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Music News TrackerGroundbreaking AI Deals and Buzzing Music Releases Dominate 2025 LandscapeListeners tuning in on August 8, 2025, are witnessing an electric moment for the global music scene, with headlines ranging from groundbreaking industry deals to a vibrant array of new releases across all genres. According to WPLN, a landmark AI arrangement came to light this week as Eleven Music secured a profit-sharing deal with Nashville-based Kobalt and Merlin, a major independent licensing organization. This deal marks one of the first where rights holders can choose if their works are used to train AI models and receive compensation, signaling what some see as a fairer approach to AI’s growing influence in music. St...
2025-08-0803 min
This Is NashvilleAfter the Gavel, Part 2: Post-Session AnalysisYesterday, reporters assigned to cover the Tennessee State Capitol joined us for a legislative wrap-up. Today, we go a bit deeper with a post-session analysis.How will the bills passed on issues like education, immigration and foster care impact the lives of the people who live and work in Tennessee? Plus, we’re opening up the phone lines because it’s your turn to talk. What questions or comments do you have about the legislation passed this year? Call 615-760-2000 to join the conversation.This episode was produced and hosted by Mary Mancini.Gu...
2025-05-0849 minThis Is NashvilleMusic Citizens Episode 3: The TunerElite piano tuning is grueling work. It’s taxing on the body, it strains relationships, and it never leads to fame or glory.Music Citizens, a podcast series by WNXP and Nashville Public Radio, recently explored how someone becomes the top piano tuner in Nashville and why they would want to. Today we welcome the voices of episode three, The Tuner. They're just some of the people who keep the music business moving — but whose vital work goes largely uncelebrated. Plus, we learn what it takes to fix a piano when it is seemingly broken beyond repair.
2025-04-2250 min
NashVillagerTrailer — WNXP's Music Citizens episode 3: The TunerBrent Arledge is the most prolific piano tuner in Nashville, and possibly the world. He tunes the Ryman, the Schermerhorn and the Grand Ole Opry. He services dozens of studios and is trusted in the homes of countless Nashville musicians. Arledge’s craft can be heard on every song coming out of Music Row that features piano.But elite piano tuning is grueling work. It’s taxing on the body, it strains relationships, and it never leads to fame or glory. Arledge is the subject of episode 3 of WNXP's Music Citizens podcast. You can listen every...
2025-04-0502 minThis Is NashvilleProfile: Lee CampThe majority of his career has been positioned at the intersection of conservative Christian communities and higher education. Today, he’s transitioning away from his main career as a tenured professor and finds himself somewhat displaced, contemplating how his long-standing faith interacts with politics and the next phase of his work. To that end, through his podcast he welcomes guests like Malcolm Gladwell, Martin Sheen and Cyntoia Brown Long to answer some of life's big questions like, "what does it mean to live a good life," and "what is true happiness?"You can hear No Small Endeavor at...
2024-10-0750 minThis Is NashvilleMusic Citizens: A new podcast from WNXPMusic Citizens is about the people who make music work. Each episode will explore what it takes to do the jobs that keep the music business moving and introduce you to the characters who are often well-known within their worlds but whose vital work goes largely uncelebrated. Today, we’re speaking with Jason Moon Wilkins, program director for WNXP and host of the Music Citizens podcast, and Justin Barney, assistant program director for WNXP and the reporter and producer of Music Citizens, about their new project, the inspiration behind it, and the first episode (“The Lifer,” featuring The End...
2024-07-0350 min
The PromisePreview: "Making Noise" from WPLN and WNXP"Making Noise" is a four-part series by WPLN and WNXP about how the music promotion company Lovenoise has changed the music landscape of Nashville. The best way to listen is to subscribe to the WNXP Podcasts feed.
2024-02-0502 min
Dejene Yimen's podcastTrailer: Making Noise — How a Sunday night party changed Nashville"Making Noise" is a four-part series by WPLN and WNXP about how the music promotion company Lovenoise has changed the music landscape of Nashville. The best way to listen is to subscribe to the WNXP Podcasts feed.
