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Caption: Cinderblock Bookshelves show art, Credit: Kayleigh Morrison
“My dad and I limped closer, but we treated each other warily. What kind of adult relationship would we have?” The end of the last act of Rain's c...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Cinderblock Bookshelves show art, Credit: Kayleigh Morrison
“Inverness in the Seventies was the kind of place where a tenuous duo like my dad and me could not only survive, but feel right at home.” Rain tel...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
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“P.S. to Johnny: I am happy about the baby except the name. Couldn’t we find something a little less far out?” Rain’s mother dies young, and in a ...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Caption: Brooke Ullman, author of Bellevue Porchella., Credit: Charles McGuigan
COVID-19 cancelled Richmond's premier music event--the Richmond Folk Festival, which annually attracts a couple hundred thousand people to three da...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2020
  • Length: 26:59
Caption: A Sniagrab sale, from above, Credit: The Gart Family Archive
A touching story of fathers, family, and bargains spelled backwards.

  • Added: Jul 15, 2020
  • Length: 20:30
Caption: Alone Again, Credit: Edward Hopper
Playing it close to home with Marlon Brando, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, George Reeves, Noel Neill, Bob Dylan, Michael Caine, Rev. Harvey Gates, Mayor Bill...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2020
  • Length: 01:59:02
Caption: Fred Rogers
There has never been a better time to visit Mister Rogers Neighborhood and this mix reminds of his mission with clips from the new documentary "Won...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jun 05, 2018
  • Length: 01:57:55
  • Purchases: 1
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Growing up, my family played a lot of music. We also performed... mostly funerals. The driving force behind it all? My dad. So, in order to better ...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:53
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You leave the radio on for your pet, before you leave the apartment. We'll find out if the cat and dog wish you hadn't.

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City, North State Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 11, 2015
  • Length: 13:41
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Kathleen Gillette and her family in the mid-1990s., Credit: Credit Courtesy of Kathleen Gillette
Kathleen Gillette has had a passion for singing for as long as she can remember. But after spending 15 years as an opera singer, her career began t...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2015
  • Length: 06:15
Caption: Mike Notter of the Seattle bands Motopony and Hannalee cleans windows for a living, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job
Mike Notter (currently with the bands Motopony and Hannalee) used to be in a band with a bunch of other window washers (Shim). Back then, cleaning ...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 16:10
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Collection 2 - Aquarian Theatre, Credit: Masaki Koike
Howard Smith's interview with John Lennon & Yoko Ono on Dec. 19th, 1969 at Ronnie Hawkin's ranch outside of Toronto.

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 04:44
  • Purchases: 2
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Chris Ballew knows what it's like to be a rock star. (His band Presidents of the United States of America made it big in the 1990s.) But he's gone ...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 2
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A collection of children's choirs, inspirational music, and personal remembrances, mixed with Barack Obama speaking in Newtown, CT Sunday night.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 57:33
Caption: Tiny Dancer
Join us at the 'Irish In Birmingham Activity Centre' in England as we grab an insight into how one group of 'Yeehaa Grandmas' plan to cause a stir ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2012
  • Length: 05:16
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An audio postcard about the culinary side of the 41st Annual Jazz and Heritage Festival in New Orleans

  • Added: May 10, 2011
  • Length: 03:57
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Buffalo native Jillian Mertz talks about how the songs of Jackson C. Frank, a little known folk musician from her hometown, helped her understand t...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2011
  • Length: 07:30
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A man talking about how he has a theme song for people in his life. He recalls the qualities of the people and describes them with music.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 03:24
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A music teacher tries to stop her newborn’s crying with lullabies. Turns out it’s the worst thing she can do.

Bought by WABE, KPIK-LP, KALW, The Story, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jan 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:45
  • Purchases: 6
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Steve Jencks hosts this trip down Memory Lane featuring Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, Eartha Kitt, Perry Como, Elvis Presley, Tommy Dorsey, ...

Bought by KDUR, Wyoming Public Radio, RadioStPete Florida, KSLU, KUCO and more


  • Added: Oct 18, 2010
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 40
Caption: Musician Stuart Mason
Interview with guitarist Stuart Mason (Molly's Revenge, Little Black Train) about making a living as a musician, writing new songs in an old tradit...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2010
  • Length: 53:00
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Ambient chamber music composer Kevin Keller's In Absentia is a study in finely calibrated emotions dealing with the disappearance and likely death ...

  • Added: May 06, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
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This is a feature story documenting the performers and organizers of the 30th annual Skaneateles, NY chamber music festival.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2010
  • Length: 07:29
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This is a sneak peek into the harmonica culture of senior citizens from Gulfport Senior Citizens' Harmonica Club.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 20, 2009
  • Length: 04:49
  • Purchases: 1
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An underclass perspective from street level attempts to fuse real scene actualties with rhythmic rap lyrics and music bed.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2009
  • Length: 03:24