Audio: In-studio with Regina Spektor

When Regina Spektor stepped into WFUV and The Alternate Side’s studios she came with a huge smile that makes you not want to disappoint her. Yet, we had to make her wait as a session with Madeleine Peyroux had not yet wrapped up. Upon hearing this news her smile only got bigger, she was a fan, and then when she saw that our studios had a Yamaha piano her smile got bigger still. As the interview progressed and she stunned us with “Laughing With” a song from her new album Far. After a little more of an interview where she talked about her songwriting process, how she likes to road test new material, and her stance on some current events she then went into another new song, “Folding Chair.” When she left it was all of us in the studios with large smiles on our faces—we were not disappointed.