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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

“That were picked up and tortured and framed by the law / And the filth got promotion, but they're still doing time / For being Irish in the wrong place and at the wrong time…” from Dec 2, 2023

12/2/2023
Langston Hughes - "In the Time of Silver Rain" - The Dream Keeper [0:00:00] Sonny Rollins - "Blue 7" - Saxophone Colossus [0:03:42] Ghost Train Orchestra and Kronos Quartet - "High on a Rocky Ledge (ft. Marissa Nadler)" - Songs of Symphoniques: the Music of Moondog [0:14:59] Benjamin Finger - "Flashes" - Blue Forty-Eight [0:20:46] Markus Floats - "C (Featuring the Voice of Fred Moten)" - Fourth Album [0:27:00] - "Clip: CTV-Canadian government reaches online news deal with Google" [0:31:19] Juliana Hatfield - "Can’t Get It Out Of My Head" - Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO [0:31:59] - "Clip: Euronews-Finland closes border crossing with Russia" [0:36:13] Inutili - "A Love Supreme" - A Love Supreme [0:36:52] Blue Oceans - "Present" - Fertile State [0:58:07] - "Clip: DW-more journalists killed in Israel/Gaza" [1:03:19] Art of Flying - "Peace/Remedy (End of Mankind Blues)" - Heart Slaughter [1:04:35] Fly Ashtray - "Grubby" - Why Are You Asking Me? [1:09:27] Population II - "Résevoir" - Électrons libres du qu​é​bec [1:12:49] Vanishing Twin - "Marbles" - Afternoon X [1:16:28] Shane MacGowan & The Popes - "Haunted (ft. Sinead O'Connor)" - The Snake [R.I.P.: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/30/shane-macgowan-pogues-singer-dies] [1:26:33] The Pogues - "Lullaby of London" - Just Look Them Straight in the Eye and Say... Pogue Mahone!! [https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67523427] [1:30:44] The Pogues - "Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six" - If I Should Fall From Grace With God [1:35:28] The Pogues - "Eve Of Destruction" - Just Look Them Straight in the Eye and Say... Pogue Mahone!! [1:40:04] The Pogues - "Turkish Song of the Damned" - If I Should Fall From Grace With God [1:44:27] The Nipple Erectors - "King of the Bop" - Bops, Babes, Booze & Bovver [1:47:55] The Nips - "All the Time in the World (Soho 4)" - Bops, Babes, Booze & Bovver [1:49:58] The Dictators - "Weekend" - The Dictators Live: New York New York [R.I.P. Scott Kempner: https://www.stereogum.com/2244147/the-dictators-the-del-lords-scott-kempner-dead-at-69/news/] [1:56:25] Scott Kempner - "Tender Mercies" - Tenement Angels [2:00:25] Killing Joke - "Follow The Leaders" - What’s THIS For...! [R.I.P. Geordie Walker https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/kevin-geordie-walker-killing-joke-guitarist-dies-at-64/ar-AA1kBJU1] [2:07:08] - "Clip: BBC-president of Cop28 allegedly uses meetings to negotiate oil deals for UAE" [2:12:34] Killing Joke - "Love Like Blood" - Honour the Fire (live) [https://killingjokelhn.bandcamp.com/album/honour-the-fire-live] [2:13:51] Set: How does it feel to win a war nobody wants? David Frye - "Dr. Kissinger" - Richard Nixon: A Fantasy [2:22:40] IDLES - "Reigns" - Ultra Mono [2:22:41] Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - "Bomb.Repeat.Bomb" - Living With The Living [2:26:40] Hotline TNT - "History Channel" - Cartwheel [2:29:52] Moby - "Going Wrong" - Innocents [2:35:58] Replacements - "Swingin' Party" - Tim: Let It Bleed Edition [2:39:43] - "Clip: Sky-first flight using sustainable fuel" [2:43:25] Missing Persons - "Destination Unknown" - Mini LP / 4 Songs [2:44:29] Simple Minds - "Don't You" - Breakfast Club Soundtrack [2:48:03] Blondie - "Hanging on the Telephone" - Parallel Lines [2:52:23] The Wiggins - "If I Should Fall from the Grace of God" - MP3 [2:54:36] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/134490

