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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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"Where only those in pain go?..." from Jun 21, 2025

6/21/2025
William Parker and the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra - "Mayan Space Station" - Sunrise in the Tone World [0:00:00] Shilpa Ray - "New York Minute Prayer" - Door Girl [0:11:45] Miles Davis - "Shhh/Peaceful" - In a Silent Way [0:16:07] - "Clip: Clip: TVC News Nigeria-University Enforces No Bra, No Entry Rule" [More information: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2d0p3z9grko] [0:34:02] Wayne Shorter - "Down in the Depths" - Introducing Wayne Shorter [0:34:56] - "Clip: PBS-USFDA approves new HIV prevention drug" [But: https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2025/06/18/gilead-hiv-prevention-shot-poor-countries-access-aids-infectious-disease-medicine-pharma-biotech/] [0:45:09] Billy Mohler - "Sooner" - The Eternal [0:45:49] Tremosphere - "Sunshine" - Saturated Solace [R.I.P. photographer Beauford Smith: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/arts/beuford-smith-dead.html] [1:00:16] Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - "Idiot Prayer" - The Boatman's Call [1:04:39] Alan Sparhawk - "Don’t Take Your Light" - With Trampled by Turtles [1:09:00] - "Clip: Forbes- Trump Mobile Launched by Trump Org" [1:14:17] Kieran Hebden + William Tyler - "If I Had A Boat" - 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s [1:14:59] Lyle Lovett - "If I Had a Boat" - Pontiac [1:26:13] Quinie - "Col My Love" - Forefowk, Mind Me [1:29:29] - "Clip: Channel 4 News-World has three years to limit global warming to 1.5C" [1:36:19] Wilderness - "Beautiful Alarms" - Vessel States [1:36:55] Swans - "Guardian Spirit" - Birthing [1:45:51] Patti Smith - "Parade" - Sugar, Alcohol, & Meat - The Dial-A-Poem Poets [1:56:53] Patti Smith - "Gloria In Excelsis Deo" - Horses [2:02:53] - "Clip: KOAA-National LGBTQ youth suicide hotline will end" [2:08:50] The Specials - "Racist Friend" - The Singles Collection [2:09:37] Shilpa Ray - "Johnny Thunders Fantasy Space Camp" - Last Year's Savage [2:13:19] Music behind DJ: [It's Not That Bad With Jim The Poet] [2:15:53] Mudhoney - "A Thousand Forms of Mind" - Tomorrow Hit Today [2:32:42] - "Clip: ALPS Global News-Social Media #1 News Source in US" [2:37:19] Horsegirl - "Switchover" - Phonetics On and On [2:38:01] Adam and the Ants - "Prince Charming" - Prince Charming [2:44:54] Brian Jonestown Massacre - "Makes Me Great" - Makes Me Great b/w Out of Body [2:48:14] Hotwax - "Strange to be Here" - Hot Shock [2:52:24] Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros - "Redemption Song" - Streetcore [2:55:24] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153260

Duration:03:08:16

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"Our heart has courage / Enough courage / It's our soul that can tire..."--Schebna Bazile from Jun 14, 2025

