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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

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English


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"Those kind of thoughts can be so cruel..." from Jan 11, 2025

1/11/2025
John Coltrane - "Crescent" - The Very Best of John Coltrane [0:00:00] Barre Phillips - "Mountainscape I" - Mountainscapes [R.I.P.: https://ukjazznews.com/rip-barre-phillips-1934-2024/] [0:08:24] Ohad Talmor - "New York" - Back to the Land [0:14:17] David Bailis - "Big Dreams" - Tree of Life [0:22:54] Johnny Coley - "They're Dreaming Me" - Mister Sweet Whisper [0:30:24] Morphine - "In Spite of Me" - Cure for Pain [0:36:59] Byard Lancaster - "Work and Pray" - Funny Funky Rib Crib [0:39:37] - "Clip: Various-Journalists killed on the job in Palestine, India" [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clygl0rjy2no] [0:46:12] Cameron Winter - "We're Thinking the Same Thing" - Heavy Metal [0:47:07] Bryan Ferry - "This Love" - Slave to Love: The Best of the Ballads [0:49:56] Laura Marling - "Patterns In Repeat" - Patterns In Repeat [1:02:52] Jane Weaver - "Love In Constant Spectacle" - Love In Constant Spectacle [1:07:46] Francine Thirteen - "The Sun Is Saturn" - Psalm of Tiamat [1:11:55] - "Clip: Euronews-Italian journalist arrested in Iran returns home" [1:16:30] Jennifer Castle - "Camelot" - Camelot [US announces $25m reward for arrest of Venezuela's Maduro: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g9ezyw0keo] [1:17:21] 田中亜矢 (Aya Tanaka) - "いつまでも (Forever)" - 朝 (Morning) [1:21:10] Tess Parks - "Sunnyside" - Pomegranate [1:25:33] - "Clip: TRT-US sanctions RSF in Sudan for war crimes" [1:30:09] Weegee - "Bad Feeling" - Primitive Thrill [1:31:15] Louse - "Thieves" - Passions Like Tar [1:36:31] Glorious Din - "Insects" - Leading Stolen Horses [1:46:03] Children's Crusade - "Bleak Outpost" - A Duty-Dance With Death [1:52:10] Natural Velvet - "Dripping (Softness and Light)" - Perma-Blues [1:57:03] David Nance - "Mock the Hours" - David Nance & Mowed Sound [2:05:48] Kim Deal - "A Good Time Rushed" - Nobody Loves You More [2:09:45] - "Clip: NBC-Just NOT the facts for Meta" [2:13:10] Vernal Scuzz - "Cat Bit Lip" - Vernal Scuzz [2:14:25] Patois Counselors - "What's the News" - Limited Sphere [2:17:53] Pascal Plantinga - "I'm Not A Kennedy" - Das Volk Is Ein Fressender Kadaver [2:22:40] Parquet Courts - "Everyday It Starts" - Content Nausea [2:36:53] Syd Barrett - "Terrapin" - The Madcap Laughs [2:39:53] ВЕЩЬ / VESCH - "Стачка / Strike" - Factory-Kitchen No.2 [2:45:04] - "Clip: Fox 11 LA-FDA addresses lead in baby food... maybe" [2:49:38] Chris Butler - "Physics" - Got It Together! [2:49:40] Monkees - "Daydream Believer" - The Best of the Monkees [2:54:11] Peter, Paul and Mary - "Blowin' in the Wind" - In the Wind [Peter Yarrow: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/arts/music/peter-yarrow-dead.html] [2:57:04] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/147989

Duration:03:09:11

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"The last year oughta've plagued my mind..." from Jan 4, 2025

