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A Jewish museum just opened in Kolkata. Not a brick and mortar museum, but an online museum.
- Added: Sep 10, 2014
- Length: 04:30
The Archie comic book character is as American as it gets. But in July of 2014 (Issue No. 36 of "Life With Archie") Archie dies. His death reverber...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 21, 2014
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
The Babble Machine, takes its name from a fictional device referenced in The H.G. Wells novel, The Sleeper Awakes.
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Learn about Numero Group's mission to salvage, restore, and archive neglected pieces of 20th century music history.
- Added: Apr 22, 2014
- Length: 04:30
On March 8 we celebrate International Women’s Day. This year we honor two female members of the Resistance during World War II, who were imprisone...
- Added: Mar 05, 2014
- Length: 02:30
An exploration into skateboarding's rhythmic, musical and hypnotic side.
- Added: Feb 01, 2014
- Length: 13:37
- Purchases: 2
We talk to Jennifer about her musical background and the fun she has at here weekly Sunday show at Manitou Station in White Bear lake with her brot...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 16, 2013
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Blues Team's CD Release Party and Anti-Cancer Charity Event. Piece for Nov 25-29, 2013. Paul Metsa and Willie Walker are releasing a new set of Bl...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 22, 2013
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Get ready for a performance by the Benny Weinbeck trio at the Parma 8200 Club in Bloomington, MN. The piece tells how Benny got hooked on jazz pian...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Oct 20, 2013
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Maybe pay phones really do encourage time travel.
- Added: Jul 31, 2013
- Length: 13:54
- Purchases: 2
Early Bluegrass is often viewed as a post WWII idiom reflecting great changes in the US. With that in mind, it makes sense that early bluegrass is ...
- Added: May 27, 2013
- Length: 04:50
- Added: Jan 25, 2013
- Length: 04:49
- Purchases: 1
The microphone has changed the entire world into everything we know and love today, so it only makes sense that there's a museum for it.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 20:26
- Purchases: 1
The Babble Machine, takes its name from a fictional device referenced in The H.G. Wells novel, The Sleeper Awakes.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 02, 2013
- Length: 11:30
- Purchases: 1
Follow bluegrass and old time music for a while, and you realize that fans and players are tuned into the evolution of the music. The evolution has...
- Added: Dec 01, 2012
- Length: 06:23
For the second week of April (4/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a crooning cowboy who sang both English and Spanish.
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
Old time fiddling in North America is different wherever you go. In some places in the southwest, old fiddlers play the waltzes and polkas that cam...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: Jun 11, 2011
- Length: 06:49
- Purchases: 1
You do something in the present and it has a consequence. Obviously. You cannot tell any kind of story without one event leading to another. Like i...
- Added: May 21, 2011
- Length: 05:58
- Purchases: 2
For regular users, piece for April 23-29, 2011. Others use anytime. Piece reflects of the basics of bluegrass rhythm, and tells a little about how ...
Bought by WAMU
- Added: Apr 09, 2011
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 1
Many bluegrass songs depict heavy burdens borne by characters in songs, and by us listeners. That's the subject of this Gem of Bluegrass.
Bought by WAMU
- Added: Jan 29, 2011
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 1
To folk music scholars, a style of folk music represents a specific group of people, but also has relationships with surrounding cultures. For a lo...
Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920 and WAMU
- Added: Jan 23, 2011
- Length: 09:29
- Purchases: 2
for regular users, piece for Jan 8 - 14, 2011. Others use any time.
- Added: Dec 05, 2010
- Length: 05:58
- Added: Nov 30, 2010
- Length: 06:23
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 21, 2010
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
If you’re a young person looking for a job, it looks pretty dismal out there, and it may not brighten up anytime soon. On this edition of How We Su...
Bought by WCSU-FM, WXVU 89.1 FM Villanova, and KZYX
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
