PRX - Pieces for Tone: Quirky

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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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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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I get to interview Progressive Rock guitar god Steve Howe, which musically transports me back to the 1970s when I first heard his band YES as a tee...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 06:53
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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
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of...

Bought by Troy Public Radio


  • 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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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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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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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of all from the golden age of Americana - the 1950s to the 1970s. A time when musicians r...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 05:54:29
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Music from the 1950s to the 1970s that you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. Collectors music without the drudgery of reciting th...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 02:43:30
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Gil Riegler, of the Oasis Camel Dairy, discusses training his camels for milking and public appearances

  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 05:45

  • Added: Jul 11, 2013
  • Length: 50:47
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Weird News Perry is a weekly segment about weird news

  • Added: Jan 15, 2013
  • Length: :16
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An entertaining radio show featuring songs related to Halloween!

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:04:23
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Pigeon racers across New England get out their lawn chairs and wait for their birds. The flocks are released 150 miles away from home. The pigeons ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, WMPG, and SALTcast Podcast


  • Added: May 27, 2011
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4
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It sucks we lose so many talented people so young, perhaps they're not gone after all...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2010
  • Length: 09:18

  • Added: Mar 03, 2010
  • Length: 01:30
  • Purchases: 1
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A compilation of a bunch of short 2 Minute Film Noir audio stories.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER, and KMXT


  • Added: Aug 18, 2009
  • Length: 53:03
  • Purchases: 3
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A series of 5 very short stories from the POV of soda, water, corn chips, cigarettes, and a can of potted meat

  • Added: Jun 13, 2008
  • Length: 09:18