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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about a couple of recent books that explore the ways that the black metal genre has evo...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2023
  • Length: 27:19
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Tell the truth, shame the devil: New jazz releases, and artists today, still deliver. We feature a batch from the Origin label, as well as their OA...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WYAP, KHNS and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 11
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On this episode, we talked about "Switched On," the great new biography of Bob Moog that documents his life and work. We would have a very differen...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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On this episode, we talked about "The Names of Minimalism," a new music history book that approaches the genre from the perspective of rivalries an...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
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On this episode, we talked about the music of Toby Driver, and his essay in the book Arcana Volume IV, which you can borrow from the library. Drive...

  • Added: Jul 29, 2023
  • Length: 28:19
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about the book "Recombo DNA," an in-depth biography of the band Devo that focuses on th...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:31
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This week our guest is Laura Pendleton-Miller, CEO of Blue Lotus Artists' Collective (BLAC). BLAC is a new, non-profit gallery in Tucson, Arizona e...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about "The Mandorla Letters," the new book by flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell Gan...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2023
  • Length: 27:30
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The main thing is that vinyl be visible (video proof on Facebook Live, YouTube and Instagram Hacksaw Jazz). Musical offerings range from Latin in e...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WEJP-LP 107.1, KHNS, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
Caption: Climate Stripes, Credit: Ed Hawkins
Today, we have a question from one of our reporters, Kolya Shields. They're an artist, and they want to know- can art help fight climate change?

Bought by Raven Radio, WRFA-LP, KMXT, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Some of the typefaces designed by Rajeev Prakash for Indian scripts., Credit: Sandip Roy
Responsible for typefaces of all slants and bolds, Rajeev Prakash is India’s Fontwala!

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 04, 2023
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Herbie Mann is a jazz flute player remembered today, but his cohort also playing flute is Bobby Jaspar on our vintage opening number, continuing in...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WVBI-LP, KHNS, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 10
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We made it to jazz radio show # 2000, sure glad of that. It’s only taken 10, 20, 30 40 + years to do it, how much longer should we go? This episode...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KMXT, KRZA, KHNS, Northwest Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: The Wax Museum, Credit: Tyler Palladino
Monterey Pop and More! We start with a number of artists that played at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and the some classic rock to finish up ho...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2023
  • Length: 59:44
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This Thursday on Culture Clique KQAL’s Jiovani Bermudez visits with Marcia Ratliff, the Executive Director of Engage Winona. Engage Winona is a loc...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 22:01
Caption: Ali Leroi
This week on On Story we’ll hear from comedy veteran Ali LeRoi who’s longtime collaboration with comedian Chris Rock resulted in Everybody Hates Ch...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
Caption: The Round Window album cover, Credit: Richard Lock Facebook
As described by the band, The Round Window is wide-screen rock. And for lyricist Rich Lock, different listeners getting different messages from the...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 11, 2022
  • Length: 57:50
  • Purchases: 1
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From The Future of Radio at KXCI in Tucson, DJ Electric Landfill Reviews The Classic Bright Eyes Album, I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning.

  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 03:48
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Andy Truscott speaks with Maia Palmer, a 2022 Individual Artist Fellow and the current artist exhibiting in the Mezzanine Gallery at the Carvel Sta...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2022
  • Length: 21:58
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A witty English drama from John Schlesinger about an unusual triangle: a man and a woman both in love with the same man.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 03:09
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The classic Harlem Renaissance novel by Ella Larsen about the American delusion of race is beautifully adapted by Rebecca Hall.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 03:31
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Claire Denis’ latest film explores one of her important themes: how desire in man-woman relationships is more complicated than we often assume.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 03:35
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Alfred Hitchcock made this appeal to join the fight against Hitler a year before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Now this film is valued for being one ...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 05:48
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Andy Truscott speaks with Don Foster, a 2019 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellow in the field of fiction literature.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 21:57
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Andy Truscott speaks with Greg Hammond, an author from Wilmington, Delaware – and one of the Delaware Division of the Arts’ 2022 Emerging Individua...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 22:13