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Genre-surfing tokenism.

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English

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When you have no packages to track, Jack, you're dead. from Jun 4, 2025

6/4/2025
Chico Hamilton - "That Boy with that Long Hair" - The Further Adventures of El Chico Rip Rig + Panic - "Subversive Wisdom" - I Am Cold [0:03:34] Vampire Weekend - "Classical" - Only God Was Above Us [0:09:01] Ducki - "Fish" - The Duck [0:13:17] Ilhan Ersahin's Istanbul Sessions - "Freedom" - Istanbul Sessions [0:17:02] Benjamin Herman - "Chancelot" - Nostalgia Blitz [0:21:42] Gus Bodenheim - "The Runaway American Dream: A Synopsis, Pt. 1" - Algorithmic Generative Literary Excrescences [0:27:39] Royel Otis - "Velvet" - Pratts & Pain [0:34:03] Monkeybars - "Easy Tiger" - Empirical Allover Style [0:36:16] Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics - "Fantasia, Pt. 1" - Lloyd Miller & The Heliocentrics (OST) [0:40:53] Bill Plummer and the Cosmic Brotherhood - "Journey to the East" - Bill Plummer and the Cosmic Brotherhood [0:43:28] Emil Richards & the Microtonal Blues Band - "Enjoy, Enjoy" - Journey to Bliss [0:49:02] Ointment Appointment (ft. Blue Chameleon) - "P.Grape" - Pink Ribbon Sun [0:55:12] THE YOUNG CODGERS - "With Irwin and Max Hoyt" - Old Souls Young at Heart [1:08:52] Twelve Point Buck - "Happy Djong" - Fuzz [1:09:11] Clinic - "Walking with Thee" - Walking with Thee [1:14:13] The Ladies - "Non-Threatening" - They Mean Us [1:19:24] The Beach Boys - "Surf's Up (1967 Solo Version)" - The Smile Sessions [1:26:57] Blondshell - "Arms" - If You Asked for a Picture [1:32:58] Za Noon - "Lure" - Heartdrag [1:36:27] 8X8 (Lane Steinberg & Alex Khodchenko) - "Angry Little Waterfall" - Immaculate Constellation [1:40:34] Gus Bodenheim - "The Runaway American Dream: A Synopsis, Pt. 2" - Algorithmic Generative Literary Excrescences [1:46:46] Don Rendell Quintet - "On the Way" - Space Walk [1:52:20] Valerie June - "Changed" - Owls, Omens, and Oracles [1:57:03] Alex G - "Afterlife" - Afterlife [1:58:47] Rocket - "One Million" - One Million [2:02:33] Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - "Qwik Maff" - Carpe Diem, Moonman [2:06:01] Cal Tjader Quintet - "The Touch" - Latin + Jazz = Cal Tjader [2:09:03] Dan Tullis & Joel Clark - "The Number is Out of Service" - The Tullis & Clark Expedition [2:14:56] Chris Collard - "Bleep Bleep Segue" - home recordings [2:15:28] Tal Farlow with the Red Norvo Trio - "Tenderly" - Tal Farlow's Finest Hour [2:16:11] Marta Sanchez Trio - "The Absence of the People You Long For" - Perpetual Void [2:19:02] Don Ellis - "Parting" - Haiku [2:23:29] Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Attempts a Third-Party Ploy" - Advertisements for Himself [2:36:03] Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - "Spook" - Wrong Creatures [2:41:08] John Kongos - "Tokoloshe Man" - Kongos [2:45:02] Mary Kay Place (Marilyn), Chum Ehelepola (Dr. Runningstream), Maria Bamford (Maria) - "Maria's Diagnosis" - Lady Dynamite S2E6 (Apache Justice) [2:49:54] Radio Stars - "No Russians in Russia" - Radio Stars Holiday Album [2:50:31] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152585

Duration:03:08:34

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Life was hard in the old days. Grandma had to rig a machine called a "cassette deck" to get songs off something called a "radio." from May 28, 2025

