SiriusXM Launches Unreleased Prince Radio Show, Curated by and Featuring the Artist, From 2005

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By Jem Aswad Senior Music Editor SiriusXM is launching several new artist channels today — including Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, the Rolling Stones and others — but there’s little question that the most interesting one is a Prince channel that the artist himself curated back in 2005, but never aired until today.

You can listen to it for free, starting at 7 p.m. ET, on channel 30 and SiriusXM’s streaming app. The show, which is more than two hours long, is previously unaired demo of a conceptual radio show created by Prince in 2005 for a Sirius Satellite Radio channel.

It dates from the era of his 2006 “3121” album — which many fans feel was by far the strongest release of his final decade — and features songs from that album as well as