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DESERT meets DEFAULT at Burning Man
From: David Boyer
Series: THE INTERSECTION at Burning Man
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It looks like an old phone on a dusty table. Curious folks at Burning Man pick up the receiver. What awaits on the other end is totally unexpected.

  • Added: Aug 21, 2023
  • Length: 24:40
NEA Jazz Moments with Guitarist, Pat Metheny (round two)
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Guitar genius and NEA Jazz Master Pat Metheny talks about Song X with Ornette Coleman, his first album, Bright Size Life, and guitar improvisation.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 9
NEA Jazz Moments with Pianist, Joanne Brackeen (round two)
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Joanne Brackeen is the only female to join Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and talks working with Stan Getz.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 8
Digging for Disco
From: JP Davidson
Caption: Michael Boothman - Touch 12" Vinyl, Credit: Invisible City Editions
Music genres come and go, but it seems that the reports of disco’s death have been greatly exaggerated. That is at least according to a couple of e...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Bay Area Beats: Growing up with Thao and the Get Down Stay Down
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Thao Nguyen grew up in Northern Virginia, and started playing music at age 12. Since then she has released three critically acclaimed albums, and s...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 08:13
Not a Weapon
From: Ethan Chiel
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Sam Densmore is an artist. He's painted, made shoes, and even built custom bicycle frames. But these days he's making something different, somethin...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 04:45
  • Purchases: 1
Spoken Editions #206: Romantic Modern: California Architecture 1930 to 1950, Harwell Hamilton Harris
From: Teosson Wells
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Free, audio excerpt from a book. The California of Harris’ youth was a very different place than it is today: It was a verdant oasis of orange grov...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 06:35
A Eulogy for Preston Bus Station
From: Kieron Yates
Caption: Preston Bus Station, Credit: Bernie Blackburn
Preston Bus Station is considered one of the finest examples of British "Brutalist" architecture. Built in 1969 at the time of its construction it ...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 15:00
Tattoo Artist
From: Whitney Jones
Caption: Angel Quinonez
Angel Quinonez first became interested in tattoos growing up next to a motorcycle club. He got his first tattoo when he was 17 and starting tattooi...

Bought by WABE, New Hampshire Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 3
San Francisco Wave Organ
From: Noah Chandler
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The San Francisco Wave Organ remains one of the Bay Area's most unknown, misunderstood and yet beloved landmarks. After listening, I hope you'll wa...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
Changing Roles and Rules
From: Amy Gastelum
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Stef Adkins competes in his very first Drag Competition as Barbie Que, juggling issues of identity and boundaries.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 26, 2012
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 2
Painting from the Ashes
From: Sarah P. Reynolds
Caption: Kevin King painting in his studio, Credit: Sarah P. Reynolds
Kevin King is a painter. His paintings aren't controversial, but his medium is.

Bought by KUOW, New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 4
Not Quite Nutcracker (and way better than christmas carols)
From: Emily Corwin
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Set to the entire score of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Ballet, Vanessa White's The Slutcracker is a wholesome kind of raunchy...

Bought by WFHB, KUT, and KUT


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 21:14
  • Purchases: 3
The Welcome Wagon's InaugurART
From: Sam Greenspan
Caption: The Welcome Wagon's series, Credit: Tim Gibbon
DC artists and activists collaborate on a poster project to inform Inauguration-goers about the lack of DC voting rights.

  • Added: Jan 19, 2009
  • Length: 04:13