Click and Listen - Live Concerts from NPR.org/Music
Gogol Bordello - July 18, 2007 Emerging in the late '90s as one of the U.K.'s most passionate and infectious rock bands, Travis helped inspire a wave of new Britpop groups that included acts like Coldplay and Keane. The group is now on tour for its most inspired album in years. Hear the full performance
Travis - July 16, 2007 Emerging in the late '90s as one of the U.K.'s most passionate and infectious rock bands, Travis helped inspire a wave of new Britpop groups that included acts like Coldplay and Keane. The group is now on tour for its most inspired album in years. Hear the full performance
Rufus Wainwright - June 9, 2007
Rufus Wainwright makes richly orchestrated, theatrical pop music inspired by the traditions of cabaret, musicals and opera. Hear Wainwright perform selections from his latest CD, Release the Stars, in a full concert recorded live from New York's Gramercy Theater. Hear the full performance
Andrew Bird - May 20, 2007
Andrew Bird makes the kind of music that leaves critics groping for labels. A classically trained violinist, former swing jazz musician and now art rock virtuoso, Bird is one of the most imaginative and distinctive voices making music today. Hear Bird in a full concert, recorded live from Washington, D.C. Hear the full performance
Ben Gibbard - May 10, 2007
As frontman for the Seattle rock band Death Cab for Cutie, and part of the electro-pop duo Postal Service, Ben Gibbard has won over legions of fans for his literate, bittersweet songwriting. Now Gibbard is embarking on a month-long solo tour. Hear him recorded live in concert from Washington, D.C. Hear the full performance
Peter Björn & John - April 30, 2007 Peter Björn and John are a Swedish pop trio making insanely catchy music, with bouncing rhythms and whistled melodies. The group is currently on tour with the equally infectious eletro-pop band Fujiya and Miyagi. Hear both bands live on NPR.org Apr. 30, in concert from the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. Hear the full performance
Lily Allen in Concert with The Bird and The Bee - April 8, 2007
Lily Allen is Britain's most addictive pop artist with dizzying melodies and lyrics that are as comical as they are biting. Now on tour for her multi-million selling album Alright, Still, Allen performs at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. in a full concert, originally webcast live on NPR.org. Hear the full performance
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - March 29, 2007
Ted Leo first emerged on the hardcore scene of the late 1980s in the bands Citizen's Arrest, Animal Crackers and Chisel. He's since become one of the most innovative and important figures in the east coast rock scene. Hear Ted Leo and The Pharmacists recorded live in concert.
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Nellie McKay - March 27, 2007
Nellie McKay is a singer-songwriter known for her distinctive mix of jazz vocals and torch singing with cabaret pop, rock and a rap-inspired rants. Hear McKay in a full concert recorded live from Alexandria, VA. Hear the full performance
The Good, The Bad & The Queen - March 14, 2007
The Good, The Bad & The Queen isn't a band. It's more of a project, featuring Blur frontman Damon Albarn, The Clash bassist Paul Simonon, Afrobeat pioneer and drummer Tony Allen and former Verve guitarist Simon Tong. They're making some of the smartest and catchiest Britpop and rock to reach the U.S. in years. Hear the full performance
The
Arcade Fire - February 17, 2007
The Arcade
Fire's 2004 debut Funeral, was one of
the decade's most remarkable rock albums. Now on
the eve of releasing Neon
Bible, their highly anticipated follow-up,
the band visited New York's Judson Memorial Church
for a full concert. Hear
the full show, recorded live in New York City.
The
Disco Biscuits - The Disco Biscuits' members performed a concert from WXPN and TLA in Philadelphia on Dec. 29. Hear the full performance
The
Decemberists - October 30, 2006 - Portland,
Oregon's literate and theatrical rock group The Decemberists
have just released one of the
year's best albums. Hear selections from The Crane
Wife and
some of the band's earlier music in a full
concert, recorded live from Washington, D.C. and the
930 club on NPR.org/music. Hear the full performance
Arctic
Monkeys - March
27, 2006 - With just
one album under the their belt, the British group
Arctic Monkeys is already being hailed as one
of the greatest U.K. rock bands of all time. The
group aimed to show fans why in a full performance
recorded live from Washington, DC’s 9:30 Club. Hear
the full performance
Black
Rebel Motorcycle Club - February
20, 2006 - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club brings a soulful
mix of roots rock, country, gospel and blues to
Washington, DC's 9:30 Club for a night of music.
Hear the band's full concert, recorded live. Black
Rebel Motorcycle Club is on tour to promote its
latest CD, Howl.
Hear
the full performance
Neko
Case, Martha Wainwright - April
10, 2006 - On her latest CD, singer Neko Case swings somewhere
between the worlds of heavy art rock and bittersweet
country. Hear her perform cuts from Fox
Confessor Brings the Flood and more in a full
concert recorded live from Washington, D.C.
Hear
the full performance
Clap
Your Hands Say Yeah - March
8, 2006 -
Hear the quirky and ever-addictive Clap Your Hands
Say Yeah recorded live in concert from Washington,
D.C.'s 9:30 Club. The full performance originally
webcast live on NPR.org Mar. 8 as part of NPR
Music's ongoing live concert series from All
Songs Considered.
Hear the full performance
Gomez
and The Bad Plus - June 23, 2006 - Britain's experimental rock group Gomez is known for blurring lines between musical forms and genres, creating an entirely original sound nearly impossible to pin down to any one style. The band visited Washington, D.C. for a full concert June 22, webcast live on NPR.org with jazz trio The Bad Plus.
Hear the full performance
David
Gray - August 2005 - Hear a full concert online by
singer/songwriter David Gray, originally Web cast
live on NPR.org from the 9:30 Club in Washington,
D.C. From a great series of live concerts
from NPR Music's All Songs Considered. Hear the full performance
James
Brown - June 23, 2006 - The Godfather
of Soul digs into his vast catalog of hit songs
for a night of music, recorded live in concert
from the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. This program
originally webcast live on NPR.org.
Hear the full performance
Drive
By Truckers - July 29, 2006 - have
been making bold, often epic southern rock since
they first formed in Athens, Ga., a decade ago. Currently
on tour for their seventh album, the band visited
the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., for a night of
live music, originally webcast in its entirety on
NPR.org July 15. Hear the full performance
Jose
Gonzales in Concert with Argentina's Juana
Molina and Psapp - July 1, 2006 -
Intimate, acoustic folk meets experimental electronica
in a night of music, featuring Juana Molina,
Jose Gonzalez and Psapp, originally webcast live
on NPR.org July 1 from WXPN and World Cafe Live,
Philadelphia. Hear the full performance
Sonic
Youth - June 15, 2006 - A quarter century after the group
first formed in New York, Sonic Youth remains one
of rock's more inspired, creative bands. Now on tour
for their 20th album, Rather Ripped, the
trio visited Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club for a
full concert, originally webcast live on NPR.org. Hear the full performance
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