Word: worldbeater
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...supported podcasts air on Infinity Broadcasting's KYOU Radio, the first all-podcasting station in San Francisco. Each week it features 25 regularly scheduled podcasts, some with commercial sponsors. Station manager Stephen Page has a "podbank" filled with more than 3,200 programs--all created by listeners, like Worldbeat Radio from Paris, a blues show from Iowa, and Guy Bauer, a 30-minute variety show. About 15 new podcasts arrive daily, he says. Launched in May, the new format has attracted 8,200 registered listeners. Radio isn't dying; it's just going digital: expect to see radio stations roll...
Byrne has a reputation for an obsession with worldbeat, but on this album he not only makes musical leaps around the globe, but also through time. Bizet’s “Au Fond du Temple Saint” and Verdi’s “Un Di Felice, Eterea” pop up in orchestral forms not too distant from their 19th-century originals, except, of course for the presence of Byrne’s Francophone chops. He is joined on the Bizet cover by Rufus Wainwright, another artist from the northeast known for operatic...