5/28/2025
Bhajan Bhoy - "Font" - Summer in St. Mary's Hard Proof - "Stolen Goods" - Hard Proof [0:09:24] Jahnah Camille - "Roadkill" - I Tried to Freeze Light, But Only Remember a Girl [0:14:07] Pete Jolly - "Sandstorm" - Seasons [0:16:59] Luvcat - "Dinner @ Brasserie Zédel" - Love & Money [0:19:13] La Lom - "Santee Alley" - La Lom [0:22:38] Gus Bodenheim - "Homage to the "F' Word" - The Appliance Chronicles [0:31:24] Ging - "Do What You Want to Do With Your Life" - Do What You Want to Do With Your Life [0:38:01] Gong - "Sleepy" - Expresso II [0:40:52] Emil Richards & the Microtonal Blues Band - "Bliss" - Journey to Bliss [0:48:05] Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - "As the Hummingbird Hovers" - Carpe Diem, Moonman [0:52:37] THE YOUNG CODGERS - "With Irwin and Max Hoyt" - Baby Shark Edition Shoukichi Kina (feat. Ry Cooder) - "Haisai Ojisan" - Asian Classics 2 - Peppermint Tea House - Best of Shoukichi Kina [1:06:17] Gus Bodenheim - "Gross, But ... Bars™" - Another Fine Delbarton Product [1:14:11] Van Houten - "Panoramic View" - The Tallest Room [1:15:43] Bird Streets - "Thanks for Calling" - Bird Streets [1:26:58] Carol - "So Low" - Breakdown/So Low [1:29:03] Japanese Breakfast - "Mega Circuit" - For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women) [1:37:25] Duffy Power - "It's Funny" - Innovations [1:40:24] Blondshell - "Event of a Fire" - If You Asked for a Picture [1:42:33] Mairi Morrison & Alasdair Roberts - "The Bonny House of Airlie" - Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia [1:46:06] Aaron Parks - "Is Anything Okay?" - Little Big II: Dreams of a Mechanical Man [1:50:20] Khruangbin - "Order of Operations" - Hasta el Cielo (Con Todo el Mundo in Dub) [1:54:03] Aztec Two-Step - "Persecution & Restoration of Dean Moriarty (On the Road)" - Aztec Two-Step [2:02:38] Soccer Mommy - "Abigail" - Evergreen [2:06:31] Demis Roussos - "Forever and Ever" - Forever and Ever [2:09:55] OP8 (Howe Gelb & Lisa Germano) - "Tom, Dick & Harry" - Slush [2:13:33] The Castiles - "Ecstasy" - Call Me Old Fashioned [2:17:26] Michel Petrucciani - "Face's Face" - Pianism [2:19:27] Roy Nathanson - "Go Down Moses" - 82 Days [2:24:23] Booker Little - "Man of Words" - Out Front [2:27:46] Gus Bodenheim - "Rediscover Radium" - Another Fine Line of Delbarton Products [2:36:38] Alexander Berger DNA - "Luck Be a Lady Tonight" - Beyond the Horizons Radio Show (CKUT 90.3 FM, Montreal) [2:39:14] 8X8 (Lane Steinberg & Alex Khodchenko) - "Are You Gaslighting Me, Alexa?" - Immaculate Constellation [2:41:36] Romano - "Guzleme" - Güle Güle [2:45:33] Babe Rainbow - "Cool Cat Vibe" - Double Rainbow [2:48:39] Albert King - "Born Under a Bad Sign" - The Complete Stax-Volt Singles: 1959-1968 [2:51:20] Alfa-Betty Olsen - "Sin City Fable #1: Martha Goes to Therapy" - CassCD: Artifacts from Irwin's Cassette Era, 1974-1998 [2:54:04] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152421
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Blowing on hot food doesn't make it cooler. from May 21, 2025

5/21/2025
Wil Blades - "What's Up Doc?" - Sketchy [0:00:00] Beth Custer - "Hannah's Groove" - In the Broken Fields Where I Lie [0:08:35] The Mekons (with Lester Bangs) - "One Horse Town" - F.U.N. '90 [0:11:51] Grandaddy - "He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot" - The Sophtware Slump [0:18:41] Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Takes a Pre-Meeting about His Next Book" - The Annals of Delbarton Publishing [0:31:51] Dizzy Gillespie & James Moody - "High on a Cloud" - The Real Thing [0:39:13] Acopia - "Talk About It" - Talk About It [0:42:32] BEL - "Fresh Start" - Fresh Start [0:46:23] The Burning Hell - "Luna FM" - Ghost Palace [0:49:47] The La's - "There She Goes" - The La's - BBC In Session [0:54:30] THE YOUNG CODGERS - "With Irwin and Max Hoyt" - Music of Comfort and Hope [1:01:14] Kina Shoukichi & Kinachanpruzu - "Haisai Ojisan" - Peppermint Tea House [1:01:16] Papa M - "Krusty" - Whatever, Mortal [1:09:20] Hans Conried - "Dress Me" - The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T soundtrack [1:20:41] Guther - "Taglieben" - I Know You Know [1:23:18] Harlem Pop Trotters - "Penwick" - Harlem Pop Trotters [1:30:19] Tele Novella - "Eggs in One Basket" - Poet's Tooth [1:33:09] John Kongos - "Deserts of Mountains of Men" - Confusions About a Goldfish [1:36:31] Natalie Bergman - "Gunslinger" - My Home is Not in This World [1:39:42] Sunday (1994) - "Silver Ford" - Devotion [1:43:13] RB Korbet / H E P - "One Born Every Minute" - Five for the Road [1:46:58] Captain Beyond - "Thousand Days of Yesterdays / Frozen Over / Thousand Days of Yesterday (Time Since Come and Gone)" - Captain Beyond [1:50:24] Sam Yahel - "River Song" - Hometown [2:04:17] Frank Strozier - "A Starling's Theme" - Fantastic Frank Strozier – Plus [2:11:01] The Fabulous Gardenias - "What's the Matter With Me" - Liz Records single 1004 [2:16:13] Jeremy Wallace - "$1.49" - My Lucky Day [2:18:46] Gubbish - "Vulgarian Folk Melody" - Notations in Tonations [2:22:41] Gus Bodenheim - "Half-Alive from the ER" - Gus Enters the Medical-Industrial Complex [2:32:49] Bruz Fletcher - "Drunk with Love" - Drunk with Love: The Almost Complete Recordings [2:39:16] Vashti Bunyan - "Train Song" - Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind – Singles and Demos 1964 to 1967 [2:42:26] Ed Kuepper & Jim White - "The 16 Days" - After the Flood [2:44:51] The Duke Spirit - "The Step and the Walk" - Neptune [2:48:07] Joy Division - "Leaders of Men" - Substance 1977-1980 [2:51:28] OTE - "Slow Shifting" - Ten Thousand Miles Away [2:54:01] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152104
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"To teach is to learn twice." – Joubert from May 14, 2025

