Location:
East Orange, NJ
Description:
Music inspired by life and current events
Language:
English
Episodes
"Sometimes I think about Saturday's child..." from Nov 15, 2025
11/15/2025
Lingyuan Yang - "The Song of the Mist" - Cursed Month [0:00:00]
Stephen Vitiello / Brendan Canty / Han Rowe - "Mrphgtrs1" - Second [0:06:55]
Clip - "Arirang News-Fossil fuel emissions to reach new peak this year" - n/a [0:15:20]
The Necks - "Warm Running Sunlight" - Disquiet [0:16:04]
Cheick Tidiane Seck - "Motherless Child" - Kelena Fôly [0:48:13]
Clip - "BBC-India state offers menstrual leave" - n/a [0:53:35]
Kalia Vandever - "Cycle in Mourning" - Another View [0:54:11]
Devour the Air - "Silver Mountain" - Silver Mountain [1:09:37]
Clip - "BBC-Protesters break into COP30" - n/a [1:19:10]
Hydroplane - "On the Mountain" - A Place In My Memory Is All I Have To Claim [1:20:01]
Mogwai - "Crossing the Road Material" - Every Country's Sun [1:23:59]
Clip - "CNN-Women without burqas barred from hospitals in one Afghan province" - n/a [1:30:51]
Kali Malone and Stephen O'Malley - "Siren Song" - String of Hearts (Songs of HTRK) [1:31:56]
launou + jarxa - "no rx" - -I_ /I≠ [1:37:48]
Professor Girlfriend - "When Girls Learn the Alphabet" - My Mother in Love: The Summer Sessions [1:50:28]
M. Ross Perkins - "Crying In My Sleep" - What’s the Matter M Ross? [1:58:09]
Clip - "DW News-Istanbul mayor faces possible 2000 years in prison" - n/a [1:59:25]
Folk Bitch Trio - "Cathode Ray" - Now Would Be Good Time [2:00:09]
Clip - "France24-Updates from Israel and Gaza" - n/a [More information: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mxylxw48yo
A related story: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3dn3g4jdxjo] [2:04:19]
Tim Buckley - "Dolphins" - Dream Letter: Live in London 1968 [2:05:48]
Vulture Feather - "Pleasant Obstacle" - Craving and Aversion [2:15:38]
Wilderness - "High Nero" - (K)No(W)Here [2:20:54]
Clip - "France24-Alleged sniper tourism in Bosnia war" - n/a [More information: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/11/milan-prosecutors-investigate-alleged-sniper-tourism-during-bosnian-war] [2:25:45]
Garbage - "Blood for Poppies" - Not Your Kind of People [2:26:11]
Music behind DJ:
[It's Not That Bad with Jim the Poet] [2:29:55]
Kilynn Lunsford - "Gagged World" - Promiscuous Genes [2:43:03]
Sun City Girls - "Deception Reception" - Dulce soundtrack [2:45:36]
The Smiths - "I Know It's Over" - The Queen Is Dead [2:50:09] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/158181
Duration:03:08:17
"Think about stories..." from Nov 8, 2025
11/8/2025
Don Cherry - "Chenrezig" - Om Shanti Om [0:00:00]
Yorkston / Jaycock / Langendorf - "Tide" - Yorkston / Jaycock / Langendorf [0:14:13]
- "Reuters-Shein bans childlike sex dolls from marketplace" [More information: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cddrg70pj1mo] [0:24:40]
Stephen Vitiello / Brendan Canty / Han Rowe - "Last Minute Guitar" - Second [0:25:24]
Sonny Sharrock - "Bialero" - Black Woman [0:31:41]
- "Daily Mail-China accused of intimidating UK university over research" [More information: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq50j5vwny6o] [0:36:27]
Nick Drake - "Saturday Sun" - Five Leaves Left [0:37:17]
Mark Lanegan - "The Winding Sheet" - The Winding Sheet [0:41:25]
Arachnid Doom - "Quan Yin at the Grocery Store" - The Hermit of Serignan [0:46:57]
