All Of It with Alison Stewart

"Danceteria Rewind" is a show on TWITCH that recalls & remixes the halcyon days of one of NYC's edgiest dance clubs, the place where Madonna got her start, Basquiat showed his art and the Beastie Boys dropped beats. DJ Rafe Gomez is bringing back the essence of the place for a new generation and the generation that experienced it the first go around.

Singer-songwriter and fiddle player Amanda Shires calls her seventh album, "Take It Like A Man," her best work yet. It's also her first non-holiday solo release since founding the country supergroup The Highwomen, with Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, and Natalie Hemby. Shires joins us for a Listening Party.

Road trips, train rides and long flights are some of the best times to kickback and check out a new podcast. Vulture podcast critic Nick Quah checks in for a Review/Preview to give us his picks for what podcasts to listen to this summer and what he's looking forward to.

[REBROADCAST FROM October 26, 2021] Actor and Club Cumming owner Alan Cumming joins us to discuss his new memoir, Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life, which touches on Cumming’s divorce from his ex-wife, childhood abuse at the hands of his father, his career, and his current marriage to his husband.

This past Friday, Beyoncé released her latest album, Renaissance, her first solo album in six years. Her lead single for the album, "BREAK MY SOUL," was heavily influenced by dance beats that have caused many to talk about the return of dance-type music into the mainstream. Complex's Alana Yzola joins us to dig into the album and listen to some tracks.

[REBROADCAST FROM JANUARY 5, 2022] A new debut novel tells the story of a Nuyorican wedding planner whose life changes when her absent mother, a former member of the Young Lords who turned radical, comes back into the picture. Author Xochitl Gonzalez, herself a former New York City wedding planner, joins us to discuss her first novel Olga Dies Dreaming, as part of our series "2022 Debuts."

[REBROADCAST FROM FEB. 24, 2022] A debut novel is a page-turning story of an elite Black violinist whose rare and expensive instrument is being held hostage on the eve of the most prestigious music competition in the world. Author Brendan Slocumb, himself a classical musician and a music educator, joins us to discuss the novel, titled The Violin Conspiracy. We're featuring it as part of our ongoing series highlighting debut authors, "2022 Debuts."

[REBROADCAST FROM MAY 25, 2022] Author and former Dear Sugars host Steve Almond has written non-fiction and short stories, but never a novel... until now. His debut, All the Secrets of the World, tells the story of two best friends who are torn apart when one's father is accused of killing the other's brother. Almond joins us to discuss the novel as part of our series, 2022 Debuts.

[REBROADCAST FROM APRIL 4, 2022] In a thrilling new novel, a young woman named Ruby stands accused for the murder of her husband... and the deaths of three other people. Ruby maintains that she is innocent in her husband's death, but she has a secret: she is guilty of the other three murders. How can she prove she loved her husband and would never hurt him? And what drove her to kill three other people? All is revealed in the debut novel from Emmy-nominated screenwriter Sascha Rothchild, titled, Blood Sugar. She joins us to discuss as part of our series, "2022 Debuts."

[REBROADCAST FROM JAN. 20, 2022] Frida is a dedicated mother who had one very, very bad day. And that one day leads to the removal of her child and Frida's induction into a new government reform program for "bad mothers." This is the plot of a new debut novel from Jessamine Chan, titled The School for Good Mothers. We speak with Chan as part of our new series highlighting first-time authors, '2022 Debuts.'