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Caption: Cedar Commissions poster, Credit: photos by Anna Schultz; design by Alana Horton
One of the most unique and, cutting edge musical shows of the year, the Cedar Commissions, is coming to the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis. T...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2018
  • Length: 08:00
Caption: Caden and Joe at an ICP show in Easton, Pa., Credit: Allie Wenner
Are fans of popular "horrorcore" band Insane Clown Posse as scary as they look? Allie Wenner talks to ICP fans (also known as "Juggalos") outside o...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2017
  • Length: 19:20
Caption: John R. Gregg
Author and scholar, John Gregg, offers a tour of sex through history and culture.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WETS


  • Added: Sep 23, 2017
  • Length: 57:58
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Fawzia Mirza, San Francisco, CA 6/23/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Frameline 41 filmmakers speak on the importance of art in the time of Trump.

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Jul 03, 2017
  • Length: 31:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Joe Kopel, Credit: Joe Kopel
Joe Kopel. If there is anybody with songwriting in his DNA, it is Joe. As a kid he would write his own lyrics to existing songs. By high school, he...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2017
  • Length: 06:25
Caption: Annie Q & Angie Wang, San Francisco, CA 3/10/17, Credit: Andrea Chase
Annie Q and Angie Wang talk evoking empathy, burping as liberation, and how Star Trek made their movie happen.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2017
  • Length: 20:19
Caption: Davu Seru, Credit: Andrea Canter
Davu Seru is the current Studio Z composer in Residence. Among his goals is combining west African-based traditions such as drumming and the blues...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 05:00
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Lakes are often portrayed as calm and serene environments, but Dave Sanford knows better. The Canadian photographer uses his pictures to reveal a m...

Bought by WCPN, WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester, North Country Public Radio, and WBFO


  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:13
  • Purchases: 5
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When Christine Ernst was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 34, she didn’t expect it would one day spark her own one-woman show. But, thanks to a ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 04:34
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Steve Kenny of the Illicit Sextet, Credit: Andrea Kramer
Illicit Sextet is a group composed of composers with varied approaches. Theirs is mature modern jazz, with varied approaches and thoughtful, collab...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Paul Cantrell, Credit: David J Turner
The Twin Cities is filled with passionate creators of new music, and much of the greatest work turns up at Composers Night at Studio Z in Saint Pau...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Hogg Island moorings., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Virginia’s Barrier Islands, and the waters and salt marshes that surround them, are among the most pristine coastal regions on the entire Eastern S...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2016
  • Length: 25:17
Caption: Kari Tauring, Credit: Eli Solheim
Kari Tauring is a leading researcher and performer of ancient Norse traditions, but she uses them in healing sessions. Hers is a point of view that...

  • Added: May 04, 2016
  • Length: 09:22
Caption: Kari Tauring, Credit: Eli Solheim
Kari Tauring performs really old music in a really modernistic way. It’s a combination you wouldn’t expect, but is completely natural to someone li...

  • Added: May 04, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
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Denis Du Bois takes listeners on a 10-minute tour of energy technologies shown at the the Innovation Expo at the GLOBE Environmental Conference

  • Added: Apr 20, 2016
  • Length: 14:06
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This piece looks at what is and is not acceptable to say on stage from a comedians point of view.

  • Added: Apr 06, 2016
  • Length: 04:40
Caption: jazz 88 logo, Credit: Tim Nyberg (Octane Creative)
Tabla player Marcus Wise and Guitarist Dean Magraw have one of the few musical cultural syntheses that really works. It is because the Wise/Magraw ...

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: JUGGALO - COSTA MESA, Credit: Jared Eberhardt
In 2011 the FBI’s National Gang Intelligence Center released their Gang Threat Assessment, which listed Juggalos as a “loosely affiliated hybrid ga...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 22:45
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The Smashing Pumpkins released their most recently celebrated album, Monuments To An Elegy, in 2014. Kyle Meredith caught some microphone time wit...

Bought by WLPR , KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 07:09
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Dec 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A piece that explains how African-American students across the country are struggling to find stylists capable of doing their hair, and what length...

Bought by WORT, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KLCC, 90.5 WSNC, and KRZA


  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 03:28
  • Purchases: 5
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I probably don’t have to motivate you on the importance and excitement behind Courtney Barnett. The Aussie exploded onto our collective radars wit...

Bought by KSUT and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Chad Roeder Speaks to City Council about the Future the Downtown Recycle Center

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:33
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A new center supporting documentary film production and research has been established at Indiana University's Media School.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 09:45
Caption: The assembled writers and creators behind Shipwreck, Credit: ALAN LEGGITT
When I first started working at The Booksmith, the local independent bookstore a couple blocks from my apartment, it was a lot like what I expected...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 07:20