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Day Job 6: The Mind Reader
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Ivan Galvez of Picoso, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job
Ivan Gálvez plays timbales with the Seattle band Picoso. He also scans my brainwaves with an electroencephalogram machine at the hospital where he ...

Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:16
  • Purchases: 3
Day Job 5: Fear And The Flying Trapeze
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: A trapeze student, Credit: Joshua McNichols
Kari Kirkland stands on a narrow platform high above the ground. As a trapeze instructor, her job is to convince students to jump off that platform...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Delmarva Public Media, and KUOW


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 16:18
  • Purchases: 3
The Roustabouts Play their Singular Brand of Music Sat. Night May 25
From: KBEM
Caption: The Roustabouts, Credit: Jessica Bailey
The group is nothing if not individualistic, with a collection of acoustic instruments and hard-edged singing. It's acoustic rock with a a lot of e...

  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
Day Job 3: The Best Laid Plans Of Lesli Wood
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Lesli Wood of The Redwood Plan, Credit: Joshua McNichols
Lesli Wood has achieved almost every goal she's set for herself. She's a professional lawyer. And her band, The Redwood Plan, has played to big cro...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 14:20
  • Purchases: 1
Day Job 2: Pi Day
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Pi Day at Pies and Pints, Credit: Joshua McNichols
Kennith Darling played bass with Seattle band The Trouble Starts. That is, he used to, until the band broke up. "I feel like I lost three really cl...

Bought by KUOW and Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 11:06
  • Purchases: 2
Day Job 1: Bitter Barista
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Matt "Spek" Watson at The Station, Credit: Joshua McNichols
Seattle's Matt Watson performs as a rapper and producer under the name Spekulation. He used to hate his day job serving espresso. After being outed...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, Delmarva Public Media, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 13:13
  • Purchases: 4
Love the French Way 16 - One Day You Will See
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
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Marcel Mouloudji, theater and movie actor, painter and songwriter, daydreams about meeting the one he'll love in the song "One Day You Will See"

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:14
Midnight Melodies: MIT After Hours
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
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For Joe, the best part of playing the piano is doing it where no one’s listening.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
Love the French Way 15 - Unknown Flavors
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
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Gaetane Abrial unabashedly declares her love, passion and desires in the song "Unknown Flavors" co-written with André Manoukian.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 04:50
Love the French Way 12 - Know that I
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
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"I love you", three short words, full of sweetness, but there are undercurrents and a darker side, as Jean-Jacques Goldman tells us in his song "Kn...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:56
Love the French Way 11 - To Dare
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
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We have crossed swords, we have suffered sleepless nights. Do we dare reach out to each other with open arms?

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 05:02
Love the French Way 10 - Lost Beauty
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
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I'll show courage, I'll channel my anger and let time go by, but it will take a lot more to cope with the loss of your beauty.

  • Added: Oct 13, 2012
  • Length: 04:33
Love the French Way 9 - Early September
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
Caption: Et Maxence, aka Carole Nortier
The singer/songwriter 'Et Maxence' found her audience through the internet. Her song "Early September", about a relationship full of doubts, is in ...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 05:23
Audio Postcard: Zombie Fest. DIY punk show in Kazakhstan
From: Seattle Globalist
Series: Generation Putin
Caption: Zombie Fest, Credit: Alex Stonehill, The Seattle Globalist
Audio postcard from DIY punk music festival in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 11, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 1
Love the French Way 8 - Mathilde
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
Caption: Mathilde is back! What now?
Following a traumatic breakup, Mathilde is back in town, leaving her ex-partner in a state of panic.

  • Added: Sep 06, 2012
  • Length: 04:08
Love the French Way 7 - Happiness
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
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Do not fear happiness. It does not exist. We shall die tomorrow. Let yourself go for the duration of a kiss...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 04:34
Love the French Way 6 - Nathalie
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
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A young Frenchman visits the Red Square in Moscow. His guide is a pretty Russian girl. Romance blossoms, notwithstanding Cold War politics.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Aug 07, 2012
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 1
Love the French Way 5 - Simple as "Good Morning"
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
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A poem by Jacques Prévert, "As Simple as 'Good Morning'" has become a song that celebrates a serene and contented love. Vanina Michel interprets...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 26, 2012
  • Length: 04:10
  • Purchases: 1
Love the French Way 4 - Aicha
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
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A man promises pearls, diamonds and riches to a woman. She responds: I have no need for these treasures. Bars on the window are bars even if they ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 05:29
  • Purchases: 1
Love the French Way 3 - Bluer Than Your Eyes
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
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Edith Piaf in an upbeat mood, interprets a beautiful love song written especially for her by Charles Aznavour.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 19, 2012
  • Length: 04:43
  • Purchases: 1
Love the French Way 2 - The Dress and the Ladder
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
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A young man takes his girlfriend to a cherry orchard. They ascend a ladder together. Thus starts a magnificent love song about young love, writte...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 15, 2012
  • Length: 05:18
  • Purchases: 1
Love the French Way 1 - Hotel of the Caravelles
From: Charles Spira
Series: Love the French Way
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A beautiful spring day, a small city, a man and a woman cross paths. They may have encountered each other before..., thus starts the beautiful love...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Jul 05, 2012
  • Length: 04:42
  • Purchases: 1
Producer Profile: Cathleen O'Connell
From: Vision Maker Media
Caption: Cathleen O'Connell
Reporter Ben Kreimer speaks with filmmaker Cathleen O'Connell about her new documentary entitled Sousa on the Rez.

  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 16:13
Gypsy Swing
From: Richard Paul
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Explaining Gypsy Swing

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 11:37
  • Purchases: 2
Swing Jazz
From: Richard Paul
Caption: Benny Goodman and his Orchestra
Explaining Swing Jazz

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 12:10
  • Purchases: 2