Bruce Warren
Bruce Warren is assistant general manager for programming of WXPN in Philadelphia. Besides serving as executive producer of World Café, Warren also contributes to Paste magazine and writes for two blogs: Some Velvet Blog and WXPN's All About The Music Blog.
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The NPR Slingshot band puts down the synths and picks up the guitars in the video for its second single.
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Hear the title track to the band's forthcoming album, out Oct. 13.
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NPR Music, WMOT and World Cafe present an exclusive webcast for Nashville's big night, with performances by Margo Price, Drive-By Truckers, Sam Outlaw, Rhiannon Giddens, Jason Isbell and more.
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The latest album by the Philadelphia-based indie rockers is their best yet.
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Olsen re-imagines Connie Francis' 1958 hit as part of Resistance Radio: The Man In The High Castle Album.
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"Radio was my freedom as a kid," Strand of Oaks' Tim Showalter says. "No internet, no scene, no way to find music except radio."
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The Montreal singer-songwriter grabs you by the heart and pulls you into a hypnotic whorl of melancholia.
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The Washington singer-songwriter reworks a Tom T. Hall classic with warmth and respect. In the video, Blau picks up hitchhikers here and there, until he becomes one himself.
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Watch the Irish singer-songwriter perform in a live webcast on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 12:15 p.m. ET.
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WXPN's Bruce Warren recommends some of the best artists making use of the independent music site.