Best Shaefer Podcasts (2025)

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Levi Boone Helm | The Kentucky Cannibal - Part 6 32:35

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Burton tried to speak, to beg for mercy, but his throat had clamped shut, parched and brittle as ancient parchment left too long in the sun. His voice only clawed its way back in a ragged, desperate croak the instant Boone pressed the knife down against the flesh of his right leg, just above the knee, and the first thin, crimson line of blood welle…

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Tommy Emmanuel, C.G.P., Chases the Ecstatic Via Guitar Instrumentals, In-Studio 37:06

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The Australian-born musician and songwriter Tommy Emmanuel is a virtuoso guitarist and Grammy winner who has played with everyone from the legendary Chet Atkins to younger guitarists like Jason Isbell and Billy Strings. Long based in Nashville, he’s been releasing solo albums pretty regularly since 1979. His new record is called Living In The Light…

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Guitarist and Songwriter Brad Barr Stretches Out In a Trio, In-Studio 43:01

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The Barr Brothers, the indie-folk-rock band from Montreal, have just released their first album in eight years called Let It Hiss. Brad Barr, the band’s singer, guitarist and songwriter is a versatile collaborator and risk-taker who revels in making unusual sounds. The latest songs can be folk-leaning, or may draw from the blues and American songwr…

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EP. 183 – Reforming health laws for better outcomes (Mandeep Dhaliwal, United Nations Development Programme) 50:52

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Mandeep Dhaliwal, Director of the HIV and Health Group at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) joins host Janelle Wrigley to discuss how legal frameworks and governance shape health outcomes worldwide. Drawing on more than 25 years at the intersection of health policy and human rights, Mandeep explains the UNDP's mission and her experien…

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Portuguese Singer Carminho Distills the Fatal Romanticism of Fado 31:31

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The Portuguese singer and songwriter Carminho is one of the leading singers in the style known as fado – the deeply soulful, melancholy music that is somewhat akin to Spanish flamenco or American blues. She has collaborated with the iconic Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso, performed for the late Pope Francis, recorded with Steve Albini, and made a…

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Mexican Songwriter and Producer Silvana Estrada Shares Her Heart And Finds Joyful Melodies 35:02

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The Mexican singer Silvana Estrada made an immediate impression with her debut LP Marchita back in 2022. Quickly hailed as a unique voice in Latin music for her blend of jazz, chamber music, and traditional folk, Estrada took her time making her follow-up album, and it appears to have been time well-spent: Vendrán Suaves Lluvias, or “there will com…

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Levi Boone Helm | The Kentucky Cannibal - Part 5 47:19

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A few of the abandoned men, their wills broken, staggered blindly after Boone and Burton once they finally realized the terrible deception. But in tragically little time, they were completely snow-blind and hopelessly lost, staggering aimlessly away from the faint path and each other as the relentless, creeping tendrils of hypothermia finally took …

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Singer-Songwriter Meklit Embeds Ethiopian Traditions and Connects Cultures, In-Studio 38:01

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The singer Meklit, born Meklit Hadero in Ethiopia, is based in the Bay Area, where she has released a number of albums that blend jazz, pop, and soul with the echoes of Ethiopian pop. Her latest album, A Piece of Infinity, finds Meklit singing mostly in Amharic, and looking back to what is sometimes called the Golden Age of Ethiopian music – the ti…

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Canadian Singer and Composer Patrick Watson Features Other Voices, While Recovering His Own 42:54

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Canadian singer and composer Patrick Watson has been making records for almost a quarter century – with a cinematic blend of indie rock, cabaret pop, and chamber music that has made him a favorite of film directors and music supervisors. His latest record, Uh Oh, is the result of a pretty big uh-oh moment for a singer: Watson lost his voice. He tho…

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We Welcome David and Wes from Krigsgrav 1:18:33

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Send us a text We chit chat about the usual music stuff this episode giving tribute to a couple of legends that have passed away too soon. We also talk about a couple of fests that have happened and will happen in the Tampa area; TAMPA DEATHFEST and SWARMFEST. Our guest of honor this podcast is the doom black death band from Texas, KRIGSGRAV. https…