Duration:03:07:48

"Other nights would be / Long and dark ages for me..." from Nov 25, 2023

11/25/2023
Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet - "Why Spend a Dark Night with You? (ft. Joan as Police Woman)" - Songs of Symphonies: The Music of Moondog [0:00:00] Off World - "Impulse Controller" - 3 [0:03:15] Langston Hughes - "Weary Blues" - The Dream Keeper [0:14:42] William Parker and Hamid Drake - "Sky" - Summer Snow [0:18:40] - "Clip: Reuters-Russian anti-war protester sentenced to 7 years in prison" [0:26:06] Sonny Sharrock - "As We Used To Sing" - Ask the Ages [R.I.P. Bob Contant: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/books/bob-contant-dead.html] [0:27:30] - "Clip: France24-South Africa parliament votes to close Israeli embassy" [0:35:02] Vanishing Twin - "Marbles" - Afternoon X [0:35:33] Lou Reed - "The Day John Kennedy Died" - Legendary Lou Reed [0:49:56] Car Colors - "Old Death" - Old Death [0:53:59] Radian - "Cold Suns" - Distorted Rooms [https-//www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n21/celia-donert/invention-of-the-trickster] [1:02:26] Tørrfall - "Baskerland" - Tørrfall [1:08:43] - "Clip: France24-Somalia floods displace thousands" [1:21:27] The Doors - "When The Music's Over" - Strange Days [1:22:44] Nick Cave - "Helpless" - The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young [1:39:20] Rope Burns - "Gray" - MP3 [1:43:48] - "Clip: France24-Kenya still debating sending police to Haiti" [1:49:01] Rolling Stones - "Shine a Light" - Stripped [1:49:42] The Graingers - "Shine Your Light" - Space Funk (Afro Futurist Electro Funk in Space 1976-84) [1:54:17] Liquid Soul - "Blue Groove Freestyle (live)" - MP3 (Currents radio edit) [R.I.P. Mars Williams https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/mars-williams-sax-player-for-psychedelic-furs-and-waitresses-dies-at-68/ar-AA1kgTtJ] [2:02:22] Psychedelic Furs - "Angels Don't Cry (7" remix)" - Here Came the Psychedelic Furs: B-sides & Lost Grooves [2:11:55] - "Clip: KFOR-Parents outraged son's hair is cut in school" [2:16:01] The Clash - "The Magnificent Seven" - From Here To Eternity [2:17:08] Gang of Four - "Disco Sound" - The Art School Dance Goes On: Leeds Post-Punk 1977-84 [2:23:17] Thompson Twins - "The Gap" - Greatest Hits [2:29:27] - "Clips: Various-bedbug infestations" [2:34:03] Echo and the Bunnymen - "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo (original single version)" - Crystal Days 1979 - 1999 [2:35:18] The Mountain Goats - "Fresh Tattoo" - Jenny from Thebes [2:41:32] Bob Dylan - "Love Sick" - Bobby Gillespie Presents I Still Can't Believe You're Gone [2:46:12] Los Microbios - "Midnight Train" - Tractor of Heartache [2:51:32] Replacements - "Can't Hardly Wait (cello version)" - Tim (let it bleed edition) [2:55:17] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/134194

Duration:03:08:31

"I am seen and I have been heard..." from Nov 18, 2023

11/18/2023
Colleen - "Subterranean, Movements I, II, III" - Le Jour et la Nuit du Ré​el [0:00:00] Paul Dunmall - "Disbelief" - Bright Light: A Joyous Celebration [6:10:00] Mantana Roberts - "For They Do Not Know" - Coin Coin: Chapter 5: In the Garden… [0:21:32] n/a - "Clip: CBS-New York sues Pepsi over alleged plastic pollution" - n/a [0:28:19] Charif Megarbane - "A Parking Lot by the Sea" - Marzipan (Habibi Funk 023) [Bonus Edition] [0:28:55] Nicholas Thayer - "On Melting" - Infinite 1, 2,3 [0:35:32] n/a - "Clip: ABC Australia-Mexico's first non-binary judge murdered" - n/a [0:41:06] Miguel Atwood-Ferguson - "Apotheosis" - Les Jardins Mystiques Vol.1 [0:42:31] Off World - "Empasse" - 3 [0:51:56] Blonde Redhead - "I Thought You Should Know" - Sit Down for Dinner [0:59:34] Grails - "Sad and Illegal" - Anches En Mafit [1:04:54] Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. - "Operator" - Radio Daze and Glamping [1:09:59] Night Beats - "Nightmare" - Rajan [1:13:59] n/a - "Clip: AfricaNews-Kenya declares national tree-planting holiday" - n/a [1:18:14] Hermetic Delight - "Lust For Life" - Lust For Life [1:18:43] Smithereens - "In A Lonely Place" - Especially for You [1:26:41] Squirrel Flower - "What Kind Of Dream Is This?" - Tomorrow's Fire [1:30:52] Tirzah - "Today" - Trip9love...??? [1:34:54] Fire-Toolz - "Above All Else I Want To See" - I Am Upset Because I See Something That Is Not There [1:37:32] Laurel Halo - "Atlas" - Atlas [1:42:56] n/a - "Clip: CBS-Iceland ahead of potential volcano eruption" - n/a [1:49:47] SUSS - "North Wind" - SUSS [1:50:56] Seawind of Battery - "Clockwatching" - Clockwatching [2:01:46] Mendoza, Hoff, Revels - "Ten Forward" - Echolocation [2:09:49] Tremosphere - "Down The Road" - Becoming Creatures [2:15:56] n/a - "Clip: Reuters-IBM pulls ads from X" - n/a [2:19:44] GG King - "Evoker 1 (Hellslime Radiating From The Basement)" - Evoker Tape [2:20:52] Cherry Glazerr - "Touched You With My Chaos" - I Don't Want You Anymore [Acknowledging the passing of animal-rights activist Karen Davis: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/karen-davis-dead.html] [2:24:34] LITOVSK - "They Say Home Is Where The Heart Is" - LITOVSK [2:32:28] n/a - "Clip: WLTX-Judge declares mistrial in federal case against cop involved in Breonna Taylor's death" - n/a [2:36:01] Beautiful Days - "Full of Fears" - Back to Peru, Vol. 2 [2:36:35] Sloppy Heads - "New Speedway Boogie" - Sometimes Just One Second [2:41:16] Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express - "A Better Land" - Auger Incorporated [2:49:26] Soft on Crime - "Show's Over" - Rarities Vol. 1 [2:55:07] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/133981

