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Full Moon Hacksaw # 1470 (Hour 1 & 2) - 04/02/2015
From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw
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Extreme vintage hour openers, like bebop in a big band with Eckstine, rare Clifford Brown the other. Singers who would normally not mix, Carrie Smi...

Bought by KZUM, WVBI-LP, KPVL, KHNS, and WOUB


  • Added: Apr 01, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 5
5 Songs We Can't Stop Listening To: Film Festival Edition
From: RadioMilwaukee
Series: 5 Songs We Can't Stop Listening To
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The Milwaukee Film Festival is my favorite two weeks of the year. It is a two week celebration of Art that the entire city participates in. As a ra...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 18:54
5 Songs We Can't Stop Listening To (With Guest DJ Spoon)
From: RadioMilwaukee
Series: 5 Songs We Can't Stop Listening To
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This week is quite possibly the BEST week of the year for music releases. Perfume Genius, Leonard Cohen, SBTRKT, Alt-J, and King Tuff are all comin...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 18:54
5 Songs We Can't Stop Listening To (with guest Glass Animals)
From: RadioMilwaukee
Series: 5 Songs We Can't Stop Listening To
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5 Songs We Can’t Stop Listening to is the best of the best. Usually it is the absolutely newest/latest, but true to it’s name, there are songs from...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2015
  • Length: 25:09
Way Beyond the Blue
From: Hold That Thought
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Professor André de Quadros believes that music is for everyone, including prison inmates. Here, he shares his moving experiences teaching in two Ma...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:38
  • Purchases: 1
TSR14-22 Della Mae
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
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Tent Show Radio welcomes from Nashville, Tennessee, Grammy Award bluegrass Nominees Della Mae.

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, WDSE, KSRQ, Wisconsin Public Radio, and KMXT


  • Added: May 23, 2014
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 5
TSR14-20 Live From Fish Creek
From: Tent Show Radio
Series: Tent Show Radio
Caption: Tent Show Radio
Tent Show Radio takes the show on the road to beautiful Fish Creek, Wisconsin featuring special guest artist Katie Dahl along with host Michael Per...

Bought by WDSE, WRNC-LP, KSRQ, Wisconsin Public Radio, WNMU-FM and more


  • Added: May 19, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Celine & Me
From: Nick Jaworski
Series: Music and The Moment
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In this humorous piece, Nick, a music teacher, tells the story of two Celine Dion songs and how they have helped him understand the value of music ...

  • Added: May 09, 2014
  • Length: 06:38
The Low Dao 30: Ingrid Gerdes
From: Jon Dao
Series: The Low Dao
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Ingrid spilled the beans on what it’s like to pursue music through an indie label.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2014
  • Length: 33:46
The John Sebastian Interview
From: Jake Feinberg
Series: In The Land of Giants
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John Sebastian talks with Jake Feinberg about his mentors and teachers like Mississippi John Hurt and Lightnin' Hopkins.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 06:25
  • Purchases: 1
The Holiday Adventures of Amahl + Me
From: Liz Massey
Caption: Liz Massey, Credit: Photo courtesy of Liz Massey
Liz Massey's family only had 3 holiday record albums when she was growing up. In this story, she explains her role as an unlikely evangelist for on...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2013
  • Length: 08:22
Liner Notes: Pannonica de Koenigswarter
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Pannonica de Koenigswarter
Known as "Nica" or "The Baroness" Pannonica de Koenigswarter was a jazz patron who supported artists such as Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker, bo...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:54
  • Purchases: 1
Never Too Lathe - The World of Lathe-Cut Records
From: Lee Rosevere
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Exploring the world of lathe-cut records - a cost-effective and unique way for struggling musicians the opportunity to get their music on vinyl.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 08:27
JazzStories: Abbey Lincoln
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"The artists are the ones who make it possible for people to remember what the time was like, and who was there, and what we did as human beings. ...

Bought by WMOT, WHQR, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 11:41
  • Purchases: 4
JazzStories: Warren Wolf
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"I did a lot of practicing with my dad. We were practicing five days a week Monday through Friday for 90 minutes a day starting at the age of 3 up ...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Aug 12, 2013
  • Length: 14:23
  • Purchases: 3
Purple bag nostalgia
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Music World closes, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sandip finds himself oddly nostalgic, for a noisy purple bag.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Sarah Vaughan
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Sarah Vaughan
With her ability to banter with the audience and outspoken sense of humor Sarah Vaughn was best described as “sassy.” Her first big break came afte...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 1
JazzStories: Chris Potter
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"The music is not just the music. It's a reflection of how to live. I think I started out I just really liked the sound of the music and I had no i...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, and KREV-LP


  • Added: Jun 24, 2013
  • Length: 20:34
  • Purchases: 3
JazzStories: Michael Cuscuna
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"I guess it was about 3rd or 4th grade that I got hooked on R & B and early rock & roll. I just became a fanatical record collector even at that ...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media and KREV-LP


  • Added: May 28, 2013
  • Length: 17:26
  • Purchases: 2
JazzStories: Stefon Harris
From: Murray Street Productions
Series: JazzStories
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"When I started to play jazz... I started in the middle. I wanted to play Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and all of that stuff first... When I started c...

Bought by WMOT, Delmarva Public Media, KREV-LP, and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 07:39
  • Purchases: 4
Bud Powell
From: KUT
Series: KUTX Liner Notes
Caption: Bud Powell
As we recognize Bud Powell as one of the most influential jazz pianists of the 20th century, we must also acknowledge how much of his greatness and...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2
Part 1 - Hip-hop Artist One Be Lo talks Music, Youth, and Empowerment.
From: Noah Chandler
Series: Imagine 2050 Podcast
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Part 1 of an interview with indie- hip-hop artist, One Be Lo.

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:36
More Than Just A Song
From: WHJE
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That song comes on. You listen to it and suddenly this unwarranted emotional reaction happens and you are taken to another world, happy or sad.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 25, 2013
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 1
" A Lifelong Journalist / NYC Cyclist on Biking and What The Latest Twist in the Lance Armstrong Saga Teaches Us About Journalism"
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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Notes, thoughts and observations from a lifelong NYC biker on the art of cycling ( I have the broken bones to prove it )and what the real lesson is...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 57:53
Centerstage Minnesota: Eric Pollard, aka Actual Wolf, talks with Travis Ryder
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Actual Wolf
Eric Pollard has played as part of musical acts like Low, Retribution Gospel Choir, and the Dukes of Hubbard. Now this Grand Rapids native is strik...

Bought by KSRQ and WTIP


  • Added: Aug 15, 2012
  • Length: 59:06
  • Purchases: 2