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  • Added: Sep 01, 2019
  • Length: 02:54:49
Caption: This is who you're hearing tonight!
Last few weeks I've been trying to find the original "sound of Saturday Night." I think I'm always searching for this elusive muse but recently by...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 27, 2019
  • Length: 02:53:45
  • Purchases: 1
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It's an undefinable sound. Maybe just a feel or a whimsy that makes the Saturday night sound. I dove deep again this week to find it.

Bought by Raven Radio, KFCF FM, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Aug 21, 2019
  • Length: 02:55:54
  • Purchases: 3
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In music there are hard and fast categories between so many demographic populations all in the service of selling music to a specific population. ...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2019
  • Length: 02:58:08
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Some of the best song of the past 12 years.

  • Added: Aug 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:59:20

  • Added: Aug 04, 2019
  • Length: 02:53:37
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The usual dreck plus the third hour goes to the roots of zydeco music.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2019
  • Length: 03:53:42
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Starting with music from South Louisiana then inexplicably ending up in bubblegum land and other far far away places.

  • Added: Jul 25, 2019
  • Length: 02:51:54

  • Added: Jul 17, 2019
  • Length: 02:58:41
Caption: Reynaliz playing her bike at home. , Credit: Elizabeth Estrada
Classically trained percussionist Reynaliz Herrera used to use her bike to get around Boston. Now, she uses it to make music.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2019
  • Length: 05:10

  • Added: Jun 17, 2019
  • Length: 02:56:21
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of but this time with just a Tony Chachere hint of swamp pop.

  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:53:14
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Worse than the title of tonight's show, tonight we feature Pee musicians. I would like to say, "It's complicated" but it's not. It's more like, ...

  • Added: May 14, 2019
  • Length: 03:07:00

  • Added: May 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:53:52
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Show starts with songs that you've heard before but they haven't gotten scooped up by the "oldies" or "hits" title so they're not over-played by ra...

  • Added: May 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:56:14
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In trying to edit and post four of these shows at the same time, I've already forgotten what this show was supposed to be about. Let's just call ...

  • Added: May 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:49:19
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Anna Merlan, author of Republic of Lies, joins us for a weird ride down the Conspiracy Highway, which is our main road out here in the desert.

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Photo of the VR Merge technology on display at the SXSW Edu 2019 expo. , Credit: Pius Wong
If you missed the 2019 edition of the South by Southwest Education (SXSW Edu) conference in Austin, Texas, we rehash some highlights that you may h...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2019
  • Length: 26:46
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The superbloom is upon us, as is the superbloom mob. St. Minerva help us all!

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 18, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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A couple sets originating out of the tropics via Miami and Hawaii but other than that, it's the same old dreck.

  • Added: Mar 13, 2019
  • Length: 02:51:42
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Ramping up to Mardi Gras, a burst of Louisiana music. In the third hour a twist on familiar songs where a cover version of them is made from the p...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2019
  • Length: 04:03:25
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With Mardi Gras in the air, here's Louisiana music on the air.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2019
  • Length: 02:54:07
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It feels like Mardi Gras is in the air. Folks thinking about their costumes and thinking of their subversion of the orthodoxy. It's what makes us...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2019
  • Length: 02:57:29