1/4/2025
Departure Street - "Traveling By Night" - Into The Drop Zone [0:00:00] Arooj Aftab - "Aey Nehin (Not Only)" - Night Reign [0:09:18] Jessica Pratt - "The Last Year" - Here In The Pitch [0:16:50] Laurie Anderson - "India And On Down to Australia (feat. Anohni)" - Amelia [0:20:26] - "Clip: ABC-Woman set on fire on Brooklyn subway identified" [0:24:16] Iron and Wine - "Angels Go Home" - Light Verse [0:24:42] - "Clip: CBS-Colorado reporter assaulted" [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/colorado-man-allegedly-attacked-reporter-yelling-trumps-america-now-rcna185768] [0:28:59] Zachary Cale - "Shatterstar" - Next Year's Ghost [0:29:35] Linda Thompson feat. The Proclaimers - "Bonnie Lass" - Proxy Music [0:37:23] West of Roan - "The Bell" - Queen of Eyes [0:40:46] Beth Gibbons - "Tell Me Who You Are Today" - Lives Outgrown [0:44:21] - "Clip: Global News-Puerto Rico blackout on New Year's Eve" [0:48:14] Ghost Funk Orchestra - "Infinite Dark" - A Trip to the Moon [0:49:07] Janel and Anthony - "Boom Boom" - New Moon In The Evil Age [0:52:19] Khruangbin - "Hold Me Up (Thank You)" - A La Sala [1:05:07] Suss - "Restless" - Birds and Beasts [1:08:57] - "Clip: France 24-2024 hottest year on record" [1:14:43] Mark Van Hoen - "Climates" - Plan for a Miracle [1:16:10] Mary Timony - "No Thirds" - Untame the Tiger [1:19:50] - "Clip: CBS-US Treasury Department hacked" [1:26:02] Mick Harvey - "Ghost Ships" - Five Ways to Say Goodbye [Saints cover] [1:27:02] Kee Avil - "The Iris Dry" - Spine [1:38:25] Alan Sparhawk - "Somebody Else's Room" - White Roses, My God [1:42:20] Devon Welsh - "Heaven Deserves" - You Come With Me If You Want to Live [1:46:07] The Drin - "No One Knows For Sure / Prato Della Valle" - Elude the Torch [1:49:38] BIG|BRAVE - "Theft" - A Chaos Of Flowers [1:59:49] - "Clip: WHAM-NYS to fine big energy $75 billion" [2:05:09] Gordan - "The Bell Is Buzzing" - Gordan [2:05:58] David Nance - "No Taste Tart Enough" - David Nance & Mowed Sound [2:11:42] Bed Maker - "Loops/Holes" - Bed Maker [2:30:25] Burghers Orquestra - "Mud In Your Eyes" - Cautionary Tails [2:40:18] - "Clip: Reuters-US homelessness record rise" [2:42:56] Oneida - "Expensive Air" - Expensive air [2:43:45] Arab Strap - "Allatonceness" - I'm totally fine with it 👍 don't give a fuck anymore 👍 [2:46:46] Straw Man Army - "Look Alive" - Earthworks [2:51:14] Hinds - "Boom Boom Back (ft. Beck)" - Viva Hinds [2:54:48] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/147757

Duration:03:07:55

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"It's good enough for Nancy..." from Dec 28, 2024

12/28/2024
Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad - "Moreno feat. The Midnight Hour" - JID 021 [Solar eclipse] [0:00:00] Alfa Mist & Amika Quartet - "Years Ago" - Years Ago / Exist (We Forgot) [Olympic surfing] [0:05:23] Jessica Jennifer Williams - "The Children Of The Future" - Orgonomic Music [Volcano in indonesia] [0:12:13] Francisco Mela featuring Leo Genovese and William Parker - "Earth" - Music Frees Our Souls, Vol. 3 [Palestine refugee camp] [0:17:58] - "Clip: Euronews-Serbian students protest deadly train station accident" [0:30:39] Torres - "Songbird Forever" - What An Enormous Room [Floods, Valencia, Spain] [0:31:38] Crime and the City Solution - "The Bride Ship (Acoustic)" - The Bride Ship (Acoustic) [Migrant Shelter, Bennett Field, Brooklyn] [0:36:06] - "Clip: CityNews-Protests in Syria over Christmas tree burning" [0:44:28] Mountain Movers - "We Are All Flowers" - Walking After Dark [US-Mexico border] [0:45:13] Lou Reed - "Wind Coda" - Hudson River Wind Meditations [Kharkiv, Ukraine] [0:50:11] Bipolar Explorer - "Highway One Just South of Bixby Canyon" - Memories of the Sky [Wildfires, California] [0:59:16] - "Clip: Al Jazeera-Israeli air strike in Gaza kills five journalists" [1:06:41] Quietus - "The Daybreak Choir Of What's Been Done" - Volume 6 [Police v. protesters, UCLA] [1:07:12] Hypnodrone Ensemble - "Transit" - The Problem Is In The Sender - Do Not Tamper With The Receiver [Refugees, English Channel] [1:18:39] Godspeed You! Black Emperor - "Raindrops Cast In Lead" - No Title As of 13 February 2024 28,340 Dead [Antarctica] [1:33:04] Mono - "Reflection" - Oath [Iceland, volcano] [1:46:20] Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - "Joy" - Wild God [Wild fire, California] [1:53:37] Set: It’s Not that Bad With Jim the Poet: Kim Gordon - "I'm A Man" - The Collective [Gaza] [2:09:54] - "Clip: CTV-Cop in Peru dresses as Grinch during drug raid" [Footage shows NY officers beating prisoner before death https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2ldwe1ypywo] [2:14:30] Omni - "Exacto" - Souvenir [2:15:05] Vulture Feather - "Terminal Fair" - Merge Now in Friendship [2:25:31] Shellac - "I Don't Fear Hell" - To All Trains [2:31:57] Finom - "As You Are" - Not Good [2:36:14] J Mascis - "End Is Gettin Shaky" - What Do We Do Now [2:41:51] Fontaines D.C. - "Favourite" - Romance [2:46:35] Carsick Cars - "Farewell" - Farewell [2:50:47] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/147495

