2009-12-04 Philadelphia, PA | World Cafe

Interview and live in-studio session, available from npr.org

The Calculation

Laughing With

Eet

The Sword and the Pen

2009-09-11 St. Paul, MN | 89.3 The Current (Minnesota Public Radio)

Available to stream from thecurrent.org

Folding Chair
Laughing With
Blue Lips

2009-07-28 Los Angeles, CA | Morning Becomes Eclectic (KCRW)

Available to stream from KCRW

The Calculation
Eet
Machine
Laughing With
Us
Blue Lips
Samson
Folding Chair

2009-06-26 New York, NY | Studio 360 (WNYC)

Available to stream from wnyc.org

Laughing With
Folding Chair

2009-06-19 New York, NY | Soundcheck (WNYC)

Interview and live in-studio performance, available to stream from newsounds.org

Laughing With
One More Time with Feeling
Man of a Thousand Faces

2008-08-11 New York, NY | Soundcheck (WNYC)

Interview and live in-studio performance, available to stream from newsounds.org

Folding Chair
Lucky Penny

2008-07-28 Bronx, NY | Words and Music from Studio A (WFUV)

Interview and live in-studio session, available from wfuv.org

Man of a Thousand Faces

Time Is All Around

Summer in the City

2007-11-18 Charleston, WV | Mountain Stage (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)

Available to stream from npr.org

Ain't No Cover
On the Radio
Man of a Thousand Faces
Better
Ghost of Corporate Future
Fidelity
Summer in the City
Real Love
Samson

Also from this performance, but not broadcast:

Sailor Song

2007-02-09 BBC Radio 6 Music Hub

Interview and live in-studio session 

MP3

Fidelity
Field Below

2007-02-04 New York, NY | Mixed Bag Radio (WFUV)

Interview and live in-studio performance with host Pete Fornatale

MP3

Fidelity
On the Radio
Après Moi
Music Box
Field Below

2006-10-03 Washington, DC | All Songs Considered (NPR)

Recorded live at the 9:30 Club, available to stream from npr.org:

Ain't No Cover
Pound of Flesh
Music Box
Baby Jesus
The Flowers
Poor Little Rich Boy
Bobbing for Apples
That Time
On the Radio
Sailor Song
Apres Moi
Better
Edit
Carbon Monoxide
Fidelity
Your Honor
Uh-merica
Ghost of Corporate Future
Us
Samson
Hotel Song

2006-08-24 BBC Radio 2 - The Janice Long Show

Interview and live in-studio session at the end of Regina's summer 2006 European tour

MP3

Fidelity

Apres Moi

On the Radio

2006-07-23 Oxfordshire | BBC 6 Music

Interview and live in-studio session ahead of Regina's performance at the Truck Festival

Interview | That Time

2006 (summer) XFM studio session

Download

Bobbing for Apples
That Time
Love Affair
Prisoners

2006-06 NY | BBC Radio 1 - The Blue Room

Date uncertain 

FLAC version 

Regina Spektor,  acoustic session for  BBC Radio 1.

Programme: 'the blueroom'.

Apparently the tracks were recorded in Regina Spektor's apartment in New York.

File size: 83.1MB.

Recorded time: 12Minutes 27Seconds.

Lineage: FM Tuner-CoolEdit-Flac-JetAudio (compression 4).

leex100.

The tracks were broadcast on separate days, 'love affair' was repeated in separate broadcasts so  I've included it twice as reception is never a constant.

I've seen Regina Spektor live twice now and rate her highly, definitely someone worth catching live on stage.

Taxi TA.

01. Intro

02. Chelsea Hotel (L. Cohen).

03. Outro

04. Intro

05. Love Affair (first broadcast)

06. Intro

07. Love Affair (second broadcast)

08. Sailor Song

2006-05-02 St. Paul, MN | 89.3 The Current (Minnesota Public Radio)

Available to stream from Minnesota Public Radio:

Fidelity
Better
Samson

2006-02-01 Edinburgh, Scotland | Cabaret Voltaire

Recorded for Radio Magnetic: Live Circuit

Download

photo © Alex Boyd

Ain't No Cover
Pound of Flesh
Carbon Monoxide
Baby Jesus
The Flowers
Small Town Moon
Fidelity
Prisoners
Ode to Divorce
Après moi
Bobbing for Apples
That Time
20 Years of Snow
Better
Us
Field Below
Poor Little Rich Boy
Dance Anthem of the 80's
Samson
Uh-Merica

2006-01-26 BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour

Interview and live in-studio session ahead of Regina's show at the Manchester Academy 3; previously available to stream from BBC Radio 4 

Real Audio (segment begins at 18:39)

Love Affair

2006-01-05 The Guardian

LINK

[...]

The singer-songwriter arrives with a large cat on her head. "It's fucking cold in your country," she says - then grins, yawns and knocks back a slug of Echinacea.

[...]

We are two players meeting in the middle, one who finds the prospect of classical precision daunting, another who is wary of improvising. The tune we play, Consequence of Sound, has a split-personality, musically and lyrically. [...] One minute Spektor is gabbling, the next she is banging out a mini-opera. It's like being in an orchestra one minute, a playground the next. "I like it!" she says. "I don't ever really get to redo anything like this."

Who would be her perfect jam? "It's a good question. I wanna take it home and think about it." She's a fan of Tom Waits, how about him? "He does seem like the perfect person. The interesting thing about him is that he is an actor. One of my great Russian hero composer-songwriters is Vladimir Vysotsky - he was a great actor, too. In their music the different characters come through. It comes with that long-standing tradition of bards - you know, like Homer? He was a musician. The Odyssey was an improvisation.

"But even in improvisation you train. Like boxing or something. You go through hours and hours of rigorous, mindless repetition, so that in the moment you can forget it all and your body just knows how to react." She goes into a dream again: "You know, float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."

Does she feel stronger on stage, being her characters? "Of course! On stage, you're smarter than you are, you're faster than you are. It's what all that training is for. It's your job to be a historian of everything that goes on around you. You try to take in as much as you can - it's a very emotional job because you have to keep yourself very open. Then when it fills up to a certain line in your body, it starts spilling over - the output of all that stuff that is processed ..."

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Mary Ann Meets the Grave Diggers and Other Short Stories is out on January 16 on Transgressive. Regina Spektor plays the Glee Club, Birmingham, on January 25, then tours

2005-12 BBC 6 Music - Evening Sequence Hub Sessions

Live in-studio sessions broadcast the week of December 12, 2005, ahead of the release of Mary Ann meets the Gravediggers and other short stories by regina spektor

Prisoners (Real Audio; segment starts at 22:32)

Us (Real Audio; segment starts at 22:20)

Samson (Real Audio; segment starts at 22:36)

Baby Jesus (Real Audio; segment starts at 23:09)