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Music inspired by life and current events

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Music inspired by life and current events

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English


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"And I've got by for so long just on fear and trust..." from Apr 19, 2025

4/19/2025
Sally Timms - "Dark Sun" - Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos [0:00:00] Big Bend - "Fast Moon" - Last Circle in a Slowdown [0:03:38] Anne Briggs - "Cruel Mother" - One Morning in May: Surface Noise 2025 Marathon Premium [0:08:29] Justin Adams and Mauro Durante - "Tide Keeps Turning" - Sweet Release [0:12:31] Deepstaria Enigmatica - "The Truths" - The Eternal Now Is the Heart of the New Tomorrow [0:18:20] - "Clip: BBC-Russian journalists and hairdresser convicted of extremism" [0:41:16] Private Joke - "Peaceful Traffic" - Ambientale (compiled by Charles Bals) [0:42:37] Banha Da Cobra - "Guayota" - Lava Love [0:45:29] Autumna - "The Days Before" - Family Portrait [0:49:42] Lynlee - "Traceless Land" - The Changeover [0:53:22] Able Noise - "Tumbling" - High Tide [1:02:55] Pom Pom Squad - "Montauk" - Mirror Starts Moving Without Me [1:07:57] St. Vincent - "The Power's Out" - All Born Screaming [1:11:41] - "Clip: France 24-French prisons targeted with arson and gunfire" [1:16:17] Kim Gordon & Bill Nace - "Strong and Foolish Heart" - The Suzanne Langille Songbook [1:17:22] The Motels - "Only the Lonely" - All Four One [1:24:29] Esko Affair - "On Broadway (long version)" - Mid-Winter's Afternoon [1:27:47] Set: INTERVIEW WITH: Jamie Courville and Chris Reynolds, filmmakers behind "Gowanus Current" https://www.gowanuscurrent.com Bob Lukomski - "The Visitors (QV edit)" - Outside Music [1:56:33] Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir - "Change Without Us" - Change Without Us [2:03:29] Structured Silence Artist—Ernie Vega - "Gwine Dig a Hole in a Mountain" - Ernie Vega [2:07:45] Martin Bisi - "The Great Trap in the Creek" - Feral Myths [2:15:36] - "Clip: Arirang News-Violence escalates as Sudan conflict passes two-year mark" [2:24:04] Elliott Sharp Carbon with Charles K. Noyes, Zeena Parkins, Bobby Previte, Jim Staley, et al - "Turbulence" - The Age of Carbon [2:24:52] The Resistance Company - "The Land Defiled" - Activist Therapy Session [2:30:05] Sugarcubes - "Birthday (Justin Robertson 12" Mix)" - It's It [2:36:08] - "Clip: DW News-Hungary effectively bans LGBTQ events" [2:43:27] Militia Vox - "Rid Of Me" - Bait EP [2:44:02] Bikini Kill - "Rebel Girl" - The Singles [2:48:26] The Raincoats - "Adventures Close To Home" - The Raincoats [2:51:04] Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - "Long Dark Night" - Wild God [2:54:55] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/151198
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“I find that being part of a family is the most excruciating possible way to be alive.”—Anne Enright, The Gathering from Apr 12, 2025

