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JM Stevens is a singer/songwriter based out of Austin, Texas. He grew up in West Point, Mississippi fortunate enough to have a mother who was a sin...
- Added: May 11, 2024
- Length: 58:05
At a recent vinyl record convention, having mostly struck out with my shopping list, I took a chance on an album with a cool, very 'of the period' ...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Sep 23, 2023
- Length: 56:13
- Purchases: 1
Norman Taylor is a Philly-based Country-Blues artist. His style is based around such blues greats as Robert Johnson and Skip James, along with mode...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Jul 04, 2023
- Length: 56:20
- Purchases: 1
I first encountered Ben de la Cour and his songs when he opened a concert in support of Peter Case. To say I was immediately smitten by his songwri...
- Added: May 29, 2023
- Length: 57:42
Harry Belafonte's death provoked an outpouring of mourning in India though many learned about his civil rights activism only through his obituaries.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: May 16, 2023
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
After turning 16 Peter Case left home in Buffalo, New York and headed West to California. He became part of the street musician scene out there and...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Mar 05, 2023
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 1
Robin Armstrong's music project, Cosmograf, has released a new album entitled 'Heroic Materials'. It's a song cycle based on the life of a World Wa...
- Added: Sep 25, 2022
- Length: 01:56:11
Arielle Silver, based out of Burbank California, is a singer/songwriter of the highest caliber.
Maybe it's an innate ability, maybe it comes down t...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: Aug 20, 2022
- Length: 56:28
- Purchases: 1
What do you get when you blend a folk-rock style with classical training? You get Jessica Graae!
Her latest album is 'Wild River', and to me, many ...
- Added: Jul 10, 2022
- Length: 58:10
The “In Memoriam” segment of the 2022 Grammy awards failed to remember one very important icon, Lata Mangeshkar. While many fans of Indian music an...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 11, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy shares the journey of Mahesh Vinayakram, from the verse of Carnatic music to the world stage of Cirque du Soleil.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 15, 2022
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
For Indians Lata Mangeskhar was like Edith Piaf to French or Barbara Streisand to Americans.
- Added: Feb 15, 2022
- Length: 06:00
Lata Mangeshkar was the story of independent India. Most Indians had never known an India without her.
- Added: Feb 08, 2022
- Length: 06:00
HOUR 2 of 2. GEORGE HARRISON – BEST YEAR EVER celebrates two landmark events that rolled out from George Harrison in 197. In the first hour (alread...
Bought by WRVO Public Media, KSJE, and KUHF
- Added: Jan 17, 2022
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
In a bitterly polarized world bristling with fake news, cancel culture and troll armies, Abba reminds us that being likable is not somehow a mark o...
- Added: Nov 09, 2021
- Length: 06:00
All over the world we denigrate the importance of the “pursuit of happiness.” It can be seen as selfish and we lead circumscribed lives in order t...
- Added: Oct 12, 2021
- Length: 06:00
American’s are no stranger to election songs, but in India election songs are a different ballgame. Though there are plenty of songs, Bollywood and...
- Added: Apr 05, 2021
- Length: 06:00
Manna Dey’s birthday is May 1. He would have been 100 years old.
- Added: Apr 29, 2019
- Length: 06:00
The Tail Dragger got his name from the Howlin' Wolf and is one of the most notorious singers on the Chicago blues scene over the past 35 years. He ...
Bought by KMUW, WLPR , WYAP, KRZA, Public Radio East and more
- Added: Dec 01, 2017
- Length: 57:55
- Purchases: 10
We’ll look at three songs: “Strange Fruit” sung by Billie Holiday (and recently sampled by Kanye West); “We Almost Lost Detroit” by Gill Scott Hero...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Jan 03, 2017
- Length: 55:38
- Purchases: 2
Most of us around the world wake up to alarm clocks or the clock radio turning on.
For decades thousands and thousands of Indians around the world...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 06:00
In India in the 1960s there were few options for a blind child. Blind people often begged in trains and railway platforms singing hymns.
But Baluji...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Aug 23, 2016
- Length: 05:59
- Purchases: 1
This week we focus on the sounds of Moombahton and it’s creator Dave Nada.
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 58:51
R.D. Burman would have turned 75 last week and Bollywood threw a great birthday bash.
Sandip Roy and Kronos Quartet violinist David Harrington rem...
- Added: Jun 30, 2014
- Length: 04:30
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!!
Featuring Epic Metal Band Suncrown, Musician Davey Copeland, and After the Fall in our aud...
- Added: Jan 22, 2014
- Length: 58:08
