Mitski – “First Love / Late Spring” (Recorded Live for World Cafe)

Any one of the songs from Mitski’s Bury Me At Makeout Creek (2014) could qualify for your list of greatest songs of the 21st century, but especially this twisted love song that we’re grateful to have captured live at World Cafe Live.

Father John Misty – “The Memo” (Recorded Live for World Cafe)

Father John Misty’s depressive thesis on life in the information age unfolds in Pure Comedy (2017). Forgive his lecture at XPN Fest ’16 for a second, and add one of this or another one of FJM’s songs to your list.

Japanese Breakfast – 4 Song Set (NONCOMM 2021)

Any one of these four songs from 2021’s Jubilee is worthy of your list, but may we suggest “Be Sweet” or “Kokomo, IN?”

Angel Olsen – “All Mirrors” (Recorded Live for World Cafe)

If there’s not an Angel Olsen song on your list of the greatest songs of the 21st century… is it really a list of the greatest songs of the 21st century??

Julia Jacklin – “Body” (Recorded Live for World Cafe)

And finally, this heartbreaking intro to Jacklin’s Crushing (2019) may be one of her most haunting songs to date.

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