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Genre-surfing tokenism.

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"He marveled at the fact that cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were." – Lichtenberg (The Waste Books) from Apr 16, 2025

4/16/2025
Hiromi - "Rainmaker" - Move Tony Ortega - "Patting" - Jazz for Young Moderns [0:06:53] Lord Huron - "Nothing I Need" - Nothing I Need [0:12:42] Lina Tullgren - "Glow Emits" - Decide Which Way the Eyes Are Looking [0:16:19] White Magic for Lovers - "Your Time Hasn't Come Yet, Baby" - Your Time Hasn't Come Yet, Baby [0:19:39] Gus Bodenheim - "A Child's Garden of Botanical Rebranding" - Gus Dips into His Sack of Lies [0:31:57] Abderraouf B Grissa & Dan Drohan - "Lake Poe" - Lake Poe [0:38:12] The Marias - "Back To Me" - Back To Me [0:42:20] Dewey Lester and the 6:03 - "Her Name Could Be Anybody" - Summer '72 [0:45:42] Rank and File - "Rank and File" - Rank and File [0:49:53] Balthvs - "Mood Swing" - Mood Swing (Principles of Rhythm) [0:54:41] Honeyblood - "Justine, Misery Queen" - Babes Never Die [0:57:27] Rory Gallagher - "Laundromat" - Rory Gallagher [1:07:28] Esbjörn Svensson Trio - "Criss Cross" - Plays Monk [1:12:00] The Titan Studio Orchestra - "Gonks Go Beat" - Gonks Go Beat (Soundtrack) [1:17:44] Vulfpeck - "Animal Spirits" - The Beautiful Game [1:20:53] Bauer - "Libitz in a Car" - Baueresque [1:23:47] Steve Miller Band - "Space Cowboy" - Brave New World [1:26:48] Mary Halvorson - "Carved From" - About Ghosts [1:31:30] Quintetto lo Greco - "Star Games" - More Than We Know [1:44:50] Charles Mingus - "Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Silk Blues" - Mingus Plays Piano [1:50:19] Nat & Alex Wolff - "San Francisco" - Table for Two [1:54:32] Austin Lounge Lizards - "Leonard Cohen's Day Job" - Employee of the Month [1:58:46] Arborist - "Alabaster Skin" - An Endless Sequence of Dead Zeros [2:03:40] Liz Phair - "Supernova" - Whip Smart [2:11:32] OTE - "Racing Butterfly" - Racing Butterfly - Single [2:13:57] Queens of the Stone Age - "Go With the Flow" - Songs for the Deaf [2:17:52] Irving Caesar - "Tommy Tax" - Songs for Bright Children - Sing a Song of Friendship [2:20:43] Lol Coxhill - "I Am the Walrus" - Ear of Beholder [2:22:28] Buffalo Daughter - "Socks, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll" - New Rock [2:26:35] [2:29:19] Gus Bodenheim - "The Jazz Police Conundrum" - A Child's Garden of Gus [2:33:40] Thelonious Monk - "Honeysuckle Rose" - The Unique Thelonious Monk [2:38:54] Artie Shaw - "Frenesi" - Begin the Beguine [2:44:33] Jenny Lin - "The Firebird Suite: II. Dance infernal du roi Kastchei (Arr. G. Agosti)" - Stravinsky (Solo Piano Works) [2:47:44] Amir Bresler - "Wéwé" - Tide & Time [2:52:46] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/151050
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The brain can absorb only what the seat can endure. from Apr 9, 2025

