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On today's Culture Clique, we talk to Dr. Jennifer Anderson of the geoscience department at Winona state University to discuss the wonders of astro...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:47
Caption: WBAI Staff, Credit: 1960s
In honor of radio pioneers Larry Josephson, Steve Post and Bob Fass, a look back at the early days of free form radio at Pacifica and WBAI in New Y...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Boyd Bennett And His Rockets
Theater musicals tell a long story frequently interrupted by songs and dancing. Radio musicals are long series of songs interrupted by my idiotic...

Bought by KCHU, KFCF FM, and KPRG


  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:00
  • Purchases: 3

  • Added: May 12, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:57
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Eddie Dugosh
Tonight we talk to the first time listener to explore their feelings on hearing music they've never heard by musicians they've never heard of yet t...

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], Prairie Public, and WQCS


  • Added: May 04, 2022
  • Length: 02:56:56
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Chellos
The "teenage angst" song is the standard issue rock and roll song but there is also the "teenage understanding" song that offers lyrics reflecting ...

Bought by KPRG, KFCF FM, KPRG, Prairie Public, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio] and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2022
  • Length: 04:40:39
  • Purchases: 6
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Where we search for the first rock and roll song, is where autocracies die and "hits" are a distraction. All the music you've never heard by music...

Bought by Prairie Public, KFCF FM, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KPRG, and WQCS


  • Added: Mar 23, 2022
  • Length: 02:57:07
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Steve P{ost
Interview with film maker Rosemarie Reed about Free Form Radio Pioneer, Stevie Post on her documentary "Playing In The FM Band-The Steve Post Story...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 01:59:04
Caption: Ernie K-Doe As a Mardi Gras Indian, Credit: From "Ernie K-Doe - The R&B Emperor of the Universe by Ben Sandmel
There were a hundred thousand "first rock and roll songs," all of them expressing the cultural upheaval of WWII and the realization we better enjoy...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KFCF FM, KPRG, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:42
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Jesse Hawthorne, The Midnight Creeper
Jesse Hawthorne used to do the Friday midnight to Saturday 5am shift (a day before my show) and the Sunday morning gospel show. That's a grueling ...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 01:54:55
  • Purchases: 1
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The usual dreck plus the third hour goes to the roots of zydeco music.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2019
  • Length: 03:53:42
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
Forgive my sentimentality on Mother's Day...

  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:59:48
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Contemporary Mardi Gras music and what it means to me.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:21:51
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Dave's Picks Volume 24 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded at the Berkeley Commu...

Bought by Royalton Community Radio, KMUN, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, and WYAP


  • Added: Nov 17, 2017
  • Length: 58:32
  • Purchases: 4
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Why instrumental songs with any American Indian tribe other than "Cherokee" seem more authentic than songs with "Cherokee" in the song title. Plus...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:50:25
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The idea was boneheaded in conception and worse in execution. That's why I'm on Saturday at midnight - nobody listen except drunks and they don't ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 03:03:28
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Between the usual "music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of..." will be a mass hypnotism performed by me with the help of some f...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:56:24
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Starting the show with a spotlight on Vince Taylor who many have cited as the real life prototype for David Bowie's wacky character, Ziggy Stardust...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 02:55:06
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Interactive media being all the rage but I'm a dozen social media behind so I'm trying to catch up by inventing my own interactive media. (That wa...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 02:44:07
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Stuffing four hours of music into three hours. It looks as bad a making sausage but without the good taste!

  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 03:50:37
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
Working out why I don't use identifiers for myself or the music in the first hour of the show.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:50:16
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of but who influenced the rock and rollers that everyone has heard. Collector's music for...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:52:08
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Songs about Eskimos, lists of bars, synthetic Chinese music (why do I love these songs so much?), songs that can be played back to back and over an...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:47:31
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At its heart, my show is about presenting music absent its racial components. For instance, we focus on music from the 1950s to 1979s when musicia...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:54:35
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Collectors music from the golden era of Americana music. That music just before the first rock and roll record. Tonight's show features the auth...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:56:39