PRX - Pieces for Topic: Music
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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
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
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
The very first rock billboard arrived on the strip fifty years ago, just in time for the Summer of Love. It was the brainchild of Elektra Records...
Bought by KALW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WOUB
- Added: Jul 10, 2017
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 4
A man, a plan, a piano: For 10 days, Brazilian composer Manuel Lima ate, slept and played the piano in a 10 x 10 foot square cube erected on a tria...
- Added: Sep 19, 2016
- Length: 08:03
Three-time Grammy nominated Uruguayan-born American composer, Miguel del Aguila, shares insight into his most recent lauded composition, Concierto ...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge
- Added: Aug 21, 2016
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
I’m inside what looks like it could be a college library or a research institute. People sit quietly working at desks and tables, surrounded by she...
- Added: Jul 21, 2015
- Length: 10:05
California has long been a land of possibility. From the Gold Rush to the promise of fertile farmland, people from all over the world have flocked ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 05, 2015
- Length: 06:52
- Purchases: 1
Roland Stock, after retirement, re-kindles a youthful dream of being a guitar maker, and builds a dream guitar using Brazilian Rosewood.
- Added: Mar 02, 2015
- Length: 07:00
Little G Weevil is a Hungarian-born Blues musician living in Kennesaw, Georgia. When he talks, you know he had to come from Budapest. But when he s...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WABE
- Added: Jan 20, 2015
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 3
Sunset Youth Services is an organization that supports transitional age youth and their families with things like parenting classes, food assistanc...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 14, 2014
- Length: 04:32
- Purchases: 1
Walking into ‘Vinyl: The Sound and Culture of Records,’ one of the newest exhibits at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA), feels like hanging o...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Jul 14, 2014
- Length: 09:09
- Purchases: 1
Twelve dancers -- men and women all dressed in black rehearsal clothes -- move with fierce and graceful undulations through the space. They dance t...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Oct 09, 2013
- Length: 09:04
- Purchases: 1
The music of Pittsburgh's own rockers, The Harlan Twins, rings true, "I can't be blue in Bloomfield."
- Added: May 09, 2013
- Length: 07:33
For the second week of June (6/15): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a venue with a small name that had a big impact on ...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:41
The Americana music scene is thriving in New England, with a growing fan base and musicians alike. Boston has been a particular hot spot, with a g...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 14, 2011
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 1
Whether the music of ancient Greece touches modern Greek Music.
- Added: Dec 07, 2010
- Length: 13:38
- Added: Dec 07, 2010
- Length: 10:19
- Purchases: 1
It may not have as big an impact as the Brittish Invasion, but the folk music group, Lyuti Chushki are bringing their styling of traditional Bulgar...
Bought by WBEZ
- Added: Jul 05, 2010
- Length: 07:04
- Purchases: 1
Wilma Pang, Professor at San Francisco City College, shares the influence of Chinese opera, a rapidly-disappearing art form, wherever she can. Pan...
- Added: Apr 15, 2009
- Length: 04:58
From: Jenny Attiyeh
The Borromeo String Quartet tackles renowned composer Steve Reich's notoriously difficult "Different Trains for String Quartet and Tape" with stirr...
Bought by WBHM, WDAV Classical Public Radio, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jul 21, 2008
- Length: 14:00
- Purchases: 3
The city's rising cost of real estate and gentrification have forced some well-known music clubs to go silent. While venues come and go, bands are ...
- Added: May 19, 2008
- Length: 20:00
Jon Jang, composer and jazz pianist, who paved the way for Asian American jazz musicians.
- Added: Jun 30, 2007
- Length: 04:59
