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Music inspired by life and current events

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East Orange, NJ

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Music inspired by life and current events

Language:

English


Episodes
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"But keep my place and the empty chair..." from Apr 27, 2024

4/27/2024
The Lostines - "Full Moon Night" - Meet the Lostines [0:00:00] Star City Survivor - "A Descending Visitation" - Wilderness [0:04:54] Miles Davis - "Frelon Brun" - Filles de Kilimanjaro [0:17:48] Room 31 - "Hint of Apology" - Crazy Town [0:23:20] n/a - "Clip: Reuters-What's happening with global plastic treaty talks?" - n/a [0:32:36] Pas Musique - "Black Panther" - Ether Arrangements [0:33:57] Heron Oblivion - "Rama" - Heron Oblivion [0:38:11] n/a - "Clip: BBC-Father fights oil giant BP over son's death" - n/a [0:48:34] Modern Silent Cinema - "Death Whistles the Clues" - The Cabinet of Modern Silent Cinema [0:49:17] The Violet Mine - "Blame Me" - White Night [0:52:47] Set: Interview: Diane Foley Sting - "The Empty Chair" - Jim: The James Foley Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [1:26:23] Dan Romer / Saul Simon MacWilliams / Osei Essed - "Message to All of Us" - Jim: The James Foley Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [1:29:36] Eiko Ishibashi - "A Ghost in a Train, Thinking" - The Dream My Bones Dream [1:34:08] Saints Martyrs - "Le Christ est dans le bruit" - Mythologie de dernier recours [1:40:05] Mogwai - "What Are They Doing In Heaven Today" - Les Revenants soundtrack [1:45:38] n/a - "Clip: CBS-Journalist and former hostage Terry Anderson dies at 76" - n/a [1:51:27] Elbow - "Roll Call" - Lost Worker Bee EP [1:52:16] Emel - "Lose My Mind (feat. Nayomi)" - MRA [2:03:17] Farah Kaddour - "Estehial" - Bada [2:08:43] n/a - "Clip: Bloomberg-UK's Rwanda Bill to Become Law" - n/a [2:12:54] Adjustable Mustard - "Willie" - Pure Love [2:13:13] Infinite River - "Breathless" - Tabula Rasa [2:16:44] Bjork / PJ Harvey - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - Live at the Brit Awards, 1994 [2:24:25] Lou Reed - "I'm Waiting For The Man" - Words & Music: May 1965 [2:28:17] Glorious Din - "Pallet To The Floor" - Leading Stolen Horses [2:33:09] The Smiths - "Is It Really So Strange? (John Peel session 12/2/86)" - Louder Than Bombs [2:35:44] Torrey - "Really AM" - Torrey [2:40:02] The Clash - "Know Your Rights" - From Here to Eternity: Live [https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/april/at-columbia] [2:45:04] The Foreign Correspondents - "We're Dancing" - 45 [2:49:14] Sheer Mag - "Mechanical Garden" - Playing Favorites [2:52:36] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/139289

Duration:03:08:40

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"We live together in a photograph of time..." from Apr 20, 2024

