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Caption: Manuel Barrueco Plays Lennon/McCartney, Credit: EMI Records
This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features 500 years of popular music from Renaissance to present day, and interviews with Manuel Barr...

Bought by Ohm Radio , KXIQ , WUAL, WMRA, WHRV and more


  • Added: Aug 24, 2022
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 56
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Tonight on The Sound we check out some new tunes from Minneapolis punk duo New Rocket Union. NRU has a stripped down no frills in your face sound w...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 38:01
Caption: Reynold Philipsek, Credit: Tom Tremel
Reynold Philipsek’s new EP was created in the midst of social unrest and a pandemic. When Reynold talked with Phil Nusbaum, Reynold filled us in on...

  • Added: Sep 24, 2021
  • Length: 08:00
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In her early 20s, Sibylle Baier recorded 14 folk songs that she says saved her life. Then, she packed the tape away and forgot about it. Decades la...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KMXT


  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 2
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Tonight on The Sound we sit down with folk artist Nicky Nieling from Rochester, MN. We check out Nicky’s latest EP, Somehow Now along with a couple...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 44:28
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Composer Aftab Darvishi Composer Aftab Darvishi speaks about blending musical traditions, having her work deemed "feminine," and the state of new m...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2017
  • Length: 24:17
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Bob Dylan has been singing more than 50 years. But have you ever really stopped to listen to the words?

Bought by Prairie Public, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 8
Caption: Molly Dean, l., and Barbara Jean, Dusty Heart
Twin Cities-based songwriters Barbara Jean and Molly Dean make up the recently-formed duo, Dusty Heart. They stopped by WTIP's The Roadhouse on the...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2016
  • Length: 32:19
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5 Songs is a little secret that we tell you. These are the songs that we are passing to each other off-air, between shifts, under desks, in bars. T...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 06:07
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"A lot of people are kind of depressed. I'm happy some of the time, and some of the time I'm not." - Elliott Smith, as told to Barney Hoskyns in 19...

Bought by WCNY, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 23, 2015
  • Length: 06:14
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Jacob Furr, Credit: Official Press Photo
When coffee blogger, Christina Furr, passed away after an aggressive brain tumor, her husband of three years, songwriter Jacob Furr, wrote Trails &...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 38:11
Caption: Breanne Marie
Breanne Marie is a relatively new country western musician who is rapidly becoming visible, along with her band The Front Porch Sinners, in Duluth...

Bought by WTIP and KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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For the second week of March (3/7): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the states most gifted songwriters who went ...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 01:40
Caption: Big Walter Smith
This week, in honor of Big Walter Smith, we focus on the blues in Minnesota. The feature segment is an intimate interview recorded in 2010 in which...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WTIP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 3
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Band by distance… or banned by distance? A radio portrait for one of the two members of a band that is banned by distance, The Pencils!

  • Added: May 06, 2012
  • Length: 07:09
Caption: Chee Chee & Peppy circa 1981 , Credit: Branding Iron
"CHEE CHEE & PEPPY" was a pre-teen / teenage R&B act of the early 1970's. They were a cross between MARVIN GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL and PEACHES and HER...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2011
  • Length: 56:04
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An innovative story about the rediscovery of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker in Brinkley, Arkansas that blends interviews and an original song by Sufja...

Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, PRX to iTunes, KUT, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 14, 2005
  • Length: 11:57
  • Purchases: 10