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Brian Bahouth chats with rocker JD McPherson ... a jumping mix of words and music ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2014
  • Length: 18:15
Caption: Bappi Lahiri at an election rally , Credit: Sandip Roy
The Times of India newspaper called this Indian election a "Dance of Democracy." But for Sandip Roy it's more of a 'Disco' Dance of Democracy.

  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
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Drums, Wind Chimes and Meteorites are all forms of percussion in the Rhythm Discovery Center in Indianapolis.

  • Added: Apr 22, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
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I walked the Truckee River Trail through downtown Reno this past Saturday and recorded an interview with a man selling cds and playing a drum. Lar...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2014
  • Length: 06:29
Caption: Photographer Dima Sharomov, Credit: Greenpeace
Dima Sharomov is Russian, a photographer and friends with many of the 'Arctic 30'. After for 100 days in prison,they were to be transferred to St P...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Apr 08, 2014
  • Length: 09:49
  • Purchases: 1
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Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 01:34
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2011 NEA Jazz Master Sheila Jordan talks about her life in jazz. [34:48]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 34:49
  • Purchases: 1
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
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Robert Jevne lives, works, and talks about himself in the third person in the greater Jacobson area. This manner of speaking is most likely an outg...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 25, 2014
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 1
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At Old Sturbridge Village, a rotating cast of men and women don period clothes while performing 19th century roles for the public. Emily Kwong take...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 1
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There’s a national conversation about promoting science education for students, but what about science after graduation? Allison Quantz has the sto...

Bought by WABE, WXDU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 31, 2014
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 3
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We kick off the new year with a brand new show, new producers, and new segments. This week Katie Bolin explores the world of online dating, Parker ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 15, 2014
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Producer Katie Bolin refutes all complaints about the questionably-dubbed "Polar Vortex," suggesting it's the perfect excuse to avoid everything yo...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:04
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Near dusk, you can often find Shirley Doell at Oakland Civic Center, staring at the tops of skyscrapers through her big telescope. But she isn’t sp...

  • Added: Dec 29, 2013
  • Length: 15:48
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Sonja Peterson in Minneapolis.

  • Added: Oct 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:37
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Culture Queue's game show!

  • Added: Oct 26, 2013
  • Length: 01:37
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This week on Culture Queue, we look at motion in three stages.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 26, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In Culture Queue 10-6-13: One Hit Wonders from 10-06-13 we rerun this week, but with a new spin.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 26, 2013
  • Length: 27:11
  • Purchases: 1
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Deleter are in Studio K for a live in-studio with Radio K.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 17:01
  • Purchases: 1
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The Cloak Ox are in Studio K for a live in-studio with Off The Record.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 13:36
  • Purchases: 1
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The Chambermaids are in Studio K for a live in-studio with Radio K.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 08:46
  • Purchases: 1
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A Chicagoan deals with an interesting beach situation and Londoners deal with a growing population of parakeets.

  • Added: Sep 26, 2013
  • Length: 23:07
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
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
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WTIP's Buck Benson & Ann Possis recently welcomed the EverGreen Grass Band to Studio A. The four-piece group (banjo, mandolin, guitar & bass guitar...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1