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Karate Camp 2021: Karate Chop Silence

From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed

Tonight on The Live Feed we went to Karate Camp 2021 to hear from Karate Chop Silence. Though originally from Winona, the band has been traveling a...

Karate Camp 2021: Afflatus

From: KQAL
Series: The Live Feed

Tonight on The Live Feed we head back to this year’s Karate Camp festival to check out a set from Winona’s own, Afflatus. Afflatus will take you on...

Top of Mind - Cinema Therapy, Bellingcat Investigations, COVID-19 Opera

From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Topic 1: Love Movies? Need Therapy? Cinema Therapy on YouTube is for You; Topic 2: Bellingcat Investigative Journalism is Solving International Cri...

Bought by KSTK, RADIOLEX, KOWS, WYAP, and GCR (Global Community Radio)

The Creation of Jimmi Langemo’s Blues Song Inspired by the George Floyd Killing

From: KBEM
Series: Twin Cities Weekend

Caption: Jimmi and the Band of Souls, Credit: Gary Eckhart

Jimmi Langemo leads a Minneapolis blues band called Jimmi and the Band of Souls. The band performs songs that complain of everything from broken he...

Bought by KZYX and Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

Lake Erie's problems set to music in 'Voice of the Lake'

From: Great Lakes Today

It may be hard to imagine a composer being inspired by public hearings and court cases. But Lake Erie and its problems take center stage in a new o...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio and WBFO

Orchestra travels along Erie Canal to mark 200th anniversary

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Albany Symphony Orchestra musicians Jamecyn Morey and Mitsuko Suzuki at Lock E-2 in Waterford, N.Y. , Credit: Gary David Gold

The Albany Symphony is holding a series of concerts in towns along the Erie Canal, to mark the beginning of construction in July, 1817.

Bought by WCMU Michigan, WCPN, North Country Public Radio, and WBFO

Ukulele Legend Lyle Ritz Remembered

From: Heidi Chang

Caption: Lyle Ritz, Father of Jazz Ukulele, Credit: Elizabeth Maihock Beloff

A tribute to Lyle Ritz, the "Father of Jazz Ukulele," who also played bass on many of the biggest pop hits in history as a member of the legendary ...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting

The 2016 Musician Memorial Special

From: Paul Ingles

There's no getting around it. 2016 seemed like an especially costly year in the world of music with the deaths of far too many favorites. Music p...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, WUTC, KGLP, KHNS, Prairie Public and more

Still Alive: One Man's Battle with Opiate Addiction

From: Chris Harland-Dunaway

One young man's near-death fall from a cliff, and the power of Straight Edge punk music, helped him escape prescription opiate addiction. His story...

Bought by WDBM and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Hermon Mehari (Playing For Paris)

From: Matt Hodapp

During the night of November 13th, 2015, a series of terrorist attacks claimed by ISIL killed 130 people and injured 368 in Paris, France. Kansas C...

High-tech Tools May Help Save Some Orchestras

From: Syracuse University Broadcast Journalism

Orchestras around the country are struggling to keep their doors open, but new mobile phone apps may help save orchestras. Apps like periscope all...

Summer Learning Series: Ambitious Program Gears Up To Push Middle-Schoolers Past High School

From: WBHM
Series: Summer Learning Lifts Graduation Rates

Caption: A view from the balcony: the Young Musicians Camp ensemble plays everything from classical to “All About That Bass” at the University of Montevallo. , Credit: Dan Carsen

Fewer reading materials in the home. Less access to camps or museums. Those are some of the reasons “summer learning loss” disproportionately affe...

A Tune to Change the Way We Act

From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media

Caption: Catherine Fisher, an avid thrift shopper

In late August last year, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, a Seattle-based rap group, released a single called “Thrift Shop.” This song has topped the ch...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Choreographers' Evening 2014

From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices

A preview of Choreographers' Evening 2014 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis with Kenna-Camara Cottman and the dancers of In New Company.

Bought by KSRQ

Sean Costello: "In The Magic Shop"

From: John Luttrell
Series: Between the Notes

Go inside Sean Costello's previously unreleased 2005 sessions, now available on the new record "In The Magic Shop."

Rory Block: "Hard Luck Child"

From: John Luttrell
Series: Between the Notes

Go inside Rory Block's new album, "Hard Luck Child," a tribute to Blues legend Skip James.

Tribute to the Studio Owner Who Changed Music History

From: Gianluca Tramontana

Caption: Cosimo Matassa at the mixing desk

A Tribute to the late Cosimo Matassa who's J&M Studio and engineering skills recorded history and defined the way rock and roll would sound.

The Music of Noise

From: A. Randall Wenner

Caption: Syracuse University Design Professor Zeke Leonard demonstrates his intonarumori noise-making instruments., Credit: A. Randall Wenner

Is it possible to make “music” from “noise”? Is it possible to enjoy it? Randy Wenner reports on an experimental music genre making a comeback of s...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and PRX Remix

You’ll Be Mine: Bringing Musical Tourism To West Memphis

From: Eleanor Boudreau

Every year, more than 10 million visitors come to Memphis, and spend more than three billion dollars, much of it on music-related tourism. But few ...

I'll Take You There: Using Music To Revitalize Soulsville

From: Eleanor Boudreau

Caption: The home of bluesman Memphis Slim, a historic site next to the Stax Museum. A partnership with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra plans to turn this house into a place where musicians can practice and record.

It has been more than 50 years since a small recording company moved into the old Capitol Movie theater on East McLemore Avenue, and took the name ...

Bought by PRX Remix