PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

260 results


Piece image
For the third week of August (8/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering female of tejano music

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Piece image
For the second week of December (12/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who helped build a gospel music empire.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Piece image
Part of a series called The Loop, which examines Austin's burgeoning electronic scene. Cody Wilson (Corduroi) talks about using kids' toys for insp...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:40
Piece image
Part of a series called The Loop, which examines Austin's burgeoning electronic scene. Hailing from Denton, Texas, Juicy the Emissary is as much a ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 06:06
Piece image
Part of a series called The Loop, which examines Austin's burgeoning electronic scene. On this episode, the Vegetable Kingdom talks about illegal d...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 06:15
Piece image
In the Erotic Memoir Novel LAURA MEETS JEFFREY written from two perspectives - Jeffrey Michaelson and Laura Bradley detail their lives during the N...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 11:42
Piece image
You may know him as the guy who takes surreal pictures of his Weimaraners; but that's just one strand of William Wegman's long and varied career. [...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
On this episode Don't Cha know were going to be visiting with a person whose going to tell us about a bloody, gory, good time that's about to infec...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 15, 2012
  • Length: 13:22
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Songwriter Sean Storts discusses writing songs inspired by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel Watchmen. Written and performed for the mon...

  • Added: May 09, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Stuntwoman Monica Staggs
Hollywood stuntwoman extraordinaire Monica Staggs is here telling stories. The Tin Roof Project is a once-a-month series of Tales from the South wh...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Galen Green
Songwriter Galen Green discusses his approach to writing songs inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Written and performed for the mont...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
Piece image
When Jack Beck and Wendy Welch decided to move to the small mountain town of Big Stone Gap, they hadn’t planned on opening a used bookstore.

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Karaba
Thomas Burns discusses film, photography, teaching, and life in Azerbaijan and the Caucasus.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 36:01
Caption: Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Poet Jeanne Marie Beaumont's books include CURIOUS CONDUCT and PLACEBO EFFECTS, and her collection, BURNING OF THE THREE FIRES. She assembles ever...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Michael Wallenfels, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Michael Wallenfels discusses writing songs inspired by Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Written and performed ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 10, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
This edition of The Live Feed features comedy from Chris Hegedus who headlined "The Big Bub's Comedy Show" in April 2011 - and has also performed a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:57
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
Choreographer and author, Liz Lerman converses through dance on the stage and now the page.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 23:42
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
One of the most well-regarded postwar American artists still working, Frank Stella discusses his five-decade career in the visual arts, from painti...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2011
  • Length: 21:40
Piece image
Basque writer Unai Elorriaga and Amaia Gabantxo, translator of Elorriaga's novel Plants Don’t Drink Coffee, discuss the book as well as the art of ...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2011
  • Length: 25:51
Caption: Billy X Curmano and New X Art Ensemble
On this episode of "The Live Feed" KQAL's Teri Tenseth presents the area's most bothersome band, comprised of local musicians and artists. New X Ar...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2011
  • Length: 33:27
Piece image
In this edition of Radio Curious we visit with Les Blank, film maker extraordinaire. Les Blank will receive the Albert Maysles award at the 2011 M...

  • Added: May 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Piece image
How many Victorian books would you have to read to know the Victorians? What if you could read all 1.7 million?

  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 28:57
Piece image
Open Source "Shorties" are 7-8 minute cuts of our best evergreen material. Today: Mark Blyth on the political economy of uncertainty in Japan, Egyp...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Anthony Burgess by David Levine, from The New York Review of Books
First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...

Bought by KRVS, KPIP-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXOT Public Radio, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
Piece image
Bryan Day and Ember Schrag performed in a Noise Show at the Root Note in downtown LaCrosse. A kind of performance art, both musicians experiment wi...

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1