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I have always loved thoroughbred horse racing. I mean, I love sports in general: baseball (Yankees), football (Giants), real football - aka "soccer" (Arsenal, from north London), hoc... (article)
This week’s picks offer some Mediterranean sounds, Bernstein's hippie-inspired Mass, and a truly “Grimm” fairy tale... Philip Glass & Robert Moran – The Juniper Tree (Orange Mountain ... (article)
The 135th running of the Kentucky Derby is this Saturday. We look beyond the song "Camptown Races" and into the rich musical history of horse racing. Also: Montreal chamber-pop band B... (episode)
For decades, the term "downtown" described the experimentalism of music, art and culture in lower Manhattan. Today: we explore how that shorthand definition is changing in a live broa... (episode)
Today's show is our first live broadcast from our new Greene Space, a ground-floor studio for live music, live radio, film, lectures, community events, etc. And since we're taking th... (article)
Poor Bob Dylan. He's got a tough act to follow, a huge shadow cast by his much younger self. But give him credit for rescuing a career that seemed to have slid into irrelevance and ... (article)
Bob Dylan changed folk music, the Beatles and the art of American songwriting. But his legendary persona is undermined by an erratic and confusing recording career. As Bob Dylan relea... (episode)
The story of Cafe Society, and its sister club, Cafe Society Uptown, is a remarkable one - an intentionally integrated club in New York at a time when even here, such things did not e... (article)
The Greenwich Village hot spot Café Society was an integrated nightclub frequented by regulars like Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. Today: the story of a groundbreaking jazz venue i... (episode)
On Wednesday we talked with a sociologist about the "community" of music listeners known as Deadheads. Traveling tribes of Grateful Dead fans really do form a community, Rebecca Adam... (article)