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Nijiumu - "When I sing, I slip into the microphone. Into that void, I bring comrade "prayers", then, turning to face the outside, together we explode. Part III" - When I sing, I slip into the microphone. Into that void, I bring comrade "prayers", then, turning to face the outside, together we explode. [0:00:00] Pat Thomas - "Hikmah" - Hikmah [0:13:34] Rabih Abou-Khalil - "Sahara" - Blue Camel [0:17:46] Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble - "What Do Your Trees Tell You?" - From Maxville to Vanport [0:26:01] Clip - "PBS-Birth rate in China falls to lowest level since 1949" - Clip [0:35:43] Le Motel - "I Cried Like a Child of Three / Tôi đã khóc như một đứa trẻ lên ba (feat. Yvonne Quỳnh-Lan Dương, Bui Thi Oanh, Chi chi, Ma Ma Chi and Are Ro)" - Odd Numbers / Số Lẻ [0:36:17] µ-Ziq - "Majadahonda at Dawn" - 1979 [0:40:55] Clip - "WRAL-Walk for Peace passes through North Carolina" - Clip [More information: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/buddhist-monks-walk-for-peace] [0:45:37] Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo - "Circus Strongman Runs for PTA President" - Strange But True [0:46:03] Tucker Zimmerman feat. Big Thief, Iji & Twain - "The Season" - Dance of Love [R.I.P. Tucker Zimmerman: https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-tucker-zimmerman-cult-folk-hero-dead-at-84] [0:49:21] Sascha Rosemarie Höfer - "Lisez les mots sur les grands panneaux publicitaires! (read the words on the large billboards)" - Avant la lettre [1:02:21] Roy Montgomery - "The Light Is Heavy The Rain Is Soft / I Will See You There" - Temple IV [1:14:15] Clip - "ABC Australia-Japan delays restart of nuclear reactor" - Clip [1:20:52] Tim Barnes - "Never Touching The Ground (feat. David Grubbs, Tara Jane O'Neil and Ken Vandermark)" - Lost Words [1:21:19] Jim Jarmusch & Anika - "Spooky" - Father Mother Sister Brother (Original Music From The Film) [1:36:40] Karyn Kuhl - "It Was a Very Good Year" - The Stars Will Bring You Home [1:38:53] Bellbird - "Blowing On Embers" - The Call [1:42:30] 1939 Ensemble - "Prince St." - New Cinema [1:49:27] Marisa Anderson - "current of a squall or the foam that feeds it" - Earth to You: Guitar Players Respond to a Short Story About a Guitar Player [1:54:10] Clip - "Uncle Floyd Show" - Clip [R.I.P.: https://deadline.com/2026/01/uncle-floyd-vivino-dead-1236694422/] [2:07:07] Ramones - "I Don't Want to Grow Up" - Anthology [2:08:27] Scowl - "Haunted" - Are We All Angels? [2:11:09] Sonic Youth - "Kotton Krown" - Live in Brooklyn 2011 [2:14:23] Kim Gordon - "Not Today" - Play Me [2:19:33] Music behind DJ: [It's Not That Bad with Jim the Poet] [2:23:04] Sunny War - "Walking Contradiction (feat. Steve Ignorant)" - Armageddon In A Summer Dress [2:39:21] Clip - "Al Jazeera-Israel tears down UNRWA buildings in East Jerusalem" - Clip [2:43:29] Sailor Boyfriend - "Always Crashing in the Same Car" - A Tribute To David Bowie [2:44:19] Clip - "ABC Australia-Three shark attacks in two days in Sydney" - Clip [2:49:51] Sam Slater - "Passengers (feat. Bendik Giske, Maria W Horn, Adam Betts)" - Luung [2:50:23] Jim Jarmusch & Anika - "These Days" - Father Mother Sister Brother (Original Music from the Film) [2:55:29] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160520

Nina Simone - "The Times They Are A-Changin’" - A Single Woman: The Complete Elektra Recordings [0:00:00] Nina Simone - "The Times They Are A-Changin’ (alternate version)" - A Single Woman: The Complete Elektra Recordings [0:00:30] Bitchin' Bajas - "Skylarking" - Inland See [0:01:30] Raphael Loher - "Hug of Gravity 1" - Hug of Gravity [0:09:50] Componium Ensemble コンポニウム・アンサンブル - "Kite (for string quartet and tingklik) カイト（弦楽四重奏とティンクリックのための）" - 8 Automated Works 八つの自動作曲作品集 [0:27:53] Clip - "CBS-Arsonist confesses in Mississippi synagogue attack" - Clip [0:30:47] Liam Grant - "Precious Memory II" - First Winter Day [0:31:23] aus - "Strand" - Eau [0:37:26] Clip - "CNN-US testing device linked with Havana Syndrome" - Clip [0:42:15] Saeko Killy - "Stay" - Dream in Dream [0:43:26] Patricia Wolf - "Echoes Through Time" - Hrafnamynd [0:48:03] Pete Seeger - "This Land is Your Land" - The Essential Pete