raina douris
@rahrahraina.bsky.social
host & writer of world cafe, heard nationally daily from npr & produced at wxpn // voice on pretty dim wonder & pixar's sodas// formerly cbc // instagram: rahrahraina // friend to all
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Raina @rahrahraina.bsky.social sat down with Jim James of My Morning Jacket and talked about songs from their incredible discography for an episode of Backtracking. www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
Why My Morning Jacket wrote an elegy and other stories from their back catalog : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
Frontman Jim James, of My Morning Jacket, joins World Cafe for a new installment of Backtracking.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Raina @rahrahraina.bsky.social sat down with Jim James of My Morning Jacket and talked about songs from their incredible discography for an episode of Backtracking. www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
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We've been fans of My Morning Jacket since their debut album. Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social talks with Jim James about songs from their past releases as well as their recent album, is.
Raina @rahrahraina.bsky.social sat down with Jim James of My Morning Jacket and talked about songs from their incredible discography for an episode of Backtracking. www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
Why My Morning Jacket wrote an elegy and other stories from their back catalog : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
Frontman Jim James, of My Morning Jacket, joins World Cafe for a new installment of Backtracking.
www.npr.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
We've been fans of My Morning Jacket since their debut album. Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social talks with Jim James about songs from their past releases as well as their recent album, is.
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Jim James of My Morning Jacket talks with @worldcafe.bsky.social host @rahrahraina.bsky.social
Raina @rahrahraina.bsky.social sat down with Jim James of My Morning Jacket and talked about songs from their incredible discography for an episode of Backtracking. www.npr.org/2025/11/21/n...
Why My Morning Jacket wrote an elegy and other stories from their back catalog : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
Frontman Jim James, of My Morning Jacket, joins World Cafe for a new installment of Backtracking.
www.npr.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Jim James of My Morning Jacket talks with @worldcafe.bsky.social host @rahrahraina.bsky.social
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WATCH: Foxwarren performs music from new album '2' and chats with @rahrahraina.bsky.social for @worldcafe.bsky.social @npr.org www.npr.org/sections/wor...
Foxwarren on their latest album, '2'
The Canadian indie rock band worked remotely to make their sophomore album.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
WATCH: Foxwarren performs music from new album '2' and chats with @rahrahraina.bsky.social for @worldcafe.bsky.social @npr.org www.npr.org/sections/wor...
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From former World Cafe intern (yay!) to emerging rock star,
Daffo debuts on the show, playing songs from their debut album and talking about the making of it with Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social
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Daffo debuts on the show, playing songs from their debut album and talking about the making of it with Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social
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Daffo on their debut album, 'Where the Earth Bends'
Long inspired by Elliott Smith, Daffo worked with Smith's frequent collaborator, producer Rob Schnapf, on their debut album.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
From former World Cafe intern (yay!) to emerging rock star,
Daffo debuts on the show, playing songs from their debut album and talking about the making of it with Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social
www.npr.org/sections/wor...
Daffo debuts on the show, playing songs from their debut album and talking about the making of it with Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social
www.npr.org/sections/wor...
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Canadian indie rockers Foxwarren join Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social in our studios for a performance and interview about their new album, 2.
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Foxwarren on their latest album, '2'
The Canadian indie rock band worked remotely to make their sophomore album.
www.npr.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Canadian indie rockers Foxwarren join Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social in our studios for a performance and interview about their new album, 2.
www.npr.org/sections/wor...
www.npr.org/sections/wor...
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David Byrne joins Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social
to talk about his new solo album Who Is The Sky?
youtu.be/2zj3AQnaBYE?...
to talk about his new solo album Who Is The Sky?
youtu.be/2zj3AQnaBYE?...
David Byrne on World Cafe
YouTube video by World Cafe
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November 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
David Byrne joins Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social
to talk about his new solo album Who Is The Sky?
youtu.be/2zj3AQnaBYE?...
to talk about his new solo album Who Is The Sky?
youtu.be/2zj3AQnaBYE?...