Duration:03:08:00

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"But I've spoken to the angels who'll protect you..." from Dec 21, 2024

12/21/2024
Peter Schreier - "Sequentia" - Mozart Requiem [For DJ Cullan co-host of Why Do We Only Listen to Dead People?] [0:00:00] Brotzmann, Nilssen-Love - "Frozen Nose, Melting Toes" - Butterfly Mushroom [0:22:19] Byard Lancaster, Steve McCall, Sylvin Maro - "Us" - Us [For Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roschyna: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/world/europe/ukraine-journalist-viktoria-roshchyna-dead.html] [0:28:25] - "Clip: India Today-Woman Trafficked to Pakistan Returns Home" [More on this story: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c983l216j95o] [0:32:46] Laura Marling - "Child of Mine" - Patterns In Repeat [0:33:36] Dogwood Daughter - "Nativity" - Appalachian Christmas (Folk Carols from the Mountains) [0:37:41] Low - "Some Hearts (at Christmas Time)" - Some Hearts (at Christmas Time) [0:42:37] Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - "God Is in the House" - No More Shall We Part [0:46:02] Set: Interview with Greg Donahue, Part 1 Tom Waits - "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" - Used Songs [1:22:13] Rahsaan Roland Kirk - "A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square" - Rahsaan: The Complete Mercury Recordings Of Roland Kirk [1:26:41] Set: Interview with Greg Donahue, Part 2 Bloody Noes - "Walking Through the Graveyard" - Objects Are People Too [1:50:17] Velvet Underground - "Jesus" - Velvet Underground [1:54:23] Vaselines - "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" - The Way of the Vaselines: a Complete History [For Eb Furgurson: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/business/media/eb-furgurson-iii-dead.html] [2:13:48] Replacements - "Anywhere's Better Than Here" - Don't Tell a Soul [R.I.P. Slim Dunlap: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/replacements-guitarist-bob-slim-dunlap-121215905.html] [2:17:22] - "Clip: Reuters-Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson freed" [2:20:14] Sprints - "Feast" - Feast - single [2:21:20] The Clean - "Side On" - Anthology [Featured in the documentary "Never Look Away" about CNN camerawoman Margaret Moth] [2:23:49] IDLES - "Pop Pop Pop (feat. Danny Brown)" - Pop Pop Pop [2:25:53] - "Clip: BBC-Pope reveals 2021 assassination plot" [2:29:18] Hi Vis - "Feeling Bless" - Guided Tour [2:29:58] Distant Worker - "Little Drummer Boy" - i'll be home for christmas b/w little drummer boy [2:33:16] David Bowie - "Lazarus" - Blackstar [2:41:46] Dither Craf and His Lifeless Orchestra - "Christmas Asleep" - The Legend Of Rufus Funk Death [2:48:02] The Porchistas - "The Holiday Nap" - A Dirty Jersey Christmas - EP [2:52:06] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/147249

Duration:03:07:04