The considerable longevity of the Newport Folk Festival (founded in 1959), and its singular place in American musical and political culture, makes it a natural case study. As we all know, two ...

Have you gone swimming yet this summer? There's nothing like a refreshing dip on a hot day. In any event, don't miss out on requesting a song about swimming. We'll spin a set. Hear your requests ...

"Cavalcade" spins new songs by Michigan band Racing Mount Pleasant (formerly Kingfisher), Black Country, New Road, Kim Deal, and Mt. Joy and Gigi Perez. I'll also have reflections on the Ozzy ...

Although most of her solo releases have been in Welsh or Cornish, Gwenno's fourth album, Utopia, is primarily in English, what the Mercury Prize nominee calls a desire for a little reinvention. On ...

Underneath the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is the BQ Flea, a market is made up of local vendors selling vintage clothes, antique jewelry, home decor, and more. The market opened in 2024, and has ...

Fordham Professor Allie Kosterich studies how journalism is evolving in a world shaped by programming, data and artificial intelligence. A media scholar at the Gabelli School of Business ...

On this date in 1965, Bob Dylan plugged in and went electric in concert for the first time at the Newport Folk Festival. Today we're doing the opposite — going acoustic. Share an acoustic ...

Circa Waves set the tone for this FUV Live session by opening with a song they hadn’t planned on doing. It was the first beautiful day of the year and, inspired by the short walk on the Rose ...

This FUV Live session is also available as a podcast, "FUV Live Sessions." We're elevating WFUV's long history of live sessions and interviews via a podcast that you can find on Spotify, Apple ...

It was a delight to have both Craig Finn and Kathleen Edwards drop by during my evening show recently for some conversation and to play some of their favorite artists on the radio. The two friends ...

On Monday, Republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa says New York City’s animal shelter system is in crisis, and he’s making it a top issue in his campaign. Sliwa criticized the city’s ...

"Cavalcade" jazzes up a summer Sunday golden hour with Deborah Silver's big band take on rock classics, and her friend and collaborator Kurt Elling weighs in with one of his own. The results ...