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Rarely Heard
From: George Harter
Series: A Night on the Town
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Great songs seldom heard from well-known musicals

Bought by KUPR low power FM, KAAD-LP, WVTF, and WRR


  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 58:28
  • Purchases: 4
Jim Falbo, Wedding Guitarist
From: KBEM
Caption: Jim Falbo, Credit: Gilliane Mansfeldt
Jim Falbo is a talented classical-based guitarist. He has a command of many music styles makes him a wedding guitarist who is in demand.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2016
  • Length: 08:48
Diane Jarvi: Finnish-American Woman and World Artist
From: KBEM
Series: Minnesota Music Profiles
Caption: Diane Jarvi, Credit: Nick Lethert
She’s an artist of many talents, and she keeps embracing more and more. Diane Jarvi is touched by Finnish, American and other world cultures, and s...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 09:19
The Speed of Sound: Colin Meloy (The Decemberists)
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Colin Meloy says he wishes he would have never used the word "hiatus" when referring to his band The Decemberists taking time off after The King Is...

Bought by KUCB, KHNS, KRCB 104.9, and KSUT


  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 07:04
  • Purchases: 4
Olivia Block: the room I was in
From: David Schulman
Series: Musicians in their own words
Caption: Olivia Block gathering audio in Chicago
The work of composer and sound artist Olivia Block has been described as "distinctive and individual" by The New York Times. She is happy enough wr...

Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WUNC, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 01, 2016
  • Length: 04:20
  • Purchases: 3
(Episode #03) The Sound of Music in Post-secondary Academics and Writing
From: Odegaard Writing and Research Center
Series: Character Development
Caption: Odegaard Writing and Research Center, Credit: OWRC
In this episode, the Character Development team inquires about the relationship between music/theater experiences and academia. To some, these two ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2016
  • Length: 19:29
High-tech Tools May Help Save Some Orchestras
From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism
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Orchestras around the country are struggling to keep their doors open, but new mobile phone apps may help save orchestras. Apps like periscope all...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2015
  • Length: 03:52
The Speed of Sound: First Aid Kit
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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The duo First Aid Kit burst onto the scene a few years back with the championing of Conor Oberst, but quickly started blazing their own path. Thei...

Bought by KSUT and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Dec 07, 2015
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Ghost in the MP3
From: Emily Richardson-Lorente
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What's lost when a song is compressed into an MP3? To the untrained ear, perhaps nothing. But to one composer, these "lost sounds" are a source for...

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


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 09:50
  • Purchases: 3
The Speed of Sound: Courtney Barnett
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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I probably don’t have to motivate you on the importance and excitement behind Courtney Barnett. The Aussie exploded onto our collective radars wit...

Bought by KSUT and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 09, 2015
  • Length: 07:00
  • Purchases: 2
Zac Little Stops by WFHB
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Zac Little of the American Folk Rock band Saintseneca a talks about the relationship between a necker cube and songwriting on the new album Such Th...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2015
  • Length: 09:28
TSR15-25 Natalie MacMaster
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
Caption: Tent Show Radio
Cape Breton fiddler extraordinaire.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KALH, WRNC-LP, KSRQ, KMSU and more


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 9
All About The Bass: Carol Kaye at 80
From: Ellin Stein
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Legendary bass player Carol Kaye, one of the top session musicians of the 60s and 70s and the only woman in this elite group, recalls recording wit...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Apr 30, 2015
  • Length: 28:16
  • Purchases: 1
Leigh Kamman remembered
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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For six decades, radio announcer and jazz enthusiast Leigh Kamman guided listeners on a musical journey through the sounds he loved: Jazz. KFAI pro...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 1
Bonjour Chanson Series 16, Episode 80
From: Charles Spira
Series: Bonjour Chanson Series 16
Caption: By Courtesy of Lucrèce Sassella
Very new, new and older Francophone songs introduced in English. No need to speak French to Enjoy the show.

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2015
  • Length: 29:14
  • Purchases: 1
Rez Rap Records creates a hip hop scene in northern Minnesota
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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In 2011, two rap groups in northern Minnesota decided to join forces: 100 Souls from Red Lake, and NPC3 from Bemidji. Together they’re known as Rez...

Bought by WDBM


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 1
A Tune to Change the Way We Act
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: Catherine Fisher, an avid thrift shopper
In late August last year, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, a Seattle-based rap group, released a single called “Thrift Shop.” This song has topped the ch...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 1
How My Basement Led Me To The Jazz Scene On Jackson Street
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2014
Caption: E. Russell 'Noodles' Smith, the owner of a famous club in the Central District in the 1900s., Credit: Credit Public domain, via BlackPast.org
RadioActive Reporter Nia Price-Nascimento lives in a house built in the 1920s in the Central District, Seattle's historically African-American neig...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:23
Inside San Francisco’s Secret SoundLab
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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Have you noticed how the way a space feels really depends on how it sounds? Take the California Academy of Sciences for example. With all the hundr...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 09:46
North Indian and Persian Cultures Combine in a New Twin Cities Production
From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend
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Rita Mustaphi has lead Kathak Dance Theater for decades. Maryam Yusafzadeh has led the Persian-based musical group, Robayat for a similar duration,...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
Not Your Grandma's Orchestra
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: The Firehouse Art Collective door opens to rainy Adeline Street., Credit: Mary Rees
Once or twice a month in the East Bay, violinists and bass-players, flautists and trumpeters -- gather to play orchestra music. But instead of a co...

  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 07:21
51: Zappa Dummy
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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Andy Holliden's interest in Frank Zappa first manifested itself while he was in high school. Beyond listening to the music and poring over linear n...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 17:11
  • Purchases: 1
The Day Lou Reed Died
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Job in Suck City, reads a poem about the late guitarist and songwriter Lou Reed.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
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
Digging for Disco
From: JP Davidson
Caption: Michael Boothman - Touch 12" Vinyl, Credit: Invisible City Editions
Music genres come and go, but it seems that the reports of disco’s death have been greatly exaggerated. That is at least according to a couple of e...

Bought by Delta College Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2

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