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As an independent radio station, WNRN supports Virginia artists through its regular and specialty programming, In-Studio Sessions, and presents promotions. Each month, we’ll have a Commonwealth artist featured here. WNRN’s Commonwealth Music is supported by listeners like you. Become a member now and support Commonwealth Music on WNRN!

Artist Spotlight

Butcher Brown

Richmond’s own Butcher Brown recently performed on NPR Music’s Tiny Desk.

Butcher Brown has released forward-thinking and expansive hybrids of jazz and hip-hop since 2013. Today, they have an apt descriptor for their songs: solar music.

Drawing inspiration from every sound under the sun, they add elements of funk, soul, and rock to their foundational mix. The result is a Southern-leaning, sometimes psychedelic fusion.

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World Cafe Features

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.

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Lowland Hum Mini Concert on World Cafe

The songs on Lowland Hum’s latest album, From Self with Love, were written during a period of uncertainty for the husband and wife duo of Daniel and Lauren Goans. They’d just become first-time parents when they wrote the album, which touches on themes of pandemic isolation, early parenthood, death, grief, and new life.

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