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Evening Music
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Independents Days: Grizzly Bear
Evening Music and Spinning on Air's special series, Independents Days continues as host David Garland turns to the innovative, art rock band Grizzly Bear. With lyrics that abstractly imply shifting personal relationships and music that's full of angles, shadows, and flashes of color, it seems Grizzly Bear's songs would hardly hold together. But somehow these tenuous elements combine to form songs that are forceful and engrossing. The Brooklyn-based band Grizzly Bear joins host David Garland in the WNYC Studio to perform and talk about their new music and their album Veckatimest.
Music Playlists
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The first hour of Evening Music is available for streaming soon after 8pm.
Music Playlists
View WNYC's music playlists dating back to 2001 (full playlists are generally posted the day after broadcast). For playlist inquiries, please contact Listener Services via email or at 646-829-4000.
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Festivals and Specials
Listen on demand to our online archive of music festivals and specials, where you'll find a treasure-trove of stimulating conversations, opinions, reflections, and of course, great music!
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Ear to Ear
Ear to Ear takes innovative musicians off the New York stages and into the studio for relaxed, insightful conversation, as they share their personal recordings with host David Garland.
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69th American Music Festival: American Blend
May 21-22, at 7pm; May 23-24 at 8pm; May 25-27 at 7pm
Hosts Terrance McKnight and David Garland will curate and host a weeklong festival with special guests and rare recordings, concluding with live performances in WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space by Dafnis Prieto, Paola Prestini, Ezequiel Vinao and Yungchen Lhamo May 27.
globalFEST 2009
Listen on Demand
On January 11th, WNYC and NPR Music presented a live webcast of globalFEST 2009, the annual showcase that provides a "sneak peek" of global musicians on the verge of international fame.
Wordless Music
Concerts on Demand
WNYC presents web-exclusive concerts from the Wordless Music Series, hosted by Radio Lab's Jad Abumrad. Devoted to the desegregation of musical boundaries, Wordless Music pairs rock and electronic musicians with more traditional chamber and new music performers, to create an entirely new concert experience.
Deerhoof/Metropolis Ensemble
Live Webcast
WNYC and NPR Music team up to bring you this live webcast from the Prospect Park Bandshell, which pairs indie rock sensation Deerhoof with the progressive Metropolis Ensemble. Presented by Celebrate Brooklyn! and Wordless Music, and hosted by David Garland, the program features an ambitious re-imagining of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, The Rite: Remixed.
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Thank God we still have recordings of people like the wonderful Marta Eggerth...and George Gershwin, and any number of people who lived in a time when you actually had to know how to sing, play, write or entertain before you were allow to stand in front of a microphone.
Instead of the nasal, tuneless aimless droning against nursery level chords we heard previously with Grizzly Bear. The very opposite of charm, thrill or entertainment.
Sorry, I'm not usually snarky but sometimes I find the staggering difference in the musicianship of artists 70 years ago compared to today to be depressing.
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