PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky

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Stuffing four hours of music into three hours. It looks as bad a making sausage but without the good taste!

  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 03:50:37
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Songs about Eskimos, lists of bars, synthetic Chinese music (why do I love these songs so much?), songs that can be played back to back and over an...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:47:31
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Collectors music from the golden era of Americana music. That music just before the first rock and roll record. Tonight's show features the auth...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:56:39
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. From the time just before rock and roll became a commercial commodity. A time when m...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 02:47:03
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of because it is the music just before the first rock and roll record that is the unvarnis...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 02:48:24
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Music from the 1950s to 1970s but with a twist - only the non-hit and only the songs before the rock and roll became a boring formula for making mo...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:54:18
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Of course the title doesn't make sense. None of my titles make sense as the titles and my shows all parse cultural esoterica. Collector's music i...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: May 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:57:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Music from the golden era of Americana music, the 1950s-70s. That music that birthed rock and roll. Yep, this is the music that influenced today'...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: May 18, 2014
  • Length: 03:00:36
  • Purchases: 1
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And they're good songs you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... Music from the 1950s to 70s that influenced the music and musician...

  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 03:00:27
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Christy gets to wrassle with the drunk dialers of the Quarter and uncooperative machines of WWOZ.

  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:52:41
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.... Some call it R&B or early R&R. I'm looking for those songs from the 1950s to 70s ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:53:39

  • Added: Apr 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:52:19
  • Purchases: 1
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Cryptic titles of these shows come from the highly effective Sales Prevention Department. It's more music you've never heard by musicians you've n...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2014
  • Length: 02:52:30
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Music from the 1950s to 1970. A time when race and popular records crossed the then-impassible barriers of segregated America to create the golden...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2014
  • Length: 03:00:15
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More music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Tonight, sets of music about bubble gum (very different from bubble gum music) a...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:53:56
Caption: Sounds Jewish, Credit: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Jewish songwriters like Irving Berlin and Mel Torme have penned some of the classic Christmas songs. And well-known Jewish singers like Barbra Stre...

Bought by Prairie Public and KPVL


  • Added: Dec 17, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Music from the golden age of Americana - the 1950s to 1970s that you would have heard if public radio existed. Oh, just give it a listen and hear...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2013
  • Length: 02:49:17
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You might not know what foley is, but you know what it sounds like.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 08, 2012
  • Length: 12:06
  • Purchases: 1
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
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When Grey can no longer keep himself awake after 52 hours on the air, Matt hooks him up to a "Neurographic Interface Module" that will allow him to...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2008
  • Length: 28:30

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 38:17

  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 38:17
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It's an Absolutely Perfect Day outside but, despite Matt's spirited entreaties, the whimsically curmudgeonly Grey refuses to leave the station on p...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2008
  • Length: 28:30
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To generate a little extra revenue for their cash-strapped station, Matt and Grey are conducting guided tours of the labyrinthine, inexplicable, an...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2008
  • Length: 28:30
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When Grey doubts Matt's word that Evie, the station's supercomputer, is a conscious entity, Evie ruthlessly attempts to prove her existence. But c...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2008
  • Length: 28:30