Welcome to the first in our weekly Vintage Cafe series of interviews from the archive. Each week we are going to be re-visiting significant session with major artists. For this installment, we bring back our Black Keys session, recorded in December 2011 right before the release of El Camino.

Merrill Garbus, the woman behind tUnE-yArDs, began as a solo act, and her talent practically explodes out of every performance. She commands any space, especially from behind a set-up of a tom and snare drum, a ukulele, and her bare feet atop the loop pedals from which she builds her compositions. Every sound that Garbus weaves into her songs is so deliberately placed that "experimental" seems too nonchalant a word.

Love him or hate him, Richard Wagner has a reputation as the composer of immense, four-hour-plus dramas rooted in confusing stories and drawn from obscure mythology.

Legendary singer-songwriter and folk-rock pioneer T-Bone Burnett is known for his captivating solo material, but also for his role as a legendary producer of records by everyone from Roy Orbison to actor Jeff Bridges. In a new interview on World Cafe, Burnett sits down with host David Dye to reflect on some of his most famous projects.

October 25, 2011 – The Master Plan's aim for U-L Lafayette is to create a
hospitable campus for cyclists and pedestrians, but Zane Hill reports it
is just one step in the process.

October 25, 2011 – After wrapping up her new film "Escapee", former Murphy Brown star and Louisiana native Faith Ford sat down with reporter Alex Labat after a Q&A held at U-L Lafayette

October 25, 2011 – Learning disabilities are but one of the many obstacles that students face in academics.
T'Erica French reports on two learning specialists who diagnose and solve such problems.