Soundcheck

Radio host and author John Schaefer has hosted and produced New Sounds on WNYC since 1982, but his time with the station is drawing to a close.

Check out the celestial live version of 'Love Yes' song "Please."

Like we said earlier this week, Torres just keeps adding NYC shows to her tour schedule. She just played a WNYC Soundcheck session at The Greene Space earlier this week (which you can watch below), and she's now added two more NYC shows for after the new album comes out...

Torres' sophomore album Sprinter comes out May 5 via Partisan, and she's continuing to play shows in her current hometown of NYC ahead of its rele...

People Get Ready are getting ready to release their new album, Physiques, via Brassland June 24. You may have already heard the album's title track, and now we've got the premiere of the album's second single "Rainbow...

Andrew Bird at RIverside Church in 2012 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) Singer/songwriter/violin looper Andrew Bird is going on a tour this summer with his new band The Hands of Glory, "an old timey acoustic configuration featuring Tift Merritt, Alan Hampton, Bowl of Fire alumnus Kevin O'Donnell, and Eric Heywood on pedal steel...

In the live interview that took place before Hellride East (aka J.Mascis and Murph of Dinosaur Jr, and the guest of honor for the evening Mike Watt) hit the stage, Watt told rock critic Byron Coley about his intense love for John Coltrane ("I thought he was a punk") and how The Stooges changed his life...

The Mountain Goats stopped by NYC's Greene Space on Wednesday (earlier in the day than his third in a row Bowery Ballroom show) for a live WNYC "Soundcheck" radio appearance along with Suzanne Vega...

Iron & Wine were just revealed as the mystery band playing The Greene Space (44 Charlton at Varick) in NYC as part of NPR's "First Listen" series, TONIGHT (1/5)...