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Grunge
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Grunge, a genre so very much loved by 80's kids, hated by 80's parents, boring to today's kids, loved by today's parent's. It's music that hallmark...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Record Bin Roulette - Hats
From: John Kessler
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Weekly 4 minute excursion thru pop music history featuring rarities, oddities and classics. This time we take a peek at Hats, with Carmen Miranda, ...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Sep 30, 2012
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Record Bin Roulette - Music of James Bond
From: John Kessler
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Weekly 4 minute excursion through musical oddities, rarities and classics. This time we celebrate 50 years of Bond tunes with Shirley Bassey, Paul ...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Sep 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 191 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Corin Tucker of Corin Tucker Band, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Acclaimed author ROB REID. Author CHELSEA CAIN. Musical guest JOE PUG. Sleater-Kinney alum's solo project CORIN TUCKER BAND.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 20, 2012
  • Length: 55:03
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 191
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Corin Tucker of Corin Tucker Band, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Acclaimed author ROB REID. Author CHELSEA CAIN. Musical guest JOE PUG. Sleater-Kinney alum's solo project, CORIN TUCKER BAND.

Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Oregon Public Broadcasting, 90.5 WESA, and WCPN


  • Added: Sep 20, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 4
"GOOFS..GAFFES..AND GLITCHES, GREAT AND small" ( a pivotal week in politics and journalism...told thru narration, music and soundbites)
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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Pre-October surprises test the mettle of the presidential candidates, the press and US foreign policy. Mitt Romney struggles with reaction to hi...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2012
  • Length: 57:16
Record Bin Roulette - Politics
From: John Kessler
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Weekly 4 minute jaunt through musical rarities, oddities and classics. This time a look at pop music and politics with Rage Against The Machine, Ni...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Sep 16, 2012
  • Length: 03:48
  • Purchases: 1
Mutables
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Off The Record; On To Video
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Mutables live in Studio K.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 09, 2012
  • Length: 13:38
  • Purchases: 1
Teenage Moods
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Off The Record; On To Video
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Teenage Moods live in Studio K.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 09, 2012
  • Length: 10:02
  • Purchases: 1
Leisure Birds
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Off The Record; On To Video
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Leisure Birds live in Studio K.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 09, 2012
  • Length: 11:04
  • Purchases: 1
Awkward Bodies
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Off The Record; On To Video
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Awkward Bodies live in Studio K.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 09, 2012
  • Length: 13:57
  • Purchases: 1
Record Bin Roulette - Country Living
From: John Kessler
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Weekly 4 minute jaunt through musical oddities, rarities and classics. This time we head out to the countryside with John Denver, Roy Rogers, Louis...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2012
  • Length: 03:55
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 168 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Fruit Bats, Eric D. Johnson, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author BRIAN DOYLE. Storyteller AMBER JO. Musical Guests FRUIT BATS.

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Record Bin Roulette - Sugar Rush
From: John Kessler
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Weekly 4 minute jaunt through musical rarities, oddities and classics, this time a taste of honey in pop music with Mary Poppins, Burl Ives, and Sp...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Culture Queue: "We're Cracking the Code"
From: Radio K
Series: Radio K Culture Queue
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This week on Culture Queue, we focus on codes and the keys to cracking them. We start with producers Noel Clark and Mitch Skinner discovering how t...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Aug 30, 2012
  • Length: 31:35
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 174 NEWSHOLE VERSION Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Hey Marseilles Indie Folk Band, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
ELIZABETH WEIL - Author of "No Cheating, No Dying: I had a Good Marriage and I Tried to Make it Better." IAN KARMEL - Stand-up comic, winner of t...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 1
Record Bin Roulette - Work Songs
From: John Kessler
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Weekly 4-minute thrill-ride through music history, featuring oddities, rarities and classics. This time, Work Songs with Harry Belafonte, Dolly Par...

Bought by PRX Remix and WTIP


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 2
Record Bin Roulette - Product Placement
From: John Kessler
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Weekly 4 minute binge of musical rarities, oddities and classics. This time, we buy into brand names in song with NIrvana, Paul Simon, Marilyn Monr...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Aug 18, 2012
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 181 Encore NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: New York Times Best-selling author of Wild, Cheryl Strayed, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
CHERYL STRAYED - Best-selling Author LAUREN WEEDMAN - Actress, Writer, Humorist LAURA GIBSON- Singer/Songwriter

  • Added: Aug 16, 2012
  • Length: 55:00
Record Bin Roulette - The 1 Percent
From: John Kessler
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Weekly 4 minute dash through musical oddities, rarities and classics. This time we take a poke at the 1%, with Zero Mostel, The Beatles, Ethel Merm...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Aug 13, 2012
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 185 Encore NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Indie Pop band Lost Lander, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
AJ JACOBS - New York Times bestselling author. DAVID WOLMAN - Author and Journalist. LOST LANDER - Portland indie pop band.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 1
SITPE # 1232
From: Stephen R Webb
Series: Stuck in the Psychedelic Era
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A little something for everyone.

Bought by KEOS, KMXT, KWMR, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KKRN and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2012
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 9
Record Bin Roulette - Hawaii
From: John Kessler
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Weekly 4 minute excursion through musical rarities, oddities and classics. This time we go Hawaiian with Elvis Presley, Don Ho, Ethel Merman and Th...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 03:58
This Week in Texas Music History: Laura Canales
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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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
This Week In Texas Music History: J.R. Baxter
From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
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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

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