4/20/2024
Room 31 - "OK, Mr. Tough Guy" - Crazy Town [0:00:00] Fay Victor / Herbie Nichols SUNG - "The Culprit Is You" - Life Is Funny That Way [0:06:20] Departure Street - "Everything Is A Dream" - Into The Drop Zone [R.I.P. Don Wright: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/business/media/don-wright-dead.html] [0:17:30] Pas Musique - "Going Down Forever" - Ether Arrangements [0:23:31] - "CBC-Coral reefs experiencing mass bleaching event" [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/climate/coral-reefs-bleaching.html] [0:29:18] Star City Survivor - "Loss" - Wilderness [0:30:31] Sonny Sharrock Band - "All My Trials" - Highlife [0:48:28] - "Clip: CBS-Some imported produce test high for pesticides" [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/18/fruits-vegetables-pesticide-consumer-reports] [0:56:29] Hoppy Kamiyama - "Cogito" - Hoppy Kamiyama [0:56:58] Shiver - "Chromakode" - Shiver Meets Matthew Bourne Vol. 2 [1:04:16] Anohni and the Johnsons - "Fistful of Love" - I Am a Bird Now [1:11:39] Dubliners - "The Fields of Athenry" - Spirit of the Irish [1:20:57] The Blarney Lads - "I'll Tell Me Ma" - Pub Songs Ireland [1:25:02] Thin Lizzy - "Whiskey In The Jar" - The Peel Sessions [1:27:02] Farah Kaddour - "Khuzama" - Bada [1:33:53] SUSS - "Flight" - Birds and Beasts [1:41:09] - "Clip: Sky-Brussels shuts down conservatism conference" [1:46:48] Sin Ropas - "The Fever You Fake" - Holy Broken [1:48:00] Madder Rose - "I Want A New Me (girlghostboyghost)" - No One Gets Hurt Ever [1:53:16] - "Clip: 4SidesTV-Nearly half of China's major cities are sinking" [https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68844731] [1:56:08] Elbow - "This Blue World" - The Take Off and Landing of Everything [1:57:02] FeMaLe GeNiuS - "Fire (remix)" - FeMaLe GeNiuS [2:04:18] David Bowie / Brian Eno - "Get Real – Sounds Right Mix (ft. NATURE)" - Single [2:07:38] Penny Arcade - "Black Clouds" - Back Water Collage [2:12:00] Darius Denominator - "Vector Divergent Scheme" - Derangements [2:14:57] Wolves Again - "Endless Horizon" - Ruined Cities Yield No Light [2:18:29] - "Clip: Taiwan Plus-Indian Security Forces Kill at Least 29 Maoist Rebels" [2:21:40] Lovataraxx - "Bruxism (Fire)" - Sophomore [2:22:09] Liquid Liquid - "Cavern" - Optimo EP [2:32:09] Mollys - "Zombi Mariachi" - Balm Trips [2:37:28] - "Clip: WION-Heavy rain and flash flood warnings sweep the Gulf" [https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68839043] [2:40:55] Boeckner - "Lose" - Boeckner! [2:41:57] X-Ray Spex - "Plastic Bag" - The Anthology [2:46:48] Pearl Harbour - "Do Your Homework" - Don’t Follow Me, I’m Lost, Too [2:52:36] Sheer Mag - "I Gotta Go" - Playing Favorites [2:55:38] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/139062

Duration:03:08:15

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"Who cares, who cares what the future brings?..." with an Interview with artist Audrey Flack from Apr 13, 2024

4/13/2024
Nick Cave - "Higgs Boson Blues" - Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace [R.I.P. Peter Higgs: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/science/peter-higgs-dead.html] [0:00:00] Departure Street - "Traveling By Night" - Into The Drop Zone [0:06:41] Penny Arcade - "Don't Cry No Tears" - Back Water Collage [0:17:54] A Tribe Called Quest - "Melatonin" - We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service [R.I.P. Casey Benjamin: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/07/arts/music/casey-benjamin-dead.html] [0:21:13] - "Clip: BBC-'Uncharted territory' fears after record hot March" [0:25:45] Robert Glasper Experiment - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Black Radio [0:27:27] Lovataraxx - "Heidi Montauk" - Sophomore [0:40:57] - "Clip: CBS-EPA sets new rule for forever chemicals in drinking water" [More on this: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/11/pfas-limits-epa-drinking-water] [0:46:46] Arne Eigenfeldt - "For As You Are" - A Walk to Meryton [0:49:09] Set: Interview with artist Audrey Flack--Part 1 Audrey Flack and the History of Art Band - "Pablo Picasso" - Audrey Flack and the History of Art Band [Profile of Audrey from a few years ago: https://www.forbes.com/sites/briennewalsh/2021/01/26/feminist-as-audrey-flack/] [1:29:33] Audrey Flack and the History of Art Band - "Action Jackson" - Audrey Flack and the History of Art Band [1:35:16] Audrey Flack and the History of Art Band - "Vincent Van Gogh" - Audrey Flack and the History of Art Band [1:38:37] Set: Interview with artist Audrey Flack--Part 2 Hannah Marcus - "Demerol" - The Hannah Marcus Years: 1993-2004 [2:02:38] Hannah Marcus - "Purple Mother" - Desert Farmers [2:06:36] John Lennon - "Imagine" - Imagine [2:12:01] Replacements - "Achin’ to Be (Matt Wallace Mix)" - Dead Man's Pop [2:15:05] - "Clip: BBC-European court rules human rights violated by climate inaction" [2:18:46] David Bowie - "Pablo Picasso" - Reality [2:19:07] Mollys - "Purple Space" - Balm Trips [2:23:18] Nightspore - "Give Everything Away" - Godseed [2:28:31] Usurabi - "Arise" - Once in a Red Room [2:33:08] Salami Rose Joe Louis - "Sugar Coating" - Akousmatikous [2:37:46] - "Clip: DW-Germany faces Nicaragua’s genocide case at ICJ" [2:42:09] Vessel - "Some Say" - Wrapped in Cellophane [2:42:37] Boeckner - "Euphoria" - Boeckner! [2:47:18] Siouxsie & the Banshees - "Hong Kong Garden" - The Best of Siouxsie and The Banshees [2:51:18] Still Animals - "Downtown Path" - Still Animals [2:54:14] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/138832

