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Renowned jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington discusses the subtle difference between being an "amateur" musician and a "professional." Friend of the...
- Added: Jun 29, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
In 2017, Bonnie "Prince" Billy released a collection of Merle Haggard covers called "Best Troubador." To celebrate it, he recorded an hourlong radi...
- Added: Jun 21, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff talks about how identity and artifice inform music — and why you need to just dance sometimes. We pay tribute to...
Bought by KWIT, KBBI Alaska, KRSC, WLPR , and KWIT
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Many people believe musicians can make their money from tours, and Rock School challenges the idea in this weeks discussion.
Bought by Goat Radio, WOUB, KSRQ, WYAP, KRSC and more
- Added: Jun 05, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 7
During prohibition train fare to Canada was considerably cheaper than dealing with the mob syndicate that controlled liquor distribution. Not only ...
- Added: May 24, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Musician Damien Jurado discusses a spiritual awakening that took hold on a beach in Florida and how that affected his music. Actor Jesse Eisenberg ...
- Added: May 18, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Nick Twemlow navigates the often bizarre and alienating world of the modern office.
- Added: Apr 30, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of the seminal Zombies album "Odessey and Oracle." We'll chat with Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent of The Zom...
- Added: Apr 20, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
In the latter 1920s the art of crooning became very popular. Male vocalists began performing their songs in a romantic, intimate, just-for-you styl...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 18, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Poets and troubadours have been writing and singing about it for centuries. The music of the 1920s is no different. This program features a selecti...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Black History Month concludes with the Past American Voice of essayist and fiction writer James Alan McPherson (1943-2016). In this archive recordi...
- Added: Feb 28, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
This episode features a conversation with Peter Heller about his sophomore novel, Celine. He also reads short selections from the book.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Feb 15, 2018
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 3
With its strong emphasis on improvisation, the Silverback Trio of Minneapolis does “outside” well. But it also plays with a strong group feeling. Y...
- Added: Feb 05, 2018
- Length: 08:00
David Bazan and Damien Jurado have been close friends since high school. That said, they hadn't seen each other in years when they just so happened...
- Added: Jan 19, 2018
- Length: 57:00
- Purchases: 3
With its strong emphasis on improvisation, the Silverback Trio of Minneapolis does “outside” well. But it also plays with a strong group feeling. P...
- Added: Jan 17, 2018
- Length: 08:00
In the second half of our conversation with former California Poet Laureate Al Young, he shares more from his book SOMETHING ABOUT THE BLUES: AN UN...
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Radio Curious takes a tour of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, a historic national park and site of the civil war struggles between union and confede...
- Added: Nov 08, 2017
- Length: 29:01
Originally from the reggae capitol of Kingston, Jamaica Clinton Fearon found a new home for his music in Seattle, Washington as well as a unique co...
Bought by KBBI Alaska
- Added: Nov 01, 2017
- Length: :45
- Purchases: 1
CHANGING OF THE GUARD features two short comedies about getting outpaced by a world zooming way ahead. In The Mandela Effect, written and directed...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, KZYX, and WHRV
- Added: Oct 24, 2017
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 4
Since there were no rules about where jazz fit into the scheme of popular music in the 1920s, every imaginable fell into the grand experiment. Basi...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 28, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
He was known as "The Titan of the Tuba," and by any measure he was beyond the standard rhythm section player.
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
Growing up in Santa Cruz, singer songwriter Melissa Forrette decided to forgo a volleyball scholarship to work as a wilderness outfitter in the Bob...
- Added: Jun 06, 2017
- Length: :45
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The dawn of the 20th century ushered in an era of innovation never seen before. By the 1920s it seemed that everything and everyone was in motion.
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
There is a myriad of possible themes in musical circles, but among the most common is the love theme. Finding love, being in love, or losing love. ...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Apr 20, 2017
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
