All Of It with Alison Stewart

Julius Rodriguez is a New York-based pianist and drummer. His debut album, Let Sound Tell All, was named the number one jazz album of June by Stereogum. As part of an hour dedicated to new debut albums, Rodriguez joins us for a Listening Party.

Sophie Allison, the Nashville native singer-songwriter who performs under the name Soccer Mommy, is back with her third full-length studio album, Sometimes, Forever. The album combines elements of indie, shoegaze, ambient sounds, and more. Soccer Mommy joins us for a Listening Party, and will be playing at Brooklyn Steel on November 8.

"Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song" is a new documentary that explores the lives of both the esteemed songwriter and his enduring song. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine join us to discuss the film.

If you were educated in a U.S elementary school, you may have heard the story of how "The Star-Spangled Banner" was written. At a battle in Baltimore during the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key watched the British bomb American forts, and decided to write patriotic lyrics that eventually became the country's national anthem. But the story of the lyrics, how Key's words became the anthem, and how its role in our culture has changed throughout the last two hundred years, is much more complex. Today, you can hear the national anthem in many aspects of life, be it a high school football game, a concert, or a graduation. After a weekend of July 4 celebrations, Mark Clague, professor of musicology at the University of Michigan, joins to discuss his new book, O Say Can You Hear?: A Cultural Biography of "The Star-Spangled Banner."

This week, our 2022 Debut selection follows the story of one young assistant working in TV development in Hollywood. As she struggles to make her mark, she realizes that in a pre-Me Too world, that often means enduring, or staying silent, about sexual abuse and harassment in the workplace. Author Isabel Kaplan joins us to discuss her adult debut novel, NSFW.

After being partially suspended during the pandemic, New York City will restore full alternate side parking regulations on July 5. WNYC's Kate Hinds will talk about the history of these New York City regulations, and field calls from listeners who may be waiting out the regulations in their cars.

After a series of deadly attacks committed by self-proclaimed “incels," many have turned their attention to the dangers of the toxic online ecosystem known as the "manosphere." Criminology researcher at Saint Vincent College Sarah E. Daly, Ph.D explains how extreme online rhetoric can lead to dangerous outcomes offline.

[REBROADCAST FROM February 24, 2021] In the fourth installment of our February “Full Bio” series, we look at Frederick Douglass’s family and friendships. Historian David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, talks about Douglass’s first wife, Anna, their five children (four of whom lived to adulthood), and his long and turbulent friendship with German feminist and abolitionist Otillie Assing.

[REBROADCAST FROM February 23, 2021] For the third installment of our February “Full Bio” series, historian David W. Blight describes what made Frederick Douglass such an engaging speaker that he became one of the most powerful voices in 19th century America. Plus, we look at how the prominent abolitionist’s views on slavery evolved in the 1830’s and 1840’s. Blight’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography is titled, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom.

[REBROADCAST FROM February 26, 2021] We wrap up February’s installment of the "Full Bio" series with a look at the last years of Frederick Douglass’s life, including his experience as minister and consul general to Haiti. Historian David W. Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom, describes the reaction to Frederick Douglass’s death in February of 1895 as well as why Douglass’s second marriage to a woman named Helen Pitts became one of the biggest scandals in 19th century America.