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Covid Concert Restrictions
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Last month, two major concert promotors stated their venues and concerts by their artists will be for those who are vaccinated only. This command ...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Black Box
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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It seems that music companies are going out of their way to not pay their performers. The Black Box is a nickname given to a fund of royalties tha...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Faked Their Death
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Elvis. Michael Jackson. Tupac. Many believe these people are still alive but faked their death. What is better is that of all the musicians we ...

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  • Added: Sep 19, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Decoding Dylan
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week we speak with author Jim Curtis about his new book, Decoding Dylan Making Sense of the Songs That Changed Modern Culture. Curtis is an a...

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  • Added: Sep 12, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Authority and U: On the Anti-Democratic Campus
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: IU student Gregory Hess was arrested during a 1970 anti-war protest for shouting a statement urging a crowd of demonstrators to retake a street that police had just cleared. , Credit: Maurer School of Law
Our show is "Authority and U" with guest Steve Volan, a student of human geography at Indiana University and a city council member in Bloomington, ...

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  • Added: Sep 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poorly Attended Concerts
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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All too often, when a concert is poorly attended, it is made fun of. However, used correctly, it can be a learning experience to work on your perf...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
YouTube's Content ID
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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If you have ever posted content to YouTube that contains music, there is a good chance you've had a ContentID interaction. You could have received...

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  • Added: Aug 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Biz Markie Lawsuit
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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In the 90s, Biz Markie was a popular rapper with a top 10 hit. Then he used the song Alone Again by Gilbert OSullivan. He was sued not only for c...

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  • Added: Aug 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Deep Fake Audio
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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What is the future of music? Could it be music made only for you, by a computer that knows and monitors you? THat way it plays you the exact musi...

Bought by KWIT, KTRL, WOUB, and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 09, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Band Logos
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week, we will tell you the story behind some of the best known band logos. From Dancing Bears to the Van Halen wings belonging to someone els...

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  • Added: Aug 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Britney's Conservatorship
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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The FreeBritney movement has been active lately calling for the singer to be free of her father. But should she be? Why was she put under a conse...

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  • Added: Jul 18, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Songs Based on the News
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Earlier this year, we did a shows on the topics of folk songs and while researching that show, we found a lot of songs outside the folk genre that ...

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  • Added: Jul 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Won't Play in Concert
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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This week we will discuss stories about bands that won't play their hit in concert. Often the band or artist has a decent reason but sometimes it ...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Trigger Finger
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Musicians, especially stringed instrument musicians, have a better than 80 percent chance of developing Trigger Finger. I know. I had it and at t...

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  • Added: Jun 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Bad Managers Part Two
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Welcome to week two of Bad Managers. There are simply so many stories of managers messing over their clients that we had to make two shows out o...

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  • Added: May 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Bad Managers Part One
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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It's a well known music trope that managers often do NOT do well by their clients. In fact, it happens so often, we're going to do two shows out o...

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  • Added: May 16, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Contrafact and Contrafactum
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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We were in a conversation about musicians reusing their own lyrics. We found so many examples that I though there had to be a name for this. Ther...

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  • Added: May 02, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
NFTs
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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NFT stands for Non Fungible Token. It is a method of proving that a digital thing is the first copy. It works somewhat like a Cryptocurrency. An...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
What Was the First Music Video?
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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(Please note - we usually post on Sunday but are posting this a early due to a committment - thanks) So, what was the first Music Video? I don't ...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Dance Songs
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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About once a year, or so, someone creates a song specifically to make a dance. The lyrics say what to do and we do it. But, what was the first? ...

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Odd Opening Bands
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Hendrix opening for The Monkees is the benchmark of odd opening bands, but there is a reason they were paired. And there is a reason why a lot of ...

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Music Trademarks
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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A music trademark? Can you even do that? Should it not be a copyright? Well, yes and no. Taylor Swift and Beyonce are trademarking their lyrics...

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  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Hipgnosis
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Devo and a long list of other musicians have sold their music catalog to a music investment company. ...

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  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
2021 Anniversaries - Part 2
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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Here is the second part of our look at the anniversaries of 2021. We do every 10 years going back from the new year. This week, we will discuss e...

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  • Added: Jan 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
2021 Anniversaries - Part 1
From: KSLU
Series: Rock School
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To start every year, we look back every ten years to find out what will be the anniversaries for this new year. In this show we'll start all the w...

Bought by KWIT, WOUB, Harford Community Radio, KSRQ, and WYAP


  • Added: Dec 25, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5