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The Antlers Consider Nature Under Siege in New Song Cycle, In-Studio 33:59

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American indie rock band The Antlers began almost 20 years ago as a solo project from singer and songwriter Peter Silberman. While the previous album, Green To Gold, was a pastoral, almost folky affair, the new album, Blight, is almost like a classical song cycle, and is a musical warning about nature under siege. “The consequences of accelerating …

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Bell Jazz Award Winner Sullivan Fortner's Joyful Piano Adventures, In-Studio 42:48

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GRAMMY-winning musical omnivore Sullivan Fortner merges New Orleans grit and spice with invention (and not just J.S. Bach), for an alchemical jazz that is wise, feisty, mischievous, and dynamic. His exposure to R&B, soul, and gospel at home; his time at Oberlin and the influence of various teachers in jazz and classical disciplines; and his longtim…

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EP. 182 – Lucy Letby: the role of expert testimony in criminal trials 38:19

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This episode delves into the infamous case of Lucy Letby – a neonatal nurse convicted of multiple murders and attempted murders of babies at a UK hospital. Our guest is Dr Sarah Bennett – a lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University's School of Law and Justice Studies. Sarah's conversation with host Becky Annison explores the complexities of expe…

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Levi Boone Helm | The Kentucky Cannibal - Part 4 47:36

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When the sun finally rose, he methodically availed himself of the dead's belongings, precisely as he always did, but for the first time, he could not bring himself to look directly at the body. Usually, he felt absolutely no sting of remorse or burning shame—he had successfully convinced himself that he was entirely immune to such weak human frailt…

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Spanish-born Pablopablo, Bending Latin Music Traditions 32:09

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The Spanish-born singer, songwriter and producer Pablopablo recently released his debut LP, but he’d already built up an impressive array of writing and producing credits, winning Latin Grammys back in 2022 under his given name, Pablo Drexler. Those awards were for his work on a collaboration between his father, the popular Uruguayan-born musician …

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The Sensational Blues Guitarist Christone "Kingfish" Ingram, At Last, In-Studio 31:38

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Christone "Kingfish" Ingram has been steeped in the Blues since he was eight years old, when he visited the Delta Blues Museum as a student in Clarksdale, Mississippi (Jackson Advocate). He played drums, bass, and GUITAR and was recognized at a young age for his exceptional musical talent with his debut album Kingfish, in 2019 on Alligator Records.…

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47SOUL Brings the Shamstep Party With a Message (Archives) 32:39

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“Shamstep” band, 47SOUL, take their name from the Arabic name for the Levant region – Bilad al-Sham, with members from Jordan, Washington DC, and Israel - spanning the divides of the Palestinian Diaspora. The music is a mix of dubstep, hip-hop and electro-Arabic dabke with lyrics in both Arabic and English, which are intensely political in their ca…

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Revisiting The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (From the Archives, 2019) 30:05

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The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble is a musically free-ranging band of brothers from the south side of Chicago. Their music draws from funk, funky jazz, Afrobeat, hip hop, rock, reggae, and R&B, and they’ve performed with Tony Allen, Wu Tang Clan, De La Soul, Prince, Femi Kuti, Gorillaz, Yasiin Bey (aka Mos Def), and the B52's, to name a few. Growing up, …

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Levi Boone Helm | The Kentucky Cannibal - Part 3 32:46

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She fought him off when she could, her arms straining against his weight, her breath hitching as she prayed for him to collapse into a drunken stupor. On good nights, he’d pass out mid-act, his body slumping onto her like a felled oak, his breath hot and sour against her neck. She would shove him aside, her muscles trembling, and crawl to the edge …

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Rumbo Tumba Crafts Argentinian Electro-Traditional Music, In-Studio 33:35

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Rumbo Tumba is the project of the Argentine musician Facundo Salgado, who uses a looping station and a battery of handmade, traditional South American instruments to create brilliant musical conversations between South American traditions and modern technology. Rumbo Tumba can make an improbable amount of sound, live and alone, constructing sounds …

