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Monday through Friday at 2pm ET World Cafethe 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.

The Lillywhite Sessions

Lillywhite Sessions

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.

More Ezra Furman
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Download "Last Song On The Mixtape."
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listenDownload another Ezra Furman song, "We Should Fight", from their forthcoming album, compliments of The Tripwire.

Preorder their new CD
You can pre-order Inside the Human Body, Ezra & the Harpoons' new album from Amazon.com.

Check out Ezra and the band's World Cafe interview and performance on February 6, 2008 with David Dye

listen Listen to Ezra & the Harpoons' live performance at the XPoNential Music Festival

Festival Set List (7/12/08)
We Should Fight
The Stakes Are High
My Soul Has Escaped From My Body
The Worm In The Apple
Take Off Your Sunglasses
Big Deal
Halloween Snow

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World Cafe Session Download Archives
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"Great Heron Gates"

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"Out In The Woods"

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"How to See The Sunrise"

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"Les Artistes"

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"Little Bit"

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David Dye: Biography
David 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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Best of the World Cafe
The Best of World Cafe, by David Dye!
Pick Up a Copy of The Best of World Cafe Available now when you become a member of WPXN at the $75 Level. There's interview excerpts, complete transcripts from some of music's legendary, and up-and-coming artists, and much more. Find out more and take a peek inside
 
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