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Toronto punk rockers Pup join their fellow Toronto pal and Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social to talk about their new record, Who Will Look After The Dogs? It all very much so, rocks.
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PUP on their latest LP, 'Who Will Look After the Dogs?' : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
The Toronto punk band pared down their creative process with help from producer John Congleton.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Toronto punk rockers Pup join their fellow Toronto pal and Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social to talk about their new record, Who Will Look After The Dogs? It all very much so, rocks.
www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...
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Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social talks with Amanda Shires about her new album, Nobody's Girl. They talk about Amanda's divorce and how her friend Shooter Jennings and her producer, Lawrence Rothman, helped her craft the emotions she put into the record.
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
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At first, Amanda Shires wasn't sure she wanted to write about her divorce : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
On Nobody's Girl, the singer-songwriter offers her perspective on her high-profile split from Jason Isbell.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social talks with Amanda Shires about her new album, Nobody's Girl. They talk about Amanda's divorce and how her friend Shooter Jennings and her producer, Lawrence Rothman, helped her craft the emotions she put into the record.
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...
a peek inside the purse of someone who is DOIN' FINE
(congrats to @lukeoneil47.bsky.social on the beautiful new book though for real)
(congrats to @lukeoneil47.bsky.social on the beautiful new book though for real)
November 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
a peek inside the purse of someone who is DOIN' FINE
(congrats to @lukeoneil47.bsky.social on the beautiful new book though for real)
(congrats to @lukeoneil47.bsky.social on the beautiful new book though for real)
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Sports Team join Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social to perform live and chat about their latest album, Boys These Days. www.npr.org/2025/11/03/n...
Sports Team change up their sound on 'Boys These Days' : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
The British rock band talks about life on the road and making their third album in Norway.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Sports Team join Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social to perform live and chat about their latest album, Boys These Days. www.npr.org/2025/11/03/n...
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Singer-songwriter, actor, television writer, comedian, and self declared "deep Elliott Smith nerd" Mae Martin joins Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social for a conversation about Mae's new lp, I'm A TV. www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
As a songwriter, Mae Martin's free from the pressure of the punchline : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
The Canadian comic and actor joins World Cafe to talk about their debut album, I'm A TV.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Singer-songwriter, actor, television writer, comedian, and self declared "deep Elliott Smith nerd" Mae Martin joins Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social for a conversation about Mae's new lp, I'm A TV. www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...
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Check out World Cafe host Raina Douris's @rahrahraina.bsky.social list of her top ten greatest cover songs. We'd love your top ten list vote to help put together the 885 Greatest Cover songs countdown. Deadline is this Thursday 10/30 at Midnight. xpn.org/885-countdown/
October 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Check out World Cafe host Raina Douris's @rahrahraina.bsky.social list of her top ten greatest cover songs. We'd love your top ten list vote to help put together the 885 Greatest Cover songs countdown. Deadline is this Thursday 10/30 at Midnight. xpn.org/885-countdown/
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Fresh Brandi Carlile interview on @worldcafe.bsky.social, chatting with Cafe host Raina Douris. @rahrahraina.bsky.social. Listen as Brandi and Raina discuss Brandi's excellent new lp, Returning To Myself.
For Brandi Carlile, solitude is overrated : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
The singer-songwriter decamped to Aaron Dessner's Long Pond Studio in upstate New York to record her new album, Returning to Myself.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Fresh Brandi Carlile interview on @worldcafe.bsky.social, chatting with Cafe host Raina Douris. @rahrahraina.bsky.social. Listen as Brandi and Raina discuss Brandi's excellent new lp, Returning To Myself.
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Don't miss the Cafe interview w/ Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social and Brandi Carlile. Happy record release day, Brandi!
Happy record release day to Brandi Carlile. So happy you returned to the Cafe to chat with Cafe host Raina Douris. @rahrahraina.bsky.social. Listen as Brandi and Raina discuss Brandi's excellent new lp, Returning To Myself.
www.npr.org/2025/10/24/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/24/n...
