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RDD: I'm a Drummer
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, we're talking to Dominick Gray. As per his website, Dominick is a drummer and composer, having performed with...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2020
  • Length: 05:59
Danny Barnes Interview (On Winning the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo & Bluegrass)
From: Sloane Spencer
Series: Country Fried Rock
Caption: Danny Barnes with Bazouki, Credit: Official Press Photo
Danny Barnes recently won the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass. The innovative musician fuses electronics and folk instrum...

Bought by Prairie Public, KRPS, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Dec 20, 2015
  • Length: 01:56:04
  • Purchases: 3
It's Thin, It's Plastic, It's Back: Flexi Discs Find New Fans
From: Allyson McCabe
Caption: "In the metal community, there's a fascination with the tangible aspect of things," says Albert Mudrian, editor of metal magazine Decibel., Credit: Bruno Guerreiro /Courtesy of Decibel
In the digital era, brick-and-mortar record stores' stock in trade has increasingly become vinyl sales. But within that niche of an increasingly fr...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Nov 13, 2015
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Glass Sho: Episode 27 (Molly Herron/Molly Thompson)
From: Chris McGovern
Series: The Glass Sho
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Molly Herron discusses New Music For New Instruments; Molly Thompson talks about her program featuring music from her song cycles at Spectrum.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:17:04
Mad Scientists of Music - Episode 6 - Postcards From The Edge
From: Gareth Stack
Series: Mad Scientists of Music
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The final episode of the series looks at the future of Irish experimental music. We find out how techniques like ‘Live Coding’ (where computer prog...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2014
  • Length: 30:01
SF Mixtape Society keeps the art of sharing mixes alive
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: San Francisco Mixtape Society mix exchange at the Make Out Room., Credit: Annie Lin San Francisco Mixtape Society
The San Francisco Mixtape Society hosts mix exchanges at the Make Out Room in the Mission District. Music lovers meet, mingle and exchange mixes th...

  • Added: May 20, 2014
  • Length: 05:54
Source Audio Gear Review
From: MEEP! (the band)
Series: The MEEP! Show
Caption: The Soundblox Pro Multiwave Bass Distortion, Credit: Source Audio
The MEEP! Show reviews gear from Source Audio.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2013
  • Length: 28:35
27: The People's Choice
From: Everything Sounds
Series: Everything Sounds
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In 1997, three men created the 'most wanted' and 'most unwanted' songs from completed surveys. Technically, they should be the best and worst songs...

  • Added: Jun 06, 2013
  • Length: 18:45
Gramophone Gods
From: VoiceBox
Caption: Meredith Axelrod
Singer and early vocal recordings champion Meredith Axelrod chats about the vocalists who pioneered recorded sound technologies in the early twenti...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
Collaborative Music with Aid of Social Media
From: Toby Scott
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Can new, globalized cultural traditions that cross national boundaries be created with the aid of social media? "Album in a Day" is a community-d...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2011
  • Length: 04:16
The Orchestrion: Pat Metheny's One-Man Band
From: John Diliberto
Series: Echo Location: Soundings for New Music
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Acclaimed jazz guitarist Pat Metheny plugs to the Orchestrion, a massive instrument based on the old player piano orchestrations of yore.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2010
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 1
For the love of synthesizer
From: Dan Trudeau
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A New Hampshire man has made his home into a shrine to synthesizers

Bought by Documentary on One - RTE, Ireland


  • Added: May 21, 2007
  • Length: 01:47
  • Purchases: 1