PRX - Pieces for Tone: Informational

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There are a lot of bands that have not had a number one hit. What is interesting is how close some bands came without ever hitting the top. We ha...

Bought by KTRL, KHNS, KWIT, WHCP-LP Cambridge, WOUB and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Johnny and the Jammers - Johnny Winter's Earliest Band
Back in the mechanical days, for a song to go "viral" required it to be associated with a dance that everyone wanted to learn. Up sprang the "Dan...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Jul 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Sonny Turner, Credit: Shefik
Identity - Sonny Turner is best known for replacing Tony Williams as lead singer of The Platters. The group had 40 charting singles on the Billboar...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:04
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Born in 1832, Mary Fields was the first African-American female Star Route mail carrier in the United States. Wearing two guns that she sometimes b...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Dr. Margoliash at the University of Chicago has been studying the brains of Zebra Finches for years. Today we dive into some of his lab's result --...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2019
  • Length: 03:22
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There's a song out there that could make you crash your car... but in the most relaxing way possible.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
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There's a song out there that could make you crash your car... but in the most relaxing way possible.

Bought by WJCT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 19:07
  • Purchases: 2
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Only 120 copies of John Audubon’s Birds of America are known to exist and one complete set is stored in a climate controlled vault at the Minneapol...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2011
  • Length: 05:30
Caption: Ham at work, Credit: Nasa
It's 50 years since the first American went into space; why the Large Hadron Collider isn't going to shut down for a year as planned; and we trick ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 34:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Hear a rare re-issue from David Byrne, plus new music from the band Beirut, Tender Forever, Nellie McKay, Dirty Projectors and Shivaree

Bought by KTRL, WFSU, and WUKY


  • Added: Oct 19, 2007
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 3