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Van Sounds speaks to Joe Exotic about running for President of the United States of America in 2016. It originally aired on the episode "That's Politics."

Silence part 3. No transmission.Bellwether, KUNR, Nothing on the air.

“Language Deficit is attention deficit. As we further deplete our ability to name, describe particular aspects of our places, our competence for understanding and imagining possible relationships with non-human nature is correspondingly depleted.” -Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks

The final episode of the Lucien series. Soundtrack available at vansounds.bandcamp.com

Part 3 of a 4 part series.

Part 2 of a 4 part series. Music by Kent Irwin, Em Jiang and myself.

"Lucien" - Part 1 of a 4 part series. Music by Kent Irwin. Thanks to Mignon Fogarty of Grammar Girl.

Postcard from Japan by Rose McMackin // Find her at https://www.disasterologie.com

Nick Rattigan of the band Current Joys checks in every week while touring North America.

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How did a singing style from the lungs of swiss herders make it into the mouths of the cowboys? An examination of voice breaking, wildness and parallel histories in North America.Yodel playlist:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNYDyXn6qso&list=PLkNGcT8rdUVlvvYM-VvcHJYwpP58vnAdzMusic, Book links and photos at www.vansounds.org

A 2013 conversation with Willie Watson from the new Coen Brothers Movie. Watson plays a singing gunslinger in "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs."

A constant ringing in your ears.

Subscribe Buy Merch Contributor Lauren Baker reads a postcard from Florence. Recorded on a hike in the Sierra Nevada. Photo: Lauren BakerMusic:Master Spirit by I Believe, available through Interactive Test

You are what you do but sometimes that line moves, then blurs. Producer Em Jiang and I wander around the tracks at different speeds.

"In January I left my home for 6 months of wandering and, of course, one of the main things I explored were the infinite shades of night in each new place. What I noticed more than ever is that every night is a finger print – each is unique, with no one the same as another. The sounds tell the stories." - Vanessa Lowe

Extra Extra!! From the banks of the Satoshi River to the banks of the Reese River, a mining-town newspaper that propped up a honest-to-goodness LIARS CLUB, no lie, and a story from the city who built itself on such falsehoods. The secret history of bitcoin? The Toiyabe Mole Man in the mines of ERN, NEVADA? The TRUE story of TOTAL LIARS and the history they invented for themselves. Right?

There is a lot of death metal bands in Kathmandu, Nepal. Let's figure out why. Oh, and my mom will be there. She'll help interview the metal bands.

When composer John Cage spoke of "The Silent Piece," he wasn't talking about 4:33. So, what was he talking about?