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Iron Blossom 2024

We’re still basking in the glow of a fantastic weekend at Iron Blossom Music Festival—full of great music and wonderful people. From meet and greets with Victoria Canal and Say She She, to chasing down every person in tie dye who might want to join us at Dead Air IV, we want to give a huge shoutout to our volunteers and staff who made the weekend extra special!

Encore: Mustafa on World Cafe

To celebrate the release of his new album, Dunya, World Cafe is revisiting a 2021 conversation with Mustafa. Mustafa is a poet and musician who was raised in Toronto’s Regent Park housing project in a conservative Muslim family. He wasn’t exposed to a lot of music until a vocal teacher introduced him to Joni Mitchell & Prince. Mustafa performs songs from his album, When Smoke Rises, on the next World Cafe.

Maggie Antone In-Studio Session

Bob Mosolgo welcomes Maggie Antone to the WNRN studio to discuss her debut album, Rhinestoned, and Maggie plays a few songs from the record.

The Dip Mini Concert on World Cafe

What happens when you combine a rock band, complete with lead and rhythm guitars, bass, and drums, with a jazz horn trio? You get The Dip! The ever fun and always funky seven-piece band from Seattle performs songs, including several from their new album, Love Direction, in a live mini-concert, on the next World Cafe.

Les Temps Perdu Playlist 9/22/24

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.