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Bill Frisell & Skúli Sverrisson Live at the 2025 New York Guitar Festival 40:08

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From the 2025 New York Guitar Festival, hear music from legendary American jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and Icelandic bass player Skúli Sverrisson, who were about to go into the studio and record their second album as a duo. Part of the New Sounds Live concerts, the music was recorded at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn, and wa…

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EP. 181 – Judith Resnik (Impermissible Punishments) 1:02:28

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Professor Judith Resnik and host Teneé Frazier discuss Judith's book 'Impermissible Punishments: How Prison Became a Problem for Democracy' – which explores the complex relationship between punishment, democracy, and social justice. Judith, a Professor of Law at Yale Law School, delves into the historical evolution of prisons in the UK, US, and Eur…

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Homegrown Brooklyn Bluegrass From Cole Quest & The City Pickers 30:21

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Cole Quest & The City Pickers are a bluegrass band from Brooklyn, and if that surprises you, well, the fact is New York City has had a long, strong bluegrass scene going back to the 1950’s. Cole Quest draws on that tradition, and his own family tradition - he’s the grandson of the folk icon Woody Guthrie – in originals and updated versions of Guthr…

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Soundcheck Special – “Blues Is the Roots” 57:52

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The Soundcheck Podcast series offers up music from recent sessions, all revolving around The Blues –at the root of so much popular music, and where the roots have grown into other fruits worldwide. Listen to French-Moroccan band Bab L' Bluz and their hot psychedelic blues spiked with the Gnawa trance rhythms of northern Africa's Maghreb. There’s th…

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Wry and Lyrical Balladeer Ron Sexsmith, Solo, In-Studio 38:10

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Canada’s Ron Sexsmith is a songwriter whose fans include Elvis Costello, Elton John, Paul McCartney, and a few other folks who know a thing or two about that mysterious process. Sexsmith is now forty years into his career, with 18 albums, three of Canada’s Juno Awards, and a novel to show for it. His latest album is called Hangover Terrace, and it …

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Levi Boone Helm | The Kentucky Cannibal - Part 2 28:07

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He’d deliberately pick fights with men leaving the tavern, a predator stalking his prey. Experience had honed his dangerous edge; he was now a skilled brawler, a calculated bully, and stronger than any man had a right to be. The young women of the town, caught in the romantic fantasy of taming a wild man, were drawn to him. But at home, the attenti…

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Songwriter Cass McCombs Addresses the Mundane and the Mythic 29:16

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Distinctive songwriter Cass McCombs takes a broad view of the American experience – from the mundane to the mythic. His new songs from a wide-ranging double album - Interior Live Oak contain “specific detail amid strange painterly settings” (The Guardian) and remain hopeful despite the feeling of listening to someone who has lived the extreme aspec…

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Omar Sosa Trio Goes Outside the Box, In-Studio 41:50

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Pianist and composer Omar Sosa draws on his own Afro-Cuban heritage, American jazz, and spiritual and meditative practices from around the world to create music that defies categorization. He’s traveled widely, especially in Africa, recording the sounds of the people, the animals, and the instruments of those places and sometimes incorporating them…

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EP. 180 – Vicki Nash (Oxford Internet Institute) 40:38

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In this episode we continue exploring children's online safety and cross the Atlantic to unpack the UK's Online Safety Act (OSA). Vicki Nash, Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, joins host Yasmin Sheikh to discuss the rationale of OSA and how it aims to protect children from illegal and harmful content online. Vicki talks about the difficult…

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Plainspoken Texas Troubadour Rodney Crowell Lives for the Moment 37:26

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“Failed bull-rider turned seminal songwriter” (Red Light Management), native Texan Rodney Crowell is considered to be one of the chief architects of Americana music, and a songwriter admired by good songwriters. Crowell has had an eventful career in his half century of writing songs, making records and helping create the style that’s come to be kno…

