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Lisa Michelle Anderson is a Berkshire-based folk-rock singer-songwriter with a new album and record release show coming up this week!“Get to Somewhere,” produced by Johnny Irion is a collection of true stories that have shaped Lisa’s life and work. The album comes out this Friday, April 4 and Lisa Michelle Anderson will play an album release concert with special guests at The Lion’s Den in Stockbridge, Massachusetts on Saturday, April 5.

Joe Donahue will be at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on Thursday, December 19 to speak with friend, cartoonist, writer, and songwriter Sandra Boynton. The event is: Cows and Holly: Sandra Boynton tries to explain her wild new Christmas album.

Musician Johnny Irion joins us in Studio A to tell us about his new album, "Sleeping Soldiers of Love." It was produced at his home studio in the Berkshires. Rolling Stone says of the album: "Songs that feel as lovingly hand-crafted as the jeans on the back of Neil Young's After the Gold Rush." The record release show is at The Red Lion Inn in Stockbridge, Massachusetts on Saturday 8/31.

Early this summer, the Capital Region based Americana band Zan and the Winter Folk released their first full length album “New Morse Code.”Led by songwriter Zan Strumfeld on guitar and vocals, The Winter Folk are Michael Gregg (banjo), Will Brown (lead guitar), Sean Fortune (Upright Bass) and Brendan Tompkins (drums). In addition to the core group, “New Morse Code” features other artists from the greater-Troy music community - adding vocals and instrumentation for various of the personal, haunting, resilient songs.

On May 17, prolific singer/songwriter and feminist icon Ani DiFranco released a new record “Unprecedented Sh!t” on her label Righteous Babe Records.

Mike Stinson and Johnny Irion's new album “Working My Way Down” features eleven songs recorded on an analog tape machine that was housed in Jackson Browne's studio that now is planted in Johnny’s home studio. They will be having an album release party on Saturday, March 25 at The Egremont Barn – a day after the album comes out.

Beacon, New York based musician Stephen Clair celebrated his new album “To the Trees” with a concert at The Linda a couple of months ago and he’ll be on a little tour supporting the release in early August - heading to Oneonta, Lake Placid, Cambridge, and Red Hook, New York over the next several days.“To the Trees” is Clair’s ninth full-length record and he joins us to talk about it.

Brooklyn heroes, The Might Be Giants are still celebrating the 30th anniversary of their classic, platinum album "Flood," which is truly the album that solidified their place as alternative rock legends. Their national tour started in 2020 and was stopped suddenly with COVID. It was rescheduled several times and they will now return to the road in March 2022. And they will be local at MASS MoCA on September 4, 2022.

Will Hermes is the author of “Love Goes to Buildings on Fire” and an upcoming biography of Lou Reed. He is a frequent contributor on the subject of music for NPR, Rolling Stone, and other publications. Sometimes he permits me (Sarah LaDue) to record and share his expertise and music taste with you, the WAMC listening audience.

Composer Evan Mack is a Senior Teaching Professor at Skidmore College and joins us to discuss the release of his new recording titled “The Travelled…