4/12/2025
Marinero - "Dream Suite" - La La La [0:00:00] Donald Byrd - "Cristo Redentor" - A New Perspective [0:03:50] Tim Hodgkinson and Atsuko Kamura - "Suisen No" - Haiku in the Wide World [0:09:30] Leya - "Corners - Chanel Beads Rework" - Bandcamp single [0:12:40] Dirty Three - "Love Changes Everything IV-VI" - Love Changes Everything [0:18:33] - "Clip: ITV-Scientists MAY have recreated extinct dire wolf" [0:40:47] Jherek Bischoff - "Cistern" - Cistern [0:42:08] Big Bend - "Cistern" - Last Circle in a Slowdown [0:48:24] - "Clip: Al Jazeera-Hong Kong hit hard by US tariffs" [0:53:29] Pretenders - "I Hate Myself" - Alone [Also appears in Fallen Angels] [0:54:32] Massive Attack - "Karmacoma (feat. Tricky)" - Protection [Also appears in Fallen Angels] [0:59:17] Laurie Anderson - "Speak My Language" - Bright Red [Also appears in Fallen Angels] [1:04:29] Tremosphere - "Un Message" - Saturated Solace [1:16:30] Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory - "Live Forever" - Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory [1:20:42] - "Clip: ABC-Federal immigration officials revoking student visas" [1:26:21] Mark Stewart - "Memory of You" - The Fateful Symmetry [1:27:37] Justin Adams and Mauro Durante - "Sweet Release" - Sweet Release [1:31:37] Jeff Buckley - "Everyday People" - Everybody Is A Star: The Sly Stone Songbook [CURRENTS COMMENDATION: R.I.P. Robert McChesney: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/business/media/robert-w-mcchesney-dead.html] [1:36:30] Laurie Styvers - "Crazy Rainy Spring" - Let Me Comfort You: The Hush Rarities [1:41:05] Califone - "Family Swan" - The Villager’s Companion [1:45:17] Nico - "One More Chance" - Chelsea Town Hall [1:53:16] Can - "Eine (One)" - Live in Keele 1977 [2:00:39] Music behind DJ: [It's Not That Bad with Jim the Poet] [2:10:52] Frank Black - "Man of Steel" - Oddballs [2:40:05] Gang of Four - "Guns Before Butter" - Entertainment! [R.I.P. Bassist Dave Allen https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/07/gang-of-four-bassist-dave-allen-dies-aged-69] [2:45:06] - "Clip: Al Jazeera-Reporters in Gaza killed in Israeli strike" [2:48:51] - "Clip: Straight Arrow News-London police raid Quaker meeting house" [2:49:27] The Split Squad - "Hey DJ" - Another Cinderella [R.I.P. Drummer Clem Burke https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/clem-burke-blondie-drummer-dead-obituary-1235311703/] [2:50:04] Throwing Muses - "Albatross" - Moonlight Concessions [2:53:43] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/150989
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"Burning moonlight to survive, walking in fire is my life..." from Apr 5, 2025

4/5/2025
Evan Francis Group - "Other Sunshines" - Crazy Skeletons [0:00:00] Kyle Jones - "Rodney Rogers: Lessons of the Sky" - Dualities [0:05:02] Sarian/Putman/Moca/Ugai - "Beautiful Heart" - The Sea, the Space and Egypt [0:13:23] Jóhann Jóhannsson - "The Fight" - Personal Effects motion picture soundtrack [Also appears in "I'm Still Here."] [0:21:34] - "Clip: Excerpt of Anthony Pereira, King's College London, speaking for the Choices Program at Brown University" [0:25:12] Reiko Füting - "Chorale (“those driven out will come”)" - distant: violin. sound [0:26:25] Dirty Three - "Love Changes Everything II" - Love Changes Everything [0:38:29] Autumna - "Displacement of Solitude" - Family Portrait [0:45:12] Jeff Parker - "Excess Success" - Forfolks [0:57:22] Stephen Vitiello, Brendan Canty, Hahn Rowe - "Last Minute Guitar" - Second [Photos from the World: PRX syndicated program: https://theworld.org/stories/2024/04/01/brazil-remembers-1964-coup-and-victims-dictatorship] [1:09:27] Ichiko Aoba - "FLAG" - Luminescent Creatures [1:15:46] Michael Hurley - "Blue Driver" - Hi-Fi Snock Uptown [R.I.P.] [1:20:16] Joni Void - "Event Flow - A Sequence" - Every Life Is A Light [1:23:58] Nico - "Tananore" - Chelsea Town Hall [1:28:17] - "Clip: WABC-Columbia graduates rip diplomas" [1:34:49] Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin - "Je t'aime moi non plus" - Comic Strip [Also appears in "I'm Still Here."] [1:35:22] Set: Mrs. Currents Birthday SET REM - "You Are the Everything" - Green [More on the military dictatorship in Brazil: https://www.cafehistoria.com.br/military-dictatorship-in-brazil-a-history/] [1:43:43] Marianne Faithfull - "Burning Moonlight" - Burning Moonlight EP [1:47:17] The Magnetic Fields - "It's Only Time" - i [1:50:13] - "Clip: WCBS-Mahmoud Khalil case should be heard in New Jersey, judge rules" [1:54:38] Emmylou Harris - "Sister's Coming Home" - The Willie Nelson Songbook [1:55:20] Os Mutantes - "Baby" - Os Mutantes [Also appears in "I'm Still Here."] [1:58:12] Music behind DJ: [It's Not That Bad with Jim the Poet] [2:01:32] Q Lazzarus - "My Mistake" - Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music From The Motion Picture) [2:16:29] - "Clip: Democracy Now!-Jewish Voices for Peace Members Chain Themselves to Gates at Columbia" [2:21:29] Hans Nieswandt - "Hear the Voices" - Fluoreszent [2:22:03] Califone - "Every Amnesia Movie" - The Villager's Companion [2:31:57] Clipping. - "Polaroid" - Dead Channel Sky [2:35:55] Slits - "Issues" - Trapped Animal [2:38:20] Deerhoof - "Immigrant Songs" - Noble and Godlike in Ruin [2:41:52] Ex-Void - "Down the Drain" - In Love Again [2:48:52] Waterboys - "Ten Years Gone (feat. Bruce Springsteen)" - Life, Death and Dennis Hopper [2:52:37] Michael Hurley - "Edinburgh Lag" - Sweetkorn [2:56:11] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/150740
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“These are not the best minds of my generation…” from Mar 29, 2025

