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Foxygen On World Cafe

Foxygen's new album, <em>Hang</em>, is out now.
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Foxygen's new album, Hang, is out now.

If Keith Richards put on a poodle skirt for a production of Grease and you added a 40-piece orchestra, you might have something resembling Foxygen's new record, Hang. Just released today, it marks the follow-up to the band's 2014 album ...And Star Power, and it cements Foxygen's reputation as eccentric and theatrical purveyors of pure fun.

Sam France and Jonathan Rado are the two masterminds behind Foxygen, and they come by that flair for the dramatic honestly — they first came together as "theater nerds" in high school in Westlake Village, Calif. France and Rado discuss their bond and their background, then cram 11 musicians into World Cafe's studio to recreate some of the danceable splendor of Hang.

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Talia Schlanger hosts World Cafe, which is distributed by NPR and produced by WXPN, the public radio service of the University of Pennsylvania. She got her start in broadcasting at the CBC, Canada's national public broadcaster. She hosted CBC Radio 2 Weekend Mornings on radio and was the on-camera host for two seasons of the television series CBC Music: Backstage, as well as several prime-time music TV specials for CBC, including the Quietest Concert Ever: On Fundy's Ocean Floor. Schlanger also guest hosted various flagship shows on CBC Radio One, including As It Happens, Day 6 and Because News. Schlanger also won a Canadian Screen Award as a producer for CBC Music Presents: The Beetle Roadtrip Sessions, a cross-country rock 'n' roll road trip.