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Caption: Painting with John, Credit: Strange & Beautiful Music
Music from John Lurie, Jackie Gleason, Ray Davies, Ry Cooder, Ringo Starr & The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Victor Orchestra, One eskimO, Alan...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:22
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Tonight we are joined by Joshua Tree bookseller, author & publisher Jean-Paul L. Garnier of Space Cowboy Books, along with a transmission from poet...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: May 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Fred Willard
An additional hour of tributes from just a few of those lost in 2020

Bought by Mississippi Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Dec 27, 2020
  • Length: 58:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Hong Kong Mixtape introduces our first guest producer: composer and artist Samson Young, and the sound art community of Southeastern China. Young o...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2018
  • Length: 55:58
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Every year, Sivertson Gallery in Grand Marais holds the Inuit Premiere, featuring Inuit art and throat singing. This year's featured artist, Ningiu...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Oct 17, 2017
  • Length: 20:42
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Eric Kaiser and his Tern Sculpture. April 12th,2017. Cotuit. , Credit: Mitch Borden
Eric Kaiser started wood carving for a simple reason: he wanted a creative challenge. He decided to focus on one subject only, over and over. Birds...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:26
Caption: the students of The Kentucky Center for Traditional Music perform on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, it's a Celebration of the Music of Appalachia as folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Raymond McLain...

Bought by KEOS, Yellowstone Public Radio, WOUB, KCMJ Community Radio, KVSC and more


  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 10
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An atmospheric poem for Halloween.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2015
  • Length: 03:17
Caption: Ornette in Green
Celebrating Ornette Coleman, Christopher Lee and Jim Ed Brown. Improvisational sound mixed with harmonics and theory in "The Blood Is The Life" tri...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:19
Caption: The News Dissector
A Tribute to Danny Schechter, one of the very best producers in independent media-as "news dissector" gave me air space and mentoring for Shortcuts...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:07
Caption: Banjo greats Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn perform songs for their new album.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes banjo masters Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn.

Bought by KENW, KNAU, WRGY, WYAP, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2015
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 9
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Having your hair braided can be a matter of life or death

  • Added: May 12, 2014
  • Length: 02:53
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From Paradise City to Death Valley, Lisa Lipton drummed her way around North America in search of the Impossible Blue Rose

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:59
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In this episode of The Loop, Chris Medders talks about his transition from rapper to "beat" artist, his musical roots, and how his music is a perso...

  • Added: Jul 26, 2012
  • Length: 06:00
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Part of a series called The Loop, which examines Austin's burgeoning electronic scene. Andrew Thaggard (BoomBaptist) talks about the musicality of ...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:54
From: KUT
Series: The Loop
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Part of a series called The Loop, which examines Austin's burgeoning electronic scene. On this edition of The Loop, Michael D. White (Kinder) talks...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:26
From: KUT
Series: The Loop
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Part of a series called The Loop, which examines Austin's burgeoning electronic scene. On this episode, Nathan Piñones (Ntropy) reveals the persona...

  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 06:07
Caption: A Zulu girl wears her beadwork, Credit: Hlengi We Dube
You're fourteen, and you're in love with a boy in the next village. How do you tell him? Well, you bead it of course. This week's Global Guru uncov...

Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2010
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 2
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Every year at Yale, 14 male seniors are tapped to sing in an elite a cappella group called the Whiffenpoofs. Their repertoire ranges from Cole Port...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2009
  • Length: 05:22
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A sound-rich profile of Frank Pahl, a Wyandotte, Michigan based musician and toy instrument builder.

Bought by PRX Remix, KUT, WILL, Remix Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Apr 29, 2009
  • Length: 06:22
  • Purchases: 5
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A musician explains why the didgeridoo is special and how it saved his life.

Bought by WABE, KUT, and WTIP


  • Added: Sep 29, 2008
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: Sep 19, 2006
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 3
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Poem composition to summer in France

  • Added: Aug 16, 2006
  • Length: 02:12
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profile of experimental folk musician Ralph White, who may not have a wide audience, but has come to symbolize the uncompromising artist

  • Added: Jul 20, 2006
  • Length: 08:05
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Angus plays experimental glass music.

Bought by KGOU and KTUH


  • Added: Feb 14, 2004
  • Length: 06:10
  • Purchases: 2