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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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“Language is always changing. Language is not finished.”—Thomas Sayers Ellis from Aug 2, 2025

8/2/2025
Masahiko Satoh and Giotis Damianidis - "First Ghost" - Thousand Leaves 千 葉 [0:00:00] Sun Ra - "Fourth Dimension" - Stray Voltage [0:21:16] Clip: Matthieu Aikins interview from 2-5-2023 - "n/a" - n/a [0:32:04] Clip: KTLA-L.A. County consider banning ICE agents from wearing masks - "n/a" - n/a [0:37:32] New York Polyphony - "Katarsis" - Sky of My Heart [0:38:15] Clip: Sara Terry interview from 11-6-2022 - "n/a" - n/a [0:47:20] Clip: KATU-Trump signs executive order on homeless crisis - "n/a" - n/a [0:54:01] Charlie Haden Quartet West - "The Long Goodbye" - Haunted Heart [0:55:19] Heroes Are Gang Leaders - "Sad Dictator (I Wanna Make Freedom)" - LeAutoRoiOgraphy [R.I.P. Thomas Sayers Ellis: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/books/thomas-sayers-ellis-dead.html] [1:08:11] Music behind DJ: Clip: Keri Blakinger interview from 8-28-2022 - "n/a" - n/a [1:21:58] Clip: WMAZ-Georgia senators seek federal investigation into conditions at jail - "n/a" - n/a [1:27:01] Mike Polizze - "You’ve Been Doing Fine" - Around Sound [For Dwight Muhammad Qawi, R.I.P.: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/obituaries/dwight-muhammad-qawi-dead.html] [1:27:48] I'm With Her - "Standing on the Fault Line" - Wild and Clear and Blue [1:34:48] Friendship - "Hollow Skulls" - Caveman Wakes Up [1:41:36] Music behind DJ: Clip: Alan Parks interview from 11-20-2022 - "n/a" - n/a [1:46:22] Power Station - "Some Like It Hot (remix)" - The Power Station (2005 reissue) [1:51:54] Music behind DJ: Clip: Reuters-EPA to eliminate limits on greenhouse gas emissions - "n/a" - n/a [1:58:41] Joy Division - "New Dawn Fades" - Unknown Pleasures [1:59:29] Gina Birch - "Cello Song" - Trouble [2:04:15] Fontaines D.C. - "Cello Song" - The Endless Coloured Ways: The Songs of Nick Drake [2:08:46] Music behind DJ: Clip: Ben Ehrenreich interview from 5-21-23 - "n/a" - n/a [2:13:55] Music behind DJ: Clip: Democracy Now-Israeli forces seize Gaza flotilla in international waters - "n/a" - n/a [2:18:24] UNIT - "Israel Is Real" - Godspunk Vol. 27 [2:18:58] Pretenders - "Message of Love" - Pretenders II [2:33:50] The Crippled Flower - "Walking Away" - Forming Haze [Recordings 1985/86] [2:40:15] Simple Minds - "Celebrate" - Empires and Dance [2:44:19] The Stranglers - "Duchess" - Peaches: The Very Best Of The Stranglers [2:49:44] Tom Lehrer - "National Brotherhood Week" - The Remains of Tom Lehrer [R.I.P. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jul/29/wit-of-tom-lehrer-by-those-who-knew-him] [2:52:15] Guided By Voices - "Driving Time" - Universe Room https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154654

Duration:03:07:34

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"I've climbed the cloud, now I stole the moon..." from Jul 26, 2025

