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Caption: Painting with John, Credit: Strange & Beautiful Music
Music from John Lurie, Jackie Gleason, Ray Davies, Ry Cooder, Ringo Starr & The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Victor Orchestra, One eskimO, Alan...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:22
Caption: Last Gas Before Fall, Credit: Edward Hopper
End of the Summer, back to school mix with a seasonal theme and well blended music...a final September Song

  • Added: Sep 18, 2023
  • Length: 01:56:14
Caption: The Worker
Labor Day extended special with history of worker's daily struggles mixed with cultural and musical references

  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 59:07
Caption: Ernie K-Doe As a Mardi Gras Indian, Credit: From "Ernie K-Doe - The R&B Emperor of the Universe by Ben Sandmel
There were a hundred thousand "first rock and roll songs," all of them expressing the cultural upheaval of WWII and the realization we better enjoy...

Bought by Delmarva Public Media, KFCF FM, KPRG, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 02:57:42
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Freeform Pioneers, Credit: Richard Avedon
Join us for tributes to Ginger Baker, Marshall Efron, Jimmy Nelson, Diahann Carroll. Jessye Norman, and WBAI with Steve Post, Spiro Agnew, Richard ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:29
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The usual dreck plus the third hour goes to the roots of zydeco music.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2019
  • Length: 03:53:42
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
Forgive my sentimentality on Mother's Day...

  • Added: May 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:59:48
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Contemporary Mardi Gras music and what it means to me.

  • Added: Feb 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:21:51
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Why instrumental songs with any American Indian tribe other than "Cherokee" seem more authentic than songs with "Cherokee" in the song title. Plus...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2017
  • Length: 02:50:25
Caption: Gotham Strikes Back!
The Trumps explain meeting with Russians and the power of email in this explosive mix of political manipulation and music-also featuring a look bac...

Bought by KDUR


  • Added: Jul 17, 2017
  • Length: 01:59:39
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Muhammad Ali, Credit: Gordon Parks
"Float like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee...". This is my tribute to Muhammad Ali. An impressionistic mix of sound and music dedicated to "The Grea...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Jun 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:42
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Fillmore East, 105 Second Avenue
A mix of music,mayhem and madness turn this week's episode into a dramatic blend of current and unbelievable events, celebrations, and tributes.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2015
  • Length: 01:58:23
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Should be able to put the definition of this show's sound into a thirty-second introduction but for the last seven years I've changed the definitio...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2015
  • Length: 03:04:52
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The Louisiana rock and roll that didn't utilize the New Orleans sound associated with Dave Bartholomew and Cosimo Matassa. Music from west of the ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:49:30
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D binaural audio.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2015
  • Length: 58:48
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I was the guy who screamed at the horror picture, "The murder is in there. Don't go into the basement ..." Same thing happens when I hear a girl...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2015
  • Length: 02:52:50
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of (but somehow seem more relevant than what is recorded today). The second hour of the s...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:48:49
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The idea was boneheaded in conception and worse in execution. That's why I'm on Saturday at midnight - nobody listen except drunks and they don't ...

  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 03:03:28
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Between the usual "music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of..." will be a mass hypnotism performed by me with the help of some f...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:56:24
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Starting the show with a spotlight on Vince Taylor who many have cited as the real life prototype for David Bowie's wacky character, Ziggy Stardust...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2014
  • Length: 02:55:06
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Interactive media being all the rage but I'm a dozen social media behind so I'm trying to catch up by inventing my own interactive media. (That wa...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 02:44:07
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Stuffing four hours of music into three hours. It looks as bad a making sausage but without the good taste!

  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 03:50:37
Caption: That's me, compliments of Andy Kerr
Working out why I don't use identifiers for myself or the music in the first hour of the show.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 02:50:16
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Music you've never heard by musicians you've never heard of but who influenced the rock and rollers that everyone has heard. Collector's music for...

  • Added: Oct 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:52:08
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Songs about Eskimos, lists of bars, synthetic Chinese music (why do I love these songs so much?), songs that can be played back to back and over an...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2014
  • Length: 02:47:31