Location:
East Orange, NJ
Description:
Music inspired by life and current events
Language:
English
Episodes
“All of us are in service to an order that has long predated us. All of us have come to feast on this land of bondage. And all of us are useful and expendable in turn.”—Gary Shteyngart, “Our Country Friends” from Aug 9, 2025
8/9/2025
Laibach - "Secret Gardens (feat. RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra, Human Voice Ensemble, Gallina Vocal Group, Navid Gohari)" - Alamut [0:00:00]
Duff McIntosh - "It's Time" - Plaints, Marches, Chants [0:10:54]
I'm With Her - "Ancient Light" - Wild and Clear and Blue [0:13:17]
Clip: ABC-El Salvador parliament ends presidential term limits - "n/a" - n/a [0:16:49]
Peter Gabriel - "Here It Is" - Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen [0:17:16]
Clip: CBC- Researchers link 440 additional indirect deaths to LA fires - "n/a" - n/a [0:22:27]
Masahiko Satoh and Giotis Damianidis - "Filigree" - Thousand Leaves 千 葉 [0:23:16]
Tony Allen - "African Message" - Afro Disco Beat [0:38:48]
Eddie Palmieri - "Slowvisor" - Palmas [R.I.P. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/arts/music/eddie-palmieri-dead.html] [0:50:47]
Theon Cross - "Aspirations" - Aspirations EP [1:00:23]
[dunkelbunt] - "Hiroshima mon amour" - Hiroshima mon amour EP [Additional reading: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/22/atomic-bomb-hiroshima-nagasaki-author-stephen-walker] [1:11:07]
Sound Voyage - "HIROSHIMA lion dance sOund vOyage edit" - bandcamp release [1:14:52]
Clip: Al Jazeera-Hiroshima marks 80-year anniversary of US atomic bombing - "n/a" - n/a [1:24:08]
sewagesurfers - "nagasaki days" - nagasaki days [1:24:59]
Yo La Tengo - "Leaving Home" - Old Joy (Official Soundtrack) [1:27:57]
Leya - "Dankworld (Actress Remix)" - Eyeline [1:38:59]
Geiger von Muller - "Origins #5 (Pelso mix)" - Alien Fig Yogurt Incident b/w Origins #5 [1:48:30]
Clip: NBC-US Dept of Health cuts $500M in funding for mRNA vaccine development - "n/a" - n/a [1:51:44]
Grails - "Strange Paradise" - Miracle Music [1:52:17]
Mogwai - "If You Find This World Bad, You Should See Some Of The Others" - The Bad Fire [1:59:00]
We Are Winter’s Blue and Radiant Children - "Dangling Blanket From A Balcony (White Phosphorous)" - No More Apocalypse Father [2:06:24]
Tacoma Park - "I Left My Wallet in the 90s" - Tacoma Park [2:19:53]
Music behind DJ:
[It's not That Bad with Jim the Poet] [2:28:37]
A Tribe Called Quest - "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo" - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm [2:38:13]
Clip: CBS-Cases of chikungunya increase in China - "n/a" - n/a [2:42:14]
Beck - "Que Onda Guero" - Guero [2:43:13]
Rocket Juice & The Moon - "There (feat. Cheick Tidiane Seck)" - Rocket Juice & The Moon [2:48:28]
CBS-Loni Anderson dies - "n/a" - n/a [2:53:16]
Idles - "Rabbit Run" - bandcamp release [2:53:40] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154929
Duration:03:08:35
“Language is always changing. Language is not finished.”—Thomas Sayers Ellis from Aug 2, 2025
8/2/2025
Masahiko Satoh and Giotis Damianidis - "First Ghost" - Thousand Leaves 千 葉 [0:00:00]
Sun Ra - "Fourth Dimension" - Stray Voltage [0:21:16]
Clip: Matthieu Aikins interview from 2-5-2023 - "n/a" - n/a [0:32:04]
Clip: KTLA-L.A. County consider banning ICE agents from wearing masks - "n/a" - n/a [0:37:32]
New York Polyphony - "Katarsis" - Sky of My Heart [0:38:15]
Clip: Sara Terry interview from 11-6-2022 - "n/a" - n/a [0:47:20]
Clip: KATU-Trump signs executive order on homeless crisis - "n/a" - n/a [0:54:01]
Charlie Haden Quartet West - "The Long Goodbye" - Haunted Heart [0:55:19]
Heroes Are Gang Leaders - "Sad Dictator (I Wanna Make Freedom)" - LeAutoRoiOgraphy [R.I.P. Thomas Sayers Ellis: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/books/thomas-sayers-ellis-dead.html] [1:08:11]
