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Craig and George introduce the show and discuss sounds relating to their lives.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 07:50
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: 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
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Actor / writer / composer David Ingber has created musicals about Zombies, and Fantasy Football, an ESPN web series, and several screenplays. He ch...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 58:04
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
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Brooklyn rockers The Bottom Dollars visit Hootenanny Studios and grace us with their jams, as well as the ragtag circumstances that brought them to...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 45:24
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
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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
Caption: Bay Area composer Christopher Hedge designed the sound for the Academy of Science's Morrison Planetarium
If you've been to the planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences recently, then you've heard Christopher Hedge's work on the show "Life: A C...

Bought by KUT and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 08:36
  • Purchases: 2
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
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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
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Historian Vazira Zamindar talks about the "wound of partition" in today's Pakistan. Then, we meet three young composers - Cynthia Lee Wong, Jacob B...

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


  • Added: Feb 24, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Radio Curious visits with world famous piano player, Ed Reinhart, who also masquerades as Earl Dixon and Rico Suave when he's in Ecuador.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Musician/Songwriter Trevor Marty performing in downtown Winona, Credit: Terese Tenseth
Trevor Marty is a musician and songwriter who was born in Texas but raised all around Minnesota. Trevor refers to Winona as his hometown, but is cu...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2010
  • Length: 29:05
Caption: Greg Taylor, Credit: Midwest Music Fest 2010
On this edition of "The Live Feed" we hear from a musician normally heard on the radio on Winona's KG95.3, but tonight he comes to us here at KQAL ...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2010
  • Length: 39:35
Caption: Wake Up Bed Head, Credit: via Wake Up Bed Head on Facebook
On this edition of The Live Feed we feature Winona based band Wake Up Bed Head. Wake Up Bed Head is comprised of Joshua Lauer (lead guitar/vocals, ...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2010
  • Length: 30:54
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The Live Feed is getting a little crude this week as we welcome the Minneapolis based rock band The F Knights.

Bought by KPVL


  • Added: Sep 30, 2010
  • Length: 34:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Do you have a favorite concert you've been to? Are you a summer festival goer? What musical events do you plan on going to this summer?

  • Added: Jul 21, 2010
  • Length: 01:59:28
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Monday Night Live Fall '09. Growing up, Jill Zimmerman spent a lot of time singing to her bedroom walls, her tape recorder, and her dog. She also s...

Bought by KMSU


  • Added: Jun 01, 2010
  • Length: 59:45
  • Purchases: 1
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It's not often one gets to speak with best in the world athletes, but we lucked out here on The Mikie Show. Show eleven features an interview with ...

Bought by KMXT and KUT


  • Added: Jan 21, 2010
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 2