Music

Time flies when you’re having fun! Which explains why 2015 feels like it just started, and, yet, it’s already over. Around WMNF, we have had a blast this past year and cannot wait to see...

Tuesday morning on The Waking Hours I featured my Top 12 (13) CD’s of the year. These are the dozen new releases that I have been playing the most and love from top to bottom. Other than #1, they...

This article has been reprinted with permission from Deep Roots magazine, which features articles about music and meaningful matters. When Nellie McKay zoomed onto the music scene in 2004 with her scintillating debut album, Get...

We wish the best for all of our listeners throughout the year, but extra-much so over the holidays. The holidays remind us that there is the hope of light in darkness, and if we weren’t...

Throughout the past year at Life Elsewhere, we have endeavored to bring to you topics and guests we believe deserve your attention. Often we go off the prescribed radar to focus on areas other media...

Randy Wind will play holiday tunes on the morning show from 6-9am on December 24. Then get into the holiday spirit with an extra hour of music on 88.5FM! It’s the Music will begin at NOON &...

Tracked and located by intrepid WMNF assistant news director Seán Kinane, a reluctant Norman B, agreed to shed a little light on his forthcoming appearance on Art In Your Ear. For days, the halls of WMNF...

This is our super glammy and glamorous gift to you for listening to Surface Noise! We try to unwrap songs you may have never heard each week and really stuff the stocking with rarities and...

Best of 2015?     Here are 20 albums of 2015 that I have liked a lot: Bob Schneider  – King Kong Rhiannon Giddens  – Tomorrow is My Turn The Hummingbirds  – 13 Days Nathaniel Rateliff and...

We called upon a distinguished panel of guests to take part in the 3rd Annual Life Elsewhere Holiday Gift Special and asked them to come up with three books and one non-book gift. The results are...

Jason Isbell – 24 Frames – Something More Than Free Modest Mouse – Lampshades on Fire – Strangers To Ourselves Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats – SOB-  Nathaniel Rateliff and the Alabama Shakes –...

It no longer matters what song he is singing, or who wrote the words — they are all his words, his sentiments, they are chapters from the lyrical novel of his life. Gay Talese, Frank Sinatra...