World Cafe Playlist for 04/22/2026

Metric joins host Stephen Kallao

When we last spoke to Emily Haines and James Shaw of Metric in 2019, they’d recently hit a big milestone, turning 20 years old as a band. Coming up, the Canadian indie-rock band talks about making their first move to New York City on a Greyhound bus, as well as why they’ve always been an independent band and always will be.

This is an ENCORE.

Today’s Playlist

Talking Heads “Blind” Naked

Metric “Dressed to Suppress” Recorded Live for World Cafe

Metric “Now or Never Now” Recorded Live for World Cafe

Metric “Risk” Recorded Live for World Cafe

The Shelters “Rebel Heart” Recorded Live for World Cafe

Vampire Weekend “Giving Up the Gun” Contra

Say She She “Disco Life” Cut & Rewind

Devon Gilfillian “Hold On (Hourglass)” Time Will Tell

The Smiths “The Headmaster Ritual” Meat is Murder

Modest Mouse “Look How Far” (Single)

Elliott Smith “Waltz #2” XO

Hour Two

Chris Stapleton “Tennessee Whiskey” Traveller

Gorillaz “Orange County (feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson, Anoushka Shankar)” The Mountain

Blur “Parklife” Parklife

Sufjan Stevens “Chicago” Illinois

Lucius “Old Tape (feat. Adam Granduciel)” Lucius

Foals “Mountain at My Gates” Recorded Live for World Cafe

Phoebe Bridgers “Motion Sickness” Recorded Live for World Cafe

Alanis Morissette “Everything” Recorded Live for World Cafe

TV on the Radio “Wolf Like Me” Return to Cookie Mountain

Geese “100 Horses” Getting Killed

Kaia Kater “Rising Down” Recorded Live for World Cafe

Jack White “G.O.D. and the Broken Ribs” (Single)

The Gaslight Anthem “American Slang” American Slang

Deer Tick “Mary Singletary” Coin-O-Matic

Midnight Oil “Blue Sky Mine” Blue Sky Mining