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Japan Blues Yakuza Show: Gangsters rule, no? If not, where have you been for the last ten years or so? But gangsters once ruled because they were “cool”. The history of cinema is peppered with bad guys who somehow elicit our sympathies, check any film noir, you can’t help rooting for the seemingly ruthless hoodlum who gets it in the end. And Japanese culture is no exception. The rugged thug (yakuza) is just as fragile as the rest of us, when the push comes. With a cherry-picking of samurai ethics, and straight old bully-boy behaviour, the fictionalised Japanese gangster suffers the same life struggles as any European or yank. And they’re not only men, there are many yakuza movies featuring katana wielding, and occasionally sadistic, women. And so the music - some singers were genuine hoods before they made the studio, others just had the right face for a celluloid gunsel. The two intersected, and became a popular side genre, and female actors stepped off the set and into recording too. The result is a moody brew, singing of their hardships, taking the wrong path in life, and fortitude against all odds.

I CU been born again: Are Flo and Eddie married? On today’s CU Next Tuesday American Nick looks under the Turtles’ shell to find all the hidden treasures. Plus a bit o’ Bob and assorted ephemera. Do tune in!

The Spin Evolution hosted by Joan Sarro airs every four weeks at 10am Tuesdays and broadcasts from Calgary, Canada, This week's show flirts around post punk, electronic, garage, rock, hip hop, and psych with many new releases and stellar classics

This week we focus on my album launch on Wednesday 24th with Lunar Dirt [Aus] + LIPWORMS at The Hope & Ruin amongst other top stuff. [WARNING] This show contains foul language + big riffs + squidgy noises 💥 Photo: Lunar Dirt

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CU at the end of summer: Nothing lasts babies. Gotta get it while you can. American Nick returns to the airwaves with favorites old and new, coming to you live from upstairs at the Family Store from the recently resurrected stu-stu-studio. Hey we moving on up! High noon. Slack city. Photo by Richard Misrach

...the new and the old punk funk

All the usuals and unusuals

I CU looking all suspicious, but that shit ain't my bubblicious: A splash of color for the waning summer. Enjoy it while it's still here, even though it feels like we're all going crazy, 'stead of being lazy. Continue blowing bubbles but put it in the bin when you're done. I don't wanna step in it! And don't look under the table.

A pre-bank holiday trip to JA/JP, merging the two island powerhouses' musical traditions into a killer-diller no filler mix of Japanese reggae - dairy free and made in a cheese free environment. From the early 60s cover of Millie Small's My Boy Lollipop, to the latest digi-minyou of Honjo Ushimatsu, with a slew of quirky, raw tunes in between.

CU on the road to finding out: August is the month of last chances, but where did it go?! Nicky of the ole USA is back again regaling you with music old and new and reminding you that you have better things to do.

This week we focus on the new sampler out on Wrongpop in support of the Anthony Nolan charity + a bunch of top types I am on tour with in September. [WARNING] This show contains foul language + big riffs + squidgy noises 💥 Photo: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

Joan Sarro takes you on a journey from the cinematic and evocative with Goblin and Olivia Belli, through to neo psychedelia and shoegaze with The Besnard Lakes and Andy Bell, landing on different shades of electronic and industrial with Cosey Fanni Tutti, Ohama, and Skinny Puppy, with a Calgary and Canadian throughline

I CU going thru changes but still the same old you: American Nick is back from holiday hiatus to thrill and chill you in these dawg days of summer. We gotta get up get out and get something! Get off yer dang 📱 phone! Unless you’re listening to me!

The usual mix of all that’s good new & old

❀ still recovering from pride? us too! listen along tonight as we spin tracks by queer icons, pioneers and sadgirls ❀ we’ll be tracing 100 years worth of queer storytelling - from the sapphic politics of the 1920s Berlin cabaret bars, to Ethel Cain’s conceptual world of queer grief and healing…

Some songs about trash, food and vampires. Plus all the usuals and unusuals. What more could you possibly want?! It's like cuddling a puppy but for your ears.

I CU left me hanging: High five more dead than alive! I think we're all a little worse for wear as the summer trudges on and American Nick is no different, join him today at noon for the continuing saga of sad songs and segues that we've come to know as CU Next Tuesday.