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July 27, 2007

Who woulda thunk? In the latest episode of BBC Radio 4's Document, host Mike Thomson investigates a purported coup orchestrated by Prescott Bush and several influential American families that sought (but obviously failed) to overthrow FDR and institute a fascist dictatorship in the U.S. of A a la Hitler and Mussolini: "Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen . The coup was......

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February 26, 2007

KCSN 88.5 FM, the radio station run out of California State University, Northridge (CSUN), is actually not classical station 24/7 like K-Mozart was or KUSC is. The Valley based station runs classical from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. surrounded by BBC Radio in the early mornings and an eclectic mix of music including folk, roots, musicals, blues and Hawaiian at night and on the weekends. KZMT always felt a bit stodgy and KUSC feels......

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January 26, 2007

I was lucky to catch Tall Pony during an unsigned artist segment of a BBC Radio show late last year. A couple weeks ago I got a wild hair to find them on the intrawebs so that I could play them on my own radio show. I found their MySpace page and after a couple of exchanges they kindly sent me a demo to play on my show and to review for LAist. Tall......

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