Music behind DJ:
Clip: Keri Blakinger interview from 8-28-2022 - "n/a" - n/a [1:21:58]
Clip: WMAZ-Georgia senators seek federal investigation into conditions at jail - "n/a" - n/a [1:27:01]
Mike Polizze - "You’ve Been Doing Fine" - Around Sound [For Dwight Muhammad Qawi, R.I.P.: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/obituaries/dwight-muhammad-qawi-dead.html] [1:27:48]
I'm With Her - "Standing on the Fault Line" - Wild and Clear and Blue [1:34:48]
Friendship - "Hollow Skulls" - Caveman Wakes Up [1:41:36]
Music behind DJ:
Clip: Alan Parks interview from 11-20-2022 - "n/a" - n/a [1:46:22]
Power Station - "Some Like It Hot (remix)" - The Power Station (2005 reissue) [1:51:54]
Music behind DJ:
Clip: Reuters-EPA to eliminate limits on greenhouse gas emissions - "n/a" - n/a [1:58:41]
Joy Division - "New Dawn Fades" - Unknown Pleasures [1:59:29]
Gina Birch - "Cello Song" - Trouble [2:04:15]
Fontaines D.C. - "Cello Song" - The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake [2:08:46]
Music behind DJ:
Clip: Ben Ehrenreich interview from 5-21-23 - "n/a" - n/a [2:13:55]
Music behind DJ:
Clip: Democracy Now-Israeli forces seize Gaza flotilla in international waters - "n/a" - n/a [2:18:24]
UNIT - "Israel Is Real" - Godspunk Vol. 27 [2:18:58]
Pretenders - "Message of Love" - Pretenders II [2:33:50]
The Crippled Flower - "Walking Away" - Forming Haze [Recordings 1985/86] [2:40:15]
Simple Minds - "Celebrate" - Empires and Dance [2:44:19]
The Stranglers - "Duchess" - Peaches: The Very Best Of The Stranglers [2:49:44]
Tom Lehrer - "National Brotherhood Week" - The Remains of Tom Lehrer [R.I.P. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/29/wit-of-tom-lehrer-by-those-who-knew-him] [2:52:15]
Guided By Voices - "Driving Time" - Universe Room https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154654
Duration:03:07:34
"I've climbed the cloud, now I stole the moon..." from Jul 26, 2025
7/26/2025
Joe Chambers, Kevin Diehl, Chad Taylor - "Estuary Stew" - Onilu [0:00:00]
Marshall Allen - "New Dawn feat. Neneh Cherry" - New Dawn [0:06:14]
Art Pepper - "Ophelia" - Geneva 1980 [0:14:43]
- "Clip: Global News-Toxic algae bloom in Australia kills over 400 species" [0:27:11]
Ben LaMar Gay - "There, Inside the Morning Glory" - Yowzers [0:27:30]
Julia Ulehla and Dalava - "Phase Transition" - Understories [0:32:50]
- "Clip: WION-China Building World's Largest Dam Despite Concerns" [More information: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gk1251w14o] [0:40:52]
Larry Stabbins and Mark Sanders - "Ring No. 4" - Cup & Ring [0:41:43]
Yuki Fujiwara - "Night's Dream is True〜Ai no-Uta" - Glass Colored Lily [0:58:51]
Felicity Managan - "String Thing" - String Figures [1:12:49]
- "Clip: BBC-Countries can sue others for climate change, court rules" [More information: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/after-years-of-lobbying-by-island-nations-who-fear-they-could-disappear-under-rising-sea-waters-the-u-n-general-assembly-asked-the-international-court-of-justice-for-an-advisory-opinion-a-non-bindi] [1:20:35]
Kevin Morby - "Harlem River Dub (Peaking Lights Remix)" [1:20:59]
Tacoma Park - "No Museums" - Tacoma Park [1:39:16]
- "Clip: DW-Clashes at Thailand, Cambodia border" [More information: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/25/thailand-cambodia-border-dispute-thai-evacuation-clashes-conflict] [1:46:23]
Adrian Quesada - "Cuatro Vidas (with Mireya Ramos)" - Boleros Psicodélicos II [1:47:06]
Francoise Hardy - "Le premier bonheur du jour (The first happiness of the day)" - Francoise Hardy En Vogue Best of 1962-1967 [1:51:04]
Judson Claiborne - "Last Place I Know" - Live Active Culture, Vol. 2 [1:52:51]
