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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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“Only if we can understand, can we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.”—Jane Goodall from Oct 4, 2025

10/4/2025
Marcus Roberts - "Rhapsody In Blue" - Portraits In Blue [0:00:00] Annie A - "Like A Sail Or A Bed" - The Wind That Had Not Touched Land [0:30:04] Clip - "Al Jazeera-Deadly school collapse in Indonesia" [0:35:28] Pat Metheny - "Shōga" - MoonDial [0:36:07] Animal, Surrender! - "Shenandoah" - A Boot For Every Bane [0:39:16] Clip - "CBS-Jane Goodall dies" [0:42:59] Mark S. Williamson - "Waking Up" - Folklore, Facts & Fables 5: the Eve Stone [0:43:33] Vermillion - "To jane goodall (angelical ambient base)" - To jane goodall [0:51:21] Set: INTERVIEW: Molly Lambert, PART 1 Mazzy Star - "Blue Light" - So Tonight That I Might See [1:17:57] Kevin Morby - "A Night at the Little Los Angeles" - Sundowner [1:23:00] PJ Harvey with Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurrains - "The Red River" - Los Angeles Rising [Bandcamp exclusive benefit for Sweet Relief organized by Bauhaus and Love & Rockets drummer Kevin Haskins] [1:30:08] Set: INTERVIEW: Molly Lambert, PART 2 Tom Ward - "Suck A Bag of Dreams" - Alfresco Love Sounds [1:53:07] Carina Round - "Weird Dream" - Carina Round (Live in Los Angeles) [1:57:23] X - "Sex and Dying in High Society" - Los Angeles [2:02:29] Clip - "BBC/Sky-Afghan internet blackout" [2:04:44] Minutemen - "Glory of Man" - Double Nickels on the Dime [2:06:12] Sparkalepsy - "King of the Hill" - Our Band Could Be Your Life - A Tribute To D. Boon And The Minutemen [2:09:08] Clip - "CBS-Photographer shoved by ICE agents outside immigration court" [2:12:43] Seam - "This Aint No Picnic" - Our Band Could Be Your Life - A Tribute To D. Boon And The Minutemen [2:13:50] Black Flag - "Account for What?" - Family Man [2:16:32] Music behind DJ: [It's Not That Bad with Jim the Poet] [2:20:56] Porno for Pyros - "Porno for Pyros" - Porno for Pyros [2:34:41] Clip - "Al Jazeera-Protests in Madagascar" [2:37:48] Beck - "Tropicalia" - Mutations [2:38:27] Ty Segall - "Another California Song" - Possession [2:44:32] [2:48:11] Cass McCombs - "Peace" - Interior Live Oak [2:52:26] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156758

Duration:03:08:14

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"Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated and this was an immutable law."--James Baldwin, "Notes of a Native Son" from Sep 27, 2025

9/27/2025
The Doors - "Indian Summer" - Morrison Hotel [0:00:00] Twice as Nice - "Thoughts of You" - Maybe I'm Dreaming [0:02:14] Màiri Morrison, Alasdair Roberts and Pete Johnston - "Màiri nighean Dòmhnaill (Mary, Daughter of Donald)" - Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia [0:05:35] Oslo Filharmoniske Orkester - "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" - Live recording [Composer Claude Debussy] [0:11:29] Clip - "ABC Australia-Controversial fireworks display in Himalayas" - MP3 [0:21:50] Francesco Tristano - "Strings Of Life" - Strings Of Life [Also appears on the Beats motion picture soundtrack produced/curated by JD Twitch; R.I.P.: https://futurismrestated.substack.com/p/mixes-digest-22-remembering-optimos] [0:22:22] Clip - "7News-Australian national broadcaster ordered to pay Antoinette Lattouf $150,000 for illegal termination" - MP3 [More information: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly6dlpd332o] [0:29:36] Annie A - "The Wind That Had Not Touched Land" - The Wind That Had Not Touched Land [0:30:07] Raven Chacon - "Black Streaked Humming" - Black Streaked Hum [0:37:26] Richie Havens - "Just Like A Woman" - Mixed Bag [0:41:22] Akiko Tsuruga - "Harlem Nocturne" - Harlem Dreams [R.I.P.: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/arts/music/akiko-tsuruga-dead.html] [0:46:07] Open Yellow Circle / O Yuki Conjugate - "Cold Stars" - New Meridian [0:52:21] Double Edge: Edmund Niemann and Nurit Tilles - "Three Dances for Two Prepared Pianos: I" - John Cage: Music for Two Pianos [1:07:57] Animal, Surrender! - "Poinciana" - A Boot For Every Bane [1:14:20] Tortoise - "Layered Presence" - Touch [1:21:48] Clip - "ABC Australia-Vietnam entry wins revived Intervision" - MP3 [1:24:56] Slowdanger - "Humble Bow" - Veil [1:25:46] Double Edge: Edmund Niemann and Nurit Tilles - "Three Dances for Two Prepared Pianos: II" - John Cage: Music for Two Pianos [1:32:53] David Bowie - "Andy Warhol" - Hunky Dory [R.I.P. Joe Stevens: https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2025/8/27/goodbye-joe-stevens] [1:52:55] Isa Gordon - "Parting Game" - For You Only [1:56:59] Clip - "CNN-State Dept blocks Iranian diplomats from shopping at wholesale stores" - MP3 [2:01:00] Tomorrow The Rain Will Fall Upwards - "Wreck His Days" - Wreck His Days [2:01:51] Clip - "KOKI-U2 awarded 2025 Woody Guthrie Prize" - MP3 [2:09:39] U2 - "Acrobat" - Achtung Baby [2:10:26] Music behind DJ: [It's Not That Bad with Jim the Poet] [2:14:57] The Hit Parade - "Here's What You Find In Any Prison" - Cease & Resist - Sonic Subversion & Anarcho Punk In The UK 1979-86 [2:27:21] Rentals - "New York" - JD Twitch's 60 Minutes Of Fear [2:30:22] Pere Ubu - "The Modern Dance" - The Modern Dance [2:33:19] David Bowie - "Kooks" - Hunky Dory [2:41:53] Editrix - "The Real Fire" - The Big E [2:44:45] Lipps Inc. - "Funkytown" - Mouth to Mouth [2:49:11] Clip - "Washington Examiner-Google plans to restore banned YouTube content creators" - MP3 [2:53:02] Big Thief - "All Night All Day" - Double Infinity [2:54:04] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156522