2024-02-0102 min
WPLN News InvestigatesTrailer: Making Noise — How a Sunday night party changed Nashville"Making Noise" is a four-part series by WPLN and WNXP about how the music promotion company Lovenoise has changed the music landscape of Nashville. The best way to listen is to subscribe to the WNXP Podcasts feed.
2024-02-0102 minThis Is NashvilleMeribah Knight takes us behind the scenes of her new podcast 'The Kids of Rutherford County'In 2016, WPLN’s senior reporter and special projects producer Meribah Knight heard a disturbing story from Rutherford County, a suburban Tennessee community southeast of Nashville. A group of elementary schoolers were arrested for something that didn’t seem like a crime: watching a fight between other kids and not intervening.
Meribah dug in further and discovered a pattern of young kids in Rutherford County being jailed for minor offenses.
More: Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.
The result of over seven...
2023-10-2649 min
Curious NashvilleYou might also like: The Kids of Rutherford CountyA juvenile court in Rutherford County was illegally jailing and detaining kids for 16 years before a former juvenile delinquent-turned-lawyer came up with a plan to take it on. This four-part narrative podcast builds on a joint investigation by WPLN Nashville Public Radio and ProPublica and is produced by The New York Times and Serial Productions.
“The Kids of Rutherford County” reveals how this system came to be, with particular attention to the adults responsible for it and the two juvenile delinquents-turned-lawyers who try to do something about it. The podcast's host is Meribah Knight, a Peabody Award-winning repo...
2023-10-2002 min
Dejene Yimen's podcastInvestigation: The Kids of Rutherford CountyA juvenile court in Rutherford County was illegally jailing and detaining kids for 16 years before a former juvenile delinquent-turned-lawyer came up with a plan to take it on. This four-part narrative podcast builds on a joint investigation by WPLN Nashville Public Radio and ProPublica and is produced by The New York Times and Serial Productions. “The Kids of Rutherford County” reveals how this system came to be, with particular attention to the adults responsible for it and the two juvenile delinquents-turned-lawyers who try to do something about it. The podcast's host is Meribah Knight, a Peabody Award-winning reporter for Nashville Publ...
2023-10-1902 min
WPLN News InvestigatesInvestigation: The Kids of Rutherford CountyA juvenile court in Rutherford County was illegally jailing and detaining kids for 16 years before a former juvenile delinquent-turned-lawyer came up with a plan to take it on. This four-part narrative podcast builds on a joint investigation by WPLN Nashville Public Radio and ProPublica and is produced by The New York Times and Serial Productions.
“The Kids of Rutherford County” reveals how this system came to be, with particular attention to the adults responsible for it and the two juvenile delinquents-turned-lawyers who try to do something about it. The podcast's host is Meribah Knight, a Peabody Award-winning repo...
2023-10-1902 min
The PromiseComing Soon: The Kids of Rutherford CountyA juvenile court in Rutherford County was wrongly arresting and illegally jailing kids for more than a decade before a former juvenile delinquent-turned-lawyer came up with a plan to take it on. This four-part narrative podcast builds on a joint investigation by WPLN Nashville Public Radio and ProPublica and is produced by The New York Times and Serial Productions.“The Kids of Rutherford County” reveals how this system came to be, with particular attention to the adults responsible for it and the two juvenile delinquents-turned-lawyers who try to do something about it. The podcast's host is Meribah Knig...
2023-10-1902 min
Factor ThisThis Week in Cleantech (9/1/23) — Gulf offshore wind dud, Google’s solar AI, and Las Vegas Sphere goes greenTell us what you think of the show! This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less. Produced by Renewable Energy World and Tigercomm, This Week in Cleantech will air every Friday in the Factor This! podcast feed wherever you get your podcasts.This week’s episode features Reuters correspondent Nichola Groom, who shares insights from a lackluster offshore wind auction in the Gulf of Mexico.This Week in Cleantech – September 1, 20231. Google to begin selling maps data to c...