Seeger [1:00:33] Maybe It's Reno - "Baby's Lost in the Tracks" - Maybe It's Reno [https://www.worldsportsphotographyawards.com/] [1:08:38] Church of Betty - "Wake Up" - Swirled World [1:16:23] Clip - "NBC-Dilbert reator dies at 68" - Clip [1:20:27] Fleet Foxes - "Can I Believe You (Solstice Version)" - A Very Lonely Solstice [1:21:02] HAYWARDxDÄLEK - "Between the Word and the Drum" - HAYWARDxDÄLEK [1:25:02] Clip - "France24-Corsican nationalist leader Alain Orsoni killed" - Clip [1:31:41] Clark Coolidge, Thurston Moore - "It's a Long Long Way to Temporary (at the National Dog Cave)" - Among the Poetry Stricken [1:32:28] Mattiel - "Subterranean Shut-In Blues" - Georgia Gothic [1:50:20] The Smiths - "Shoplifters of the World Unite" - The World Won’t Listen [1:53:48] Unrest - "Champion Nines" - Imperial F.F.R.R [2:03:28] Dennis Young - "Falling" - Old Dog, New Tricks [2:06:48] Khruangbin - "People Everywhere ii" - The Universe Smiles Upon You ii [2:10:33] Clip - "NBC-FBI searches reporter's home as part of leak investigation" - Clip [More information: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/us/politics/fbi-washington-post-journalist.html] [2:18:47] Jack Silbert feat. James Bally - "Slip Away" - A Tribute To David Bowie [2:19:02] Music behind DJ: [It's Not That Bad with Jim the Poet] [2:23:38] Kee Avil - "Itch" - Single [2:43:12] Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - "Johnny Appleseed" - Global A Go-Go [2:47:08] Gilla Band - "Sports Day" - Single [2:50:49] Bruce Springsteen - "One Beautiful Morning" - Streets of Philadelphia Sessions (Tracks II: The Lost Albums) [2:54:21] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160302

Lester Young - "‘Deed I Do" - Lester Leaps In: Live at Birdland 1951-1952 [0:00:00] Joe McPhee - "Tenor" - Tenor and Fallen Angels [0:08:28] Angel Bat Dawid - "Capetown (feat. Asher Gamedze)" - The Oracle [0:31:52] - "Clip: ABC-CIA agent who sold secrets to the Soviets dies in prison" [0:47:29] Samon Takahashi - "Psychotron Mind/Body Split [for headphones]" - Selected Sound Works [Headphones Pieces] [0:48:31] - "Clip: WABC-Cuban government claims officers killed in US Venezuela operation" [0:55:02] OHYUNG - "CARE FOR YOU (gtr. by Lu Yang)" - Untitled (Chinese Man with Flame) [0:55:35] Shonepine - "I Saw Three Ships" - First Winter Day [1:07:38] Antony and the Johnsons - "Hope There's Someone" - I Am A Bird Now [1:11:54] David Bowie - "I Can't Give Everything Away" - Blackstar [1:16:49] - "Clip: BBC-Anti-government protests spread in Iran" [1:22:29] Purple Mountains - "Nights That Won’t Happen" - Purple Mountains [1:23:47] Khraungbin - "Two Fish and an Elephant ii" - The Universe Smiles Upon You ii [1:29:55] Ash Fure - "Animal Part I" - Animal [1:37:17] - "Clip: BBC-Protests in Minneapolis after woman killed by ICE agent" [1:46:26] Silkworm - "Enough Is Enough" - In the West [1:47:05] Come - "Wrong Side" - Peel Sessions [1:55:12] Ava Mendoza - "Earth to You" - Earth to You: Guitar Players Respond to a Short Story About a Guitar Player [Comp put together by former WFMU DJ Sara Jaffe] [2:07:03] Jim White - "I Don't Do / Grand Central (ft. Zoh Amba)" - Inner Day [2:11:32] Jellypelt - "Trans-Ireland Express" - Lasmuigh [2:15:15] - "Clip: KDKA-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to close after 240 years" [2:21:18] The Fixx - "Phantom Living" - Phantoms [2:21:54] Cardinals - "Masquerade" - Masquerade [2:25:36] Blur - "On Your Own" - Blur [2:28:43] The Clash - "Janie Jones" - The Clash [2:36:30] Television - "Guiding Light" - Marquee Moon [R.I.P. Amos Poe: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/arts/amos-poe-dead.html] [2:39:00] - "Clip: BBC-Court finds 10 people guilty of cyber-bullying France's first lady Brigitte Macron" [2:44:35] Fontaines DC - "It’s Amazing To Be Young" - Single [2:45:58] Killing Joke - "Empire Song" - Revelations [2:49:31] Glyders - "Stone Shadow" - Forever [2:52:43] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/160066