Low + Dirty Three - "Invitation Day" - In the Fishtank 7 [1:00:02]
- "NBC-Mexico President presses charges after being groped" [1:04:47]
Lost Under Heaven - "Towards The One" - Something Is Announced By Your Life [1:05:25]
Set: Interview with photojournalist Lynsey Addario
Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross & Claudia Sarne - "Elsewhere" - Dispatches From Elsewhere (Music from the Elsewhere Society) [1:38:16]
- "Sky News-UK plans to ban pornography showing choking" [More information: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyk3qzq7k7o] [1:48:16]
Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross & Claudia Sarne - "Occassionally Scared" - Dispatches From Elsewhere (Music from the Elsewhere Society) [1:49:39]
NK - "Elefante" - Single [1:59:03]
Ponto de Equilíbrio - "O Que Eu Vejo (What I See)" - Dia Após Dia Lutando [2:01:47]
The Specials - "War Crimes" - The Singles Collection [2:08:02]
Homeless Gospel Choir - "When the War Is Over" - I Used To Be Young [2:11:35]
- "SABC-South Africa asked to rescue mercenaries in Ukraine" [2:15:21]
Clash 2 - "Are You Ready for War?" - Cut the Crap Demos [2:16:08]
IDLES - "War" - Ultra Mono [2:18:59]
Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - "Danny's Song" - Have A Ball [2:22:05]
The Clash - "Hate & War" - The Clash [2:24:16]
Novella - "Side By Side" - Change of State [2:27:21]
Billy Bragg - "Between The Wars (John Peel session, 18th September 1984)" - Best of Billy Bragg at the BBC 1983 - 2019 [R.I.P. Photojournalist Sara Terry: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/arts/design/sara-terry-dead.html] [2:36:08]
Music behind DJ:
[It's NOT That Bad with Jim the Poet] [2:38:40]
Mekons - "Hard to Be Human" - Fear and Whiskey [2:50:51]
REM - "Hope" - Up [2:54:45] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157961
Duration:03:08:27
"And all along the street lately the stories abound..." from Nov 1, 2025
11/1/2025
Jack DeJohnette feat. Bill Frissell - "The elephant sleeps but still remembers..." - the elephant sleeps but still remembers [0:00:00]
Jack Dejohnette - "Dancing" - Parallel Realities [R.I.P.: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/arts/music/jack-dejohnette-dead.html] [0:12:40]
Clip - "Sky News-King Charles heckled over Epstein, Andrew links" [UPDATE: https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25585285.king-charles-strips-royal-titles-disgraced-andrew/] [0:20:13]
Jackie McLean - "Demon's Dance" - Demon's Dance [0:20:32]
Hiromi - "Wake Up and Dream" - Spark [R.I.P. bassist Anthony Jackson: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/arts/music/anthony-jackson-dead.html] [0:27:41]
Arooj Aftab - "baghon main pade jhoole (swings lying in tigers)" - Bird Under Water [0:36:22]
Salem Witch Army - "Moonlight Parade (Greg Talenfeld Mix)" - American Gopnik Vol. 1 [0:43:43]
Sage Martens - "Song between the Blades" - Chamber Music for Lawn Mowers [0:48:33]
Mako Sica - "The Wu Wei" - Ronda [Notting Hill Carnival, London, 1975] [1:07:17]
Clip - "TRT-Mass killing at Sudan's Al Fasher hospital" [Meanwhile, in Tanzania: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0x8vdvkjgo] [1:21:10]
Jaimie Branch - "Heartbeats, Windpower, and Confirmations of Fate" - SOS Sessions 3 [Belfast, 1978] [1:22:17]
Matthew Young - "Into The Woods" - Undercurrents [Belfast, 1978] [1:33:06]
Clip - "France24-Raid on Rio gang leaves scores dead" [1:46:35]
