PRI: The Sound of Young America
What do you get when you cross NPR's Fresh Air with NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien? The Sound of Young America features intelligent, in-depth interviews with fun and fascinating guests. Distributed on radio by Public Radio International.
Seun Kuti is the leader of the band Egypt 80, which was founded by his father, the legendary creator of Afrobeat, Fela Kuti.
Direct download: tsoya080825_seunkuti.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 3:57 PM
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Bob Powers is the author of the new choose-your-own-adventure-style book "You Are a Miserable Excuse for a Hero."
Direct download: tsoya080822_bobpowers.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 7:57 PM
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The Hold Steady are a Brooklyn-based, Minneapolis-bred rock and roll band.  They're known for grand songs about teenagers and tough times.
Direct download: tsoya080819_holdsteady.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:17 PM
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Chris Parnell is an actor best known for his long stint on Saturday Night Live.  He's also appeared in films like Anchorman and recently, Kabluey.
Direct download: tsoya080730_chrisparnell.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 9:08 PM
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Roger Bennett is co-author of "Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flies."  It's a collection of reminiscences and ephemera related to summer camp.
Direct download: tsoya080724_campcamp.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:48 PM
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The Explorers Club are a South Carolina-based rock band, whose music recalls the Southern California rock of the 1960s and the melodramatic pop of Phil Spector.
Direct download: tsoya080821_explorersclub.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:37 PM
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Ze Frank is an internet super-celebrity, and the principal of zefrank.com.  His year-long daily video blog project, The Show, was one of the first great successes of the video blog world.
Direct download: tsoya080717_zefrank.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:39 PM
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Jay Smooth is a hip-hop radio host, blogger and vlogger.  This interview was recorded live at Sketchfest NYC at the UCB Theater in New York.
Direct download: tsoya080715_jaysmooth.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:44 PM
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Comedy from Michael Showalter and Pangea 3000, music from Dawn Landes.  Recorded live in New York.
Direct download: tsoya080711_nyc.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:55 AM
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Scott Prendergast is the writer, director and star of the indie comedy Kabluey.  The film, which also stars Lisa Kudrow, concerns a young man helping tend to his brother's children while his brother is serving in Iraq.
Direct download: tsoya080707_kabluey.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:58 PM
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