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Season 1, Episode 35 - 'Art For Change' feat Catherine Sarah Young
From: Radio 2050
Series: Radio 2050 - Season 1
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Art’s place in changing the world.

Bought by WOJB


  • Added: Apr 29, 2024
  • Length: 58:03
  • Purchases: 1
Full Moon Hacksaw #1935 (Hour 1 & 2) - 02/29/2024
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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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
Full Moon Hacksaw #1907 (Hour 1 & 2) - 08/17/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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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
Full Moon Hacksaw #1893 (Hour 1 & 2) - 05/11/2023
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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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
Full Moon Hacksaw #1869 (Hour 1 & 2) - 11/24/2022
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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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
Full Moon Hacksaw #1862 (Hour 1 & 2) - 10/06/2022
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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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
Fire Mama, Doom Props, And A Monster Named Fred
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Amy Bloss, Credit: Francesca Bernardi
She spits fire. She spins fire. Amy Bloss is Fire Mama. She performs and teaches a variety of fire performance arts and safety. She is the Director...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 09, 2019
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Aaron Parrett - 327
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Aaron Parrett discusses his collection of stories, Maple & Lead. He also reads a short selection and remarks on his letterpress business and collab...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2018
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
Andy Tarlow, Restauranteur
From: Alex Kime
Series: Alex Kime - Chicago
Caption: Alexander Kime
We invited Brooklyn-based restaurateur Andrew Tarlow in to chat with Chicago-based entrepreneur Ed Marszewski. Alex Kime edited this piece.

  • Added: Nov 20, 2017
  • Length: 17:31
Mugshots of Menthols
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Trash doesn’t always end up in a can. It's often on the sidewalks and lawns. KFAI’s Ryan Dawes met an a Minneapolis artist who takes photos of dis...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 13, 2017
  • Length: 05:28
  • Purchases: 1
Listening to Ladies: Beth Anderson
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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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
Inside the Head of Samual Weinberg
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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There is another dimension where everyone loves a soap opera, where severed heads go to the highest bidder and there’s a mischievous pink man who m...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2016
  • Length: 04:21
Creating the Subject: Hildegard Keller's Annemarie Mahler
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Host Doug Storm is joined by literary critic, author, and filmmaker, Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, who teaches German literature at Indiana Universit...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 58:43
Rez Rap Records creates a hip hop scene in northern Minnesota
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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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
A Conversation on The Trager Approach with Massage Therapist, Elizabeth Moreland
From: Alix Litwack
Series: Another Day Of Living; Join the Conversation!
Caption: Another Day of Living , Credit: graphics by Scott Spitz
Join our conversation with Elizabeth Moreland and she explains the Trager Approach and how massage can be enhanced by energy work.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
From Doodle Books to Tattoos
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2013
Caption: A doodle by host Carlos Nieto, Credit: Credit KUOW Photo/Jenny Asarnow
Today, RadioActive hosts Isaac Noren and Carlos Nieto bring you stories of when pencil meets paper. Doodles, sketches and drawings of all kinds!

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 11:18
Oddball Film and Video creates an unusual night at the movies
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: In the stacks at Oddball Film and Video.
Ever wonder what happens to films too bizarre for the big, or even small screen? Many of them end up at Oddball Film and Video, a stock footage com...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 04:57
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions 2/15/14
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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NO MEAT NOR DRINK ....

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Jorma Kaukonen Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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Jorma Kaukonen made a name for himself by being the guitarist in bands like Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna. His distinctive finger pick technique ...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2014
  • Length: 08:42
39: NYC Foresight
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Explore the hypothetical solutions to real issues caused by technology.

  • Added: Sep 19, 2013
  • Length: 13:20
The Art of MN Author, Rachael Hanel
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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On this episode of "Art Beat" we visit with Waseca native Rachael Hanel. Rachael's memoir "We'll Be The Last Ones To Let You Down" explores her mem...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 1
01: The Tide and the Seay (Standard Length)
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds (Standard Length)
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Explore the role of sound in art with Jesse Seay and her "Mechanical Tide."

Bought by KWMR and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 27, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
Duluth filmmaker Mike Scholtz on his award winning doc, "Wild Bill's Run"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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WTIP's Buck Benson chatted recently with Mike Scholtz about his award-winning documentary, "Wild Bill's Run." Described as 'part Arctic adventure, ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 21:56
  • Purchases: 1
01: The Tide and the Seay
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Explore the role of sound in art with Jesse Seay and her "Mechanical Tide."

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 12:28
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions, 07/07/12
From: Joan VanBuskirk
Series: Riddles from the Border Regions
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WE MAY BE ARCHED, WE MAY BE SCANT...

Bought by KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1