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On this episode, we talked about YouTube music influencer Andrew Huang's foray into the music book world, "Make Your Own Rules,' a book packed with...
- Added: Jun 08, 2024
- Length: 27:27
Mae West said, “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.” Welcome to melodically challenged when this week, we are of two min...
- Added: Jun 07, 2024
- Length: 01:00:01
On this episode, we talked about "Earlier," the new memoir by music journalist and musician Sasha Frere-Jones. We listened to some of his music, too.
- Added: Jun 01, 2024
- Length: 29:26
On this episode, we talked about the new book "Lit-Rock," a collection of essays that explore the many ways that literature and pop/rock music have...
- Added: May 25, 2024
- Length: 27:28
On this episode, we talked about the book "The Free Musics" by Jack Wright," one of America's foundational free improvisation artists who is still ...
- Added: May 18, 2024
- Length: 28:29
A public domain reading of Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" set to public domain jazz. The result was surprisingly good.
- Added: May 13, 2024
- Length: 03:52
On this episode, we talked about a new installment of the 33 1/3 Genre series that explores the short-lived but influential German musical style Ne...
- Added: May 11, 2024
- Length: 28:25
Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged. We continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal nu...
Bought by KECG
- Added: Mar 06, 2024
- Length: 01:00:06
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about a recent book that gathers all of David Bowie's interviews with BBC television and radio into one handy and very r...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Mar 02, 2024
- Length: 27:45
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we traveled back in time to early 20th. C. Italy, where the Futurists were dropping manifestos and proposing exciting new ideas th...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Feb 24, 2024
- Length: 28:27
- Purchases: 1
In 1939 at the New York World’s Fair, television was introduced to the public for the first time. We’ve been hooked ever since! Welcome to this wee...
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 01:00:06
On this episode, we talked about "The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town," the first critical biography of "the world's greatest party band," wh...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Jan 20, 2024
- Length: 27:45
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about the new book "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape," which explores the many ways that the humble...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Dec 02, 2023
- Length: 28:12
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we talked about Cosey Fanni Tutti's new book Re-Sisters, which intertwines her own life and work with that of electronic music pio...
Bought by Raven Radio and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Nov 18, 2023
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
On this episode, we talked about "Beneath Missouri Skies," a biography of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny's early years growing up in Lee's Summit, Miss...
- Added: Oct 28, 2023
- Length: 28:31
Stories by Reverend Robert B. Jones and Andy Offutt Irwin
Bought by KTXK, KSJE, KECG, Angelica Community Radio, KKRN and more
- Added: Sep 20, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 8
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about a couple of recent books that explore the ways that the black metal genre has evo...
- Added: Sep 16, 2023
- Length: 27:19
On this episode, we talked about "Switched On," the great new biography of Bob Moog that documents his life and work. We would have a very differen...
- Added: Aug 12, 2023
- Length: 28:30
On this episode, we talked about "The Names of Minimalism," a new music history book that approaches the genre from the perspective of rivalries an...
- Added: Aug 05, 2023
- Length: 28:00
On this episode, we talked about the music of Toby Driver, and his essay in the book Arcana Volume IV, which you can borrow from the library. Drive...
- Added: Jul 29, 2023
- Length: 28:19
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged whe...
- Added: Jul 27, 2023
- Length: 01:00:06
On this episode of the Polley Music Library show, we talked about the book "Recombo DNA," an in-depth biography of the band Devo that focuses on th...
- Added: Jul 15, 2023
- Length: 28:31
Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time. Ron Hall
Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged when we will ...
- Added: Jun 26, 2023
- Length: 01:00:04
On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about "The Mandorla Letters," the new book by flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell Gan...
- Added: Jun 24, 2023
- Length: 27:30
Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged, when we’ll hear an hour of poetry and music about husbands: Mr. Right, Mr. Wrong and everyone in-bet...
- Added: Jun 12, 2023
- Length: 01:00:02