World Cafe is produced by @WXPNFM in Philadelphia. It is hosted by Raina Douris (@RahRahRaina), along with contributing host Stephen Kallao (@stephenkallao).
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10 Nov 2025
i love getting to interview @puptheband on @WorldCafe -- feels like such a full circle moment, and they are also the best
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23 Oct 2025
"The blues is life," says guitar phenom @callmekingfish. We're delighted to have Christone back on the show to perform songs from his latest album, "Hard Road."
Plus, he talks to Kallao about what he's looking for from a new generation of blues musicians.
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19 Sep 2025
Jarvis Cocker of @welovepulp might finally be growing up. The British rock band recently released their first album of new music in almost 24 years. It's called More.
Today, Cocker talks with Raina Douris about how he wrote this new album in a very different way.
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18 Sep 2025
A few years ago, Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz rechristened their band with a new name, @watchhouseband. It was a bold move for the duo that invited a lot of questions.
Today, Watchhouse joins us to talk about their new album, Rituals.
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17 Sep 2025
When Aoife O’Donovan, Sara Watkins and Sarah Jarosz reconnected in 2021, the bluegrass supergroup wasn't intending to make a new album. But the songs just came to them.
Watch I'm With Her perform songs from their latest album, Wild and Clear and Blue live for World Cafe.
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5 Sep 2025
Hear a live performance from @goosetheband in today's session. Plus, all four band members join @RahRahRaina for a chat about their ravenous fanbase and their own devotion to the world of jam bands.
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19 Aug 2025
Since going solo in 2017, @SELFESTEEM___ has become one of pop music’s most irreverent voices.
In today’s session, she joins us to talk about taking control of her career and what happens when the success you’ve dreamt of ... actually happens.
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8 Aug 2025
Getting into dangerous situations "for the story" used to be an attractive prospect for Mike Hadreas of @perfumegenius. Now nearly 20 years sober, he has adopted a different outlook on life, and his musical storytelling has flourished as a result.
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16 Jul 2025
The latest album from LA rapper, singer and producer @duckwrth is called All American F*Boy – and he’s using that not-so-flattering term to describe... himself.
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8 Jul 2025
T minus 3 days before the release of @TheSwellSeason's new album!
Earlier this year, @RahRahRaina sat down with Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová to talk about their first record in 16 years. Do you wanna re-listen with us, while we wait for the release of Forward this Friday?
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25 Jun 2025
You may not recognize @LudovicoEinaud by name, but there's a good chance you've heard his compositions—Einaudi is the most streamed living classical composer on Spotify.
"I need to work around something that I feel is moving — something in my heart, in my belly," he says.
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24 Jun 2025
They say all roads lead to Rome, but for @lailaalabastro, pursuing a music career meant taking a road away from Rome.
Now located in Milan, today's guest draws on both her mother's Italian side and her father's Palestinian heritage.
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23 Jun 2025
When we first started researching bands for our Sense of Place: Rome series, the very first one that jumped out was @weirdbloomboy.
Their music sounds like it could have traveled here through time from a garage in the 1970s.
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20 Jun 2025
Cinephiles know, there's plenty to obsess over when it comes to Italian film 📽️ On today's Sense of Place: Rome, host Raina Douris visits Four Flies Records, a label dedicated to archiving film scores of Italian B movies.
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17 Jun 2025
"So, Withered [my debut album] is kind of that nostalgia bait project, where I'm physically taking myself from where I was in the closet with the Bandlab and all those EPs and taking myself back to that area. Symbolically, back to the dirt," @d4vddd on World Cafe.
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16 Jun 2025
Forty years ago this year, in Philadelphia, one of music's most influential singing groups was born: @BoyzIIMen
Today, @John_Liberator sits down with @RahRahRaina to talk about the influential R&B group, the subject of John’s new book Boyz II Men: 40th Anniversary Celebration
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12 Jun 2025
On her debut album, At The Beach, In Every Life, @gigi4perez embraces grief and questions religion as a queer woman. It's also a record that's joyful, with a smash hit serving as a declaration of love that anyone can wrap their arms around.
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9 Jun 2025
When putting together her debut album, @uwademusic was writing indie folk songs that sounded contemplative, gentle and filled with emotion.
But, Florilegium also has “a little salt and pepper,” as Uwade’s mom would say.
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30 May 2025
Texas singer-songwriter @benkweller joins us in the studio to reflect on the years that followed his son Dorian's passing, how music helped him find a way through the grief, and how Dorian's memory helped him find his way through the music on Cover the Mirrors.
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27 May 2025
From mountains to mushrooms, @MissHannahCohen's home in the Catskills is ripe with inspiration.
“I came across this Earthstar mushroom a couple years ago and was just totally flabbergasted because I'd never seen a mushroom in that shape before."
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