6/14/2025
Keb’ Mo’ - "Imagine" - Here, There & Everywhere: Black America Sings John Lennon, Paul McCartney And George Harrison (V/a) [0:00:00] Okonski - "Summer Storm" - Entrance Music [0:04:29] Nduduzo Makhathini - "Dancing with a Shadow" - Reflections [0:08:31] Rebecca Foon and Alayta Foon-Dancoes - "Dream of What Was" - Reverie Constellation [0:17:07] - "Clip: CNBC-Changes Made to Vaccine PanelCNBC-Changes Made to Vaccine Panel" [More information: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4zyp26xn2o] [0:21:12] Jean-Baptiste Favory - "I Was Thinking" - I Was Thinking [0:22:21] Stereolab - "Flashes from Everywhere" - Instant Holograms on Metal Film [0:27:24] The Beach Boys - "You Still Believe in Me" - Pet Sounds [R.I.P. Brian Wilson: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2025/06/11/brian-wilson-dead-beach-boys/8436413002/] [0:32:49] - "Clip: Global News-New UN report on why people having fewer children" [0:35:24] Spiral Stairs - "Dry Country" - Medley Attack!!! [0:36:09] The Whiskey Treaty Roadshow - "The Rising" - Springsteen’s Country [0:40:16] Sly and the Family Stone - "Everyday People" - Greatest Hits [R.I.P. Sly Stone: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/arts/music/sly-stone-dead.html] [0:45:10] - "Clip: 9NEWS-British photographer shot by police during LA protests" [More information: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg7vzrj6g3o] [0:47:31] Rolling Stones - "Street Fighting Man" - Stripped [recorded live at Paradiso, Amsterdam, 26 May 1995] [0:48:39] Guess Who - "Undun" - Canned Wheat [0:52:18] Set: INTERVIEW WITH Dorian Lynskey The Oscillation - "Let It Be The End" - Monographic [1:30:38] Blur - "To The End" - Parklife [1:36:14] U2 - "Until the End of the World" - Achtung Baby [1:40:16] Manic Street Preachers. - "(It’s Not War) Just the End of Love" - National Treasures – The Complete Singles [1:44:57] - "Clip: ABC NEWS-Australia-Iran cities ban dog walking" [1:48:28] Jesse Malin - "Meet Me at the End of the World Again" - Sunset Kids [1:49:17] Set: Q&A WITH Mark Ibold, Part 1 Pavement - "Cut Your Hair" - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain [2:03:45] Set: Q&A WITH Mark Ibold, Part 2 Pavement - "...And Carrot Rope" - Terror Twilight [2:10:55] Set: Q&A WITH Mark Ibold, Part 3 Pavement - "Grounded" - Wowee Zowee [2:18:16] Set: Q&A WITH Mark Ibold, Part 4 Dustdevils - "They Don't Sleep 8 Hrs. A Night" - Struggling Electric And Chemical [2:28:48] Set: Q&A WITH Mark Ibold, Part 5 Sonic Youth - "Starfield Road" - Live in Brooklyn 2011 [2:34:52] Dog Eat Dog - "New Bongos/Third and Fourteenth" - Re-Deux [2:40:15] Year 5000 - "Open the Cash Register or Die" - Secret Album [2:45:43] Hey-O-Hansen - "Zulu" - We Go Horny-Serious Pleasure Riddims [2:48:58] Pavement - "Here" - Slanted & Enchanted [2:52:48] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152916

Duration:03:08:06

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"This crime is never complete..." from Jun 7, 2025

6/7/2025
John Coltrane & Don Cherry - "The Blessing" - The Avant-Garde [0:00:00] Dan Fortin - "Aplomb (feat. Chris Donnelly)" - Cannon [0:07:32] Donald Byrd - "Around the Corner" - Getting Down To Business [R.I.P. Drummer Al Foster: https://www.nme.com/news/music/al-foster-drummer-to-miles-davis-and-herbie-hancock-has-died-3866509] [0:13:02] Yuki Fujiwara - "Night's Dream is True〜Ai no-Uta" - Glass Colored Lily [0:23:17] - "Clip: WION-Discovery of WWII bombs in Cologne forces evacuation" [0:36:59] Johan Johannsson - "A Prayer to the Dynamo Part 1" - A Prayer to the Dynamo [0:37:58] Mark Molnar - "pallida Mors - Patior" - EXO [0:46:29] Bruce Springsteen - "Atlantic City" - Nebraska [1:04:27] Steve Earle - "State Trooper (live)" - Springsteen’s Country [1:08:20] - "Clip: Virgin Media News-Former Death Row Inmate Sunny Jacobs Dies In Ireland" [More information: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy3vrgj4j8o] [1:13:22] Mdou Moctar - "Funeral for Justice (Injustice Version)" - Tears Of Injustice [1:14:10] Kaleidoscope - "Once Upon A Time There Was A World" - Kaleidoscope [1:19:54] - "Clip: CBS-Navy to rename USNS Harvey Milk" [1:28:04] The Doors - "The Unknown Soldier" - Waiting for the Sun [1:28:45] Taro - "her kinks" - Taro [1:32:09] PJ Harvey - "Rub ‘Til It Bleeds" - 4-Track Demos [1:37:28] Fleas of Mercy - "So Good" - The 8th of May [1:42:37] - "Clip: 3.0 NEWS-New info in case of Missing US Journalist" [More information: https://www.yahoo.com/news/missing-reporter-austin-tice-detained-195602889.html] [1:46:37] Mohammad Mustafa Heydarian - "Nishtemân (Nationality)" - Noor-e Vojood [1:48:01] Music behind DJ: [It's Not That Bad With Jim the Poet] [1:56:38] BASIC - "Dream City" - Dream City EP [2:15:07] Dog Eat Dog - "Rollover" - Re-Deux [2:20:45] Omar El Shariyi - "El Kamh" - Music from the East [2:23:45] The Earwurms - "Fascist Baby" - Plonk [2:30:22] Pavement - "Range Life" - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain [2:36:14] - "Clip: ITV-UK government threatens to sue former Chelsea owner" [2:41:31] Drink the Sea - "Outside Again" - single [2:41:33] U2 - "Lemon (edit)" - Zooropa [2:44:25] Japanese Breakfast - "Honey Water" - For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women) [2:49:01] The Waterboys - "Ten Years Gone (feat. Bruce Springsteen)" - Life, Death and Dennis Hopper [2:53:53] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152800

