Juke in the Back
1940s & 50s Rhythm & Blues with host Matt the Cat If you wanted to hear rhythm & blues
during the 1950s, you couldn't get it from the juke box in the front.
No, no! In order to hear that glorious, down and dirty R&B, you had
to go to the low-lit, spit-shined "Juke In The Back." These songs are
the building blocks of rock n' roll. These are the records that inspired
Elvis and single-handedly led to the rock n' roll explosion of the
mid-1950s (12:00 AM - 01:00 AM ET)
Music in Queso Emergency
(01:00 AM - 03:00 AM ET)
Forgiveness or Parmesean?
(03:00 AM - 04:00 AM ET)
From The Vault
A weekly radio program from the Pacifica Radio Archives. (04:00 AM - 05:00 AM ET)
TUC: Time of Useful Consciousness
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" Time of Useful Consciousness" (TUC) is the time between the onset of oxygen deficiency and the loss of consciousness. These are the brief moments in which a pilot may save the plane. TUC Radio focuses on themes such as globalization, corporations, ecology, Native Nations and climate change. (05:00 AM - 05:30 AM ET)
Bookwaves
Book Reviews by Richard A. Lupoff & Richard Wolinsky Featuring stimulating conversations with the world's leading authors (05:30 AM - 06:00 AM ET)
The Thom Hartmann Program
Thom Hartmann is a progressive national and internationally syndicated talkshow host. (06:00 AM - 07:00 AM ET)
Background Briefing
A radio program featuring international and national news, expert
guests, policy makers, and critics offering analysis and insight on
national security, foreign and domestic policy, political, cultural, and
social issues.Background
Briefing"focuses on national security in the broadest sense going
beyond defense and intelligence to encompass the soft power of cultural
influence, economic strength and social justice covering everything from
healthcare to human rights, the environment to ent ... (07:00 AM - 08:00 AM ET)
Democracy Now
Democracy Now! is a national, daily, independent, award-winning news
program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
Democracy Now!'s War and Peace Report provides our audience with access
to people and perspectives rarely heard in the U.S.corporate-sponsored
media, including independent and international journalists, ordinary
people from around the world who are directly affected by U.S. foreign
policy, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics and
independ ... (08:00 AM - 09:00 AM ET)
Rising Up with Sonali
Rising Up with Sonali is an all-women run Radio and
Television show that brings progressive news coverage rooted in gender
and racial justice to a wide audience. (09:00 AM - 10:00 AM ET)
Against The Grain
A program about politics, society, and ideas.
Against the Grain is a radio and web media project whose aim is to
provide in-depth analysis and commentary on a variety of matters --
political, economic, social and cultural -- important to progressive and
radical thinking and activism.
ATG focuses on meaty theoretical and action-oriented issues that the
mainstream media tends to ignore, matters like political economy, the
global justice movement, philosophical and cultural ideas, and race ... (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM ET)
The Capitol Pressroom
Hosted by David Lombardo, The Capitol Pressroom is a daily one-hour radio program broadcast from the Legislative Correspondents Association Pressroom on the third floor of the State Capitol in Albany. The show features interviews with important newsmakers. It also features analysis from seasoned political reporters who work the Albany beat for newspapers and wire services around the state including The New York Times, Newsday, the Albany Times, Union, Gannett News Service and the Associated Pre ... (11:00 AM - 12:00 PM ET)
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