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The Roadhouse PRX 025
From: Tony Steidler-Dennison
Series: The Roadhouse
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This hour of The Roadhouse moves along like a train down the rails. Knickerbocker All-Stars, Frank Bang & The Cook County Kings, Johnny Nicholas, L...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WJAB


  • Added: Nov 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 2
The Roadhouse PRX 022
From: Tony Steidler-Dennison
Series: The Roadhouse
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In this hour of The Roadhouse, I bounce back and forth between two real hot spots of blues: Chicago and San Francisco. I’ve got a lot of artists th...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WJAB


  • Added: Oct 19, 2016
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 2
The Roadhouse PRX 021
From: Tony Steidler-Dennison
Series: The Roadhouse
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This is another hour of The Roadhouse that just doesn’t slow down. And, it’s a little heavier than usual with some great female blues artists, to b...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and WJAB


  • Added: Oct 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 2
The Roseville Big Bands Struts its Stuff this Weekend at Edinborough park
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
Caption: Roseville Big Band Trip to Acapulco 1989, Credit: Glen Newton
The Roseville Big Band brings its special arrangements to an Edina concert on Oct 2. Band director Glenn Newton tells Phil Nusbaum about it.

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 05:00
Ideas Books: Jeremy Taylor: Body by Darwin - How Evolution Shapes Our Health and Transforms Medicine
From: Craig Barfoot
Series: Ideas Books
Caption: Ideas Books: Jeremy Taylor
Interview with author Jeremy Taylor about his book, Body By Darwin. Jeremy Taylor argues in Body by Darwin, that we can trace the roots of many med...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Apr 16, 2016
  • Length: 33:16
  • Purchases: 1
Episode #31: Media Roundtable (Bitch Media, She Shreds Magazine, Tom Tom Magazine)
From: Kill Rock Stars
Series: The Future of What
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If women and girls are one of the fastest growing markets in the music industry, shouldn t they be better represented in media? That's what some, l...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 49:29
Origins Of JazzGrass Pt.5 ~ The Banjo
From: Brian Aust
Series: WoodWarbler's JazzGrass Radio Show
Caption: Gordon Stone performing on the air at the WGDR-Plainfiield studio during the show 2011, Credit: B. Aust
This next installment of the JazzGrass Origin Series presents the signature instrument of bluegrass, newgrass and jamgrass.....the banjos that dest...

Bought by Morehead State Public Radio and Bandon Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:55:43
  • Purchases: 2
Episode #33: All Ages Revival
From: Kill Rock Stars
Series: The Future of What
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We discuss the importance of all ages music venues and scenes this week!

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 58:26
  • Purchases: 1
Oscar Gold
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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This year saw the Academy Awards ceremony awash in racial controversy.

  • Added: Feb 29, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Mob Justice
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Kanhalya Kumar
Television is not just news. It has become the lynchpin of the lynchmob.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
Episode #28: Niche Markets
From: Kill Rock Stars
Series: The Future of What
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In an industry where it’s difficult to make a living, musicians have had to become more and more creative to survive, especially with shrinking roy...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 57:14
Netaji Lives!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Credit: nataji.org
The mystery of Subhas Chandra Bose has trumped the actual history of Subhas Bose.

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
28: Mary-Louise Parker on her new Memoir and Lara Mendel on Creating a Peaceful World
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Mary-Louise Parker, Credit: Tina Turnbow
Award-winning actress Mary-Louise Parker's new memoir "Dear Mr. You" is comprised entirely of letters to the men in her life, including her father,...

Bought by KCSB-FM, KZMU Moab Community Radio, WRIR, KSJD, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jan 22, 2016
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
Free Basics?
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Modi and Zuckerberg
Is net neutrality just a right for the West and a luxury for the rest. And must poor countries be told, be grateful, half an internet is better tha...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
25: Venture Capitalist Sonja Perkins and Actress/Comedian Katie Goodman
From: KALW
Series: Inflection Point with Lauren Schiller
Caption: Katie Goodman
Only six percent of partners in venture capital firms are women, and seventy-seven per cent of those firms have never even had a female investor. S...

Bought by KFCF FM, KSJD, WMUU-LP, and WRIR


  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
Food Fight!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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In an India bristling with news about beef raids, vegetarian only housing societies and animal slaughter bans, being vegetarian has started soundin...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Intolerance Comes to the Party
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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When Narendra Modi came by last week to the Bay Area the titans of tech pulled out all stops to give him a red carpet welcome. Amidst all this jub...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
The Clock Struck Prejudice
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Ahmed Muhamed
Mahesh Sharma, India’s Culture minister, and a high school in Irving, Texas have more in common than they realize.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Kashish (Mumbai LGBT Film Fest)
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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In India the Supreme Court did not realize that when it recriminalized gay sex, society had come a long way. Like toothpaste it just cannot be pus...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 2
Gems of Bluegrass #1528. Patriotism, Bluegrass and the Fourth of July.
From: Philip Nusbaum
Series: Gems of Bluegrass
Caption: Phil w/ 2012 Zeitfunk , Credit: Karen Van Norman
What’s patriotic about bluegrass music. Some of it is obvious. And some is just a little under the surface.

  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:52
Managing the System
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Salman Khan
One hot muggy afternoon last week I understood first hand a fact of life in India – the system never works for you unless you know someone with con...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Selma Slights More than LBJ
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
There’s been a lot of controversy over the movie Selma and the Academy Awards. Selma is rightfully centered on Dr. King, and has been rightfully cr...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Oscar is Still a Man
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The red carpet rolls out next Sunday – and hopefuls, hacks, and superstars alike will be chasing the most coveted prize in show business. But are w...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
Beethoven at the Piano
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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"As volcanic was the man’s painful life and descent into deafness, so his musical production was miraculously steady, virtually flawless, endlessly...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WABE


  • Added: Dec 26, 2014
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 3
December is for Celebrating -- and Remembering
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
We celebrate a lot during the holiday season – family, faith, giving, shopping. But since 2012 in the U.S. the season is not all about celebrating.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:30