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From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Laws that are in place because of concert mishaps.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 09, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Is Frank Zappa's father Mr. Green Jeans? How'd David Bowie's eye get a funny color? Michael Jackson bought The Elephant Man's bones? Where'd Geo...

Bought by KPVL and KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Alex "Crankshaft" Larson of Crankshaft and the Gear Grinders
Alex "Crankshaft" Larson grew up in the country about an hour north of the Twin Cities where he and his brother killed time playing music. After ye...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 03, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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"When people get two trumpet players it becomes very competitive...It was [Booker Little], Lee Morgan and myself at the time. We we're the young ...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 11:41
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Shannon Selberg (Cows, Heroine Sheiks)
Shannon Selberg was the downright frightening frontman, vocalist, and part-time bugle player for eleven years for the legendary Minneapolis punk/n...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 19, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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There's a man in Brooklyn who owns a song by Sufjan Stevens... but he doesn't release it as some normally would. He does something much more special.

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 19:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Available for free and hosted by Michael Perry, Tent Show Radio this week features Meg Hutchinson. Tent Show Radio is a weekly one-hour variety ser...

Bought by KALH, KMXT, WRNC-LP, and WTIP


  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:20
  • Purchases: 4
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

Bought by WEZU and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 15, 2013
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sexologist Cheryle Cohen Greene, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
CHERYL COHEN GREENE - Sexologist & Author MATTHEW DICKMAN - Poet CHRISTINE MCKINLEY - Writer, Musician, Mechanical Engineer PURE BATHING CULTURE...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 13, 2012
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Issa Rae, Creator of the web series, "The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl", Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Writer and Director of ParaNorman CHRIS BUTLER. Writer and web series director ISSA RAE. Musical Guests FINN RIGGINS.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Oct 04, 2012
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 1
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For the second week of March (3/13): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the very first Czech musicians to perform i...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Caption: Best selling author Joshua Foer, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Best selling author, JOSHUA FOER. Author and advocate for tall women, ARIANNE COHEN. Indie-psych folk ensemble, THE PARSON RED HEADS.

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, Rhythm & News Service, and WCPN


  • Added: Jul 12, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: New York Times Bestselling Author of "Capitol Murder" Philip Margolin, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
PHILIP MARGOLIN - New York Times bestselling author THIRD RAIL REPERTORY THEATRE - A local Portland theatre company DOUBLECLICKS - A sister nerd ...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2012
  • Length: 55:01
Caption: Acclaimed Author & Stand-up Comedian Moshe Kasher, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
MOSHE KASHER - Author and Stand-up Comedian. JANE JONES - Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director of Book-It Repertory Theatre SHOOK TWINS - Indie Folk Duo

Bought by WNJR, Rhythm & News Service, and WCPN


  • Added: May 03, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges
This limited series of classical music will feature four composers of African descent and two musicians of African descent. On this program today...

Bought by KWAX, WNMU-FM, WMNR, 'The Sea', KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2012
  • Length: 53:05
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Eclectic Indie Band Typhoon, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Current Oregon Poet Laureate PAULANN PETERSEN. Her latest book is The Voluptuary. KATE BEATON, cartoonist for The New Yorker, brings her highly a...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2011
  • Length: 54:58
Caption: Bucket of Honey, Credit: Wade Trenbeath
Songwriters Annie Jantzer and Nate Bogopolsky of Bucket of Honey discuss their approach to writing songs inspired by Frank Miller's The Dark Knight...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
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Steampunk – once a niche market – is going mainstream everywhere you look. But what is its appeal – and what does it say about the zeitgeist?

  • Added: Apr 23, 2011
  • Length: 57:33
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For your On-Air Fundraising: these pieces have been designed to give stations three options for using and creating a fundraising spot with a major ...

Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, Kansas Public Radio, South Carolina Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 7
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For your On-Air Fundraising: these pieces have been designed to give stations three options for using and creating a fundraising spot with a major ...

Bought by WSMC, KVNO, WMNR, NPR Illinois, and Iowa Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 31, 2010
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 5
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Audio documentary explores the uses of loud car stereo systems.

  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 14:49
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Ed Reinhart alias Earl Dixon, a marvelous pianist and local musician joins Radio Curious again in this edition. Reinhart is best know as the king o...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2009
  • Length: 28:23
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ATMI Reporter Max Jungreis sets out to find the answer to his question.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2009
  • Length: 01:44
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A sound collage from the parking lot of The Dead's show in Albany, New York in April 17, 2009.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2009
  • Length: 03:28
Caption: Yefim Bronfman
The Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 is a part of nearly every pianist's concert repertoire, and for many Russian pianists, it's often the first ma...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2009
  • Length: :26