Duration:03:08:09

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"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end." from May 31, 2025

5/31/2025
Gryke Pyje - "Drowsy Creatures" - Crepuscular Elixirs [0:00:00] Memory Pearl - "Relaxation Induction" - Cosmic Astral [0:02:43] Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson - "Parts V-VIII (continuous)" - Chicago Waves [0:09:17] Miles Davis - "Will O’ the Wisp" - Sketches of Spain [Anniversary of Davis' birth May 26th] [0:27:03] - "Clip: Sky News-Russia unveils Joseph Stalin statue in Moscow metro" [0:30:48] Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra - "Vive la Commune" - Vol. 4 - Jo Maka [0:32:01] - "Clip: France 24-Photojournalist Sebastiao Salgado dies" [R.I.P. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/arts/sebastiao-salgado-dead.html] [0:38:49] Primitive Art Group - "Arctic Waltz" - Live Cuts 1981-1983 [0:40:02] Ichiko Aoba - "Luciférine" - Luminescent Creatures [0:58:13] Lula Wiles - "Conspiracy Theory" - Shame and Sedition [1:03:07] - "Clip: AP-New global temperature records possible over next 5 years" [More information: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/28/global-temperatures-break-annual-heat-record-next-five-years-world-meteorological-organization] [1:07:27] Chris Brokaw - "Away From Me" - Ghost Ship [1:08:21] Water Damage - "Reel 28" - Instruments [1:15:15] Marc Ribot - "Optimism of Spirit" - Map of a Blue City [1:36:13] - "Clip: 10NewsFirst-White House Chief Of Staff phone hacking under investigation" [1:43:09] Ches Smith - "Clone Row" - Clone Row [1:44:15] Radiohead - "There there" - Hail to the Thief [1:51:19] Sunflower Bean - "Champagne Taste" - Mortal Primetime [2:17:42] Pavement - "Fame Throwa" - Slanted & Enchanted [2:21:30] Joe Bendik - "Woke Up (When I Should've Taken a Nap)" - Woke Up (When I Should've Taken A Nap) [2:25:16] Mekons - "Glasgow" - Horror [2:29:32] Fleas of Mercy - "Angels" - The 8th of May [2:32:49] - "Clip: WPIX-NYC approves housing developments on Atlantic Avenue" [2:35:56] The Earwurms - "All These Reasons" - Plonk [2:37:15] Japanese Breakfast - "Here Is Someone" - For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women) [2:42:09] - "Clip: NewsX World-Israel Enforcing Forced Starvation in Gaza UN chief says" [2:45:15] The Destructors Club Meets Scientist - "Hill Of Bones (album version" - The Destructors Club Meets Scientist [2:45:50] Spiral Stairs - "Swampland" - We Wanna Be Hypnotized [2:49:11] Travis - "Why Does It Always Rain On Me" - Singles [2:53:05] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152609

Duration:03:07:16