7/26/2025
Joe Chambers, Kevin Diehl, Chad Taylor - "Estuary Stew" - Onilu [0:00:00] Marshall Allen - "New Dawn feat. Neneh Cherry" - New Dawn [0:06:14] Art Pepper - "Ophelia" - Geneva 1980 [0:14:43] - "Clip: Global News-Toxic algae bloom in Australia kills over 400 species" [0:27:11] Ben LaMar Gay - "There, Inside the Morning Glory" - Yowzers [0:27:30] Julia Ulehla and Dalava - "Phase Transition" - Understories [0:32:50] - "Clip: WION-China Building World's Largest Dam Despite Concerns" [More information: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gk1251w14o] [0:40:52] Larry Stabbins and Mark Sanders - "Ring No. 4" - Cup & Ring [0:41:43] Yuki Fujiwara - "Night's Dream is True〜Ai no-Uta" - Glass Colored Lily [0:58:51] Felicity Managan - "String Thing" - String Figures [1:12:49] - "Clip: BBC-Countries can sue others for climate change, court rules" [More information: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/after-years-of-lobbying-by-island-nations-who-fear-they-could-disappear-under-rising-sea-waters-the-u-n-general-assembly-asked-the-international-court-of-justice-for-an-advisory-opinion-a-non-bindi] [1:20:35] Kevin Morby - "Harlem River Dub (Peaking Lights Remix)" [1:20:59] Tacoma Park - "No Museums" - Tacoma Park [1:39:16] - "Clip: DW-Clashes at Thailand, Cambodia border" [More information: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/25/thailand-cambodia-border-dispute-thai-evacuation-clashes-conflict] [1:46:23] Adrian Quesada - "Cuatro Vidas (with Mireya Ramos)" - Boleros Psicodélicos II [1:47:06] Francoise Hardy - "Le premier bonheur du jour (The first happiness of the day)" - Francoise Hardy En Vogue Best of 1962-1967 [1:51:04] Judson Claiborne - "Last Place I Know" - Live Active Culture, Vol. 2 [1:52:51] Music behind DJ: [It's Not That Bad with Jim the Poet] [1:59:16] Scott Walker - "Through a Long and Sleepless Night" - Scott [2:13:34] David Bowie - "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)" - Blackstar [2:17:40] Black Country, New Road - "Sunglasses" - For the First Time [2:22:17] - "Clips: Al Jazeera/WION-Starvation in Gaza as IDF attacks WHO facility" [2:32:07] Love and Rockets - "No New Tale to Tell" - Earth, Sun, Moon [2:32:56] Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Gold Lion" - Show Your Bones [2:36:24] - "Clip: CBS-Columbia suspends, expels dozens for role in protests" [2:39:31] Chumbawumba - "Revolution" - Cease & Resist - Sonic Subversion & Anarcho Punk In The UK 1979-86 [2:40:04] Blondie - "(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear" - Plastic Letters [2:47:34] Girls on Grass - "Don't Buy It" - Stages [Features our own Dave Mandl] [2:50:33] Physarum - "Fly Right" - Selected Songs I [2:53:15] Edith Frost - "Something About the War" - In Space [2:55:07] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154453

Duration:03:09:03

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“As temporary guests of this home called life, in this house that is Earth, shouldn’t we know by now how to behave honorably?”—Oloiboni Kitok (Massai) from Jul 19, 2025

