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Mumford and Sons

Mumford Sons formed over a love of acoustic instruments, bluegrass, and vocal harmonies. Their first album, "Sigh No More," is a critical and commercial darling in the UK, and while it won't touchdown stateside for another week, the band stopped by Studio-A for some live tunes and conversation with FUV's Rita Houston.

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Allison Moorer is Shelby Lynne's younger-sister, Steve Earle's wife, and one very talented singer. The formerly Nashville-based songstress' eight-studio release is called, "Crows," and she told FUV's Claudia Marshall during a recent session that if the album seems a little dark it's not because she just became a New Yorker.

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JEFF the Brotherhood, are the brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall. They hail from Nashville, where their father made a living penning country songs, and encouraged his sons' music by helping them launch Infinity Cat Recordings. "Heavy Days" is the brothers' debut, and as they told Alisa Ali, it was a family affair .

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Rural Washington native, Brandi Carlile, teamed up with producer Rick Rubin for her third album, 'Give Up The Ghost.' It features contributions from Elton John, Indigo Girls' Amy Ray, and pianist Benmont Tench. She played some tunes and told FUV's Rita Houston, that while she's not a country singer, she did grow up on steady diet of country-western standards.

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The Heavy have never met a genre they couldn't co-opt. Their first album, 'Great Vengeance and Furious Fire,' had samples of Harvey Keitel, Al Pacino, and soul records. For their second album, 'The House That Dirt Built,' they spoke with Alisa Ali about their re-interpretation of Screamin' Jay Hawkins and their sampling from low grade horror films, reggae music, and garage rock.

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Except for a brief respite in the mid-nineties Echo & The Bunnymen have been a spring of post-punk music for more than three decades. Their latest album is called, "The Fountain," and they told FUV's Demos that this most recent album felt like they were making their debut for a second time.

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Nneka was raised in Nigeria, but it wasn't until she went abroad to Germany that she started singing in earnest. Her first US release, "Concrete Jungle," brought her to Studio-A where she told FUV's Rita Houston, that while she may have started her career overseas—Africa and the activism of people like Fela Kuti are definitely a part of her music.

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5 Decades in 5 Days celebrates '00s with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco. The Wilco story seems to involve as much band drama as music, and frontman Jeff Tweedy set the record straight on which takes priority during a chat with WFUV's Claudia Marshall.

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WFUV's 5 Decades in 5 Days presents the '90s with Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien. Radiohead set off a frenzy of buzz in 2007 offering "pay what you want" downloads of the album "In Rainbows." Now that the dust has settled, "In Rainbows" is being appreciated for its complex but beautiful musicality, and we hear from one of the artists responsible - Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien - and his conversation with WFUV's Julianne Welby.

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WFUV's 5 decades in 5 days celebrates the '80s with Crowded House. It's "All About You" on 'FUV, and we're celebrating this week with all kinds of songs about "you." In 2007 — 14 years after their last studio album — Crowded House returned in fine form with a collection of new tunes called "Time On Earth." Neil Finn and company also stopped by the WFUV studios for a chat with host Claudia Marshall, and performed a mix of new and favorite songs.

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WFUV's 5 decades in 5 days celebrates the '70s with Janis Ian. From a teenage star to a respected songwriting veteran, Janis Ian has seen a lot in her 4 decades in music. So instead of writing lyrics she's now written a memoir, "Society's Child: My Autobiography." Today Janis talks with WFUV's John Platt about the inspiration and process behind the book, and performs two songs that helped her along the way.

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WFUV's 5 Decades in 5 Days celebrates The 60s: folk-pop troubadour Donovan with songs and stories - past and present - in his 2004 interview with WFUV's Dennis Elsas.

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The Alternate Side favorites 'White Rabbits' stopped by to play some live songs and talk about working with Spoon's Britt Daniel on their latest album 'It's Frightening...' But, as they told FUV's Alisa Ali, what's really frightening is the mess in their DUMBO, Brooklyn practice space.

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Chris Smither's new album is called, 'Time Stands Still,' and while he may have earned the right to stop the clock after a successful forty-odd year career—artistically his music has definitely not reached a standstill. For one thing he's performing and touring as a trio, and as he told FUV's Darren Devivo during a recent interview in studio-A, his songwriting is still going in new directions.

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Hoots and Hellmouth like their concerts to feel closer to a big-tent revival meeting than a stadium rock show. The Philadelphia-based gospel folk band's latest album is 'The Holy Open Secret,' and as they told FUV's Claudia Marshall one of their secret weapons is the tambourine.

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From Southern California, Dawes, originally formed as a pop-punk group, but they since found an older sound that draws upon the sixties and seventies music of Laurel Canyon. The lead singer, Taylor Goldmith, chatted with FUV's Darren Devivo about recording their album in analog, and the whole band joined in to play some live versions of tunes from their debut, 'North Hills.'

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Before Lissie had released any music, Lenny Kravitz checked out her MySpace page, and invited her to be his opener. Now, she's been touring with Ray LaMontagne, and just released an EP called, 'Why You Runnin.' Recently, she ran into studio-A for a session with FUV's Alisa Ali.

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Local Natives discovered each other in Los Angeles, but as they told The Alternate Side's Alisa Ali it took a small show in a British bike shop, to get them to be discovered in by the music world. They stopped by Studio-A to show off the harmonies, orchestral melodies, and Afro-pop sound featured on their debut, 'Gorilla Manor.'

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Despite the title "Sunrise In The Land of Milk and Honey," there is plenty of snark and dark, driving rock in the new songs from Cracker. David Lowery is still at the helm, but the band did things a little differently in the studio, and in our Studio A, host Darren DeVivo got to hear the results performed live.

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'Running for the Drum' is Canadian folk singer Buffy Saint-Marie's fifteenth studio album, and her first brand-new CD in thirteen years. FUV's John Platt welcomed her to studio-A to discuss her hall-of-fame five decade long career as a singer and activist, and her five year tenure as a contributor to Sesame Street.

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