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Dawn Powell wrote novels about people like herself: outsiders who’d come to New York City in the early twentieth century to make a name for themsel...
Bought by KALW
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 22:02
- Purchases: 1
On December 3, 1955, a 33-year-old Black gas station attendant named Clinton Melton was shot and killed in Glendora, Mississippi. Two witnesses — i...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 11:44
- Purchases: 2
Since February, Yankees Stadium has been used as a sit for Covid vaccinations. Today though, it returns to its former use: baseball. Nicole McNulty...
- Added: Apr 02, 2021
- Length: 03:09
A recording reunion for two musicians in the Blues world.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 01:00:01
A long overdue tribute to a great musician and contributor to the world of Blues Music, Debbie Davies.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 59:28
A new compilation record of a great modern day slide player.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 59:51
Blues music has been his world most of his life.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 57:23
Kingwood Kowboy's History Of Country Music Episodes showcases the roots of classic and vintage country, cowboy, western and bluegrass music with co...
- Added: Mar 15, 2020
- Length: 01:00:03
In Hong Kong Mixtape II, guest producer Him Cheung of Contemporary Musking Hong Kong introduces sound art projects that respond to volatile current...
- Added: Oct 22, 2019
- Length: 34:43
Nowadays we’re very accustomed to recording and hearing the sound of our own voices. But in the 1930s many people were doing it for the first time....
Bought by Troy Public Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 11, 2018
- Length: 10:50
- Purchases: 4
Dolphins at Porpoise Point, St. Augustine, FL. Early evening, 4:12 pm, sunny & windy. A pod of 3 dolphins with an occasional loner in the distance,...
- Added: Mar 21, 2018
- Length: 41:35
Garbage Truck, pick up day, late afternoon... as the truck fades away in the distance, sounds from the the natural environment fade in, taking over...
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 08:28
Freight train off of US1, St. Augustine, FL.
Recorded while driving in the car, window down, mic following along. Late afternoon. January 2017. EQ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 01:04
Landscape Ambience: a southern toad (buffo terrestris) singing solo over a chorus of toads and frogs that erupted after 3 weeks of rainfall. Northe...
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 02:14
Field recording of Hurricane Irma just as it was hitting St. Augustine, FL.
- Added: Mar 05, 2018
- Length: 05:20
In these short pieces, Dee Dee talks about scatting, her big break, and studying the moves of Betty Carter.
Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more
- Added: Mar 31, 2017
- Length: 03:27
- Purchases: 13
The sounds of: insects (crickets? cicadas?) Evening, 7pm, warm, comfortable, windy. St Augustine, FL.
*No effects, only EQ for wind noise.
- Added: Feb 01, 2017
- Length: :38
Thunder storm early evening hours. St Augustine, FL. Original clip with no effects, no alterations. Stereo mic/track. No Effects: No EQ.
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 09:55
The sounds of: Walking on packed snow, on a city sidewalk in January 2017. Cold: 19 degrees: Prospect Ave & Terrace PL: Brooklyn, NY. Early evening...
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: :48
The sounds of: walking on sand, crushed shells and soil in late summer, 1pm: Afternoon: Hot: 80 degrees, hiking at The Guana Tolomato Reserve in S...
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: :48
September marks the 5 year anniversary of Occupy. We go to Zuccotti Park, and Oakland to talk to individuals that were part of Occupy Wall Street a...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Sep 18, 2016
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
Joe Palca is one of the best science storytellers out there. As an NPR science correspondent he’s covered all sorts of obscure topics, from soccer-...
Bought by WTJU, Radio Newark, and WTJU
- Added: Jul 22, 2014
- Length: 09:03
- Purchases: 3
Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 15:54
- Purchases: 1
David Hendy on the comforts and irritations of next-door's noise. Episode twenty-four of Noise: A Human History, ‘Life in the City'.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Nov 20, 2013
- Length: 14:45
- Purchases: 1
How recording technology made it possible to catch the fugitive moment. Episode twenty-five of Noise: A Human History, Capturing Sound'
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 20, 2013
- Length: 14:47
- Purchases: 2
