goodies for record collectors

Radio Room

 

Collections and Connections

1 Million Free & Legal Tracks - wonderful wiki link fest

All Songs Considered - the sounds between the stories at NPR

Balansamba - Bossa broadcasts

BasicHip - pop instrumentals, soundtracks and enthusiastically strange music

Beatboxing - a bounty of beatbox downloads and info

BellyBongo - LP sharity at it's finest

Comfortstand - cool, comfy community netlabel

Dementia Radio - silly, crazy, demented tunes

The Freesound Project - collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings

Klezmershack - showcasing the newest generation of klezmer

Oddio Overplay - oddio heaven! the consummate guide to unusual music

Sabadabada - classic Bossa, Balanco & Samba LPs

Splogman - home of the 52 Weeks project and a whole lot more

Space Age Pop - a listener's launchpad

Steam Powered Studio - audio workshop featuring downloads from local performers

Strangely Familiar - bastardpop/mashup madness

TVCream - theme songs and information from classic programs

The Vinyl Orphanage - new dignity for eccentric old disks

WebJay - playlist community; listen to playlists, publish your own

Your Pal Doug - will share his records with you

 

Music Talk

BloggioOddio

Land of 999 Dances

Largehearted Boy

Rummage Through the Crevices

Said the Gramophone

Tofu Hut

WFMU

 

Radio Respite

Do or DIY - People Like Us, WFMU playlists and archives

Hober Radio - unaugmented, unvarnished music

KUHF - home of The Engines Of Our Ingenuity and Pulling Strings

Luxuria Music - swinging lounge and Latin jazz, retro pop and offbeat oddities

Radio Fantastica - carefully selected, deliciously arranged exotica and sound clips

Retro Cocktail Hour - archives of the retrolicious broadcasts from Kansas Public Radio

Russian Hits Radio - never sits still

Shirley & Spinoza - compound radio fun

SomaFM - underground/alternative radio

UniversalBuzz - streaming live concert performances

WeirdoMusic - music that's wacky, strange, and....wierd

Weirdsville - the swankienda of strange

Whole Wheat Radio - independent folk, blues, jazz, world, protest, acoustic and folk-rock

WordJazz - Ken Nordine, master of the mellifluous

 

Radio Storytime

Crazy Dog Audio Theater - studio and live radio theatre, comedy/parody shows

Hearing Voices - sound-portraits, audio essays

Little Grey Book Lectures - fun and fascinating; readings, songs, discussions

The Next Big Thing - Public Radio International's weekly radio features magazine

Radio Diaries - autobiographic audio documentaries

RadioStories - contemporary and old time audio dramas

Scribbling Women - plays adapted from stories

Seeing Ear Theater - audio dramas from the archives of scifi.net

Sound Portraits - radio documentaries

Stories on Stage - Live dramatic short story reading series.

StoryCorps - personal stories; audio scrapbook

TalkingHistory - 30-minute weekly show from the Organization of American Historians

This American Life - journalism via storytelling; interesting, surprising, and fun

To The Best of our Knowledge - audio magazine for the curious

Transom - channeling new work and voices to public radio through the internet

Whad'Ya Know? - news, interviews, humor, quizzes, and features, including Town of the Week

 

Radio Reprise

FlickLives - celebrating Jean Shepherd

GenericRadio Workshop - OTR script library

Radio Dismuke - music of the 1920's and 30's

RadioLovers - classic radio mp3s

Old Time Radio - classic programs, updated monthly

Old Time Radio Link Society - links to all things OTR

Kay Kyser.Net - The Ol' Professor of Swing

When Working in Radio was Fun - memories from the control room

Zoot Radio - loads of downloads

 

78rpm and older

Dismukes Virtual Talking Machine

Cylinder Recordings

Edison National Historic Site

Flexi-Cardboard-Novelty Records

Little Wonder Records

Red Hot Jazz Archive

Shellac Shanty

Secret Museum of the Air (archives)

The Virtual Gramophone

 

More Unusual Sounds

Barber Shop - in 4-part harmoneeeee-e-e-e

Clatterbox - Keeping an ear on the art of experimental instrument building.

Harry Partch's Instruments - not found in stores anywhere

JewsHarp.com audio vault - boing boing boing boing...

JewsHarpGuild - boing boing boing

Ladle Rat Rotten Hut - intonation recreation

Lost and Found Sound - audio artifacts

MagneticMigration - sounds from found tapes

Music Lab - Columbia University wants to play you some music. Take the survey.

Musical Furnishings - Your furniture is too quiet. Just ask these people.

One Free Minute - take out a minute to be heard via this nifty audio sculpture.

One Minute Vacations - you've got time for a vacation!

SoundscapeFM - field recordings from all over

Stark Effect - dictionaraoke, mic-in-track, and more audio hijinx

Sweet Thunder - found tape siftings

The Three Tendons - manual music

Thriftshop Voices - speaking to you from beyond the bargain bin

Wandering Ear - field recording miniatures

WhistlingRecords - the whistling wonders; bios, album covers, mp3s

Gotta Yodel!

 

Shortwave

Clandestine Radio - keeping an ear to the airwaves

The Listening Post - web-controlled shortwave

Shortwave Listening Guide - listings of worldwide shortwave broadcasts

Spy Numbers - those mysterious stations

 

 


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