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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of. From the 1950s to the 1970s. All the non-hits (because adding money to music has nev...

  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:48:11
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Combining a card trick with the card games, 52 pickup and slap jack also didn't work on radio.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2015
  • Length: 03:02:48

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:50:04
Caption: The WGSP "Prisoner of Rock 'n' Roll" Album
An oral history of WGSP - a 5,000 watt daytime only AM radio station that, in early 1985, transformed itself from a dismally-rated "moldie oldies" ...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 02:20:10
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A show in the shadows of a horrific terror attack on Paris. Recalling the days after Katrina when hearing music from New Orleans reassured us tha...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2015
  • Length: 02:35:53
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Something happened to create such a fertile ground for Americana music in post WWII era of the 1950-70s of this show's focus. However whatever ser...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2015
  • Length: 02:49:20
Caption: MIKE AND BASIL AT THE BEACH, Credit: MIKE MATTHEWS
Today it’s the return of the much loved feature INTO AN INTERVIEW where I’ll be speaking with the EXTREMELY talented Nashville-based singer/songwri...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 20:34
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A live broadcast from a costume party here in New Orleans. As with every Saturday night, music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard ...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2015
  • Length: 02:55:23
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Diamonds are brought to Earth by asteroids. They are also created on our planet by impacting celestial objects.

Bought by KRSC, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KALH, and KENW


  • Added: Jul 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
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I couldn't tell you why I think 100k watts of chewing tin foil is appropriate radio but here's three hours of music you've never heard by musicians...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2015
  • Length: 02:54:32
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Noa Guy was a promising Israeli composer. When she came to New York twenty-one years ago to rehearse for a concert at Carnegie Hall, she never imag...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2015
  • Length: 14:09
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Stuffing four hours of music into three hours. It looks as bad a making sausage but without the good taste!

  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 03:50:37
Caption: Joanna Ebenstein holding a taxidermy two-headed duckling at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Joanna Ebenstein, founder of the Morbid Anatomy Museum, tells her father, Bob, about the childhood...

Bought by WEZU, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 3
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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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This episode is about songs that reference summer.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2014
  • Length: 10:00
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This episode deals with songs about birds or have bird(s) in the title or subject

  • Added: Sep 20, 2014
  • Length: 26:57
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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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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of.... Songs from the golden era of Americana, the 1950-70s when the modern era of pop mu...

  • Added: Aug 26, 2014
  • Length: 02:46:25
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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