For Brandi Carlile, solitude is overrated : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
The singer-songwriter decamped to Aaron Dessner's Long Pond Studio in upstate New York to record her new album, Returning to Myself.
www.npr.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Don't miss the Cafe interview w/ Cafe host @rahrahraina.bsky.social and Brandi Carlile. Happy record release day, Brandi!
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Maybe one of the greatest rock records of the Eighties, and still a timeless classic, Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social talks with John Morrison about Talking Heads' Remain In Light"
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Celebrating 45 years of Talking Heads' 'Remain in Light' : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
On their fourth album, the American rock band refined their innovative sound, which had long been inspired by Black music traditions.
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October 22, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Maybe one of the greatest rock records of the Eighties, and still a timeless classic, Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social talks with John Morrison about Talking Heads' Remain In Light"
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Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social chatted with historian Dorothy Williams about the history and impact of Montreal's jazz scene for our Sense of Place: Montreal series.
www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...
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'It was never taped': There's a missing piece to Montreal's jazz history : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
Historian Dorothy Williams explains why Montreal became a center for jazz music.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social chatted with historian Dorothy Williams about the history and impact of Montreal's jazz scene for our Sense of Place: Montreal series.
www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...
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Our Sense of Place: Montreal series continues with Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social who meets up with the expert Leonard Cohen tour guide, Ruby Roy.
www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n...
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Take a tour of Leonard Cohen's Montreal : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
Expert guide Ruby Roy has given countless tours of the city for Cohen's fans.
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October 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Our Sense of Place: Montreal series continues with Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social who meets up with the expert Leonard Cohen tour guide, Ruby Roy.
www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n...
www.npr.org/2025/10/15/n...
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Our Sense of Place: Montreal series continues today. Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social talks with Pierre Kwenders, the 2022 Polaris Prize winner and co-founder of Moonshine, an artist collective that celebrates modern African dance music about his life and musical journey.
Montreal is home, but Pierre Kwenders' heart is in Kinshasa : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
Kwenders is the co-founder of Moonshine, a Montreal-based collective that spotlights the culture and music of the African diaspora.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Our Sense of Place: Montreal series continues today. Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social talks with Pierre Kwenders, the 2022 Polaris Prize winner and co-founder of Moonshine, an artist collective that celebrates modern African dance music about his life and musical journey.
howard is the best
Montreal record producer Howard Bilerman has worked with Leonard Cohen, Arcade Fire, Godspeed You! Black Emperor & others. For our Sense of Place: Montreal series Cafe host Raina Douris @rahrahraina.bsky.social talks w/ him about those and the studio he co-founded. www.npr.org/2025/10/10/n...
Meet the producer behind some of Montreal's finest records : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
Howard Bilerman went from taping punk shows as a teen to co-founding Hotel2Tango, one of Montreal's most iconic recording studios.
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October 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
howard is the best
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CBC will absorb NPR if the Jays win, vice versa if the M’s win
the blue jays will devour the mariners. i am going to be extremely aggressive. no NPR host before or after me will match my insane energy
October 11, 2025 at 5:50 AM
CBC will absorb NPR if the Jays win, vice versa if the M’s win
the blue jays will devour the mariners. i am going to be extremely aggressive. no NPR host before or after me will match my insane energy
October 11, 2025 at 5:49 AM
the blue jays will devour the mariners. i am going to be extremely aggressive. no NPR host before or after me will match my insane energy
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'DIY will never die': NO JOY (@nojoy.bsky.social) remembers the heyday of Montreal's Mile End - @worldcafe.bsky.social
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'DIY will never die': No Joy remembers the heyday of Montreal's Mile End : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
Jasamine White-Gluz takes us back to the early aughts, when the city was experiencing a boom of DIY music.
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October 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
'DIY will never die': NO JOY (@nojoy.bsky.social) remembers the heyday of Montreal's Mile End - @worldcafe.bsky.social
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STREAM 🔗 www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...
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protest for Palestine in Shibuya Tokyo !
October 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
protest for Palestine in Shibuya Tokyo !
i am going to arrest the dodgers
October 5, 2025 at 12:52 AM
i am going to arrest the dodgers