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Caption: Peter Jesperson's record room, Credit: Todd Melby
Peter Jesperson is a music legend. Born in Minnesota, Jesperson was a seminal figure in the Minneapolis punk and new wave scene of the 1970's and 1...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 23:01
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Fresh back from the Tucson Jazz Festival, we continue ’23 with high level music. For example bassist Domi Edson brings in pianist Spencer Zweifel a...

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


  • Added: Jan 24, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 8
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Pianist Kenny Barron and his recent quintet are featured from a recent release, and no one sang like June Christy who we appreciate more with each ...

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


  • Added: Dec 27, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:04
  • Purchases: 8
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A look at the musicians we lost in 2022.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:03
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Covering decades from the 1960s to the 2020s, in the beginning we start with prime cuts. Like saxophonists Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, simmering i...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KRZA, KHNS, WYAP, WOUB and more


  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:03
  • Purchases: 10
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Tonight on The Live Feed we head back to this year’s Karate Camp festival to hone our inner karate skills… or just check out some great live music ...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 54:30
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Montana author Annie Connole discusses her new book, "The Spring: A Mythic Memoir," and reads from the book.

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 23, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Author Jamie Harrison discusses her new book, "The Center of Everything."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Tonight on The Sound we sit down with folk artist Nicky Nieling from Rochester, MN. We check out Nicky’s latest EP, Somehow Now along with a couple...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 44:28
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, just as precautions within the community concerning the COVID-19 virus are beginning to have an effec...

  • Added: May 10, 2020
  • Length: 27:55
Caption: Entering Dreamland
Traveling down the Boulevard of Broken Dreams with sixty minutes of songs for sleepless nights (and days)

  • Added: May 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:58
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We celebrate National Poetry Month with Mark Doty as he discusses his work, including FIRE TO FIRE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, winner of the 2008 Nati...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Apr 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Can you describe color without using words linked to your sense of sight?

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 15, 2019
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 1
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10 pm. In Bishop Ca Listening To Frogs

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 20, 2019
  • Length: 01:06
  • Purchases: 1
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Andrew Moore’s front yard used to host an enormous political art installation. His front yard installation was steeped in political turmoil and sho...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jul 09, 2018
  • Length: 15:25
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Clarence Sasser
The story of Clarence Sasser is a portrait from Stephen Lang's one-man show, Beyond Glory, based on the book by Larry Smith of the same title. He p...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2018
  • Length: 15:14
Caption: Jay Hollingsworth (left) and Rick Williams (right)
John T. Williams, an accomplished Native American carver wrongly killed by a Seattle police officer in August 2010, is remembered by his brother.

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 03:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Linda LeGarde Grover's new poetry collection explores the lives of the Ojibwe people through challenge and resilience, heartache and joy. "The Sky ...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2016
  • Length: 03:50
Caption: Michael Stuhlbarg
Amy Ryan and Michael Stuhlbarg star in You Belong to Me by Daniel Reitz. Two old friends from grad school, played by Amy Ryan ( Gone, Baby, Gone) a...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2016
  • Length: 17:49
Caption: Liv Rooth
In David Ives’ fantastical The End of Travel, a young woman seeks a travel agent and journeys to the end of the line. The play features Liv Rooth a...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2016
  • Length: 12:48
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For years, Michael Page has struggled to work out his troubles through art, creating a catalog of dark and strange music.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Meredith Turk, Credit: Meredith Turk
In “Like a Big Cookie,” Meredith Turk talks to a Missouri cattle rancher about life and death on the farm. She also dives into the world of sound art.

  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 05:37
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On this episode of “The Live Feed” we visit with Dr. Dan Barr, the longest standing member of the Gate City Jazz Band. Dr. Barr visits with us abou...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2015
  • Length: 37:04
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What does it mean to love an object? And does that love...wear off?

  • Added: Feb 15, 2015
  • Length: 15:20
Caption: Samaj examines his painting. It is part of his new series, called Entry/Dropline.
An artist living in Seattle has just had to move for the fifth time in four years. As he gets older it's becoming harder and harder for him to expo...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:44