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Guitarist Mary Halvorson and Drummer Tomas Fujiwara, From the 2025 New York Guitar Festival 31:48

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From the 2025 New York Guitar Festival, listen to a live set by the adventurous guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson along with drummer/composer Tomas Fujiwara, playing their original works. This show was recorded at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn, as part of the New Sounds Live concert series, and was also a co-presentation of…

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Sent Here by Satan Himself... Dean Corpse from the Band MRSA 58:45

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Send us a text We do our usual chit chat about some new music from Helloween and Krigsgrav. We also do some horror movie trivia. Finally we have a chat with Dean Corpse, vocalist of the band MRSA! We discuss the band, the music, horror movies, the epic live show and TAMPA DEATH FEST 2025. MRSA LINKS https://www.tiktok.com/@mrsatheband?is_from_webap…

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Levi Boone Helm | The Kentucky Cannibal - Part 1 29:28

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The room fell silent, the other patrons—hard men with scarred hands and wary eyes—sensing the storm about to break.Dutch rose slowly, his shadow swallowing the light as he turned to face Boone. In his hand was a Bowie knife, its blade glinting like a sliver of moonlight. Boone, his revolver waving wildly, grinned—a crooked, feral slash that promise…

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A Kind of Nordic Blues From Tord Gustavsen Trio (Archives) 34:05

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Norwegian pianist Tord Gustavsen and his trio, featuring new bassist Sigurd Hole and long-time collaborator, drummer Jarle Vespestad, combine together folk influences and church music for unhurried embraces of melody. Expressive and reflective, Gustavsen’s ‘Nordic blues’ slowly unfurls passages of delicate lyricism, with enough space for contemplat…

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Adrian Quesada Revives Dramatic Vintage Latin Pop, With Guest Vocalists 33:51

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Adrian Quesada is probably best known as one of the two co-founders of the psychedelic soul band Black Pumas, but the guitarist and producer has also been part of Grupo Fantasma, Brownout and Ocote Soul Sounds. Lately, he’s also been pursuing another musical project called Boleros Psicodélicos, an homage to the phenomenon of balada music that bloss…

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EP. 179 – Jenna Leventoff (American Civil Liberties Union) 42:02

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Societies are grappling with how to help keep children safe while navigating online spaces, including through legislation such as the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) in the US. In this episode, Jenna Leventoff, Senior Policy Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), joins host Janelle Wrigley to talk about KOSA and America’s First Amendme…

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Anand Wilder's Sonic Adventures in Psych-Pop, In-Studio 40:19

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The New York-based singer, songwriter, and producer Anand Wilder was a cofounder of the experimental indie band Yeasayer, and more recently has pursued a wide-ranging solo career. His 2022 solo debut, I Don’t Know My Words, was a genuine solo project, with Anand playing everything himself. Now, though, Anand Wilder has a new record called Psychic L…

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Liz and Brenner from BRAT 55:21

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Send us a text Holy smokes... we have Liz Selfish and Brenner Moate joining us to talk about BRAT, the scene, touring and life in general. We also discuss a couple of new tunes from Biohazard and Amorphis. https://bratband.com/ https://www.facebook.com/brat504 https://www.facebook.com/events/brass-mug/tampa-death-fest-2025/1799475530818116/ Support…

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Inuk Singer-Songwriter Elisapie Transforms Her Heritage 40:47

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The singer Elisapie is an Inuk musician, filmmaker, advocate, and writer who has become a nationally-celebrated figure in Canada – her portrait appears on a postage stamp in that country’s Indigenous leaders series. Her latest album, Inuktitut, is notable for a couple of reasons: first, it’s sung in the language called Inuktitut, and second, it is …

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Ted Kaczynski | The Unabomber - Part 10 43:25

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Within three hours of beginning the search, investigators found a three-ring notebook. Investigator Sachtleben later said of his findings, and I quote: “I also observed notebooks that contain what I recognize to be diagrams and notes that are consistent with the manufacture of destructive devices such as pipe bombs. Ten three-ring binders. These bi…