Freddie Hubbard - "First Light" - The CTI Years 1970-1973 [0:00:00] Fred Moten and Brandon Lopez - "#4" - Revision [0:21:22] - "Clip: CNN-Artists cancel shows after renaming of Kennedy Center" [0:27:38] Billy Hart - "Amethyst" - Multidirectional [0:28:46] Marshall Allen - "Boma" - New Dawn [0:38:09] Blixa Bargeld & Nikko Weidemann - "Lazarus" - Blixa Bargeld Sings David Bowie [0:48:28] Folk Bitch Trio - "Moth Song" - Now Would Be A Good Time [0:52:57] I'm With Her - "Rhododendron" - Wild and Clear and Blue [0:58:10] - "Clip: KHOG-Oklahoma woman killed on Christmas by man doing target practice" [1:03:22] Jamie Lidell and Luke Schneider - "Serene Velocity" - A Companion For The Spaces Between Dreams [1:04:06] Golden Brown - "Boom Boom Pachyderm" - Whisker Fatigue [1:11:08] Tortoise - "Work and Days" - Touch [1:27:21] Friendship - "Wildwood in January" - Caveman Wakes Up [1:31:39] Matthew Young - "Reflexion" - Undercurrents [1:36:07] Anna von Hausswolff - "The Whole Woman feat. Iggy Pop" - Iconoclasts [1:41:00] Yo La Tengo - "Leaving Home (alternative version)" - Old Joy (Official Soundtrack) [1:45:21] - "Clip: WREG-Singer Don Bryant dies at 83" [R.I.P. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/obituaries/don-bryant-dead.html] [1:51:20] Ann Peebles - "I Can't Stand the Rain" - I Can't Stand the Rain [1:51:45] FeMaLe GEniUs - "Winter Afternoon" - Jagged and Fractured [1:54:15] Clash - "Silicone on Sapphire" - Sandinista! [2:01:40] YHWH Nailgun - "Animal Death Already Breathing" - 45 Pounds [2:06:10] - "Clip: BBC-Egyptian dissident accused of anti-Zionist social media posts" [2:08:50] Squid - "Cro-Magnon Man" - Cowards [2:09:58] Sadegh Booghi - "Ow Ow Ow Ow" - Ow Ow Ow Ow [2:14:45] Steely Dan - "Dirty Work" - Can't Buy a Thrill [2:17:47] Valence, Ariane Roy - "Charlie" - Bandcamp Single [2:20:55] Music behind DJ: [It's Not That Bad with Jim the Poet] [2:24:00] Geese - "100 Horses" - Getting Killed [2:37:03] - "Clip: WXIA-RICO charges against Cop City protesters thrown out" [2:40:47] Swans - "Red Yellow" - Birthing [2:41:32] Alan Sparhawk - "Torn & in Ashes" - With Trampled by Turtles [2:52:29] Cass McCombs - "Home At Last" - Interior Live Oak [2:55:37] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159788

National Information Society/Bitchin’ Bajas - "Clock No Clock" - Totality [0:00:00] Departure Street - "Burn A Whole Life Long" - This Broken World [0:09:07] Quinie - "Sae Slight a Thing" - Forefowk, Mind Me [0:18:30] - "Clip: FirstPost-Gold Prices Hit Record High" [0:24:21] Rebecca Foon & Aliayta Foon-Dancoes - "Incandescence" - Reverie [0:25:09] Yann Tiersen - "Rathlin from a Distance" - Rathlin from a Distance | The Liquid Hour [0:31:00] - "Clip: TL News-New Banksy murals in London (probably AI)" [0:36:24] Thisquietarmy - "Les radicaux libres (Free Radicals)" - Langue Hybride [0:37:08] Chris Brokaw - "Over My Body" - Ghost Ship [0:46:30] Marc Ribot - "Optimism of the Spirit" - Map of a Blue City [0:51:01] Tremosphere - "Bedroom Girl" - Saturated Solace [1:03:47] Autumna - "Mind Map" - Family Portrait [1:12:00] William Tyler - "Concern" - Time Indefinite [1:15:13] Califone - "The Bullet B4 the Sound" - The Villager’s Companion [1:20:36] - "Clip: WPRI-Trump administration suspends 5 wind energy projects off East Coast" [1:25:37] Stereolab - "Esemplastic Creeping Eruption" - Instant Holograms on Metal Film [1:26:32] Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory - "Idiot Box" - Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory [1:32:32] - "Clip: Reuters-Trump appoints special envoy to Greenland amidst talks of annexation" [1:36:52] Reiko Füting - "passage: time (copy)" - distant: violin. Sound [1:38:00] David Grubbs - "Queen’s Side Eye" - Whistle From Above [1:48:46] Animal, Surrender! - "Misswanderer" - A Boot For Every Bane [1:54:07] Stephen Vitiello, Brendan Canty, Hahn Rowe - "First Improv" - Second [2:04:56] Kuunatic - "Disembodied Ternion" - Wheels of Ömon [2:11:31] The Dwarfs of East Agouza - "Titular" - Sasquatch Landslide [2:16:40] Music behind DJ: [It's Not That Bad with Jim the Poet] [2:23:31] Deerhoof - "Disobedience" - Noble and Godlike in Ruin [2:39:19] - "Clip: Reuters-Pope addresses Gaza in first Christmas sermon" [2:44:22] Vulture Feather - "Only Holy Names" - It Will Be Like Now [2:45:18] Mark Stewart - "Blank Town" - The Fateful Symmetry [2:50:29] Fleas of Mercy - "Don't Go Gently" - The 8th of May [2:55:01] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159556