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  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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A Spooky Sock-Hop For The last Weekend in October!

  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Featuring: Midcentury Leftovers, The British Are Here, Rock And Roll Revivalists, The Cozy Covers Comparison Corner, A Touch Of Exotica, and Brand ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Featuring: Brand New Oldies, Teen Idol Time, The Grown Ups' Table, A Moment Of Parody, Spy-Fi On The Hi-Fi, Rockabillyville, and Let's Hear It For ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Featuring: Rock And Roll's Freshman Class, Rock And Roll Revivalists, Midcentury Leftovers, The Artist Spotlight, Doo Wop After Dark, and The Euro ...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Featuring: Motor City Magic, Goin' Up The Country, Fundamentally Instrumental, The Cozy Covers Comparison Corner and The Grown Ups' Table.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Featuring: Teen Idol Time, A Touch Of Exotica, Mister 1960 At The Movies, The Artist Spotlight, Rockabillyville and Midcentury Leftovers.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2022
  • Length: 58:28
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Featuring: The Grown Ups' Table, They Had To Start Someplace, The British Are Here, The Cozy Covers Comparison Corner, and Brand New Oldies

  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:30
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Featuring: Let's Hear It For The Girls, Brand New Oldies, Doo Wop After Dark, The Artist Spotlight, Goin' Up The Country, and The Beach Is Back.

  • Added: Feb 18, 2022
  • Length: 58:16
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Happy Trails, Cream, Stones! And more...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, WSLR, KRSC, WFHB, KRZA and more


  • Added: Dec 05, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 16
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Time to Boogie Down with Nick Danger

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Raven Radio, WOUB, KSRQ, KRZA and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8

  • Added: Apr 14, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14

  • Added: Sep 02, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
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Progressions vs. single years, the never-ending battle.

Bought by KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KWMR, KKWE Niijii Radio and more


  • Added: May 07, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 12

  • Added: Jan 22, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 17
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Stuck with a hermit at Yuletide

Bought by KKRN, Royalton Community Radio, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, KWMR and more


  • Added: Dec 18, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 14
Caption: Jazz bagpiper Rufus Harley
Tuba, banjo, flute and even bagpipes have all found their places in jazz over the years. How good they sound might surprise you.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WNMU-FM, WCPN, KHNS and more


  • Added: Feb 09, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 29
Caption: Syracuse University Design Professor Zeke Leonard demonstrates his intonarumori noise-making instruments., Credit: A. Randall Wenner
Is it possible to make “music” from “noise”? Is it possible to enjoy it? Randy Wenner reports on an experimental music genre making a comeback of s...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Avant garde jazz icon Sun Ra helped light the fuse for Chicago's rich experimental music scene.
Long before New York became America's jazz capital, Chicago jazz reigned supreme. This hour, we continue our tour of America's great jazz cities wi...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., Raven Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KBBI Alaska, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 32
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Three more short "Moments" featuring 2013 NEA Jazz Master, Lou Donaldson. In this batch, we learn about two of Lou's hits, Whiskey Drinkin' Woman a...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, Prairie Public, KBEM, WRTI and more


  • Added: Jul 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 13
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Traveling with old and new friends

Bought by KKRN, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KEOS, WOUB, WXXI Rochester and more


  • Added: May 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Records From Around the World, Credit: Willis Arnold
Step into the world of Alan Lomax, his archives, and his legacy - The Association of Cultural Equity. Featuring interviews with his daughter Anna ...

  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 05:38
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For the third week of August (8/19): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a pioneering female of tejano music

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
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For the second week of December (12/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who helped build a gospel music empire.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Caption: This printer’s mark shows three putti holding a harp and a compass, combining the measure and tone of music with the precision of mathematics. Title page detail from Francesco Algarotti's Dialoghi sopra la luce, i colori e l'attrazione... , Credit: Image courtesy of the Roy G. Neville Historical Chemical Library, Othmer Library of Chemical History, Chemical Heritage Foundation.
On this episode of Distillations we investigate if there's science behind the sweet sounds of a Stradivari violin and learn how chemistry influence...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Dec 11, 2011
  • Length: 17:14
  • Purchases: 1