Aug 22nd, 2008 · When your parents, siblings and aunts carry the names Wainwright and Roche, it's only a matter of time before you catch the performing bug yourself. The youngest songwriter in the family visits Mountain Stage to play a live concert.
Aug 19th, 2008 · Loudon Wainwright III has married and raised several fellow musicians, and the singer-songwriter still manages to update even his oldest songs with a 21st-century bent. Fresh off his role in Knocked Up, Wainwright plays Mountain Stage.
Aug 12th, 2008 · Though Martha Wainwright's third release may bring to mind the folksy work of parents Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III, she shows off that raw edginess that is decidedly Martha's. She plays music from her new album in a session on WXPN.
Oct 5th, 2007 · A singer-songwriter who injects his music with wry humor and piercing insight, Wainwright has recorded more than 20 albums while frequently composing work for other artists. Hear Wainwright perform a concert from WXPN and World Café Live in Philadelphia.
Aug 17th, 2007 · The budding alt-pop icons bring their decidedly different sounds to WXPN's daytime concert series. Wainwright recently released the grandiose, theatrical Release the Stars, while Case shows up on The New Pornographers' forthcoming Challengers.
Jun 9th, 2007 · Rufus Wainwright makes richly orchestrated, theatrical pop music inspired by the traditions of cabaret, musicals and opera. Hear Wainwright perform selections from his latest CD, Release the Stars, live on NPR.org tonight (Jun. 9) from New York's Gramercy Theater.
Jun 8th, 2007 · Rufus Wainwright's new album, Release the Stars follows on the heels of his recreation of Judy Garland's 1961 comeback concert, a flamboyant stage performance that played at the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall. Rebecca Roberts talks with Release the Stars, at times huge and operatic, was executive-produced by former Pet Shop Boys member Neil Tennant.
May 18th, 2007 · The son of folk-singing parents Loudon Wainwright III and Kate McGarrigle, Wainwright has been writing and performing his own music throughout most of his life. His ambitious new disc is titled Release the Stars.