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This week's episode of Rock School explores a collection of songs written while an artist was passing away. You'll probably cry.
- Added: Nov 12, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
This week's episode explores Muzak, a service employed by businesses for background music. It is often used to influence customer buying habits. ...
- Added: Oct 30, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
This week's episode of Rock School analyzes the sharp inflation of concert ticket prices and attempts to explain the cause of the problem. Have a ...
- Added: Oct 01, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
This week's episode continues the exploration of punk rock, this time going back to take a look at the British punk scene. Here on Rock School, it...
- Added: Sep 17, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
It's a full hour devoted to the legacy of Manny Roth and the legendary venue that he created.
- Added: Aug 21, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
It's a countdown from 100 to 51 of the best guitar solos in rock this week. Amazingly, they're not all from Van Halen! Stops on the journey inclu...
- Added: Jun 03, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
This week we explore the role that airplanes have played in the history of rock music. We focus on the less nefarious airplanes of rock (i.e. plan...
- Added: May 08, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Some rockers owe their distinct voices to vocal nodules and polyps. This week we explore what these defects are, which musician's have them and th...
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
Some savvy musicians created and own patents for items used in the music industry. A few of these innovators own multiple patents and make a bit o...
Bought by KSKQ, KFOK-LPFM, Aspen Public Radio, and KSRQ
- Added: Mar 18, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 4
One of the most memorable things about a concert is the opening act. Some can be great, while others can be quite the contrary. This week on Rock...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Nov 08, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
The story behind the producer with the Midas Touch. "Mutt" Lange not only produced huge hits for A/C D/C, Foreigner and Def Leppard, but he also c...
- Added: Sep 03, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Laws that are in place because of concert mishaps.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Aug 09, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Sometimes Rock hurts. This episode explores the stories of popular rockers' most painful moments off stage. From exploding veins to broken legs t...
- Added: Aug 08, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Is Frank Zappa's father Mr. Green Jeans? How'd David Bowie's eye get a funny color? Michael Jackson bought The Elephant Man's bones? Where'd Geo...
- Added: Jul 29, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Dr. Burns was nice enough to make a list of the top 25 selling after-death rock artists. We'll also be featuring some awesome music from these dead...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 30, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Learn about lost films, the National Jukebox, IRENE, how big a petabyte is, and much more on a tour of the Library of Congress Packard Campus featu...
- Added: May 23, 2013
- Length: 28:10
You hear him play and you can't help but think "wow!"
- Added: Mar 02, 2011
- Length: 05:41
Fiddle and Cello have a strong tradition in Scottish, 18th Century Music. In a reinvention of the classic musical marriage between big and small fi...
- Added: Nov 23, 2009
- Length: 57:52
An hour of jazz and conversation with Harvey Pekar & Phoebe Gloeckner
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KVNF, 91.7 WHUS Storrs, WCPN, and WVPE
- Added: Sep 26, 2007
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 5
Canadian rockers Islands give us the inside scoop about their name, their sound, and much more!
Bought by WXLV-FM
- Added: Nov 29, 2006
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 1