PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky

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Past is future, and to prove it, the Buselli-Wallarab Orchestra have re-arranged ditties from 100 years ago (from their station of Richmond Indiana...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, Raven Radio, KRZA, KECG, KMXT and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2024
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 11
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This episode is chock full of vintage vinyl, some of it shifted shellac. Take for instance a small Count Basie group recorded by John Hammond pre W...

Bought by KMXT, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WEJP-LP 107.1, KHNS and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 10
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Return to sender? Hacksaw unknown: From a large orchestra composition, Dizzy Gillespie’s horn is heard with two drum sets and conga player. Then th...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KECG, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WOUB and more


  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 11
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Blues men and vocalists of any kind fall out this entire episode, in fact not a big band to be heard for a solid mile. THESE ARE CRIMES. As we awai...

Bought by KJZX-Austin, KMXT, KHNS, KRZA, WOUB and more


  • Added: Nov 22, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:00
  • Purchases: 9
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For starters it’s the ultimate tribute irony: Leader Joey DeFrancesco on organ, who died in August 2022, welcoming guest saxophonist Pharaoh Sander...

Bought by WEJP-LP 107.1, KJZX-Austin, KRZA, WOUB, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:00:02
  • Purchases: 10
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Composer Beth Anderson on phoning up John Cage, not "looking like" a composer, and the collage that is life. 

  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 27:19
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In 2011, two rap groups in northern Minnesota decided to join forces: 100 Souls from Red Lake, and NPC3 from Bemidji. Together they’re known as Rez...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: What would Jules Verne do? The Steampunk aesthetic combines elements of victorian fashion, sci-fi, and punk DIY., Credit: Photo by SoulStealer.co.uk
Steampunk is quickly moving from a quirky Victorian sci-fi subculture to a major inspiration for mainstream artists like Panic at the Disco and Rus...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 1