World Cafe

When we first started researching bands for our Sense of Place: Rome series, the very first one that jumped out was Weird Bloom. Their music is psychedelic and catchy, and it kind of sounds like T. rex.

Four Flies Records founder Pier de Sanctis explains what makes these increasingly rare soundtracks so special.

The Italian pianist and composer returns to his childhood in Turin on his latest album, The Summer Portraits.

The Milan-based musician draws on both her mother's Italian side of the family and her father's Palestinian heritage.

David Burke, who performs as d4vd, was a teenage streamer, posting highlights of Fortnite when his YouTube videos kept being taken down because of copyrighted music he'd attached to them. What happened next would change his life.

Perez was pursuing music at Berklee College of Music when her older sister, Celene, passed away. Signed to a major label and suddenly dropped, she moved back in with her parents. It's there where she taught herself production and began work on her debut album, At The Beach, In Every Life.

Uwade isn't willing to trade in the classics for the concert hall. On one hand, she studied at Columbia University and got her master's from Oxford. On the other hand, she's opened for bands like The Strokes and Fleet Foxes.

Musician and climate activist Tamara Lindeman talks about the Canadian folk band's latest record, Humanhood.

Hannah Cohen's Earthstar Mountain sounds timeless and modern; it's set amid one of the most gorgeous natural backdrops in the northeastern United States. A singer-songwriter who for years called New York City home, Cohen moved up to the Catskill Mountains a few years back.

Our monthly series, Acadiana Music Showcase, is produced by our friends at Lafayette, La., affiliate station KRVS, and it explores this vibrant cultural melting pot through music.