7/19/2025
Cannonball Adderley - "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" - The Definitive Cannonball Adderley [0:00:00] Eiko Ishibashi - "Mona Lisa" - Antigone [0:04:37] Larry Stabbins and Mark Sanders - "Ring No. 1" - Cup & Ring [0:11:59] - "Clip: NBC News-DOJ recommends one day sentence for Breonna Taylor shooter" [0:20:02] The Ancients - "2023-05-12 LA set II" - The Ancients [0:20:31] - "Clip: Reuters-World's oldest president stands for re-election" [0:43:08] Don Cherry - "Remembrance" - Live at Café Montmartre, vol.2 [0:44:04] Amalie Dahl - "Habit II" - Breaking/Building Habits [0:58:05] Edith Frost - "Nothing Comes Around" - In Space [1:16:02] - "Clip: ABC- Wildfires Destroy Historic Grand Canyon Lodge" [1:18:48] Aimee Mann - "Deathly" - Bachelor No. 2 [1:19:17] Julia Ulehla and Dalava - "The Way Up" - Understories [1:24:51] Sharon van Etten - "Staring at a Mountain" - From the Film Never Rarely Sometimes Always [Sunrise Lamentations' Jeremiah worked as an editor on the film.] [1:36:04] Roger Clark Miller - "Russian Spy Canisters" - Curiosity for Solo Electric Guitar Ensemble [Interview with our own Wendy del Formaggio: https://www.commonsnews.org/issue/823/823miller_album For author Martin Cruz Smith (R.I.P.): https://airmail.news/books/2025/7/martin-cruz-smith] [1:41:02] - "Clip: CNN-Oldest marathoner dies at 114" [1:46:22] The Strawbs - "Ready (Are We Ready)" - The Magic of It All [R.I.P. Dave Cousins https://www.clashmusic.com/news/the-strawbs-dave-cousins-has-died/] [1:47:11] Amanda Mur - "Pandemic" - Neu Om [1:52:41] Dirty Three - "Warren's Lament" - Horse Stories [1:59:55] Palo Alto - "Différence et Répétition" - Différence et Répétition [2:23:59] - "Clip: 6ABC-Elmo's X account hacked" [2:28:37] Echo & the Bunnymen - "The Puppet" - Songs to Learn and Sing [2:29:09] The Stranglers - "Golden Brown" - Peaches: The Very Best Of The Stranglers [2:32:13] - "Clip: FirstPost-Cuban minister resigns over remarks on poverty" [2:35:37] Blixa Bargeld & Nikko Weidemann - "Subterraneans" - Blixa Bargeld Sings David Bowie [2:37:03] The Bug Club - "How to Be a Confidante" - Very Human Features [2:41:58] Golden Brown - "Ancestral Slime" - Whisker Fatigue [2:46:50] Monster Magnet - "Kick Out The Jams" - Rarities and B-Sides [R.I.P. Tim Cronin https://blabbermouth.net/news/founding-monster-magnet-drummer-tim-cronin-dies-after-battle-with-als] [2:54:58] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/154217

Duration:03:08:24

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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”—Philip K. Dick, How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later from Jul 12, 2025

7/12/2025
Rita Bliss - "We Will Sing" [0:00:00] Rianne Downey - "The Song of Old Glencoe" [0:02:50] Hannah Marcus - "Weeds and Lilies" - The Hannah Marcus Years: 1993-2004 [R.I.P. Mark Lipsitz of Bar/None] [0:06:46] - "Clip: DW-Heat Causes closure of Acropolis" [0:12:36] Golden Brown - "Beelzebufo" - Whisker Fatigue [0:13:12] L. Don Okami - "Riding" - Judgement Day at Pyynikki [0:27:57] Amanda Mur - "Canto a los migrantes" - Neu Om [0:36:19] - "Clip: Reuters-Trump announces 50% tariffs on Brazil" [More information: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/world/americas/brazil-trump-bolsonaro-lula-coup-tariff.html] [0:40:56] Enji - "Old Folks" - Sonor [0:41:48] Set: INTERVIEW with Constance Malleret—Part 1 Walter Franco - "Mixteraçao" - Nuts for Brazil: Scott Williams' 2015 Marathon Premium [1:13:16] Erasmo Carlos - "É Preciso Dar Um Jeito, Meu Amigo (You Gotta Find a Way, My Friend)" - I'm Still Here soundtrack [1:20:07] Set: INTERVIEW with Constance Malleret—Part 2 Aline Calixto - "Oxossi" - Aline Calixto [1:41:45] Arlindo Cruz - "Meu Lugar (My Place)" - Sambista Perfeito [1:45:54] Nico - "The End" - Chelsea Town Hall [1:54:31] Kadef Abgi - "Rahma" - Diva Of Deva Loka [2:03:18] The Feelies - "Dancing Barefoot" - Rewind [2:11:40] Glitter Wizard - "Fairies Wear Boots" - Fairies Wear Boots [2:17:25] - "Clip: 9News-Record high in measles cases in the US" [2:26:11] Cactus World News - "State of Emergency" - Urban Beaches [2:26:38] - "Clip: BBC-Russian transport minister Roman Starovoit found dead hours after being fired" [2:33:55] Depeche Mode - "Fly on the Windscreen" - Black Celebration [2:35:05] Deerhoof - "Damaged Eyes Squinting Into the Beautiful Overhot Sun" - Devil Kids [2:43:47] The Paranoid Style - "Underworld, USA" - Underworld USA [2:48:34] FAXED, The Rolling Stones, The Fall - "Emotional Mithering" - Grotesque Rescue [2:51:32] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/153978

Duration:03:06:57