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150124
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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More music you've never heard by musicans you've never heard of. This week's special - 100% less mass-hypnotism!

  • Added: Feb 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:53:16
150117 "Don't Go To That Party!!"
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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I was the guy who screamed at the horror picture, "The murder is in there. Don't go into the basement ..." Same thing happens when I hear a girl...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 02:52:50
150110 James Ray and I'm Finally Allowed to Read the Weather Report
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of (but somehow seem more relevant than what is recorded today). The second hour of the s...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:48:49
150103 Listeners On The Radio
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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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
Day Job 7: The Lonesome Luthier
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Ben Todd of Lonesome Shack restores broken guitars, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job
Ben Todd restores guitars for The Trading Musician in Seattle's Roosevelt neighborhood. And he's become deeply embedded in the local music scene. B...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 12:56
  • Purchases: 1
Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Tell 'Em I'm Gone - Part 1
From: Joyride Media
Series: Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Tell 'Em I'm Gone - Shorts
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First of four short segments featuring Yusuf/Cat Stevens with excerpts of new songs from Tell 'Em I'm Gone as featured on NPR First Listen.

Bought by Harford Community Radio and KPVL


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 05:32
  • Purchases: 2
Bob Dylan & The Band - Complete Basement Tapes - Part 1
From: Joyride Media
Series: Bob Dylan & The Band - Complete Basement Tapes - Shorts
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Bob Dylan biographers Sid Griffin, Clinton Heylin and Greil Marcus begin this series on Dylan's The Basement Tapes with the Band by calling it "a m...

Bought by Radio Catskill, PRX Remix, and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
  • Purchases: 3
Orchestral Fanfare :30
From: Paul Messing
Series: Paul Messing's Audio Producer's Grab Bag
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A classic fanfare, orchestral in nature. Thirty seconds, and a great interstitial element between spoken word pieces.

  • Added: Oct 21, 2014
  • Length: :32
Unusual Orchestral Transition
From: Paul Messing
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A brief musical transition, orchestral in nature.

  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: :21
Island Musical Interlude
From: Paul Messing
Series: Paul Messing's Audio Producer's Grab Bag
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A relaxing interstitial piece that may put you in a brief tropical state-of-mind.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:24
How Jazz Changed
From: Richard Paul
Series: Celebrating Blue Note
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What is bee-bop and how did it get that way?

Bought by Prairie Public and Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 13:12
  • Purchases: 2
Finding Jazz
From: Richard Paul
Series: Celebrating Blue Note
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Finding Blue Note jazz in hip-hop

Bought by Prairie Public, PRX Remix, and Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 12:03
  • Purchases: 3
Birth of a Legend
From: Richard Paul
Series: Celebrating Blue Note
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The history of Blue Note Records

Bought by Prairie Public and Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Sep 24, 2014
  • Length: 17:42
  • Purchases: 2
Day Job 6: The Mind Reader
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Ivan Galvez of Picoso, Credit: Joshua McNichols / Day Job
Ivan Gálvez plays timbales with the Seattle band Picoso. He also scans my brainwaves with an electroencephalogram machine at the hospital where he ...

Bought by KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:16
  • Purchases: 3
Musical Creativity
From: Susanne Bard
Caption: Thelonious Monk, Credit: Library of Congress
Musical creativity could be good for the aging brain.

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:00
  • Purchases: 1
Day Job 5: Fear And The Flying Trapeze
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: A trapeze student, Credit: Joshua McNichols
Kari Kirkland stands on a narrow platform high above the ground. As a trapeze instructor, her job is to convince students to jump off that platform...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Delmarva Public Media, and KUOW


  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 16:18
  • Purchases: 3
The Roustabouts Play their Singular Brand of Music Sat. Night May 25
From: KBEM
Caption: The Roustabouts, Credit: Jessica Bailey
The group is nothing if not individualistic, with a collection of acoustic instruments and hard-edged singing. It's acoustic rock with a a lot of e...

  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
Day Job 3: The Best Laid Plans Of Lesli Wood
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Lesli Wood of The Redwood Plan, Credit: Joshua McNichols
Lesli Wood has achieved almost every goal she's set for herself. She's a professional lawyer. And her band, The Redwood Plan, has played to big cro...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 14:20
  • Purchases: 1
Day Job 2: Pi Day
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Pi Day at Pies and Pints, Credit: Joshua McNichols
Kennith Darling played bass with Seattle band The Trouble Starts. That is, he used to, until the band broke up. "I feel like I lost three really cl...

Bought by KUOW and Delmarva Public Media


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 11:06
  • Purchases: 2
Day Job 1: Bitter Barista
From: Joshua McNichols
Series: Day Job: How Musicians Pay The Rent (2014 Series)
Caption: Matt "Spek" Watson at The Station, Credit: Joshua McNichols
Seattle's Matt Watson performs as a rapper and producer under the name Spekulation. He used to hate his day job serving espresso. After being outed...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, XRAY.fm, Delmarva Public Media, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 13:13
  • Purchases: 4
NEA Jazz Moments with JAMEY AEBERSOLD
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Three short "Moments" featuring 2014 NEA Jazz Master, Jamey Aebersold. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn abou...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 14
NEA Jazz Moments with ANTHONY BRAXTON
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Three short "Moments" featuring 2014 NEA Jazz Master, Anthony Braxton. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn why ...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 14
Tupac Shakur on Life and Death
From: Blank on Blank
Series: Blank on Blank
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"I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play" - Tupac Shakur in 1994. From an unheard interview recorded by Benjamin Svetkey, then a writer for...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KVNF, KJZZ, PRX Remix, and KALW


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 5
131201 Replacing Thanksgiving With Mardi Gras
From: Jamie Dell'Apa
Series: Searching For The First Rock And Roll Song
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of... because there's more to art than "hits" played over and over and over again.

  • Added: Dec 02, 2013
  • Length: 02:51:38
Indie Exploration Hour 2
From: D. Grant Smith
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In talking with people about music, we regularly discuss Indie music. Unlike what some think, Indie is not a genre or type of music but a classific...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2013
  • Length: 59:00

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