Duration:03:08:28

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"Someday the sun will shine so close, it hurts..." from Apr 6, 2024

4/6/2024
Ruth Garbus - "Waiting on the Sun" - Alive People [0:00:00] Salami Rose Joe Louis - "Exhaustion and the Open Mind" - Akousmatikous [0:03:18] Jóhann Jóhannsson - "The Mountain View, The Majesty of the Snow-Clad Peaks, From a Place of Contemplation and Reflection" - Drone Mass [Photo essay for Jane Goodall's 90th birthday: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2024/apr/03/women-photographers-celebrate-jane-goodalls-90th-birthday] [0:08:40] - "Clip: BBC-Botswana threatens to send 20,000 elephants to Germany" [0:17:18] Lori Goldston - "Was There A Light?" - Film Scores [0:18:01] Tuluum Shimmering - "Part I" - Tuluum's Time Travel Tape Trunk, Vol. 1, January 2010: It's Here in the Circle [0:22:18] Nadah El Shazuy - "Claustrophobic Love" - The Damned Don't Cry [Original Score] [0:29:24] Saints Martyrs - "Steakhouse" - Mythologie de dernier recours [0:32:35] Sin Ropas - "Folded Uniforms" - Holy Broken [0:38:27] Gil Scott-Heron - "Pieces of a Man" - Pieces of a Man [0:54:43] Mark Van Hoen - "Electric Lights" - Plan for a Miracle [0:59:48] Don Fiorino/Andy Haas - "Trilling" - Accidentals [Photos of Istanbul by Emin Özmen: https://www.magnumphotos.com/theory-and-practice/exploring-istanbul-through-emin-ozmens-lens-2/] [1:07:15] - "Clip: Global News-Istanbul nightclub fire kills at least 29 during daytime renovations" [1:10:01] Bipolar Explorer - "The Distant Horizon" - Single [1:10:28] Jokers Wild - "That Man's Not You (Step Outside Your Mind)" - Step Outside Your Mind [1:26:34] - "Clip: France24-Zelensky lowers mobilization age from 27 to 25" [1:26:39] Madder Rose - "I Lost the War" - To Be Beautiful [1:27:36] Mary Lewis - "The Crying Game" - On the Lips [1:31:28] Kee Avil - "Felt" - Spine [1:34:43] Lou Reed - "Pale Blue Eyes" - Words & Music: May 1965 [1:42:02] Ill Peach - "Bloom" - This is Not an Exit [1:47:13] Rosali - "May It Be on Offer" - Bite Down [1:50:27] Swans - "Blind Love" - Children of God / World of Skin [1:57:37] - "Clip: BBC-Germany football fans banned from buying '44' kits over Nazi symbolism" [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/germany-soccer-jersey-barred-adidas-nazi-ss-lightning-symbol-rcna145977] [2:05:29] The Glass Bead Band - "Among Our Friends We Certainly Have Enemies" - The Glass Bead Band [2:06:03] David Nance & Mowed Sound - "Cut It Off" - David Nance & Mowed Sound [2:14:41] Japan Review - "It's North It's North" - The Slow Down [2:19:27] - "Clip: CNN-'Literally changing the length of the day'" [2:24:35] Mary Timony - "Looking for the Sun" - Untame the Tiger [Refugee camps at US/Mexico border: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/04/mexico-border-children-migrant-camps-explained] [2:25:05] Shakin' Street - "I Wanna Be Your Dog" - Scarlet: The Old Waldorf August 1979 [R.I.P. John Sinclair: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/people/2024/04/02/obit-john-sinclair-marijuana-activist-detroit-radical/73178795007/] [2:30:21] The Contractions - "End of the World" - The Contractions: 1980 [2:37:25] The Prodigy - "Voodoo People" - Music for the Jilted Generation [R.I.P. Gylan Kain (sampled herein): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/arts/gylan-kain-dead.html] [2:42:39] Pissed Jeans - "Everywhere Is Bad" - Half Divorced [2:48:58] The Bevis Frond - "Here for the Other One" - Focus on Nature [2:52:26] Burner Herzog - "The Pure of Heart (Are the First to Go)" - Random Person [2:55:58] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/138625

Duration:03:08:40