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The Speed of Sound: Tune-Yards
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Merrill Garbus hears the world differently than I do. Regular everyday sounds become rhythm to her and she excels in incorporating it all into the ...

Bought by KSUT, KHNS, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:57
  • Purchases: 3
The Speed of Sound: TV On the Radio
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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You’ve probably heard by now that TV On the Radio almost gave it all up before deciding to forge ahead, eventually resulting in last year’s Seeds, ...

Bought by KUCB, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 07:06
  • Purchases: 3
The Speed of Sound: Toro y Moi
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Chaz Bundick never meant to be a musician. It was never in his original plan. He wanted to be a graphic designer. But now that he’s blown up as Tor...

Bought by KHNS and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 14, 2015
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 2
In The Kitchen
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry about the kitchen, food, and the emotional associations we form with both.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2015
  • Length: 55:43
Musician's Spotlight - Madeleine Peyroux - 606
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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A visit with the distinctive folk-jazz vocalist Madeleine Peyroux

Bought by Prairie Public, Prairie Public, KCMJ Community Radio, KGLT, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2015
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 5
Musician's Spotlight - Eric Johnson and Mike Stern - 605
From: John Floridis
Series: Musician's Spotlight
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A conversation of serious string bending, tones and music fluency with two iconic jazz-rock guitarists

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Jonestown / Prime Time! / Vern's House! / PSA / Re-energize Your Workday!
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Julia Scheeres/Jonestown Patricia Cohen/middle-age Vern Yip/decorator Dr. Richard Ablin/Prostate Cancer Susan Shane/desk exercise

  • Added: Sep 21, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
The Last Rose of Summer
From: Will Duchon
Series: The Night Cafe
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Songs about summer's lingering days.

  • Added: Sep 19, 2015
  • Length: 56:46
Folktale of Education
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: Folktale of Education, Credit: Julia Meek
We're traveling around the world of knowledge on this week's back-to-school edition of Folktales, in the finest of 'musical continuing ed' traditio...

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WLPR , KCMJ Community Radio, and WFIU


  • Added: Sep 16, 2015
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 5
The Speed of Sound: Chuck Prophet
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Chuck Prophet's music (as well as Lou Reed & Sweet) underscores his talk with Kyle Meredith about life as an artist.

Bought by KUCB, KHNS, KSUT, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:53
  • Purchases: 4
Ellis Paul on Art of the Song
From: Art of the Song
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Our guest this week on Art of the Song is singer/songwriter, artist, entrepreneur, Ellis Paul. He truly embodies the creative and entrepreneurial v...

  • Added: Jul 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
Around The Bend E28
From: Maximilian Eyle
Series: Around The Bend
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The first of the post-college series, this episode brings you Max's roots reggae picks along with exclusive, unreleased material from Stick Figure ...

  • Added: May 28, 2015
  • Length: 58:53
Folktale of Dishonesty
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
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On this week's Folktale, we're chasing guile, duplicity, and random acts of falsehood around the musical globe--and that's the truth!

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU and more


  • Added: Apr 03, 2015
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 10
Let's Get Away
From: Will Duchon
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Songs about getting away from it all.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:41
Spotify
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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The 400th episode of rock school airs with the history of Spotify, how is pays and how it could be the future of music. Many known musicians believ...

Bought by KSKQ, KSRQ, and WOUB


  • Added: Dec 20, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Thanks for the Memories
From: Will Duchon
Series: The Night Cafe
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A collection of Night Cafe favorites and discoveries from the past year.

  • Added: Nov 29, 2014
  • Length: 56:09
It's Time We Cut Welfare
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one half minute commentary on paying for restoring unemployment benefits to the long-term unemployed by cutting corporate welfare.

  • Added: Apr 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Two Guys on Your Head: Sugar and The Brain
From: KUT
Series: Two Guys On Your Head
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Why is it hard to have just one of those delicious slices of pound cake over the holidays? Well, it turns out it has less to do with the creamy but...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA


  • Added: Jan 03, 2014
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
Country Fried Rock #1326: Samantha Martin & The Haggard
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Samantha Martin And The Haggard, Credit: Press Photo
Americana music is not the sole purview of the United States, as Canadian, Samantha Martin, the chief songwriter for Samantha Martin & The Haggard,...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KKRN, WLPR , WSLR, KKRN and more


  • Added: Jul 29, 2013
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 6
Folktale of Closure
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Closure, Credit: Julia Meek
"Where is the good in goodbye?" Meredith Wilson's "Music Man" pondered this question, which we're revisiting with a tour of departures, leave taki...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:11
  • Purchases: 10
Travis Ryder talks with Dianne Pittman about the annual New Year's Day Bike Ride taking place in Bemidji
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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They ride a mile for every degree above zero the temperature rises to on the day of the ride. Dianne talks to Travis about the ride, tips on winter...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2011
  • Length: 10:17
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Ledward Kaapana
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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2011 National Heritage Fellow and slack key guitar master Led Kaapana talks about making music the Hawaiian way.

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Sep 22, 2011
  • Length: 27:07
  • Purchases: 1
Is Air Pollution Really Harming Us?
From: Dueling Docs
Series: Dueling Docs
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A new government report says be careful out there. Others disagree.

  • Added: Jun 30, 2010
  • Length: 02:00
The Last Word on Brushes with the Law
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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High up on that list of the shocks of aging is the first time a cop calls you "sir."

  • Added: Mar 29, 2010
  • Length: 03:14
Commentator Aaron Brown on Acting Happy
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Between You and Me
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There's a difference between "a smile" and an actual smile, Aaron calls it his "work smile" or a "strategic deployment of teeth."

  • Added: Mar 22, 2010
  • Length: 03:43