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Ani DiFranco: Righteous Musician and Memoirist
From: Music Inside Out
Series: Music Inside Out
Caption: Ani DiFranco, Credit: From DiFranco's Facebook
Musician, singer, songwriter and feminist icon Ani DiFranco joins Gwen Thompkins for an interview and solo performance in front of a rapt New Orlea...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 51:58
A New Territory of Dance Party
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Mpls Adonia & DJ Shannon Blowtorch, Credit: Photo Courtesy of DJ Shannon Blowtorch
DJ Shannon Blowtorch & Host Mpls Adonia have years of experience working the crowds and pumping up the energy in the room. Keeping their love for e...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: May 25, 2020
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 2
Genre Bending Music By A Constant Cough
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: A Constant Cough, Credit: (Photo courtesy of the artist)
“A Constant Cough” is a Minneapolis duo that plays an eclectic array of music. Their unique electric, reverb, bending sound features Victoria Carpe...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: May 04, 2020
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Evolution of Singer-songwriter Gaelynn Lea
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Caption: Singer-songwriter Gaelynn Lea, Credit: Paul Vienneau
Duluth-based indie musician Gaelynn Lea made headlines when she won National Public Radio’s Tiny Desk Contest in 2016. But she almost didn’t enter ...

  • Added: Jan 30, 2020
  • Length: 08:41
Thunder Chases LIghtening: Vicky Emerson's Music and Mentorship
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Singer Songwriter Vicky Emerson, co-founder of Front Porch Group, Credit: Katie Cannon
Vicky Emerson is a Minneapolis based singer/songwriter/producer of Americana music. She co-founded Front Porch Music Group and mentors women with p...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2019
  • Length: 05:19
  • Purchases: 2
NEA Jazz Moments with Pianist, Joanne Brackeen (round two)
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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NEA Jazz Master Joanne Brackeen is the only female to join Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and talks working with Stan Getz.

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Delmarva Public Media and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2019
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 8
Area Voices: Bemidji Symphony Orchestra Conductor Beverly Everett
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Beverly Everett & Katie Carter
Beverly Everett discusses the BSO's upcoming concert as well as life as a conductor and the history of women in orchestras and her line of work.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2019
  • Length: 30:48
Four Notes
From: Mandy Gawf
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As someone in their 20’s, this piece is a contemplation of how to find one’s role in the world - using my experience with music as a metaphor. At...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 28, 2018
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 2
The Speed of Sound: St. Vincent (2017)
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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If St. Vincent’s last 5 albums hadn’t convinced you that she was one of the most important artists of our day, the just released Masseduction shoul...

Bought by WLPR , KRCB 104.9, WOUB, and Troon Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 08, 2018
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 4
The Future of Music (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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An interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw

Bought by WJCT, KRDP, KMUN, KRZA, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Dec 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
Lauren Sarah Hayes
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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Composer and improviser Lauren Sarah Hayes on making and experiencing sound — in a mausoleum, next to a waterfall, and through specially built furn...

  • Added: Oct 13, 2017
  • Length: 27:55
Susan Jacobs on the Art of Music Supervision
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: NEA Audio Miscellany
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In this piece, the *brand new* Emmy Award-winning Jacobs discusses the art of music supervision and shares stories from her work on four projects i...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 09:23
The Speed of Sound: Feist
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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The first Feist record in six years, Pleasure once again finds one of our favorite artists defying expectations and trying out different sounds. Fe...

Bought by WOUB and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Sep 11, 2017
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 2
Listening to Ladies: Beth Anderson
From: Elisabeth Blair
Series: Listening to Ladies
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Composer Beth Anderson on phoning up John Cage, not "looking like" a composer, and the collage that is life. 

  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 27:19
The Speed of Sound: Goldfrapp
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Goldfrapp return with Silver Eye on March 31st, and while it signals a return to electronic sounds, this isn't "Ooh La La." This 7th LP uses synth,...

Bought by WOUB, WLPR , and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Aug 06, 2017
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 3
Ragamala Dance Tours Rural Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Ragamala Dance, Credit: ragamaladance.org
The Ragamala Dance Company has brought their "emotional vistas" of Indian Dance to audiences large and small for the past 25 years. The troupe bri...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2017
  • Length: 11:35
Weekly Arts Calendar – NW Minnesota and Beyond!
From: KSRQ
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The “Weekly Arts Calendar” is a weekly listing of events and activities that highlight the arts, music and culture of the region and within Minnesota.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2017
  • Length: 02:41
Caleigh: All Female, All Good. A Celtic, Folk and Bluegrass Band
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Dee Furfaro, Lenore Siems and April Larson make up the celtic, folk, bluegrass band Caleigh. They've been making sweet, soulful music together for...

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Mar 03, 2017
  • Length: 10:20
  • Purchases: 1
Big Talk! w/ Michael Glab: Thuy Bogart
From: WFHB
Series: Daily Local News
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Bloomington resident Thuy Bogart talks about her love for tango with Michael Glab on this week’s episode of Big Talk .

  • Added: Feb 23, 2017
  • Length: 08:41
The Speed of Sound: Fitz & The Tantrums
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Fitz & The Tantrums may have arrived as a pop throwback for the next generation, but they didn’t stay in that box for long. They were quick to move...

Bought by WOUB, KRCB 104.9, WLPR , and KSUT


  • Added: Feb 20, 2017
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 4
Pulitzer 100: The Future of Music (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Caroline Shaw is the youngest recipient ever of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Now she’s one of the most respected composers on the New Music scene ...

  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 53:58
Pulitzer 100: The Future of Music (half hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series
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Caroline Shaw is the youngest recipient ever of the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Now she’s one of the most respected composers on the New Music scene ...

Bought by KWMR, KKRN, and WLIW


  • Added: Jan 13, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
The Speed of Sound: Regina Spektor
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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The four years spent between Regina Spektor’s 2012 LP, What We Saw From The Cheap Seats, and the new Remember Us To Life, was spent taking care of ...

Bought by WOUB, WKMS, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WLPR , KSUT and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2017
  • Length: 06:59
  • Purchases: 6
The Speed of Sound: Beth Orton
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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I first discovered Beth Orton on the 2002 Daybreaker record, unaware at the moment that she had been making music for several years before. But fro...

Bought by WOUB, WSLR, KSUT, KRCB 104.9, and WLPR


  • Added: Jan 09, 2017
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 5
The Speed of Sound: Britta Phillips
From: Louisville Public Media
Series: The Speed of Sound
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Yes, Britta Phillips was the original voice of Jem and the Holograms. That’s really fun to say. She dropped into the band Luna in the late 90s, mar...

Bought by WOUB, WLPR , and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: Nov 28, 2016
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 3