World Cafe Playlist for 08/21/2025
Mac DeMarco joins host Raina Douris
Mac DeMarco releases a brand-new album called Guitar this week, so World Cafe is returning to his last visit to the show, with 2023’s Five Easy Hot Dogs. It was a departure for him musically: all instrumental, no vocals, no lyrics. And it was written and recorded after he literally departed his home in LA on a road trip to New York, with a self-assigned mission to make a new album before he returned. Each song is named after a stop on that trip, and Mac maps it all out.
This is an ENCORE
Today’s Playlist
The Strokes “Is This It?” Is This It
Nick Lowe “So It Goes” Pure Pop For Now People
Mac DeMarco “Gualala” Five Easy Hot Dogs
The Moody Blues “Had To Fall In Love” Octave
Mac DeMarco “Edmonton” Five Easy Hot Dogs
Connan Mockasin “Sexy Man” Jassbusters
Mac DeMarco “Rockaway” Five Easy Hot Dogs
LCD Soundsystem “Someone Great” Sound of Silver
Wet Leg “mangetout” moisturizer
Talking Heads “Girlfriend Is Better” Speaking In Tongues
Clairo “Bags” Immunity
Bon Iver “From” SABLE, fABLE
Electric Six “Synthesizer” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Kathleen Edwards “Say Goodbye, Tell No One” Billionaire
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats “I Need Never Get Old” Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Hour Two
Robbie Robertson “Showdown At Big Sky” Robbie Robertson
Lukas Nelson “Born Runnin’ Outta Time” American Romance
Tom Petty “Runnin’ Down A Dream” Full Moon Fever
Kacey Musgraves “Deeper Well” Deeper Well
Lord Huron “Nothing I Need” The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1
Lord Huron “Time to Run” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Leslie Gore “You Don’t Own Me” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Bettye Lavette “The Forecast Calls For Pain” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Sloan “Live Forever” Based on the Best Seller
George Harrison “Give Me Love” Living In The Material World
Dr. Dog “Shadow People” Shame, Shame
Keane “Silenced By the Night” Recorded Live for World Cafe
Jeff Tweedy “Enough” Twilight Override
Warren Zevon “Join Me In L.A.” Warren Zevon
Brandi Carlile “Throw It All Away” Brandi Carlile
Norah Jones “Happy Pills” Little Broken Hearts”