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This week on Culture Queue, we put the "art" in The Arts Show that Rocks. We start the show off with a story by new reporter Georgia Lucas about yo...

Bought by KSRQ and KVSC


  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 31:19
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on Culture Queue, we refuse to put away childish things. It starts with Marcheta Fornoff and a new look at Dr. Seuss. Mitch Skinner and N...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 29:54
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This week, we lead our listeners into the Culture Queue Zone. Our journey begins with a look at real-life horrors present in the Soap Factory's hau...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 30:33
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This week on Culture Queue, we look at legends. Katie Bolin reports on pop star tribalism. Alex Bitter goes on the street for the Question of the W...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2013
  • Length: 31:10
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Comedian Jim Melis, Country Band Western Avenue, and The Cleansed in our audioboo...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2013
  • Length: 58:20
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This episode was specifically structured to fit in with WFHB’s 2013 Fall Fund Drive. While the show is a bit shorter in length than usual, it’s not...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2013
  • Length: 43:59
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A "house-head" is someone who enjoys the music, the dance and the positive vibe that is a part of the house music culture. What is House Music? Mec...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2013
  • Length: 07:32
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The Brown County Hour comes to you from the legendary Hills o' Brown where the plum purple haze, the one nature herself drapes in the hills and hol...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2013
  • Length: 59:01
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The Sycamore Landtrust’s Hillbilly Haiku jump starts a Bloomington Labor Day weekend full of festivals. The annual 4th Street Festival of the arts ...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2013
  • Length: 05:18
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Have you ever wanted to run your own radio station? This October the FCC is opening a window in which anyone can apply for to create their own low-...

Bought by KMUN and WMMT


  • Added: Aug 21, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Data from 12 different locations let violinmaker Joseph Curtin digitize a violin's sonic fingerprint., Credit: David Schulman
The sound of a fine acoustic violin is deviously hard to mimic. But a leading maker now has a digital prototype designed to sound the equal of a St...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, KUOW, Troy Public Radio, Hark! and more


  • Added: Jul 15, 2013
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 17
Caption: A Surly Puppet
Secret Awesome defies categories. But if you press the founder, Zak Kirwin, he describes them as a D.I.Y. artists collective. They are definitely a...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2013
  • Length: 04:45
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This year’s ACL festival lineup is out, and at least one major national music blog is calling it the best major festival of the year. We’ll explor...

  • Added: May 16, 2013
  • Length: 54:01
Caption: The home of bluesman Memphis Slim, a historic site next to the Stax Museum. A partnership with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra plans to turn this house into a place where musicians can practice and record.
It has been more than 50 years since a small recording company moved into the old Capitol Movie theater on East McLemore Avenue, and took the name ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Putting a spotlight on Willie Egan and the girl's "perfect song lyric" plus plenty of collector's music ("that you've never heard by musicians you'...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2013
  • Length: 08:50:42
Caption: Towns in the southern colonies had many residents who were slaves or free blacks., Credit: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Steven Spielberg’s recent film Lincoln stirred up a lot of talk about what history sounded like. Spielberg even recorded one of President Lincoln’s...

Bought by KENW and Radio Newark


  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
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When we think of early rock and roll most of us think of musicians like Little Richard, Elvis Presley, and Johnny Cash. But all these legends grew ...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, and KUOW


  • Added: Feb 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 4
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One of America’s greatest composers was Aaron Copland, who wrote among other things, an opera called The Tender Land, which premiered at the New Yo...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 11, 2013
  • Length: 06:31
  • Purchases: 3
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The art of songwriting was the focus of the Local Blend Coffee Shop's second annual Weekend of Songs songwriter festival. The three day festival o...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2012
  • Length: 29:50
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Saturday, August 18th was the first annual Grant Street Jazz festival in downtown Bloomington. The free event was organized by the group "Jazz from...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 08:34
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The growing field of music therapy found recent success in the treatment of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Her therapists sang or played...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Producer - Amy Clark
Producer Amy Clark presents a musical train trip up Highway 61 in honor of Bob Dylan’s 71st birthday

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 07:44
  • Purchases: 2
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Mostafa Nowroozi Rezvani, Iran, (now living in Northern Ireland)

  • Added: Jun 16, 2012
  • Length: 29:30
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Mostafa Nowroozi Rezvani, Iran, (now living in Northern Ireland)

  • Added: Jun 16, 2012
  • Length: 29:30