Monday through Friday at 2pm ET 
the World Cafe with host David Dye serves up an eclectic mix of music from blues, rock, and world, to folk, and alternative country with live performances and interviews with celebrated and emerging artists. This acclaimed program, distributed nationally to over 185 stations across the country through NPR, is produced by WXPN in Philadelphia.
This Week on World Cafe
12/30 Best of 2008 World Cafe continues with
Bon Iver and
Levon
Helm.
12/31 Best of 2008 World Cafe with
M.I.A. and
Vampire Weekend.
1/1 The New Year's Day show will cover
"The Best Albums of 2008"
with top choices and commentary from critics
Tom Moon & Heather
Browne, as well as our
World Cafe: Next artists End-of-year
Round Up.
1/2 The German based band,
The Notwist, play from their latest
CD, "The Devil, You + Me."
1/5 Part folk, part soul, with warmly textured atmospherics,
Ray
Lamontagne's "Till the Sun Turns Black" is a collection of
melancholy tales.
Producer Steve Lillywhite (U2, Dave Matthews Band, Peter Gabriel) will produce music sessions for the World Cafe at the world-renowned Avatar Studios in New York City.
The first of the Lillywhite Sessions, featuring She & Him, aired Wednesday, June 11, 2008. Other sessions include: Goldfrapp, Dr. Dog, Fleet Foxes, and more.
Focus On:
Ezra Furman & the Harpoons
One of favorite singer-songwriters Ezra Furman & the Harpoons have a new album coming out October 7 on Minty Fresh Records called Inside The Human Body.
Last February Ezra and the band performed on the World Cafe. One of the songs they performed was "Last Song On The Mixtape," which Ezra has performed live in concert. However, it was never recorded. In fact, outside of the day when the tape was rolling in the World Cafe studios, he's still not recorded it in any other studio setting. Sadly, the song - a joyous ode to making a mixed tape - does not appear on his new record. "Some things can only be expressed by making a compilation tape," sings Furman as he proceeds to energetically celebrate the glory of mixed tapes as a fundamental truth to living a fulfilled rock 'n' roll life. But wait! In anticipation of Ezra's new album and the fact that we love the song so much, "Last Song On The Mixtape" is available right now compliments of Ezra, Minty Fresh Records and the World Cafe.
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David Dye: BiographyDavid Dye is a longtime Philadelphia radio personality whose music enthusiasm has captivated listeners of World Cafe since 1991. World Cafe is produced by WXPN, the public radio service of the University of Pennsylvania.
World Cafe and Dye have received numerous awards including: two NFCB Gold Reel Awards, Album Network's "Best Triple A Air Talent," four
Philadelphia Magazine's "Best of Philly Awards," the Philadelphia Chapter of NARA "Hero Award" and numerous radio industry trade magazine citations.
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