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Colourmusic: 'Put In A Little Gas'
from NPR: Second Stage Podcast
October 09, 2008
F, Monday, Orange, February, Venus, Lunatic, 1 or 13, the improbably named, full-length debut from rock band Colourmusic, has a mouthful of a title, and it's not the only thing that's over-the-top about the Oklahoma group. Not only does the band dress in matching all-white outfits for live performan...
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Why do ISPs want to limit consumer broadband use?
from APM: Future Tense
October 09, 2008
Increasingly, some Internet service providers are placing limits on their broadband services. Comcast, for example, forbids customers from transferring more than 250 gigabytes of data per month. Customers who go over the limit risk getting dumped. Time Warner is experimenting with a tiered service, ...
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Counting Your Audience
from KCRW's On the Beat
October 08, 2008
The economic livelihood of a commercial radio station is largely driven by one single factor. Ratings. Ratings are the estimate of the number of people listening to that station during a specific period of time. For almost 60 years, Arbitron has been the recognized company to estimate listeners, and...
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Democracy Now! 2008-10-09 Thursday
from Democracy Now! Audio
October 09, 2008
Democracy Now! 2008-10-09 ThursdayHeadlines for October 09, 2008Greg Palast on Vote Rigging and Suppression Ahead of the 2008 ElectionOhio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner on Voter Rights, Faulty Electronic Voting Machines, Voter Fraud and GOP Voter ChallengesReport: Voter Purging Process Is Shro...
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Noah And The Whale: '2 Atoms In A Molecule'
from NPR: Second Stage Podcast
October 07, 2008
Chances are you've heard at least one song by the London-based Noah and the Whale. Recently, the folk-rock band had its immutably cheerful tune "5 Years Time" featured in a Saturn SUV commercial. Clapping, whistling and ukulele play joyfully together with choruses capable of inducing a Diabetic coma...
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Great Bloomers: 'Catching Up'
from NPR: Second Stage Podcast
October 08, 2008
The Great Bloomers are a rootsy, rock quintet based out of Toronto, Canada who, earlier this year, released a self-titled debut EP. Today's featured song, "Catching Up," opens up the EP and showcases a healthy admiration for the Beach Boys, who happen to be one of the Great Bloomers' biggest influen...
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MySpace Music streams a billion songs in less than a month
from APM: Future Tense
October 07, 2008
MySpace Music, which allows users to listen to major label songs for free, debuted late last month, and has already streamed one billion songs. That amounts to about eight songs for each of 120 million MySpace members. "MySpace Music lets you listen to pretty much every song ever recorded, and it st...
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Democracy Now! 2008-10-07 Tuesday
from Democracy Now! Audio
October 07, 2008
Democracy Now! 2008-10-07 TuesdayHeadlines for October 07, 2008Can Coal Be Clean? A Debate Between Michael Brune of Rainforest Action Network and Joe Lucas of American Coalition for Clean Coal ElectricityThe Tyranny of Oil: Antonia Juhasz on "The World's Most Powerful Industry -- What We Must Do to ...
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Democracy Now! 2008-10-08 Wednesday
from Democracy Now! Audio
October 08, 2008
Democracy Now! 2008-10-08 WednesdayHeadlines for October 08, 2008European, Asian Markets Plunge as Recession Fears Spread WorldwideFaltering Economy Takes Center Stage in McCain-Obama DebateMcCain-Obama Debate Highlights Similar Stances on Foreign Policy Download this show...
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Sick Hanford Workers Turn out for State of the Site Meeting
from KUOW News Podcast
October 06, 2008
Each year Hanford's top officials turn out for a town hall style meeting to answer questions about radioactive waste cleanup in southeast Washington. The event is called the State of the Site. Correspondent Anna King attended the meeting in Kennewick. The audience included hundreds of sick retired w...
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The Social Brain
from HumanMedia.org Podcasts
September 13, 2008
"The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can c...
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Frances Moore Lapp
from HumanMedia.org Podcasts
September 20, 2008
"I was just absolutely swept away. I thought: Oh my gosh! If people only knew that hunger is needless, hunger is human-made, that we would all do something." -- Frances Moore Lapp More than thirty years after publication of her breakthrough best-selling book "Diet for a Small Planet," Frances Moore ...
