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Transgender Experience: Musician, educator sings and talks about transition
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
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Hear and learn about the transgender experience from singer-songwriter Nick Lawrence, a family coach and former foster-parent educator on LGBTQ top...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGBH Radio Boston, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, KALW and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Ain't Misbehavin'
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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We all have done our fair share of misbehaving and acting out. Making mistakes and learning from them is how we continue to grow. Tune in today to ...

Bought by KSJE


  • Added: Jul 23, 2020
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 1
Young At Heart
From: Will Duchon
Series: The Night Cafe
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Songs inspired by childhood and children.

  • Added: May 30, 2020
  • Length: 53:15
Music Where You'd Least Expect It
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
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You've heard it on a street corner, in a cafe, but in a...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 05:18
75: Confessions of a Duran Duran Fan
From: The Mortified Podcast
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Travel back in time to the 80s to hear girls who were Hungry Like The Wolf for their favorite band.

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Oct 09, 2016
  • Length: 23:19
  • Purchases: 1
Big dreams for a small-town rapper
From: Brenna Daldorph
Caption: Tracy Howerton raps about both the struggles and joys that he's experienced growing up in Mashpee, Massachusetts., Credit: Brenna Daldorph
Even if you grow up in a hip hop hotspot like New York or LA, it’s not easy to make it as a rapper. It’s even harder if you’re from a small town li...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2015
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
What Sexytime Playlists Say About You
From: University of Montana Journalism
Caption: This will make sense eventually
Producer Emily Proctor starts this story with a couple of college roommates who have a musical code to warn each other for when they plan to have s...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 04:43
Latin Symphony: How Classical Music Saved Dinorah Marquez's Life
From: NPR Music
Series: Alt.Latino
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This week, we've invited music teacher Dinorah Marquez to the show. Eleven years ago, she started the Latino Arts: Strings program in Milwaukee. Th...

Bought by KGLP, WART FM, 'The Sea', WKAR, and WABE


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 5
Show #16: Expressing Ourselves
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: Weekday High Podcast '08
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It?s our last podcast of the summer, and we?re going out with two pieces about self-expression. DaeDae Williams shares a powerful poem about the c...

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 07:52
Minor Key: A Teenage Composer at a Crossroads
From: Mary Quintas
Caption: Bryson Alexander playing one of his compositions, Credit: Mary Quintas
Bryson Alexander is a Contemporary Classical music composer. At 16 years old, he’s composed nearly 40 pieces...all without knowing how to read or ...

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


  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 04:32
  • Purchases: 2
Strummer and Me
From: Eric Winick
Caption: Kari in front of the Joe Strummer mural, Niagara Bar, East Village, NYC, Summer 2013
Spending the summer in California while her mother convalesces from a grave illness, a 12 year-old finds herself suddenly alone at a rock concert o...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2014
  • Length: 17:49
Midnight Melodies: MIT After Hours
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
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For Joe, the best part of playing the piano is doing it where no one’s listening.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
Centerstage Minnesota: Sonny Johnson
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Sonny Johnson
Sonny Johnson's presence became unmistakable to many as a result of his performances in the past two editions of the Great Northern Radio Show on N...

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


  • Added: Jul 18, 2012
  • Length: 58:55
  • Purchases: 3
The place, the music, the memories
From: Terrascope Radio
Series: People and their Places
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For one Indian classical singer, a crowded little apartment in Queens--or even just the sound of a shruthi box (an Indian-style musical drone)--bri...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Frank's "That's My Song"
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Series: That's My Song!
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A introduction to the Youth Spin listeners, as well as a personal story where the song is the main character in the plot. That's My Song weaves tog...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 07:56
Graham's "That's My Song"
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Series: That's My Song!
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A introduction to the Youth Spin listeners, as well as a personal story where the song is the main character in the plot. That's My Song weaves tog...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 03:53
Zap's "That's My Song"
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Series: That's My Song!
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"That's My Song" is a way to introduce new Youth Spinners to our listenership as well as create an atmosphere that includes writing, peer review, e...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2011
  • Length: 05:02
Music Behind A Locked Door
From: Todd Cross
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Hillbrook Juvenile Detention Center in Syracuse, New York works with troubled youth - yet it isn't a "lock em up, throw away the key" kind of place...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2011
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 1
Tim Kreuth Reviews Brother Ali's "Us"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
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KAXE Intern Tim Krueth (A.K.A. Timtern) reviews Us, the latest release from Minneapolis hip-hop artist Brother Ali. BrotherAli.com describes Us as,...

  • Added: May 03, 2010
  • Length: 04:46
Memories of music producer Joel Stout 1976 - 2010
From: Chris Goldstein
Caption: Joel "Stouty" Stout
Diane Fornbacher, Lewis McCallister and the band Sci-Fi remember the life of Joel Stout. We call Joel's voicemail.

  • Added: Apr 16, 2010
  • Length: 21:57
Ojibwe Culture Today
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Ojibwemowin
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Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University, Anton Treuer, profiles the members of the Pipestone Drum Group.

Bought by WGZS, Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio, KVSC, and WTIP


  • Added: Apr 13, 2010
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 4
Hailey Sings
From: Voices of Youth - Moab
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An account of the final 5 minutes before this singer goes on stage.

Bought by WGXC and WFIU


  • Added: Jun 29, 2008
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Softer Voice
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
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Hillary's been playing music all her life and her gender never seemed to matter. But when she began composing things got more complicated.

Bought by PRX Remix, WMPG, Remix Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 6