2023-09-0117 min
Political ContessaHow Women in Politics are Supporting Women in Politics with Larissa MartinezLarissa Martinez and I met when I was Executive Director of Reflect Us, a nationwide bipartisan organization of leading women's political organizations around the country. Larissa joins me in her role now as the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Women's Public Leadership Network (WPLN). She is a policy expert and skilled political strategist with a proven track record of delivering winning and multifaceted strategies. She combines policy, communications, and grassroots organizing. She has served as a senior government relations professional in Washington, DC and is currently based out of Atlanta. Like me, Larissa feels that working in the...
2023-03-3039 minThis Is NashvilleChecking in with Jad AbumradOn today’s episode we check in with Jad Abumrad, creator and former host of Radiolab.
Growing up in Nashville, he was eager to get away. But his podcast journey led him back to the south when he created the podcast Dolly Parton’s America. And now Abumrad is working with Vanderbilt on the new Podcast Institute. We’ll hear about his formative childhood, career and what’s on the horizon.
But first, it’s @Us! Khalil checks in with our digital producer Anna Gallegos-Cannon to see what listeners have to say this week.
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2022-12-1540 min
Open Door FilmsInterview With Nashville Artist/Filmmaker Mighty Joe NolanJoe's Info:
YT Channel:
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https://youtu.be/acihArkorBU
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https://wpln.org/wpln-news/pikes-project/
Instagram @mightyjoenolan
Twitter @mightyjoenolan
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2022-10-271h 47
New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)Equity in the Cannabis Business & Khalil Ekulona Exit Interview | 9.20.21Growing Forward podcast co-hosts Megan Kamerick and Andy Lyman talk to three members of the state’s cannabis regulation advisory board about efforts to provide equitable business opportunities as the state rolls out new recreational cannabis laws.
The Line opinion panel debates vaccine and mask mandates. Will the federal vaccine mandate make it easier for businesses to lay the blame at the feet of the government? Also, New Mexico has just extended the indoor mask mandate at least through October 15. Will there be more pushback against Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s public health orders?
Kahlil Ekulo...
2021-09-2055 min
NeighborsThe Joy Of ChickensCynthia Capers used to be a nurse but she chose to get out of that life and teach herself how to be a farmer. This piece was originally produced as part of the Transom Traveling Workshop in Nashville, TN at WPLN by India Hunter (her very first radio piece ever). If you’d like to make pieces like this check out www.transom.org.
You can join “The Neighborhood” along with these wonderful, thoughtful, generous people by becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/neighbors
Who’s in “The Neighborhood”: Allison Sebastian, Adrian Cobb, Nathalie Stewart, Ben L...
2020-10-3015 min
NeighborsThe Joy Of ChickensCynthia Capers used to be a nurse but she chose to get out of that life and teach herself how to be a farmer. This piece was originally produced as part of the Transom Traveling Workshop in Nashville, TN at WPLN by India Hunter (her very first radio piece ever). If you’d like to make pieces like this check out www.transom.org.
You can join “The Neighborhood” along with these wonderful, thoughtful, generous people by becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/neighbors
Who’s in “The Neighborhood”: Allison Sebastian, Adrian Cobb, Nathalie Stewart, Ben L...
2020-10-3016 min
Shared History021 - Qvit Playing Games Vis Meine Heart (feat. Garreth Spinn)Time to get unintentionally uber German. Musician, Garreth Spinn, joins us as a special guest and teaches us about pianist and virtuoso Clara Schumann, then Cass tags in to lay down the rules and history of german-style-board games aka Eurogames.
Clara Schumann at the Keys
The artists Garreth shouts out:
Caleb Breaux
Louis Prince
Caleb Hawley
Medium Build
Jordan Jackson Rose
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2020-06-031h 27Shared History021 - Qvit Playing Games Vis Meine Heart (feat. Garreth Spinn)Time to get unintentionally uber German. Musician, Garreth Spinn, joins us as a special guest and teaches us about pianist and virtuoso Clara Schumann, then Cass tags in to lay down the rules and history of german-style-board games aka Eurogames.Clara Schumann at the KeysThe artists Garreth shouts out:Caleb BreauxLouis PrinceCaleb HawleyMedium BuildJordan Jackson RoseMERCH: Snag some Shared History merch and get stylin’!SOCIALS: Follow Shared History on Twitter & Instagram and subscribe wherever you ge...
