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The Steel Wheels In-Studio Session

The Steel Wheels release their new album, Sideways, on Friday, Feb. 9. Ahead of the album’s release, band members Eric and Trent visited the Charlottesville studio to play a few tunes and discuss the record. Hear their live session with Jeff Wednesday at just after 3 p.m. and check back here for videos of each song after the session airs.

Pressing Strings In-Studio Session

The members of Pressing Strings made a stop at WNRN’s Charlottesville studio before their show at The Southern Cafe and Music Hall. The band discussed their growth over nearly 20 years and their new album, …And I For You with Bob Mosolgo. Listen in on the live session Wednesday, Jan. 31 at 4:05 p.m. and check back here for videos of each song soon after it airs!

Dylan LeBlanc In-Studio Session

Tune in Thursday, Jan. 25 at 11:05 a.m. to hear our In-Studio Session with Dylan LeBlanc who chatted with Desiré Moses at In Your Ear Studios in Richmond and was joined by an audience of WNRN Members.

Theocles In-Studio Session

Ahead of performances in Charlottesville and Richmond, Theocles discussed his upcoming work with Jeff Sweatman and played a couple of new songs, including his new

WNRN From the Blue Ridge to the Bay

Marc and Ed have been waiting in the cold. This party needs to get started already! WNRN—Listener Supported Music Radio from the Blue Ridge to…the Bay?

Red Wing XI

WNRN is once again attending the Red Wing Roots Music Festival for 2024, and will be serving attendees in the Beer Garden. All of the proceeds from the Beer Garden benefit listener-supported, independent music radio, WNRN.

Tré Burt In-Studio Session

Tré Burt and his band stopped by the WNRN studio in Charlottesville while touring to perform a few live songs from Tré’s new album, Traffic Fiction. 

McKinley Dixon on World Cafe

On McKinley Dixon’s new album, Beloved! Paradise! Jazz?, he moved to Chicago, looking for a blank canvas to generate ideas for this wildly inventive and sonically lush LP that tackles themes of longing. Dixon will talk about why his sound can be difficult to pin down, his love of animation, and how the author Toni Morrison inspired the album’s title, on the next World Cafe.

Best of the Year Encore: Queens of the Stone Age and Oliver Sim on World Cafe

We’re revisiting our favorite conversations of 2023, and if you like wordplay and huge dirty guitar riffs that sound like no one else, Queens of the Stone Age are back with their first new album in six years, called In Times New Roman. Frontman Josh Homme joins World Cafe host Raina Douris to discuss self-producing the album, as well as the influence of polka on his music. Then, Oliver Sim of The XX discusses taking inspiration from horror movies for his solo debut, Hideous Bastard. Sim will talk about the album and why he empathizes with the monsters in those films, on the next World Cafe.