PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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As I was pondering the theme for this week’s show, I started to reflect on the season. Fall marks a turning point in the year and so my music choi...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2023
  • Length: 58:51
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Unique experiences with music and medical psychedelics that paved the way for deeper faith.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 52:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Nason putting his father's ashes in The Mississippi River after the Krewe Of St. Anne parade on Mardi Gras Day.  A few years later, Nason's ashes followed Nason's steps in the paraded and into the river.
Free form radio in the middle of the night where the surrounding darkness uncovers music and stories about ourselves. Tonight, music of youthful ...

Bought by WPVM 103.7


  • Added: Aug 28, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Folklorist Next Door, Credit: Jeannelle Ramirez
In this episode, g'beda shares what it means to pursue their dream of playing in a mariachi band, and how they found themselves in a rich, vibrant ...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2023
  • Length: 14:04
Caption: Beyond The Barrier #40 - Hour 2
This week's program inspired by the newly released recording "Ancestral Resonance" by Byron Metcalf and Shane Morris. The addition of percussion to...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Feb 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Join host Hanif Abdurraqib for a special episode of Object of Sound, from PRX and Sonos, reflecting back on the year in music. December is the per...

Bought by WVTF, WRGY, KVCR, KUT, KQED and more


  • Added: Dec 08, 2022
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 11
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Learning to listen to others with different beliefs and following your faith where it takes you.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2022
  • Length: 52:51
Caption: Dan Stokes, Credit: Shefik
Sex - Solo is a R&B musical group. The original members were Robert Anderson, Darnell Chavis, Eunique Mack, and Dan Stokes. The group recorded thei...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2021
  • Length: 01:21
Caption: Robert Anderson, Credit: Shefik
Sex - Solo is a R&B musical group. The original members were Robert Anderson, Darnell Chavis, Eunique Mack, and Dan Stokes. The group recorded thei...

  • Added: Nov 18, 2021
  • Length: 01:01
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From southern California this episode, where that classic west coast jazz still seems to be dug, good memories are made by Panamanian singer Ruben ...

Bought by WMOT, KHNS, KRZA, WYAP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 8
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Storyhill returns to Musician's Spotlight in an interview recorded over three time zones on the winter solstice during the confluence of Jupiter an...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 24, 2020
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 4
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Bob Dylan... "sing as he might about The Times They are A-Changing, Dylans deal, worth an estimated $300 million to him, changed nothing about anyt...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Sonny Turner, Credit: Shefik
Love - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboard Ho...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:42
Caption: M.C. El Bee, Credit: Shefik
Identity - Author Larry Boatright, also known as M.C. El Bee in the hip-hop community, talks about the birth and propagation of hip-hop in the 1970...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 01:36
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Here are a couple hours of 2018 releases revisited, not necessarily the best but rather continued reviews and tracks we did not get to in the actua...

Bought by KRZA, WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, WVBI-LP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2019
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 7
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OJT, Organ Jazz Trio from KC, opens the a gateway for mucho B3 organ. From Concord Records release # 6, we have a seat on the lawn of the 1975 Conc...

Bought by WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, WVBI-LP, WOUB, WKAR and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2018
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 6
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Monika Vischer is program director at Colorado Public Radio Classical. She is also co-founder and board chair of El Sistema Colorado, a non-profit ...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.


  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: On The AIr at Goddard College Community Radio, Plainfield, VT, Credit: Brian Aust
For my father, Herb Aust, who introduced me to jazz of the west coast cool flavor at a very impressionable age.

  • Added: Sep 03, 2018
  • Length: 01:56:30
Caption: Alex Kime Audio Producer
Nick Waterhouse, known for his soul influenced songs, got his start in the same scene as Ty Segall. Edited: Alex Kime.

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 34:09
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To stay in New Orleans is to abandon health, wealth and reasonableness in favor of enjoying the moment. Living the non-commercial life of quality ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2018
  • Length: 01:57:23
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I always equated boxing with "manhood" until the boxer Emile Griffith proved that decency is the path to "manhood." Emile had a more dramatic stor...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2018
  • Length: 02:49:23
Caption: NASA's Golden Record, Credit: NASA
We wanted to know what's out there. We wanted to tell our stories, too. So we sent a message in a bottle out into interstellar space. The NASA Voya...

Bought by WVTF


  • Added: Nov 02, 2017
  • Length: 03:47:58
  • Purchases: 1
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In this piece, the *brand new* Emmy Award-winning Jacobs discusses the art of music supervision and shares stories from her work on four projects i...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 09:23
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In October 2002, Lionel Hampton passed, but Ike Turner was performing at Long Beach Blues Fest. We feature both leaders back-to-back, the former wi...

Bought by WYAP, WMOT, WJSU, WVBI-LP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:58
  • Purchases: 7
From: WBAA
Series: What's New
Caption: JoAnn Falletta, Credit: alchetron.com
We’ll hear music inspired from events on September 11, as well as some of the composers on this episode of What’s New!

Bought by WRTI, KMUN, Interlochen Public Radio, RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jun 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 11