5/14/2025
Tuomo & Markus - "Appalachian Landscape" - Music for Roads [0:00:00] Gooms - "Slow Crawl" - Beyond Life [0:05:09] Oracle Sisters - "Alouette" - Divinations [0:10:15] Luvcat - "Love & Money" - Love & Money [0:13:39] Amir Bresler - "The Dance of the Messors" - House of Arches [0:17:41] Boyce Justice Griffith - "The Point, Pt. 1" - The Point [0:24:18] Gus Bodenheim - "The Patsy Kelly Story, Part 3" - Gus Remembers a Maid in Hollywood [0:35:47] The Flying Lizards - "TV" - The Flying Lizards [0:36:04] Julia Jacklin - "You Were Right" - Crushing [0:40:01] Blondshell - "Event of a Fire" - Event of a Fire [0:42:21] Single Gun Theory - "I Am What I See" - Like Stars in My Hands [0:45:53] Teddy Swims - "The Door" - I've Tried Everything But Therapy (Pt. 1) [0:50:46] Tennis - "12 Blown Tires" - 12 Blown Tires [0:54:32] Our Girl - "Two Life" - Stranger Today [1:03:50] Cindy Lee - "Plastic Raincoat" - What's Tonighty to Eternity [1:08:04] Delta 5 - "Mind Your Own Business" - Singles & Sessions 1979-81 [1:21:46] Cruella de Ville - "Two Dreadful Children" - Good Vibrations Records 7" single [1:28:39] Real Estate - "Pink Sky" - Pink Sky [1:32:37] Bed Rugs - "Spreads" - Hard Fun Grand Design [1:35:33] Chaz Jankel - "Glad to Know You" - A&M 12" [1:38:56] Joey Joesph - "Her Mother / Her Father" - Summer Days Gone Past [1:44:56] Gus Bodenheim - "The Patsy Kelly Story, Part 4" - Gus Remembers a Maid in Hollywood [1:50:40] Pat Boone - "Enter Sandman" - In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy [1:54:26] Quintetto lo Greco - "Joy Place" - So Jazz So Nice [1:58:11] Koki Nakano - "Prodigal Weep" - Ululo [2:04:15] John Allen - "Killing Off Public Radio Jazz" - Confessions of the Jazz Police, Pt. 1 [2:07:54] Lonnie Liston Smith & the Cosmic Echoes - "Summer Days" - Expansions [2:12:31] Clark Gibson - "Boptude" - Counterclock [2:18:27] The Barrence Whitfield Soul Savage Arkestra - "Muck Muck" - Songs from the Sun Ra Cosmos [2:24:01] Gus Bodenheim - "The Fuzzy Wuzzy Cloud of Sheer Evil" - Delbarton Pet Removal Services [2:32:55] Andrew Collberg - "Spiritual Cult Love Story" - Popcorn Graveyard [2:37:29] The Pastels - "Zooom" - Sittin' Pretty [2:40:37] Roadie - "Stare Down a Cannonball" - Unfamiliar Skies [2:43:39] Tony Willams - "Red Mask" - Angel Street [2:48:20] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/151904