4/9/2025
Avishai Darash - "The Old Days" - Between Hope and Despair [0:00:00] Deerhunter - "Tarnung" - Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? [0:03:29] Nat & Alex Wolff - "Mainline" - Table for Two [0:06:31] Bren Berry - "Turn on Your Radio" - In Hope Our Stars Align [0:10:32] King L - "Don't Believe in Hollywood" - Great Day For Gravity [0:13:58] Blondshell - "23's a Baby" - 23's a Baby [0:18:01] Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "Heaven 7" - IC-02 Bogotá [0:21:54] Wishy - "Honey" - Triple Seven [0:25:06] Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Bemoans His Gig" - The Exploitation Chronicles [0:34:25] Tony Ortega - "No Fi" - Jazz for Young Moderns [0:38:20] The Bug Club - "Have U Ever Been 2 Wales" - Have U Ever Been 2 Wales [0:41:56] Babe Rainbow - "What is Ashwagandha" - Slipper Imp and the Shakearator [0:45:21] Wray Downes - "Jaidyn" - For You ..."E" [0:49:34] Vulfpeck - "In Real Life" - Clarity of Cal [0:53:58] The Afro Blues Quintet Plus 1 - "Some Velvet Morning" - New Directions in Sound [0:56:44] Pale Blue Eyes - "Our Lost Words" - New Place [0:59:37] MAX HOYT joins Irwin in-studio Buffalo Daughter - "Great Five Lakes" - New Rock [1:10:37] The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Third Stone from the Sun" - Are You Experienced [1:21:38] Salon Music - "Who Just Can't Be Happy?" - MASH [1:30:20] Van Morrison - "Ring Worm / You Say France and I Whistle" - Van Morrison Contractual Obligation Album [1:38:46] Heather Trost - "Bloodmoon" - Agistri [1:46:22] White Magic for Lovers - "The Boy from the Bookshop" - The Boy from the Bookshop [1:49:13] Oracle Sisters - "Blue Left Hand" - Divinations [1:52:07] Three Dog Night - "Shambala" - Cyan [1:55:47] Lee Morgan - "Ceora" - Cornbread [2:00:10] Eric Burdon & the Animals - "The Madman (Running Through the Fields)" - Love Is [2:06:28] Chip Wickham - "Space Walk" - Love & Life [2:12:31] Ichiko Aoba - "Coloratura" - Luminescent Creatures [2:18:19] Bill and Taffy Danoff - "Janet from Another Planet" - Aces [2:22:31] Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Goes North" - CanCon Requirement [2:30:53] Phillip Scarborough and Mango Jam - "Asera Everywhere" - Asera Theme [2:36:24] Randy Weston - "Hi-Fly" - African Rhythms [2:40:13] Bud Powell - "Bud on Bach" - Bud! [2:44:30] The Free Spirits - "Ibod" - Out of Sight and Sound [2:47:02] Haysi Fantayzee - "John Wayne is Big Leggy (Groovy Long version)" - Battle Hymns for Children Singing [2:49:44] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/150489
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Every week for three hours I guarantee you 60 minutes of listening pleasure. from Mar 26, 2025

3/26/2025
Tubby Hayes & The All Stars - "Stitt's Tune" - Return Visit [0:00:00] Dr. "Rusty" Venture & Dean - "Dean Discovers Prog Rock" - The Venture Bros./Adult Swim [0:09:17] Casino Hearts - "Worst That Could Happen" - A Walk in the Grass [0:10:46] Vulfpeck - "In Real Life" - Clarity of Cal [0:14:46] My Robot Friend - "The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane (comp. Jeffrey Lewis)" - Robot High School [0:17:26] Feeble Little Horse - "This is Real" - This is Real [0:22:38] Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Retrospects Himself" - Remembrances of a Frumpy Hepcat [0:31:49] The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - "The Golden Age" - Fruit [0:36:29] Brian D'Daddario - "Flash in the Pan" - Till the Morning [0:39:52] Slimdan (ft. Devon Again) - "Nosebleeds" - Nosebleeds [0:42:22] Oracle Sisters - "Marseille" - Divinations [0:45:54] Thelonious Monk - "Think of One" - Criss-Cross [0:49:39] Esbjörn Svensson Trio - "Evidence" - Esbjörn Svensson Trio Plays Monk [0:55:09] MAX HOYT joins Irwin in-studio Supernowhere - "In the Field" - Gestalt [1:10:14] Novos Baianos - "Tinindo Trincado" - Acabou Chorare [1:18:48] Japanese Breakfast - "Picture Window" - For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) [1:24:54] Redondo Red - "Roughed Up and Rowdy" - Roughed Up and Rowdy [1:27:21] The Pastels - "Ditch the Fool" - Sittin' Pretty [1:30:43] Motorbike - "Cold Sweat" - Kick It Over [1:38:01] Quintetto lo Greco - "Free Bop Food" - Euforia [1:41:59] Jimmy Giuffre - "Deep Purple" - The Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet [1:49:21] Ry Cooder & Manuel Galbán - "Drume Negrita" - Mambo Sinuendo [1:53:42] Flipturn - "Rodeo Clown" - Burnout Days [2:02:39] Hana Vu - "Records" - Movies [2:05:41] William J. Canning & Cryogeyser - "Lock of Love" - Lock of Love [2:10:09] Say Sue Me - "Dreaming" - It's Just a Short Walk [2:13:33] Omar Sosa - "La Tra" - Mulatos [2:17:35] Reparata and the Delrons - "It's Waiting There For You" - It's Waiting There For You [2:23:12] JJ Cale - "Since You Said Goodbye" - Rewind - The Unreleased Recordings [2:25:15] Gus Bodenheim - "Where There's Smoke, There's Mirrors" - True Crime with Bodenhem (Podcast) [2:31:20] The New Gary Burton Quartet - "Common Ground" - Common Ground [2:39:19] Duke Ellington Orchestra - "Blue Light" - Braggin' in Brass [2:46:04] Sabu (Anthony Ferretti) - "Near You / I Had the Craziest Dream" - Sabu's Cassette Letter to DK [2:49:11] Eden Ahbez - "Once There Was a Girl" - Echoes from Nature Boy [2:54:31] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/150302