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Benji Rogers is the founder of the crowdfunding platform PledgeMusic. He's also a music super fan, and gigantic proponent for the Direct-To-Fan mov...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 24:06
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What is the mission behind your music? Do you seek to entertain, inform, or be an outcry against a social issue? The mission behind your music is e...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2016
  • Length: 24:28
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In an industry where it’s difficult to make a living, musicians have had to become more and more creative to survive, especially with shrinking roy...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 57:14
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Austin-based entrepeneur Barton Knaggs recounts the first days of the ACL festival, when everything was on the line and nothing was certain.

  • Added: Jan 23, 2016
  • Length: 04:38
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Benefits can be hard to come by in the music business. So where do people turn in emergencies? In 1989 the Recording Academy created the MusiCares ...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 53:45
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Independent labels have long been at the forefront of bringing great music to the public, especially lost gems and overlooked greats that went out ...

Bought by WRIR


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 53:53
  • Purchases: 1
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we visit with a man who has been in the music business for over 40 years. This individual was a founding member ...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9


  • Added: Nov 18, 2015
  • Length: 30:42
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: John Paul Jones, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. The band's "Stairway to Heaven" is the subject of a current copyright-infringement lawsuit. , Credit: Danny Martindale/Getty Images
Where do you draw the line between inspiration and appropriation when it comes to musical compositions?

  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 09:24
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Dave Seaton owns and runs Hungry Jack Outfitters, off the Gunflint Trail, with his wife, Nancy. He is also an accomplished luthier, or someone who ...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 13:53
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How do neighborhoods develop distinct identities? Why was San Francisco’s North Beach an enclave for poetry, for example? Or the Castro a haven for...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2015
  • Length: 07:06
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The economy of popular music has shifted. With so many ways to listen to music for free, artists have had to develop other ways to make money. The...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 03:29
Caption: The New Wave Time Trippers rocking white Levis., Credit: Nicky Ouellet
The New Wave Time Trippers are not your typical '80s cover band. For one, they're good. For another, they're dominating a little town so far north,...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 1
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First, career expert, Carla Harris, gives many tips on planning a strategy that will help get you to the next level, whether you are starting over,...

Bought by WCWP


  • Added: Jan 06, 2015
  • Length: 59:53
  • Purchases: 1
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The Colorado Symphony and Edible Events Co. held a series private fundraising events this year at which attendees could enjoy a variety of marijuan...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 08:16
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Paris has Les Deux Magots; Greenwich Village has the Gaslight and Gerde's Folk City: cafes and watering holes that were creative epicenters. In Min...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 25, 2014
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 1
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
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It's an hour of singles that bankrolled comfortable lifestyles for their creators. We explore what it takes and who was able to write music that p...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KSKQ, and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 11, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Bobby Pickles (left); Carlos Morales (right), Credit: Commodore Bert
Bobby and maties Cap’n Coletti, Tobia Spinelli and “Bert”, podcast while boating along the gulf and intracoastal waterways of Pinellas County, Flor...

  • Added: Feb 16, 2014
  • Length: 01:18:12
Caption: Hunt Cellars: David C. Hunt
Visionary David C. Hunt is a Successful Winemaker, Contractor, Entrepreneur, Inventor, Carpenter, Composer, Musician, Recording Artist, Author and ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 18:11
Caption: Holly Newsome, Zoo Animal
Not only is Minnesota home to a vibrant live music scene, but an academic one as well--with 37 accredited music schools in our state. But the way w...

Bought by KPVL, KKWE Niijii Radio, KVSC, and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 30, 2014
  • Length: 26:56
  • Purchases: 4
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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
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How do musicians recover from the Colorado flood, Sandy and Katrina? Creatively! Hear from a songwriter going pro in the Colorado flood's wake, a r...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2013
  • Length: 58:46
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If you happen to walk by the Radio Habana Social Club on Valencia Street on a Sunday afternoon, you might hear Rumba, the music of Cuba. Radio Haba...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2013
  • Length: 07:00
Caption: Host Pam McKissick
Host Pam McKissick and her special guests take listeners inside the mysterious world of the Auctioneer's chant and explore the fascinating professi...

  • Added: Oct 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:36:23
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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