Bullseye With Jesse Thorn
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Synopsis
Bullseye from NPR is your curated guide to culture. Jesse Thorn hosts in-depth interviews with brilliant creators, culture picks from our favorite critics and irreverent original comedy. Bullseye has been featured in Time, The New York Times, GQ and McSweeney's, which called it "the kind of show people listen to in a more perfect world." (Formerly known as The Sound of Young America.)
Episodes
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Jon Glaser
23/08/2010 Duration: 27minJon Glaser is a comedy writer and performer. His show on Cartoon Network's [adult swim], Delocated, is entering its second season.
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Comedy: Chelsea Peretti
18/08/2010 Duration: 12minStandup comic Chelsea Peretti recorded this set at our live show in Washington, DC. She was recently selected one of Variety Magazine's Ten Comics to Watch for 2010.
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St. Vincent
09/08/2010 Duration: 29minAnnie Clark, the singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, performs under the moniker St. Vincent. She got her start playing guitar for The Polyphonic Spree and in Sufjan Stevens' touring band, then struck out on her own, playing almost every instrument on her debut album, Marry Me. Clark's most recent album, Actor, is a striking blend of beautiful vocals, orchestration, and distorted guitar.
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The Song That Changed My Life: Roberta Flack
05/08/2010 Duration: 04minRoberta Flack is a singer, songwriter and pianist. She won back-to-back Grammy Awards for Record of the Year for her songs "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" and "Killing Me Softly With His Song." We spoke to her for a new feature, "The Song That Changed My Life."
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Corb Lund
02/08/2010 Duration: 26minCorb Lund is a musician and third-generation rancher from Alberta, Canada. He played for over ten years as part of punk band The Smalls, and now brings some of that irreverence to writing roots-country music about his own experiences and those of his ancestors on the Canadian prairies.
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Andrew Noz
29/07/2010 Duration: 16minAndrew Noz is the blogger behind Cocaine Blunts & Hip-Hop Tapes, one of the internet's most successful hip-hop blogs. He's also a contributor to NPR, Complex and The Washington City Paper, among other outlets.
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The AV Club July 2010
23/07/2010 Duration: 14minNathan Rabin and Josh Modell join Jesse to recommend the best of popular culture. Nathan chooses Louis CK's Louie and the new film The Kids Are All Right. Josh Modell chooses Inception and Children's Hospital.
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Comedy: Nick Adams
21/07/2010 Duration: 05minStadup comic Nick Adams is the author of How To Make Friends With Black People and a writer for the upcoming NBC series Perfect Couples.
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Samantha Bee
19/07/2010 Duration: 35minSamantha Bee is The Daily Show's longest-tenured correspondent, with seven years on the air. She's just released a memoir, entitled I Know I Am, But What Are You?
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Jordan Ranks America: July 2010
19/07/2010 Duration: 02minJordan Morris tells us what's hot and what's not.
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Colson Whitehead
14/07/2010 Duration: 20minColson Whitehead is one of America's most acclaimed novelists. He was the recepient of a MacArthur "genius" grant for his fiction, which includes Apex Hides the Hurt and John Henry Days. His latest novel is Sag Harbor, about the African American beach enclave.
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Jose James
12/07/2010 Duration: 33minJose James is an acclaimed jazz and soul singer. He has two new albums - a forward-looking, genre-hopping record called Blackmagic and a collection of piano-and-vocals standards called For All We Know
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Comedy: My Baby Dreamer
08/07/2010 Duration: 02minLos Angeles comedy group Superego contribute this sponsorship message from My Baby Dreamer.
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Dan Clowes
01/07/2010 Duration: 23minDan Clowes is the creator of numerous comics and graphic novels, including Ghost World and Art School Confidential. His latest is Wilson.
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Mark Frauenfelder
29/06/2010 Duration: 23minMark Frauenfelder is the founder of BoingBoing, the editor of Make Magazine, and the author of the new book Made By Hand, about the pleasure of making things yourself.
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Comedy: Matt Braunger
26/06/2010 Duration: 11minComedian Matt Braunger has been seen on Comedy Central, The Late Show with David Letterman and Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He was also a cast member of Mad TV.
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Devo
17/06/2010 Duration: 29minGerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh are founding members of the art-rock band Devo. They had remarkable chart success in the early 1980s, including the hit Whip It. Their philosophy of devolution, compelling videos and bold aesthetic presentation were as big a part of the band as their danceable rock music. Their latest record, Something For Everybody, is their first since 1990.
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W. Kamau Bell
11/06/2010 Duration: 19minW. Kamau Bell is a San Francisco-based comedian who soaks up politics and pop culture and filters it through a racial lens, using his irreverent thoughts and critiques as fodder for his comedy. He recently ended a run of his critically-acclaimed one-man show, "The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Ending Racism in About an Hour". His television appearances include performances on Comics Unleashed and Comedy Central, and he is a co-founder of The Solo Performance Workshop.
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Kyle Kinane
09/06/2010 Duration: 15minKyle Kinane is an emerging stand up comedian who mixes a honest, self-deprecating delivery with his natural story-telling ability. He's recently toured with Patton Oswalt and Brian Posehn. Kyle has also been a guest on several comedy podcasts, including Doug Benson's "Doug Loves Movies", Marc Maron's WTF, Comedy and Everything Else, and The Adam Carolla podcast.