Ukulele Jake brings two more ukulele players and a violinist with a hand drum into the studio. Tune in for jovial ukulele tunes and talk of the happy go lucky nature of the ukulele. Listen →

Jalopy's house band, The Brotherhood of the Jug Band Blues, doubled in size in the studio-eight musicians squeeze into the studio to play live and talk. Listen →

Anthony Carrera is a subway musician who joined us in the studio with his hand pan, sitar and guitar. Listen →

The Brooklyn Speculative Writers is a critique group for writers of speculative fiction, dedicated to raising the work of our members to a publishable, professional level. Five writers came into the studio to read their stories, share their inspirations and talk about sci-fi-fantasy-and everything in between. Listen →

Guest host, Eleanor MacPhee discusses mental health and suicide with NAMI. Listen →

Freegans discuss urban foraging, waste, consumerism and the collapse of society. Listen →

The Saw Lady, Natalia Paruz plays her musical saw and talks about twenty years of playing in the subway. Listen →

Kate Sera Sera (All-Star and Bronx Gridlock), Chugs Brewkowski (Manhattan Mayhem) and Maddog (Manhattan Mayhem) are skaters for Gotham Girls Roller Derby. They join us live in the studio to talk derby, true sisterhood and listen to Kate Bush. Listen →

Karolina Wojtasik, Raymond Woods and Kate Mooney tells us their childhoods of growing up gay in celebration of NYC Pride. Listen →

Alliance for Positive Change, Gary Higgins and Velia Hernandez, come into the studio and talk about the state of HIV/AIDS in New York City and America. Listen →

The butchers and owners of Hudson & Charles, Kevin Haverty and J. Fox, talk about meat. Hudson and Charles is a sustainable, locally sourced whole animal butcher. Listen →

Rasika Shekar plays live in the studio and talks about working for Bollywood. Listen →

Local Brooklyn band, The Violence, makes every day music for every day people. In the studio, they make electronic music live in real time. Listen →

The Polka Brothers talk about polka Star Wars and Ozzy Osbourne polka style and talk about polka music when they're not talking about sausage and beer. Listen →

Guest Host Violet Baron in conversations with Brooklyn artists about inspiration and creativity. Violet speaks to musician, Kathleen Rivera, and poet, Nadia Misir. Listen →

Musicians from Chhandayan, an Indian Music Center, come to the studio. take off their shoes. Sit on the ground. Then speak and play tablas from their souls. Listen →

The Poetry Brothel and Poetry Society of NY close out our month long celebration of National Poetry Month with live accordion, poems and talk. Listen →

Nightboat Books publisher and poets continue the national poetry month celebration with poetry and the mystical wall that crumbles when verse is your secret language. Listen →

Bards (Jen Benka, Michelle Campagna, Emma Hine and Nikay Paredes) from The Academy of American Poets celebrates live with us in the studio another mellifluous month of mot juste this National Poetry Month. They read their favorite poems aloud with us, share their poetry haunts, tell us legends of how poets are born and the revered institution they breathe for. We celebrate poetry all month long on the radio. Listen →

Darlinda & Allegra, performers from House of Yes, arrive fabulously adorned bearing vegan donuts. Talk of the ornate and the wondrous ensue as we talk about color, life, performance, clowns, burlesque and doing what you came to do in the big city. Listen →