Duration:03:08:42

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"What a little moonlight can do..." from Sep 13, 2025

9/13/2025
Billie Holiday - "What A Little Moonlight Can Do" - Lady Day: The Best of Billie Holiday [0:00:00] Weather Report - "Nubian Sundance" - Mysterious Traveller [0:03:03] Lionel Hampton - "Cool Train" - Hamp's Boogie [0:14:03] The Amazing Jimmy Smith Trio - "I Got A Woman" - Live at the Village Gate [0:18:56] - "Clip: AP-Banksy mural near London court" [0:26:48] Les McCann - "The Truth" - Plays The Truth [0:27:17] Richard "Groove" Holmes - "The Girl From Ipanema" - Living Soul [0:33:04] - "Clip: Al Jazeera-Gaza flotilla attacked in Tunisia" [0:38:04] múm - "Kill The Light" - History of Silence [0:38:49] Jon Camp - "Kerosene Goodbye" - Proceed [0:43:26] Troth - "An Unfinished Rose" - An Unfinished Rose [0:50:45] Deaf Center - "Erie" - Reverie [0:58:38] - "Clip: 7NEWS-Australia-NASA's Perseverance rover makes interesting discovery on Mars" [1:15:00] Jamie Lidell & Luke Schneider - "The Passing" - A Companion For The Spaces Between Dreams [1:15:23] Jonah Yano - "The Heavy Loop (excerpt)" - Jonah Yano and the Heavy Loop [1:22:42] - "Clip: AFP-Unrest in Nepal" [More on this story: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c179qne0zw0o] [1:39:43] Morphine - "I'm Free Now" - Cure for Pain [1:40:40] Walter Franco - "Me deixe mudo (Leave Me Dumb)" - Ou Não [1:44:04] João Selva - "Rainbow Love" - Onda [1:50:47] Animal, Surrender! - "One of These Things First" - Animal, Surrender! [1:54:39] Sula Bassana - "Real Life" - Nostalgia [2:05:06] The Messthetics - "Once Upon A Time" - The Messthetics [2:14:19] James Brown - "The Payback" - Star Time (box set) [2:19:53] Sly and the Family Stone - "Funky Broadway" - The First Family: Live at the Winchester Cathedral 1967 [2:27:21] - "BBC-US biker gang runs security at Gaza aid sites" [2:28:14] Editrix - "Something Sweet" - The Big E [2:28:56] Home Front - "Light Sleeper" - Watch It Die [2:32:30] The Whiskey Treaty Roadshow - "The Rising" - Springsteen's Country [2:38:49] Bruce Springsteen - "Mary Queen of Arkansas" - Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. [2:43:51] Màiri Morrison, Alasdair Roberts and Pete Johnston - "The Bonny House of Airlie" - Remembered in Exile: Songs and Ballads from Nova Scotia [2:49:10] William Tyler - "Been Listening All The Day" - Treasures Untold [2:53:24] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/156070

Duration:03:07:56