Before there was Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, even before Lennie Bruce, there was Will Rogers, America’s first political comic....
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Each year, the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress chooses 25 recordings to be preserved for all time....
If you’ve spent time in New Orleans – or watched the HBO show Tremé — you may know about one...
Insight Daily Radio (ID Radio) is a five-part, two-minute series that is distributed to public radio and commercial radio stations...
In 1977 Donna Summer released a single that changed the sound of dance music forever. It abandoned disco’s funky roots...
The soundtrack of the holidays is lousy with annoying songs about sleigh rides and snowmen, and beautiful old carols done...
The year 1967 saw the release of two psychedelic pop masterpieces — one globally famous (the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper), the...
Each year, the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress chooses 25 recordings to be preserved for all time....
When the producers of The Descendants – starring George Clooney as an unsavory landowner trying to mend relationships with his...
The Sons of the Pioneers pioneered one of the strangest branches of American music: singing cowboys. Their 1934 song “Tumbling...
