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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
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
From bells to restaurants, and glasses to songwriting this episode explores the people and sounds of London's East end.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Jan 29, 2013
- Length: 16:25
- Purchases: 1
A weekend with the West Virginia Re-enactors Association, as they re-create the Battle of Droop Mountain.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 06:04
- Purchases: 1
Every weekend this summer, vacationers from all over Minnesota and beyond its borders have packed up the family car and headed north to Highway 1. ...
- Added: Dec 03, 2012
- Length: 09:56
Around the world communities are already facing the impacts of climate change. Now international organizations, like the World Bank, are pushing a...
Bought by WRIR
- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 1
An interview with Pinback founders Zach Smith and Rob Crow featuring music from their latest release "Information Retrieved" and all mixed up in th...
- Added: Nov 16, 2012
- Length: 58:31
Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Bill Clinton, Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Karl Rove, Brian Williams, Richard Nixon's Head and others wrap the 2012 Electi...
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 59:44
An agricultural renaissance has taken root among the Taos Pueblo people in New Mexico. Sustainable agriculture is returning, after years of unheal...
- Added: Nov 08, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Mitt Romney and Barack Obama completely mixed up in a special "Election Shortcut". The first Shortcut was broadcast in November of 1972 in reaction...
Bought by KBRP Community Radio
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 59:56
- Purchases: 1
Under President Obama more than 1 million people have been deported from the United States. Immigration officials claim that many of those being d...
- Added: Oct 12, 2012
- Length: 30:00
Every summer, wildfires torch thousands of acres of land. The National Forest Service rushes to the rescue; to save lives, homes, and communities. ...
- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 29:01
The Good, The Bad, The Empty--A Conventional Mix featuring both the Democrats, the Republicans, the Cowboys, and first man on the moon in an incred...
- Added: Sep 10, 2012
- Length: 59:21
Featured this week is a piece produced by Amy Clark on the new atmospheric alternative project from Duluth musicians Alan Sparhawk and Gaelynn Lea ...
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
Duluth Glass Artist Ron Benson talks to producer Amy Clark about his unique process and the eventual results.
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 05:22
- Added: Aug 08, 2012
- Length: 59:43
- Purchases: 1
For the first week of August (8/5): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a jazz legend who got his start because of an out o...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
A lot of people probably don't think of jazz as all that funny. But from the music's vaudeville roots to legendary prankster Dizzy Gillespie, there...
Bought by WRGY, Northeast Indiana Public Radio, KSFR, WNCU, Radio New Zealand and more
- Added: Jul 27, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 12
For the second week of September (9/14): Texas music scholar Gary Hartman recalls an unexpected incident that helped propel the state`s punk music ...
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 01:30
The US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Three days later, Nagasaki also fell victim. On this edition, w...
- Added: Jul 25, 2012
- Length: 29:01
His unrivaled ability for playing many instruments at once made him one of the most unique jazz musicians of all time. But Rahsaan Roland Kirk's ba...
- Added: Jul 23, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 10
In this hour, it's the shared history of jazz and sex—from the blues' raunchy roots to the French lounge singer who made the Pope into his "greates...
Bought by KMUN, Interlochen Public Radio, WCMU Public Radio, WEMU, and WNMU-FM
- Added: Jul 16, 2012
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 5
Think of a jazz big band and it's probably the brassy sound of a 30's swing orchestra that comes to mind first. But throughout their more than 80 y...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRGY, WEZU, WNCU, KZYX and more
- Added: Unknown
- Length: :00
- Purchases: 11
Kevin Killen is a much sought after multi-instrumentalist and sideman in the Delaware Valley.
He Spends so much time playing in others' bands, it's...
- Added: Jun 28, 2012
- Length: 57:10
His music was an amalgam of classical music, jazz, R&B, doowop, poetry and—sometimes—just plain noise. And Frank Zappa the man had even more to him...
Bought by KZYX, Panhandle Community Radio, KPVL, KDRP Community Radio, WCMU Public Radio and more
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 8
