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Kids tell us what they are planning to be for Halloween- an intermingling of music and kid talk.

Bought by KPIP-LP and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 19, 2014
  • Length: 45:53
  • Purchases: 2
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Welcome to tip of the hat to times gone by. In this hour we pay homage to a radio show that ran in Northern California in the mid-1980s, namely KCH...

Bought by KPSQ-LP, WMOT, WKCC, WOUB, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Aug 23, 2014
  • Length: 56:29
  • Purchases: 6
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This episode is about bands with WEEERRD spellings (no vowels and all that)

  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
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Danny Klecko runs a bakery in Saint Paul. Many of his poems are written while he bakes for capitol city and he's had help with his writing and reco...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:38
Caption: The Mullet River Boys, Credit: David Zhang
A group with an interesting blend of stylistic ingredients comes to downtown Chaska on July 18.

  • Added: Jul 04, 2014
  • Length: 05:00

  • Added: Jun 30, 2014
  • Length: 34:34
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2014
  • Length: 01:41
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Ocean Clark (right), Credit: Adrien de Martini
Bobby and Martini podcast from Union, NJ, at the studio of New York City-based artist, Ocean Clark, whose original paintings and prints of pop cult...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2014
  • Length: 30:25
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John Fanta recaps Seton Hall Women's Basketball WNIT game with Rutgers.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2014
  • Length: 03:13
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Thao Nguyen grew up in Northern Virginia, and started playing music at age 12. Since then she has released three critically acclaimed albums, and s...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2014
  • Length: 08:13
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With Meltdown previews, Fugazi, pancake songs, and much more!

  • Added: Mar 09, 2014
  • Length: 51:10

  • Added: Feb 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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There’s a national conversation about promoting science education for students, but what about science after graduation? Allison Quantz has the sto...

Bought by WABE, WXDU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Steve Lavigne in his shop, Shellback Artworks. Wells, Maine., Credit: Emma Morgenstern
In 1985, Steve Lavigne quit his job to help a friend draw an indie comic book. He never imagined that those comics, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2013
  • Length: 06:38

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:31
Caption: Portrait of Lady Di
Vernon Porter loves people--talking to them, helping them, singing to them. As his radio personality, the fabulous Lady Di, he's able to broadcast ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 27, 2013
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
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The Bricklayers (Matt Trucano, founding artistic director; Kyle Cadotte, co-founding artistic director, and Jonathan Greene, international theater ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 02, 2013
  • Length: 16:56
  • Purchases: 1
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My neighbor Ellen swings a classic (from the I Hate to Cook Book, circa 1960.)

Bought by KRPS, Troy Public Radio, WNIJ, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Jennifer Bentley is 67 years old, has lived in Puerto Rico for more than 40 years, and hates the cold. So how did she end up skiing down a Maine m...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
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From his early underground comic book series pitting Peter Buck of R.E.M. as "Pete Buck, Superhero," to his prolific songwriting and diverse catalo...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, WLPR , WSLR, KKRN, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Direction, Credit: Julia Meek
Hard to figure out where in the world you're going? Musical orientation abounds this week on Folktales!

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Aug 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Hot Pocket Pimpin', Credit: hotpocketsbrand
Cold like a brick, molten like lava. What's not to love? A non-narrated voxpop produced by Mike Mallory for the Advanced Audio class at the Univers...

  • Added: May 15, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
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by Alex Mehrtens: The mind of the writer is filled with words. But not every writer can concentrate with another person's voice bumping out of thei...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:40