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An Ancient Inuit Legend, How the Fog Came
From: Michael Henrik Wynn
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This is an AI generated reading of a legend collected by Knud Rassmussen (1879-1933). I added Mongolian throat singers at the beginning and the end...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2024
  • Length: 04:12
240225 Songs By and About Boxers and Musicians Named "Johnny"
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Johnny Sardo When He Was With Randy and the Rainbows
Also song lyrics specifically about boxers and songs sung by boxers (and other athletes). And oh so many musicians named "Johnny." Oh yeah, songs...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, WMTNradio, Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 8
Global Village 2.23.24 or floating date
From: KMUW
Series: Global Village with Chris Heim
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Global Village visits North Africa this time for contemporary sounds from Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, and Sudan. Among the artists featured a...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, KRZA, KUPR low power FM, KSKA, WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 33
MN Reads: "Sure, I'll Join Your Cult" by Maria Bamford
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Comedian Maria Bamford talks about her new book "Sure, I'll Join Your Cult"

  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 10:19
Notes from the Jazz Underground #251
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This is an odd show, even by my standards. King Crimson, a tribute to King Crimson, two Jazz arrangements of Black Sabbath songs, Pat Metheny, Carl...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Northwest Public Broadcasting, KRCB 104.9, KRSC, RADIOLEX and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2024
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 6
240218 "Walkin'" Songs and Gulf Coast Sound
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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A series of songs similar to "The Stroll" but wackier; Gorilla Walk, Panther Walk, Wild Man Walk, Wee Gee Walk, Cat Walk, etc. Then music and musi...

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
785-Secret Asteroid Mission
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Psyche and Spacecraft, Credit: NASA
Unlike other space missions which are conducted out in the open the asteroid mining company AstroForge’s first mission to a potentially valuable ne...

Bought by KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KGLP, Raven Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Global Village 2.16.24 or floating date
From: KMUW
Series: Global Village with Chris Heim
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SPECIAL: Some fun sounds this time in the Global Village as we highlight ‘60s and ‘70s pop and rock from Asia. We’ll hear distinctive sounds that c...

Bought by KRZA, KIYU-FM, KBBI Alaska, RADIOLEX, KSKA and more


  • Added: Feb 10, 2024
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 29
Want to know the truth about Valentine’s Day? Me Too.
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
I thought it would be simple. Just google Valentine’s Day and learn all about it – when and where it started and modern ways it’s celebrated arou...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
[Simulated Part One] Love at first (web)sight: romance with an AI companion
From: Embodied
Series: Embodied - Specials
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AI chatbots garner millions of daily users, filling a variety of roles from customer support to text generator. But what about their romantic poten...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WHRV, KWGS, RadioFreePalmer, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 58:23
  • Purchases: 5
Notes from the Jazz Underground #250
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This week, it's a little bit of everything, from Anthony Braxton's free jazz to the Messthetics Jazz/Punk hybrid to the sounds of Hip Hop and Jazz ...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KRCB 104.9, Northwest Public Broadcasting, and KRPS


  • Added: Feb 07, 2024
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 4
240211 Songs About Girls In Cars With Creepy Guys
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Lord Luther
What is it with teenagers commanding popular music of the last 3/4 century then defaulting to the stupidest lyrics imaginable? Songs featuring cre...

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Feb 05, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:01
  • Purchases: 7
Ep 99. Neil Young: Love as the Apocalypse Rocks Us
From: Earth Riot Radio
Series: Earth Riot Radio
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The songs of the new release, Before and After, give us Love that we can use. The wars and mass extinction seem to mock the tenderness of Love, but...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
784-Josh’s Two PHAs
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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So far asteroid hunters have discovered approximately half of the 5,000 PHAs which are likely to exist. Asteroid hunters will continue to search th...

Bought by Raven Radio, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, RADIOLEX, WTIP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Feb 04, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Exploring NFT’s With Jamie Ritchie From BlockBar
From: Mark Lenzi
Series: The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW)
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Exploring all things wine with you! In this episode Kim and Mark interview Jamie Ritchie COO from BlockBar. The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW) exp...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2024
  • Length: 33:24
Notes from the Jazz Underground #249
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, 1/2 of the show is grooving and full of chops, and 1/2 of the show is psychedelic trip through the vast expanses of your mind. We'll hea...

Bought by RADIOLEX, GCR (Global Community Radio), KRSC, KRCB 104.9, KRPS and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2024
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 6
240203 Milk and Hip Lexicon Lyrics
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: Miles Conner
Songs about drinking milk, the hip lexicon lyric and its opposite, extremely goofy lyrics. Plenty of vocal group harmony songs because vocal grou...

Bought by KFCF FM, Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KSLU and more


  • Added: Jan 29, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 6
Jewish Tango!
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Don’t you love an intimate tango? Jewish singers, instrumentalists and songwriters have brought us tangos in Yiddish and Hebrew for more than a cen...

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Noah Creshevsky
From: Radio Diaries
Series: The Unmarked Graveyard: Stories from Hart Island
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When Noah Creshevsky learned he was dying of bladder cancer two years ago, he decided to decline medical treatment. Soon, he and his husband David ...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:41
Notes from the Jazz Underground #248
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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This week, we'll listen to some country fried Jazz, amongst other things. Songs from Dolly Parton, Jimmy Webb and Willie Nelson, and performances b...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRCB 104.9, KRSC, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KRPS and more


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 58:04
  • Purchases: 6
210128 Shotgun Weddings and Car Crashes To Change the 1950s Census
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Aquatones
We wipe out more pesky teenagers with overly dramatic teenage angst songs ranging from splatter platters / death disks about car crashes to shotgun...

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Notes from the Jazz Underground #10 - big bands in the underground (encore)
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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one last encore episode before I'm back with new episodes next week...This week on Notes from the Jazz Underground, the big bands are coming back, ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), Northwest Public Broadcasting, KRCB 104.9, KRSC, and KRPS


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 5
240121 Guitar Instrumentalists Plus Music and Musicians You've Never Heard
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
Caption: The Mysterious "Marie Bourbarere" of New Orleans "I'm Coming Home"
Belgium, Japan, Italy, and US guitar slingers; musicians who worked radio and their bands, songs about giant canaries and little Yosemite Sam. All...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, Delmarva Public Media, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2024
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 7
Notes from the Jazz Underground #160 - the standards, underground style (encore)
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we're checking out a few intriguing versions of songs from the Great American Sonngbook from Eric Dolphy, Cecil Taylor, Dave King and ot...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRSC, KRPS, and Northwest Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 07, 2024
  • Length: 58:10
  • Purchases: 4
Notes from the Jazz Underground #190 - No Wave and Beyond (encore)
From: WDCB
Series: Notes from the Jazz Underground
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this week, we'll hear some heroes of the No Wave Movement, like James Chance, Swans, John Zorn's Naked City and John Lurie's Lounge Lizards, and th...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRCB 104.9, Northwest Public Broadcasting, KRSC, KRPS and more


  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 6

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