John Peel’s Vault
For almost 40 years, the late BBC radio host John Peel spun cutting-edge tracks and launched entire careers with his legendary “Peel Sessions.” Along the way, he amassed an enormous, meticulously...
View ArticleThinning The Crates And Hitting The Road
I've moved cross-country twice in the last six years. Honestly, it's not a bad way to spend your time: Wide open spaces, America as seen through the windshield. All those things that songs, short...
View ArticleSoundcheck Smackdown: Record Store Day Edition
For faithful fans of vinyl, the third Saturday in April means one thing: Record Store Day. This year, it falls on Saturday, April 20th. It's a day set aside to celebrate those increasingly rare...
View ArticleDJ Shadow
DJ Shadow set a Guinness Book record for creating an album, Endtroducing, made up entirely of samples, many of them from LPs he rescued from the 50-cent bin. He’s moved on, but some of his fans (like...
View ArticleYankees Relief Pitcher Rivera Sets Record
Yankees relief pitcher Mariano Rivera had arguably the most important moment of his career yesterday, in a game aginst the Minnesota Twins, when he surpassed Trevor Hoffman as the major league career...
View ArticleEast Village Vinyl Destination for Hit Makers and Global Junkies to Close
When Dr. Dre needed a fresh sample for his 2001 hit single with Snoop Dogg, “The Next Episode,” he hit up East Village record store co-owner Jared Boxxs’s shop Sound Library. Dr. Dre walked away with...
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Styli over substance
The recently published National Recording Preservation Plan from the Library of Congress includes a recommendation to "encourage scientific and technical research leading to the development of new...
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[Unedited] Dario Robleto with Krista Tippett
Dario Robleto is a sculptural artist who lives and works in Houston, Texas. His most recent exhibit, “The Boundary of Life is Quietly Crossed,” is at the Menil Collection in Houston. This interview is...
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Dario Robleto — Sculptor of Memory
Sculptural artist Dario Robleto is famous for spinning and shaping unconventional materials — from dinosaur fossils to pulverized vintage records, from swamp root to cramp bark. He joins words and...
View ArticleFire Sparks Discussion About City’s Storage Protocol
New York Times reporter Vivian Yee discusses how a recent warehouse fire in Brooklyn showcases an archaic and risky practice some city agencies use to store important documents.
View ArticleThe Creative Apocalypse that Wasn't: Why Technology Isn't Killing Art
Click on the audio player above to hear this interview.The birth of the digital economy at the start of the 21st century was supposed to accompany a slow but steady decline of more traditional forms of...
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Radio's First Record Review Program - Around the Disc with Peter Hugh Reed
From April, 1929 through January, 1931 music commentator and critic Peter Hugh Reed hosted Around the Disc, a forty minute weekly record review program on WNYC.Reed was the founder and editor of the...
View ArticleThere Is No "Off the Record"
Come along with us... into the future. A place where there is a written record of everything you've said-- ever. We're calling it the transcribed life, and our guide is Rose Eveleth, the host of the...
View ArticleWhy Analog is Thriving in the Digital Age
There’s no question that we’re living in a digital age, but in the The Revenge of the Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter, author David Sax tells the stories of entrepreneurs and businesses that...
View ArticleJohn Cohen's 20 Albums, 15 Films & Hundreds of Photographs
John Cohen, photographer, musician, filmmaker, folklorist and member of the New Lost City Ramblers, joins us to discuss his life and work in film, which are the subject of a series of screenings at the...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Climate Change 101, Our Kids and Our Politics,...
Hear three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Climate Change Science Refresher (First) | Teaching Our Kids Our Politics (Starts at 15:02) | President Lincoln's Battle With...
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Dario Robleto — Sculptor of Memory
Sculptural artist Dario Robleto is famous for spinning and shaping unconventional materials — from dinosaur fossils to pulverized vintage records, from swamp root to cramp bark. He joins words and...
View ArticleListen: Archive Recording of Debussy Performing 'La Soirée dans Grenade' in...
In case you didn’t know, we tend to get pretty excited over archival recordings. Especially when the composers themselves are the ones being recorded. This 1913 recording of Debussy performing La...
View ArticleNew Hope for New Yorkers With Criminal Convictions
New Yorkers who have not been convicted of a crime in the past 10 years can seek to have up to two prior convictions sealed, making it easier to apply for jobs. The law was signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo...
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