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May 19, 2025

Grateful Dead and Phriends Playlist 5/17/25

Marc Smith and Ed Monde have hosted The Grateful Dead & Phriends for a long time, but love every minute of it. Marc and Ed are both diehard fans of Phish, Grateful Dead, Aquarium Rescue Unit, Umphreys McGee, Les Claypool, Widespread Panic, the Charlottesville music scene and many more. Please join the Grateful Dead and Phriends with Marc Smith and Ed Monde every Saturday from 9 a.m. – noon.

Les Temps Perdu Playlist 5/18/25

On Sundays from 12-2 p.m. Drew, Dan, and Mike practice indie-rock archaeology as co-hosts of Les Temps Perdu. Tune in for two hours of old-school glam, punk, new wave, alternative, grunge, and indie-rock from the 70s through the mid-90s.

John Morrison on Tricky on World Cafe

After starting his career with the Bristol, UK band Massive Attack, Tricky went solo in the mid-nineties. His first two albums are considered classics, but it was his third, Angels with Dirty Faces, in 1998 that World Cafe correspondent John Morrison says made Tricky a legend. John digs into that groundbreaking album on the next World Cafe.

Free Weekly Download: Redeem Your Track

I’m With Her’s “Ancient Light” is the Free Weekly Download at WNRN.org. The folk trio consisting of Sarah Jarosz, Aoife O’Donovan, and Sara Watkins explore themes of ancestral ties and cycles of life on the track, which is featured on their sophomore album, Wild and Clear and Blue (produced by Josh Kaufman of Bonny Light Horseman). You can see the group live at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond on July 23rd with Iron & Wine for a WNRN Presents show — and add “Ancient Light” to your permanent collection now.