Music behind DJ:
[It's Not That Bad with Jim the Poet] [1:59:16]
Scott Walker - "Through a Long and Sleepless Night" - Scott [2:13:34]
David Bowie - "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)" - Blackstar [2:17:40]
Black Country, New Road - "Sunglasses" - For the First Time [2:22:17]
- "Clips: Al Jazeera/WION-Starvation in Gaza as IDF attacks WHO facility" [2:32:07]
Love and Rockets - "No New Tale to Tell" - Earth, Sun, Moon [2:32:56]
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Gold Lion" - Show Your Bones [2:36:24]
- "Clip: CBS-Columbia suspends, expels dozens for role in protests" [2:39:31]
Chumbawumba - "Revolution" - Cease & Resist - Sonic Subversion & Anarcho Punk In The UK 1979-86 [2:40:04]
Blondie - "(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear" - Plastic Letters [2:47:34]
Girls on Grass - "Don't Buy It" - Stages [Features our own Dave Mandl] [2:50:33]
Physarum - "Fly Right" - Selected Songs I [2:53:15]
Edith Frost - "Something About the War" - In Space [2:55:07] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154453
Duration:03:09:03
“As temporary guests of this home called life, in this house that is Earth, shouldn’t we know by now how to behave honorably?”—Oloiboni Kitok (Massai) from Jul 19, 2025
7/19/2025
Cannonball Adderley - "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" - The Definitive Cannonball Adderley [0:00:00]
Eiko Ishibashi - "Mona Lisa" - Antigone [0:04:37]
Larry Stabbins and Mark Sanders - "Ring No. 1" - Cup & Ring [0:11:59]
- "Clip: NBC News-DOJ recommends one day sentence for Breonna Taylor shooter" [0:20:02]
The Ancients - "2023-05-12 LA set II" - The Ancients [0:20:31]
- "Clip: Reuters-World's oldest president stands for re-election" [0:43:08]
Don Cherry - "Remembrance" - Live at Café Montmartre, vol.2 [0:44:04]
Amalie Dahl - "Habit II" - Breaking/Building Habits [0:58:05]
Edith Frost - "Nothing Comes Around" - In Space [1:16:02]
- "Clip: ABC- Wildfires Destroy Historic Grand Canyon Lodge" [1:18:48]
Aimee Mann - "Deathly" - Bachelor No. 2 [1:19:17]
Julia Ulehla and Dalava - "The Way Up" - Understories [1:24:51]
Sharon van Etten - "Staring at a Mountain" - From the Film Never Rarely Sometimes Always [Sunrise Lamentations' Jeremiah worked as an editor on the film.] [1:36:04]
Roger Clark Miller - "Russian Spy Canisters" - Curiosity for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble [Interview with our own Wendy del Formaggio: https://www.commonsnews.org/issue/823/823miller_album
For author Martin Cruz Smith (R.I.P.): https://airmail.news/books/2025/7/martin-cruz-smith] [1:41:02]
- "Clip: CNN-Oldest marathoner dies at 114" [1:46:22]
The Strawbs - "Ready (Are We Ready)" - The Magic of It All [R.I.P. Dave Cousins https://www.clashmusic.com/news/the-strawbs-dave-cousins-has-died/] [1:47:11]
Amanda Mur - "Pandemic" - Neu Om [1:52:41]
Dirty Three - "Warren's Lament" - Horse Stories [1:59:55]
Palo Alto - "Différence et Répétition" - Différence et Répétition [2:23:59]
- "Clip: 6ABC-Elmo's X account hacked" [2:28:37]
Echo & the Bunnymen - "The Puppet" - Songs to Learn and Sing [2:29:09]
The Stranglers - "Golden Brown" - Peaches: The Very Best Of The Stranglers [2:32:13]
- "Clip: FirstPost-Cuban minister resigns over remarks on poverty" [2:35:37]
Blixa Bargeld & Nikko Weidemann - "Subterraneans" - Blixa Bargeld Sings David Bowie [2:37:03]
The Bug Club - "How to Be a Confidante" - Very Human Features [2:41:58]
Golden Brown - "Ancestral Slime" - Whisker Fatigue [2:46:50]
Monster Magnet - "Kick Out The Jams" - Rarities and B-Sides [R.I.P. Tim Cronin https://blabbermouth.net/news/founding-monster-magnet-drummer-tim-cronin-dies-after-battle-with-als] [2:54:58] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154217
Duration:03:08:24