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Digital music is the furthest we’ve come from running needles through intricate grooves, but record orders keep coming in.
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 02:22
A half-hour music-rich documentary on Liberace and the former Liberace Museum. His story is told using historical clips from Liberace himself in pe...
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 29:42
A musical Rip Van Winkle tale from Denton: the unexpected return of the Baptist Generals. Also, R&B sensation Latasha Lee's remarkable bounce-back...
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 57:02
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
Tom Bills creates custom guitars in his basement shop near St. Louis. Hear the sounds of the guitar-making process as well as stories of his most f...
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 25:37
Not many aspirational musicians can claim their songs rated alongside groups like Maroon 5 and Gwen Stefani. But, Jordan Corey can! And, she did ...
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 07:00
"Smells Like Teen Spirit," in particular sounds like a modal jazz tune. That's one of the funniest things to me. It says so much about people's att...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 16:32
Choro is a music of the people that can be found in Brazil’s bars and at barbecues. Band members of Regional de NY, a choro band from Brazil, the...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 04:05
Julian Kytasty is a world-renowned bandurist who's family and musical history can be traced from the Ukraine, through exile from Stalinist USSR, to...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 04:59
Step into the world of Alan Lomax, his archives, and his legacy - The Association of Cultural Equity. Featuring interviews with his daughter Anna ...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 05:38
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
- Added: May 08, 2013
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 2
"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 WCSU-FM
- Added: Apr 30, 2013
- Length: 07:39
- Purchases: 1
How do the scores for Hollywood Blockbusters come to be? Talented composers like Michael Rubino create musical pieces crafted for the emotion on s...
- Added: Apr 28, 2013
- Length: 07:15
- Added: Apr 26, 2013
- Length: 05:08
- Purchases: 1
"I want to have clarity of ideas and I want to be able to execute ideas. So if I'm going to play something really sloppy, I want it to be sloppy on...
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 18:32
In The Rock House follows the band Zombie Crash, and explores the learning disable music scene in the UK.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 14:29
Folk singing legend Richie Havens died Monday, April 22nd, 2013 at the age of 72 of a sudden heart attack. In this excerpt from the documentary Ba...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 05:20
April 15th came with an explosion this year at the Boston Marathon, this mix blends sounds from that afternoon with the ongoing bad history on that...
- Added: Apr 18, 2013
- Length: 59:47
Bill Kirchen has been called the Titan of the Telecaster, the King of Dieselbilly. He got his start back in the late sixties with Commander Cody an...
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 27:32
The Kitchen Sisters take us behind the scenes into rehearsal, sound check, and the making of Way To Blue, the new Nick Drake tribute record.
- Added: Apr 12, 2013
- Length: 16:49
He’s been called the Titan of the Telecaster, the King of Diesel Billy. Bill Kirchen is all that and a lot more. He’s a master in a league of his o...
- Added: Apr 09, 2013
- Length: 27:45
"We have a mixture of many elements from the world. The classical music
from Europe- the sense of melody and deep harmonic sense- and on the other ...
- Added: Apr 01, 2013
- Length: 14:45
"When people get two trumpet players it becomes very competitive...It
was [Booker Little], Lee Morgan and myself at the time. We we're the
young ...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 11:41
- Purchases: 1
"I always thought of the acoustic bass as the quintessential jazz instrument... I knew that jazz meant cool, and hip, and on the cutting edge, and ...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 16:39
- Purchases: 1