Self Defense Family - "Secular Trust" - Leeds [Croydon, England, 1976] [1:47:21]
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - "Wide Lovely Eyes" - Push the Sky Away [Nelson Mandela, 1990] [1:54:09]
Dream Syndicate - "Halloween" - The Days of Wine and Roses [The Iron Lady, 1985] [2:06:38]
Clip - "WGN-Congressional candidate indicted after anti-ICE protest" [More on this story: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/31/chicago-ice-broadview-facility-lawsuit] [2:12:42]
Soraia - "Strutter" - Bloom [Afghanistan, 1996] [2:13:15]
Music behind DJ:
[It's Not That Bad? (with Jim the Poet)] [2:16:33]
Sleaford Mods - "Megaton" - Single [2:31:27]
Raid - "FOII" - Single [2:34:16]
Clip - "WION-Millions share thoughts of suicide on AI platforms" [2:45:00]
Departure Street - "Suicide With A Slow Motion Bullet" - This Broken World [2:46:09]
Tristanne - "Maison Mary" - Sexy Tears [2:51:38] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157702
Duration:03:08:17
"You are dean and me the queen..." from Oct 25, 2025
10/25/2025
Tristanne - "If Only" - Sexy Tears [0:00:00]
David Bowie - "Lover to the Dawn (Clareville Grove Demo)" - Clareville Grove Demos [0:02:00]
Melvin Gibbs - "Luigi Takes A Walk" - Amasia: Anamibia Sessions 2 [0:07:12]
Clip - "CBS-Sanae Takaichi Japan's first female PM" - n/a [0:20:10]
Squid - "Well Met (Fingers Through The Fence)" - Cowards [0:21:18]
Gushes - "Passion Play" - Delicious Collision [0:29:35]
Calibro 35 - "Chameleon" - Exploration [0:35:45]
Matthew Young - "Undercurrents" - Undercurrents [0:41:54]
Set: Excerpt from 2007 production of Samuel Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape” starring Harold Pinter
FILLE - "Time Is a Circle" - Only Skies stay Eternal [1:06:14]
Woods - "Skull" - Summer 2011 Tour Split [1:11:21]
Clip - "BBC-Palestinian woman attacked by settler in West Bank" - n/a [1:15:18]
Broadcast - "America's Boy" - Tender Buttons [1:16:32]
Yo La Tengo - "The River Of Water" - Single [1:20:05]
Linda Smith - "So Long Ago" - Single [1:22:37]
Clip - "PBS-Trump opens Alaska region for drilling" - n/a [1:24:50]
Bryan Ferry - "Re-Make/Re-Model" - Single [1:25:31]
The Clean - "Late Last Night" - Single [1:28:16]
Clip - "France24-Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time" - n/a [1:31:09]
Roky Erickson and the Explosives - "Wait For You" - Single [1:31:54]
The Dwarfs of East Agousa - "Goldfish Molasses" - Sasquatch Landslide [1:36:24]
Mossmen - "Wave (single version)" - Bandcamp single [1:42:52]
Sun City Girls - "Scarlet Prism Death Dance" - Extra-Sensory Defection / Graverobbing in the Future [1:48:19]
Black Country, New Road - "For the Cold Country" - Forever Howlong [2:05:59]
Set: McGroovey Magic: Singles Going Upstate
The Flashcubes - "Wait Til Next Week" - Single [2:12:32]
The Lucksmiths - "The Cassingle Revival" - Single [2:18:19]
New Math - "Die Trying" - Single [2:21:34]
Ian and the Aztecs - "Eenie Meenie (Miney Moe)" - Single [2:23:37]
Lumpren Proles - "Positive Thinking" - Single [2:25:51]
The Quitters - "I'm Lazy" - Single [2:35:07]
The Penetrators - "Life Stinks" - Single [2:37:02]
The Temptators - "Catch Me Crying" - Single [2:40:29]
The Salamanders - "All Rusted Out" - Single [2:43:50]
Material Objects - "Call Out The Liars" - Passing Through [2:53:01]
Thunder Gods - "Who Cares?" - Single [2:56:28] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157426
Duration:03:08:40
