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Brian Dunning delves into urban legends surrounding three of the greatest classical composers as well as the renowned Stradivarius violin.
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 59:00
Some Of My First Recordings Using A Fishing Pole For A Boom Pole.
- Added: Nov 26, 2022
- Length: 10:13
Paris Slim and his Blues
- Added: Sep 01, 2020
- Length: 58:59
Delbert McClinton is still going as strong as ever after 60 years of performing and working in the music industry. His latest release is stellar in...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 58:17
Diane Blue has been a voice in the Blues music scene for years as a vocalist and harmonica player. This show highlights her solo career as well as ...
- Added: Apr 18, 2020
- Length: 59:39
This hour begins with a short history of the area, the “Return of the River Ranger,” a former local radio personality; children reading aloud to do...
- Added: Jun 17, 2019
- Length: 57:30
Don't tell me what to do!! Tales of strong-willed kids whose need for independence was unstoppable. With special guests Alex Kapranos and Paul Th...
- Added: Jan 14, 2018
- Length: 27:31
Driving around Morocco in the late 1950s with counterculture icon Paul Bowles at the wheel, with a case of hot Pepsi, a brick of hash, and a massiv...
- Added: Jun 14, 2017
- Length: 29:23
- Purchases: 2
Philip Armand ruins a cup of hot cocoa and realizes his mad, sweaty, sloppy rushing is no longer working.
- Added: Mar 21, 2016
- Length: 06:02
Goes2Eleven continues its tribute to guitar heroes with flamenco superman Paco de Lucía. We discuss Paco’s traditional flamenco roots and his explo...
Bought by KKRN
- Added: Aug 05, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 1
Author Stanley Booth recounts little-known tales from the night before the Altamont Free Concert (December 6, 1969), when Booth accompanied Mick Ja...
- Added: Dec 06, 2014
- Length: 27:44
The new film 'Mood Indigo' is based on a novel by Boris Vian - so who was Vian? One of France's most popular authors of the 20th Century, musician,...
- Added: Jul 29, 2014
- Length: 14:45
In 1999, The Band officially called it quits. In this hour long audio essay, Don McIver looks at the history of The Band to examine the nature of ...
- Added: Apr 29, 2014
- Length: 58:03
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2013
Series: Stories Summer Institute 2013
Organic Path: Two teens explore an unusual vocation that inspires new options for their future.
- Added: Jul 30, 2013
- Length: 04:33
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...
- Added: Jul 28, 2013
- Length: 01:00:00
Is there such a thing as true silence?
Bought by KALW, WZEN.org, WRIR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., HowSound and more
- Added: Jul 10, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Digital music is the furthest we’ve come from running needles through intricate grooves, but record orders keep coming in.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 21, 2013
- Length: 02:22
- Purchases: 1
Here, the direct physiological and psychological affects of sound on the human brain are examined.
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 06:20
This installment examines how humans perceive sound, and how we listen, with a number of experiments as aids.
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 10:25
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
A musician and a restauranteur from Liverpool visit a festival of performances with traditional roots in Catalonia in North East Spain. They meet m...
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 33:33
In the 14th episode of the RPM Podcast, host Ostwelve speaks with two musical architects of the Mexican Indigenous revival - Yaotl of Aztlan Underg...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and KDNK
- Added: May 14, 2012
- Length: 21:33
- Purchases: 2
In Episode 13, RPM looks at Indigenous motherhood and music.
Bought by KZYX and KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: May 14, 2012
- Length: 21:33
- Purchases: 2
In our 11th episode, we talk with one of the hardest working musicians on Turtle Island – Mohawk blues-rocker Derek Miller.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: May 14, 2012
- Length: 21:40
- Purchases: 1
Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island have been dancing and drumming for generations but, in the 21st century, that rhythmic spirit is finding ne...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: May 14, 2012
- Length: 21:16
- Purchases: 1
In episode nine, RPM turns up the volume on Indigenous rock music, from metal to punk.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: May 14, 2012
- Length: 20:32
- Purchases: 1