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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Jul 25, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:30
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On this episode of Wind & Rhythm we explore the rhythmic side of music with compositions by Wayne Oquin, Steven Bryant, Cindy McTee, and more, righ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, WRTI, WQCS, GCR (Global Community Radio), WBAA and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 11
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Join host Tom Berich on a musical journey around the globe!

Bought by KAMU, RADIOLEX, and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:57
  • Purchases: 3
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On this episode we discuss the fear people in the world have for She-Hulk as well as the fear people have here locally of aggressive urban deer. On...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:04
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Listen to S.M. Wolf and get to know Adam Gross

  • Added: May 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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This week features artists from Indianapolis. First, Fennec, a house-music producer. Then, Andy D&V, a synth-pop/rap couple. Finally, Oreo Jones, a...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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This week, we'll listen to some new music from Nicholas Payton, Hiromi and Darren Barrett, along with a gem from James Carter, an amazing jam from ...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 18, 2019
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Steve Martin's Unreal Bluegrass, Credit: Steve Martin
Derek Smalls formerly of the band formerly known as Spinal Tap discusses new CD Smalls Change (meditations on ageing) Lukewarm Water tour in 2019 o...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 32:26
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Organizing radio programs for the annals, hopefully not for that other similar word. Veteran Harold Mabern plays a standard on piano with sideman s...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, WMOT, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WVBI-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 16, 2019
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 7
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“The Spirit of the Wall Fan Taps the Side of the House Like a Cane,” “Photographs of Pills,” and “Baby Shampoo,” by Bobby Cormier

  • Added: Feb 24, 2019
  • Length: 08:46
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Sufficient vinyl makes up our first hour, apparently catching Big Joe Turner on a European tour in his later years, then immediately to a songbird ...

Bought by WMOT, WEJP-LP 107.1, WYAP, WVBI-LP, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Hommage a Boulez, Credit: deutschegrammophon.com
Featuring the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in music by Pierre Boulez

Bought by KMUN, WETS, KMUN, KWAX, WETS and more


  • Added: Oct 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Brad Bellamy
"[A]s funny a 20 minutes as you’re likely to see in a theater, thanks to a spectacular performance by Brad Bellamy as a football coach who recently...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 19:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Albert Serra, the highly opinionated director of "The Death of Louis XIV" explains why actors are stupid and (shockingly) why he never looks throug...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jan 23, 2018
  • Length: 44:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Daniel Earl Javorsky was born in Berlin and immigrated to the US. He has been, among other things, a delivery boy, musician, product rep in the che...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2017
  • Length: 08:24
Caption: Caden and Joe at an ICP show in Easton, Pa., Credit: Allie Wenner
Are fans of popular "horrorcore" band Insane Clown Posse as scary as they look? Allie Wenner talks to ICP fans (also known as "Juggalos") outside o...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2017
  • Length: 19:20
Caption: Les Boréades de Montréal, Credit: boreades.com
We’re featuring some covers and popular music with classical groups on this episode.

Bought by KMUN, WNMU-FM, WETS, KMUN, WETS and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 9
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Lakes are often portrayed as calm and serene environments, but Dave Sanford knows better. The Canadian photographer uses his pictures to reveal a m...

Bought by WCPN, WCMU Michigan, WXXI Rochester, North Country Public Radio, and WBFO


  • Added: Jan 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:13
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Hope Davis
Two passengers of very different statures meet on a plane and take off! A Very Very Short Play by Jacquelyn Reingold features Tony nominee Hope Dav...

  • Added: May 05, 2016
  • Length: 13:37
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Folk music and farce, show tunes and satire, madness and escape!

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 01:58:30
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From theater to radio to Hollywood...the ambition of Orson Welles, as Patrick McGilligan tells us in his new book Young Orson, was already old-fash...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 59:57
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A piece that explains how African-American students across the country are struggling to find stylists capable of doing their hair, and what length...

Bought by WORT, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KLCC, 90.5 WSNC, and KRZA


  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 03:28
  • Purchases: 5
Caption:   "I started thinking about effects pedals as being like a palette with different colors," Wilco guitarist Nels Cline says. , Credit: Diverse Images/UIG/Getty Images
Musicians, it seems, have always wanted to alter the sounds of their instruments. Over the course of centuries, strings have been added to guitars ...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 05:14
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Lesbian psychics and Jeb’s exclamation point ruin Halloween

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 54:17
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Yeah… we cover all of that, plus Amazon.com, Black Lives Matter, and more. Enjoy!

  • Added: Aug 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:00