Duration:03:07:21

"All the things we love, we love, we love, we lose..." from Nov 11, 2023

11/11/2023
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "Anthrocene" - Skeleton Tree [0:00:00] Massive Attack - "Future Proof" - 100th Window [R.I.P. Angelo Bruschini: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/oct/24/massive-attack-confirm-death-of-guitarist-angelo-bruschini] [0:04:20] Aphex Twin - "Weathered Stone" - Selected Ambient Works Volume II [0:09:57] Weyes Blood - "Something To Believe" - Titanic Rising [0:18:58] n/a - "Clip: Forbes Middle East-global temperatures reach record levels in 2023" - n/a [https://themessenger.com/tech/greenlands-northern-ice-shelves-shrunk-by-a-third-in-45-years-heres-why-that-matters] [0:23:40] Colleen - "The Long Wait--Movements I and II" - Le jour et la nuit du réel [0:24:39] n/a - "Clip: ITV-world’s “lonelist sheep rescued" - n/a [0:30:05] Hawkwind - "We Took the Wrong Step Years Ago" - In Search of Space [0:31:07] Cerberus Shoal - "The Real Ding" - The Vim and Vigour of Cerberus Shoal [0:43:17] The Weather Station - "Atlantic" - Ignorance [1:02:14] Pavement - "Type Slowly" - Brighten the Corners [1:06:07] Set: Interview with Andrew McCormick, deputy director of Covering Climate Now Daily Maverick featuring Anneli Kamfer - "20Twenties: The Eve of Destruction" - MP3 [https://www.cjr.org/covering_climate_now/qa-south-africas-muckraking-daily-maverick-breaks-the-mold-with-a-stirring-climate-anthem.php] [1:43:44] Mendoza, Hoff, Revels - "Echolocation" - Echolocation [1:49:47] Funkadelic - "Maggot Brain" - Maggot Brain [1:56:49] Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Up From The Skies" - Axis: Bold As Love ["The way Afghans love the sport is almost divine and it's that love which guides us."] [2:07:04] n/a - "Clip: ABC-one of “Central Park 5” elected to NYC city council" - n/a [2:09:59] Dead Kennedys - "Moon Over Marin" - Plastic Surgery Disasters [2:11:30] Pixies - "Monkey Gone to Heaven" - Doolittle [2:15:13] REM - "Exhuming McCarthy" - Document [2:21:03] Black Sabbath - "Behind the Wall of Sleep" - The Ultimate Collection [2:26:09] Smithereens - "Behind the Wall of Sleep" - Especially for You [World Cup 2023: Afghanistan's dazzling run captivates cricket--https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-67306043] [2:29:36] n/a - "Clip: CBS-protest on Liberty Island" - n/a [2:32:45] Vanishing Twin - "The Down Below" - Afternoon X [2:34:11] Bryan Ferry - "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" - 45 [2:42:56] Squirrel Flower - "When A Plant Is Dying" - Tomorrow's Fire [2:48:04] Deeper - "Glare" - Careful! [2:52:22] Wimps - "Animal" - City Lights [2:56:10] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/133749

Duration:03:08:21