PRX - Pieces for Tone: Esoteric

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On today's Culture Clique, we talk to Dr. Jennifer Anderson of the geoscience department at Winona state University to discuss the wonders of astro...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:47
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A tribute to the science fiction american old-time radio series, combined with an intriguing testimony of a woman that suspects that an alien race ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 04, 2018
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Faux live broadcast from a New Orleans music club featuring music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:55:13
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Songs sung by women named "Barbara." Short fund drive announcements that are tied into the music. The boring, droning, repetitive ones were cut...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:42:52
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From the renaissance of Americana culture, 1950 to 1970s when we were searching for a uniquely American musical identity in the 20th century that c...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:50:46
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Songs you've never heard about teenagers (including Molly and Trudy) by musicians you've never heard of.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2015
  • Length: 02:53:45
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Our annual Covers Special returns with new cover songs from Iron & Wine and Ben Bridwell's latest release, Amanda Palmer takes on Radiohead using h...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2015
  • Length: 59:01
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Another live show, another drink and dash on the bar tab. Then I had to hide out from the police so I went to the radio station and did the 3am to...

  • Added: May 23, 2015
  • Length: 05:58:03
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We as a culture and as humans spend a lot of time with technology, all focused on the newest, latest and most updated this, that and the other. We ...

  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
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We have within each of us a desire to be noticed, or found worthy. It’s inherent in every human being. Being noticed is one thing, but graduating f...

  • Added: May 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
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Extreme vintage hour openers, like bebop in a big band with Eckstine, rare Clifford Brown the other. Singers who would normally not mix, Carrie Smi...

Bought by KZUM, WVBI-LP, KPVL, KHNS, and WOUB


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 5
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Hacksaw handles Horace who hounds Holloway and Harris, later even Hess. Have to hand it to hoards who happen to hit it hard. Violinist Stephane Gra...

Bought by WVBI-LP, KPVL, WYAP, and WOUB


  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:51
  • Purchases: 4
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Yeah, sure there are thousands of songs that mention jukeboxes but you don't care to count them nor listen to them. No, you're more specialized. ...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:53:42
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John Sebastian talks with Jake Feinberg about his mentors and teachers like Mississippi John Hurt and Lightnin' Hopkins.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... because there's more to art than "hits" played over and over and over again.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:51:38
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of from the 1950s to 1970s when teenagers reached across the separation line of a segregat...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:38:00
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Music you've never heard from musicians you've never heard of from the golden age of American music, the 1950s to the 1970s. We feature the non-hi...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Sep 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:54:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Music that's better than my grammar.

  • Added: Sep 16, 2013
  • Length: 02:48:08
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Music from the 1950s to the 1970s that you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. An era when musicians reached across the separation ...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2013
  • Length: 08:43:51
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Who would have thought that jail would be so much like a nightclub? All the OPP needs is the addition of music to its patron's drinking, drugging ...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:50:26
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More music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... A faux live broadcast from somewhere in New Orleans as only you've imagined it.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2013
  • Length: 03:00:47
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The 1970's version of Funkadelic is typically credited for pioneering the role of a black band playing rock and roll. However, in the 1950s and 60...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jun 02, 2013
  • Length: 03:24:17
  • Purchases: 1
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"Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of" presented in esoteric themes and highlighted with interstitial sound clips from the t...

  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:53:25
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A long game of "before they were..." A game for tracking a musician's output from before they found their sound (or were branded with a sound). O...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2013
  • Length: 03:10:23
Caption: Mardi Gras festival on another planet
The 40 year old Star Trek episode, The Return of the Archons, features a society that celebrates a Mardi Gras festival and is lead by a guy named ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 19, 2011
  • Length: 03:00:16
  • Purchases: 1