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This episode features podcaster and journalist Kelsey McKinney, poet Brenda Shaughnessy, and music from singer-songwriter Madison Cunningham.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
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Just as his music career was heating up, Decio Rubano discovered he was not a U.S. citizen and was deported to Canada as a young man. He came to St...

  • Added: Nov 15, 2022
  • Length: 02:15
Caption: The Beatles arrived at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport, August 1965, Credit: Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society
August 21, 1965, the Beatles invaded Metropolitan Stadium for their first ever Minnesota concert, bringing together a high school photographer with...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jul 07, 2020
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 2
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What happens when an internationally renowned artist stands in front of their inspiring muse? In 1957, Leonard Bernstein travelled to Israel to see...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2020
  • Length: 11:03
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Now approaching national treasure status in the UK, Ruby is a veteran Soul and Gospel singer - one of the finest the UK has ever seen.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2019
  • Length: 27:10
Caption: Paul F. Tompkins on Live Wire, Credit: Jennie Baker
This episode unpacks "finding your voice" with comedian Paul F. Tompkins and activist Anuradha Bhagwati, plus music from Patterson Hood.

  • Added: Jun 27, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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Between 1820 and World War I, nearly six million Germans immigrated to the US – in 2017, only about 5,000 made the trip. If Germans aren’t coming t...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 06, 2019
  • Length: 19:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Varmints, Credit: Julia Meek
"Snakes hide in grass, people behind their lies." We don't know who said it, but find out why this week on the Folktale of Varmints.

Bought by WFIU, GCR (Global Community Radio), WFIU, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 19, 2018
  • Length: 59:59
  • Purchases: 4
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Grammy Winner Ricky Kej, Canadian Super Group Dream Aria, and The Art of Asking ...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2015
  • Length: 58:04
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We sit down with Slightly Stoopid's drummer - Rymo and discuss their tour and albums. Also look out for music from HIRIE, Irie Souls, Gregory Isaac...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:00
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Features the music of Michael Franti & Spearhead, Rebelution, and Sublime, along with an unreleased track from Slightly Stoopid's upcoming album Me...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2015
  • Length: 59:15
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This week, Alt.Latino plays songs sung in indigenous Latin American languages: Mapuche, Tzotzil, Guarani, Quechua and Tz'utujil from Chile, Argenti...

Bought by KMXT, RADIOLEX, WCNY, WART FM, KRZA and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 8
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Let's start the year right! NPR's Otis Hart stops by to spin some hot new Latin electronic dance music.

Bought by RADIOLEX, WCNY, WART FM, and WKAR


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Urban Planning Professor Richard Shearmur of McGill Univserity breaks down the World Cup. Also, singer Michael Buble

  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 56:22
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Epic Metal Band Suncrown, Musician Davey Copeland, and After the Fall in our aud...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 58:08
Caption: The Mighty Sparrow
Scott Britton has never been to Trinidad, but he really loves calypso.

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 05, 2014
  • Length: 06:36
  • Purchases: 2
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Bassist Dave Holland started his performing career in London. One night, he received word that a visiting musician from the states wanted to hire ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 09:46
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know! Featuring Musician Claes Cem and and Author Sergio Magana.

  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 58:01
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Award winning BBC broadcaster Mark Coles ("Today","The Strand") brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the world. Recorded ...

  • Added: May 29, 2012
  • Length: 54:01
Caption: Best-selling Author, Joshua Foer, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
East coast Author, JOSHUA FOER. Author and advocate for tall women, Arianne Cohen. Indie-psych folk ensemble, THE PARSON RED HEADS.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Mar 15, 2012
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Award winning British broadcaster Mark Coles brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the planet. This week, holed up in his ...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
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Bagpipes to the fore on "The Shed" this week as Mark Coles brings you punk pipes from China and a bit of Scottish bagpipe rave. Plus...gong music f...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
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Mark Coles brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the world. Sat in the sub-zero temperature of his garden shed, he tries t...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 53:59
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Mark Coles brings you his pick of the best new music releases from around the world. This week; French/Egyptian fusion, a four valve trumpet from ...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2012
  • Length: 54:03
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Mark Coles remembers blues guitarist Hubert Sumlin on this week's The Shed. You can hear Mark's interview with him from 2003 and an impromptu jam w...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2011
  • Length: 53:57