amy Allen for winning the Grammy for Songwriter of The Year, Non-Classical. It was great to have Amy on the show last May, talking w/ Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social about the songs Amy has written for herself and others. www.npr.org/2025/05/13/1...

Our Sense of Place Baltimore series continues at the Harbor Wetland on the National Aquarium campus with electronic musician and composer Dan Deacon who talks with Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...

For our Sense of Place: Baltimore series, we've dug deep into our archives to 2010, when the Baltimore duo Beach House - guitarist/keyboardist Alex Scally and vocalist/organist Victoria Legrand - appeared on the Cafe when their 3rd album, Teen Dream was released. www.npr.org/2010/12/29/1...

Dan Boeckner of @wolfparade.bsky.social chats about their Heated Rivalry placement with BLEACHED bleachedistheword.com/2026/01/28/i...

Our Sense of Place: Baltimore travels have connected Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social w/ the amazing Baltimore Rock Opera Society (BROS). Raina talked with Patrick Staso of BROS about the volunteer-driven theater company & their creative and unconventional productions. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

We went to Baltimore for our recent Sense of Place series. Of the stops we made, we connected with Izzy Bavis, who covers the local music Baltimore music scene on WTMD. Izzy talked with Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social about some emerging bands that you need to hear. www.npr.org/2026/01/27/n...

After 20 years, The Format have returned. Nate Ruess and Sam Means join Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social in the studio to perform live and to talk about returning to a guitar-forward sound on their new lp, Boycott Heaven. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFUV...

And thank you @annemurrayofficial.bsky.social for sharing your stories and songs with us!

interviewed @annemurrayofficial.bsky.social for @worldcafe.bsky.social and it was SO NICE www.npr.org/2026/01/20/n...

Canadian legend Anne Murray has released her first new music since retiring 17 years ago by opening the vaults to some of her previously unreleased songs. Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social catches up with the multiple Juno & Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter. www.npr.org/2026/01/20/n...