2020-06-031h 27
Movers & ThinkersThe Butcher, The Vegan Baker, The Potions MakerWhen we decide what to eat or drink, we're making choices that go beyond flavor. What we consume can be a tool for social change, a connection with generations past, and a major influence on our well-being.
In this lively episode, WPLN's Emily Siner talks to Chris Carter of Porter Road Butcher, Tiffany Hancock of The Southern V, and Leah Larabell of High Garden Tea — three food entrepreneurs who are merging innovation and tradition. How did they start down the paths of local meat production, veganism and herbalism? And how do they navigate pushback from skeptical customers?
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2019-10-1432 minMovers & ThinkersWriting About Life, Death And Grief In The SouthMargaret Renkl is a Nashville writer perhaps best known for her regular columns in the New York Times. "Late Migrations" is her debut book, and it's part-essay collection on coming of age and aging in the South, and part-observations of nature.
Margaret began writing the book after the death of her mother, in an effort to process her grief. "If I forced myself to see this rat snake coming out of the chickadee nest box and the crow stealing the cardinal's babies … then I would stop feeling so singled out for suffering," she says.
In this poign...
2019-08-1214 minMovers & ThinkersThe Scales Of Juvenile JusticeJudge Sheila Calloway sees children during some of the worst moments of their lives: right after they've been accused of committing a crime.
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*But she holds fast to the philosophy that children are redeemable and should be given the opportunity to change. "We as a nation have to make a change from what we think about as justice," she says. "We use incarceration as the answer for almost everything, and it cannot be the answer."
In this episode, she talks to WPLN's Emily Siner about the relationship between empathy and justice.
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2019-05-1323 min
VandyVoxVandyVox Episode 8 – “Aristotle Meets Apple” by Anna ButricoThis episode features a piece of audio produced by Anna Butrico, who graduated from Vanderbilt in 2018 with a degree in English and communication studies. Anna started podcasting her sophomore year at Vanderbilt, launching a podcast called This Vanderbilt Life with help from Vanderbilt Student Media. That experience led her to a summer internship at WPLN, Nashville’s public radio station, where she helped produced over two dozen stories. At the start of her senior year, Anna decided to write her honors thesis on podcasting, looking at how modern podcasts are inhabiting and extending classical Greek rhetorical forms. In this ep...
2019-03-2818 min
Movers & ThinkersWhat's Jesus Got To Do With It?Unlike most New Testament experts, Vanderbilt Divinity School professor Amy-Jill Levine is Jewish. Her lessons are sprinkled with Yiddish phrases, and she attends an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Nashville. That's given her a unique perspective on Judaism and Christianity — two religions that have diverged from the same source, took different interpretations of similar texts and collided repeatedly throughout history.
"We are magnificent creatures in all our diversity," she says. "I want those differences to be celebrated, and I want people to have the ability of saying, 'That's not my tradition, but I see where you get it, and...
2019-02-0427 min
VersifyA Woman And A Dragon, Part OneLinda Ragsdale felt lucky to get the last seat on a trip to Mumbai, intending to deepen her practice of meditation. She found herself instead struggling for survival — in the middle of India's most severe terrorist attack in decades. In part one of this two-part season finale, we hear how Linda's world disintegrated into chaos - and began to find order once again. Warning: This episode contains descriptions of violence.
Versify is a production of Nashville Public Radio and The Porch, Nashville’s nonprofit literary center. Editing and production came from WPLN’s Emily Siner, with additional editin...
2018-09-2025 minMovers & ThinkersThinking About The BrainEvery human is fortunate to have this organ inside our skull called the brain. It allows us to breathe, create art, develop new technology — and yet there's much that is undiscovered about how these masses of neurons work. Why is everyone's brain a different shape? When the brain starts to deteriorate, what's really happening? And what is thought?