3/29/2025
Terence Blanchard - "Wadagbe (Intro) / Wadagbe (Good Luck in Igbo)" - Flow [0:00:00] Kyle Jones - "Miriama Young: This Earthly Round (Redux)" - Dualities [0:16:04] - "Clip: Channel 4 News-Turkey deports BBC journalist during media crackdown" [0:24:57] Sun Ra & His Astro-Infinity Arkestra - "World's Approaching" - Strange Strings [0:25:32] Yusef Lateef - "A Flower" - Atlantis Lullaby: The Concert from Avignon [0:35:38] - "Clip: BBC-Anti-Hamas protests in Gaza" [0:43:39] Reiko Füting - "free: whereof – wherefore" - Distant: Violin. Sound [0:44:02] Porridge Radio - "OK" - The Machine Starts To Sing EP [Photography by Jérôme Sessini/Magnum Photos, Canon Ambassador from The Last Drops of Mexico City by Long Lead and Magnum Photo: https://mexicocitywater.longlead.com/] [1:00:22] Tindersticks - "Medicine" - PAST IMPERFECT The best of tindersticks '92 - '21 [1:03:14] Can - "Vier (Four)" - Live in Keele 1977 [1:08:18] Painkiller - "Samsara II" - Samsara [1:22:00] De Klok - "Doctor" - Stop The Clock [1:28:36] Bauhaus - "Burning from the Inside" - Crackle [1:33:08] - "Clip: CBS-Trump order calls for proof of citizenship when voting" [1:42:35] Simple Minds - "Thirty Frames A Second" - Empires and Dance [1:43:28] Buzzcocks - "Why Can't I Touch It?" - Singles Going Steady [1:48:32] Music behind DJ: [It's Not That Bad with Jim the Poet] [1:55:04] Lou Reed - "Dirty Blvd." - New York [2:13:24] New York Dolls - "Subway Train" - New York Dolls [2:17:01] Friko - "Get Numb To It!" - Where We’ve Been Where We Go from Here [2:22:46] - "Clip: NY1-Lawmakers seek permanent funding for 9-11 health program" [2:27:37] Shilpa Ray - "EMT, Police and the Fire Department" - Door Girl [2:28:42] Kee Avil - "I too, bury (claire rousay Remix)" - Crease Remixed [2:33:07] Tricky - "Broken Homes (feat. PJ Harvey)" - Broken Homes / Money Greedy [2:39:28] Q Lazzarus - "Fathers, Mothers, And Children Dying In The Street" - Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus (Music From The Motion Picture) [2:43:03] - "Clip: WCCO-Cuts to health funding for states could have big impact" [2:48:19] The Porchistas - "Another Sad Esophagus – acoustic demo [radio edit]" - Another Sad Esophagus [2:49:14] Yo La Tengo - "End Credits" - Old Joy (Official Soundtrack) [2:53:22] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/150507