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Plushgun: 'Just Impolite'
from NPR: Second Stage Podcast
October 06, 2008
In early 2007, singer and songwriter Daniel Ingala began writing and recording catchy, synth-driven pop music in his New York City apartment. He soon took on the moniker Plushgun, and uploaded his first song, "Just Impolite," to his MySpace page. The track quickly found an online audience, drawing m...
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Stephen Schneider
from The Progressive Radio Show
October 06, 2008
My guest this week is Stephen Schneider, climatologist from Stanford, who is one of the leading experts on global warming. MP3 DOWNLOAD read more Visit www.progressive.org...
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Election Postcard: Vice President Debate Night
from KUOW News Podcast
October 06, 2008
Groups around Seattle huddled next to TVs and radios to hear what the Vice Presidential candidates had to say last night (Thursday). At Seattle Pacific University, students and teachers gathered to watch Joe Biden and Sarah Palin go at it. Afterwards they engaged each other in conversation. KUOW's J...
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Living on Earth: October 3, 2008
from Living on Earth
October 05, 2008
A Green Path out of the Red / The Clean Tech Challenge / A Whale of a Case / What Goes Down Comes Around / Canadian Greens Vie for Votes / Hubble Trouble / Girls Best Friend....
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Zucker, Conservative Folk, Nam Le (Studio 360)
from Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
October 03, 2008
Studio 360 looks to the right. Director David Zucker talks about his new movie “An American Carol,” a conservative spoof that lampoons the left. We hear about the conservative folk music movement that sang for peace (by defeating communism) and love (of Barry Goldwater). And we’ll talk with up...
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Bank loses 225,000 Washington Residents' SS #s
from KUOW News Podcast
October 01, 2008
The Bank of New York Mellon is notifying 225 thousand people in Washington state that their Social Security numbers or other personal information have been lost. Among those receiving letters are some Microsoft employees who take part in the company stock purchase program. KUOW's Ann Dornfeld report...
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Solar Power in the Rain City
from KUOW News Podcast
October 03, 2008
As Congress debates an economic plan this week, some tax measures have been thrown into the mix. One proposal would extend tax breaks for solar energy development. The solar industry says the incentives are vital for more growthin places like, believe it or not, Seattle. Despite the city's rainy rep...
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Program Makes Voters of Facebook Users
from KUOW News Podcast
October 03, 2008
Tomorrow (Sat) is the deadline for online and mail in voter registration for the November 4th election. The Secretary of State's office says it's seeing a surge in registrations by young voters. That could be due to new programs that reach young people where they live: online. KUOW's Amy Radil repor...
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The Splendid Table for Saturday October 4, 2008
from APM: The Splendid Table
October 03, 2008
This week we're catching up with Italian food authorities Marcella and Victor Hazan. Marcella's latest project is her autobiography, Amarcord, Marcella Remembers. Jane and Michael Stern are eating Czech food at Belgrade Gardens outside of Akron, OH, and Harold McGee, author of the seminal On Food an...
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Dark Captain Light Captain: 'Walls'
from NPR: Second Stage Podcast
October 03, 2008
East London's Dark Captain Light Captain is preparing to release its full-length debut, Miracle Kicker, later this month, but in the meantime listeners can get a taste of the band's whispy, experimental folk style with the four-song Circles EP....
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Microsoft offers perks in its search for searchers
from APM: Future Tense
October 03, 2008
Microsoft this week launched another rewards program that pays people for using Live Search, which has failed to make much of a dent in the most popular search engine, Google. The new SearchPerks program - available only to Windows and Internet Explorer users - awards points for using Live Search, w...
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Keeping the Dream Alive: The Daniel Pearl Music Days
from KCRW's On the Beat
October 01, 2008
The measure of a life well lived is the wealth of friendship and love that is left behind. In 2002, South Asia's Wall Street Journal bureau chief Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and subsequently murdered by terrorists in Pakistan. His murder, captured on video, shocked the world and created international...
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Zucker, Conservative Folk, Nam Le (Studio 360)
from Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
October 03, 2008
Studio 360 looks to the right. Director David Zucker talks about his new movie “An American Carol,” a conservative spoof that lampoons the left. We hear about the conservative folk music movement that sang for peace (by defeating communism) and love (of Barry Goldwater). And we’ll talk with up...
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