In this episode, we explore these provocative questions with three people who think about them often: Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a neuroscientist/biologist who has developed a method to count the number of neurons in the brain; Beverly Patnaik, a gerontologist who w...
2018-08-3126 min
Public Media DailyPMD #15: NPR/WNYC/WBEZ/TAL acquire Pocket Casts, WPLN's AP awards, a new news director for KUER and ATC's 47th birthday.Episode #15 and the final Public Media Daily for this week. Its now on your podcast feed so before you enjoy your weekend, highlights from Thursday, May 3rd include...1) NPR, WNYC Studios, 91.5 WBEZ Chicago and This American Life team up to buy the popular podcast app, Pocket Casts.2) 90.3 WPLN-FM Nashville wins 21 Tennessee Associated Press awards.3) 90.1 KUER-FM Salt Lake City has a new news director, Andrew Becker. Julia Ritchey will remain as Managing Editor.4) PBS has announced the hosts, stars and performers for this year's National Memorial Day Concert.5) South Carolina Public Radio has now added Reveal...
2018-05-0409 minMovers & ThinkersWhat Is Love?Without a doubt, romantic love is a driving force in our culture — with countless movies, songs and books devoted to finding it, losing it or making it last. Falling in (or out of) love can feel so intense in our own lives, but our fundamental assumptions about what love really is are not always correct.
In this episode of Movers & Thinkers, we talk to three guests who have seen a lot of love, heartbreak and romantic confusion: relationship therapist Jeannie Ingram, divorce attorney Siew-Ling Shea, and Alex Pollack, a writer who muses on modern dating culture.
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2018-04-1824 min
Movers & ThinkersThe DisrupterMore than 50 years ago, Rip Patton's world changed. He started attending nonviolence workshops in Nashville and learned how to endure abuse during the Civil Rights movement without fighting back.
Rip became a Freedom Rider, part of the movement that ended an era of legalized segregation in the South. Now, five decades later, he looks back on his role as a "disrupter" — sitting, standing and singing to make major societal change.
The show's host is Emily Siner. Its editors are Mack Linebaugh, Anita Bugg and Blake Farmer, and its engineers are Carl Pederson and Cameron Adkins. Music b...
2018-01-1221 minMovers & ThinkersDemystifying DeathFor something as ubiquitous as dying, most of us know surprisingly little about it — not just the big unanswerable questions, like what happens after we die. We also rarely think about how to deal with grief, or what to talk about with your family before you go.
So on this episode of Movers & Thinkers, we're facing our fears (and fascination) by talking to three people who come face-to-face with mortality on a daily basis: hospice physician Sasha Bowers, cemetery historian Fred Zahn and Death & Dying professor Andrea Mills.
The show's host is Emily Siner. Its editors...
2017-10-3125 minMovers & ThinkersFollowing The Family's FootstepsParents pass on their genes, their values — and sometimes, their careers. These guests have taken on the family business, which has connected them more to their parents but, at times, tested their relationships and created lofty expectations. Featuring third-generation luthier Manuel Delgado, second-generation pastor Amy Mears, and poet Caroline Randall Williams, who has written books with her mother.
The show's host is Emily Siner. Its editors are Mack Linebaugh, Anita Bugg and Blake Farmer, and its engineers are Carl Pederson and Cameron Adkins. Music by Blue Dot Sessions. To find more Nashville Public Radio podcasts, go to podcas...
2017-09-1424 min
NeighborsSeason 4 Starts April 4, New Episode Every Two WeeksHey Everyone, a new season of Neighbors starts Tuesday April 4th. Tell your friends, tell your family, the party starts Tuesday.
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2017-03-3101 min
NeighborsSeason 4 Starts April 4, New Episode Every Two WeeksHey Everyone, a new season of Neighbors starts Tuesday April 4th. Tell your friends, tell your family, the party starts Tuesday.
www.podcasts.wpln.org
2017-03-3100 min