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Guitar-Oriented Rock Band We Are Scientists' Twist on Nostalgia, In-Studio 35:26

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Named after being mis-identified while returning a uHaul, the pop’n’roll band We Are Scientists has been making melancholic, nostalgic, and melodic songs, familiar and fun, for some 20 years. Since their debut album With Love And Squalor, they’ve wandered into the worlds of comedy and English soccer while continuing their own spin on indie rock wit…

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Eleanor Friedberger Is (Goth) Dancing (Mostly) on Her Own (Archives) 28:16

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Eleanor Friedberger, best known as one half of the indie rock duo The Fiery Furnaces, has recently shifted her musical landscape, swapping out live instruments in favor of drum programming and synths for a sound that she can create mostly on her own. (Part of her desire to be more self-reliant, in the wake of the 2016 election.) On her 2018 record,…

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Rachael & Vilray Serve New Old-Timey Songs With a Sly Wink, In-Studio 34:55

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The duo of Rachael & Vilray turns the idea of "Everything old is new again" on its head – making new things that sound really old. Over the course of three albums they offer a contemporary take on tin pan alley, the great American songbook, and vintage small combo jazz. The duo’s latest album is West of Broadway and it brings Rachael & Vilray back …

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The Expansive Textured Ambient Songs of Vines, In-Studio 40:56

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New York based composer Cassie Wieland first unveiled her ambient songwriting project she calls Vines in 2023. Now she’s released a full LP under the name Vines – that record, called I’ll be here, is full of atmospheric, textural washes of sound and processed vocals that suggest a story rather than actually telling you one. The live version of Vine…

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EP. 178 – Paul Powlesland (Lawyers for Nature) 34:58

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What if rivers, forests, and even individual trees had their own legal rights? In this thought-provoking episode, host Becky Annison speaks with Paul Powlesland – barrister, founder of Lawyers for Nature, and leading advocate for the legal rights of nature – about a revolutionary movement transforming our relationship with the natural world. Paul e…

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Ted Kaczynski | The Unabomber - Part 9 35:28

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The lead agent called out to Ted, asking for help with a property line. Ted, wary, peered from the doorway, his frame gaunt from years of isolation. The agent stepped closer, explaining the map issue. As Ted leaned forward, the agent grabbed his right arm, yanking him from the cabin. Another agent swiftly cuffed his left, snapping on handcuffs. Ted…

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Afrofuturist Hip Hop From Indianapolis Supergroup 81355, In-Studio 34:03

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Indianapolis-based group 81355 (pronounced ‘bless’) is a collaboration between the rapper/singers Oreo Jones and Sirius Blvck, and the lyricist/producer Sedcairn, and while they’re clearly rooted in hip hop, they’re not bound by it. On their impressive new album Bad Dogs, the band races through electropop, future soul, grunge, and avant-garde boom-…

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The Bad Plus Keeps On Making Their Own Rules 41:10

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In 2000 the Bad Plus helped usher in the new century with what looked like a 20th century jazz piano trio, with music ranging from groove-based originals to covers of Black Sabbath and Igor Stravinsky. Over the past quarter century they’ve repeatedly surprised listeners. Lately founding members Reid Anderson (bass) & Dave King (drums) with no piano…

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The Pop Precision of Cautious Clay, In-Studio 29:18

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Cautious Clay is the stage name of singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Josh Karpeh. He burst out of the gate with his song “Cold War” in 2017, a song that was later sampled by Taylor Swift in her track “London Boy”. Cautious Clay’s music blends R&B, neo-soul, jazz, and more, and his subsequent output includes cowriting with John Legend and…

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Interview with Kelly Shaefer from Atheist, Till The Dirt and Neurotica 1:41:54

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Send us a text In this episode we talk about the new Gwar Ep and the new album from Azure Emote. Angelripper from Sodom had some words about modern day recording. We also talk about the new Spinal Tap movie coming out. Our interview is with technical prog death thrash pioneer legend Kelly Shaefer! https://www.facebook.com/tillthedirtband https://at…