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  #JukeboxFridayNight reminds us there's #AWiderWorld out there - #FLO - "Need An Audi" (2026) skrrt (FLO's new album is due out 19 October) https://hakunakulala.bandcamp.com/track/need-an-audi

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  #NowPlaying #Afropop #AfricanMusic #Malawi #TheKasambweBrothers - "Mtima Wanga (My Heart)" (2025, MASS MoCA Records) Each time that you are away I do worry / Others do not realize Each time that you are away I do worry / Others do not realize How our lives depend on each other / Others do not realize How our lives depend on each other / Others do not realize https://thekasambwebrothers.bandcamp.com/track/mtima-wanga-my-heart

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  #JukeboxFridayNight #CloseToOurHearts #Soul #RAndB #GeneDunlap with #TheRidgeways - "Before You Break My Heart (1981) https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=PziRjMXpQeY

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  #JukeboxFridayNight #CloseToOurHearts #RobertWyatt #NewsFromBabel - "Heart of Stone" (1986) https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=IGu0bWV5BZk

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  #JukeboxFridayNight #CloseToOurHearts #CheapTrick - "Invaders of the Heart" (1983) https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=WSDT6yPEWnE

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  #8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats #8Track #WaterDamage #DEVO chasing rainbows

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  #SaturdayOnStage #FolkSongs #Miners #Union Short promotional film with live clip of #PaulRobeson singing "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night" in the canteen at Woolmet Colliery, Midlothian, Scotland (1949) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0bezsMVU7c

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  #NowPlaying #SaturdayOnStage #ExperimentalJazz #MikeWestbrookOrchestra - "Démocratie [excerpt]" (live, 1982) . . . and all the while, #LindsayCooper continues to solo away madly on #bassoon somewhere in the back of my mind . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp9KZvwOl9M

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  #NowPlaying #MondayCovers #SensationalAlexHarveyBand - "Next" (1973) This wildass #glamrock-era cover by Alex (like the one by #ScottWalker) was based on the version-in-translation heard in the successful 1968 musical, Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris. But the #JacquesBrel-penned original, entitled "Au Suivant", dates all the way back to 1964. It remains one of the more shocking - and still probably NSFW - songs ever to get wide radio airp...

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  #8TrackTuesday #8Track #DeadFormats #NeilDiamond One too many Hot August Nights

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  #NowPlaying #ContemporaryMusic #ModernComposition #PolishMusic #ZygmuntKrauze / #SpółdzielniaMuzycznaContemporaryEnsemble - Konteksty (Dux, 2024) "let us allow the songs to live" https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9743951--konteksty

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  #NowPlaying #MusicWomenWednesday #Gqom #Durban #SouthAfricanMusic #AfricanMusic #Phelimuncasi's #MakanNana always has the best lipstick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK1mR8uvHHo

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  #NowPlaying #FalsettoFriday #Rap #EmoRap You might not, but me I still mourn the loss of #JuiceWRLD - in all his drug addicted, anxiety ridden, auto-tuned glory. He had lots to say! Sometimes, even in #falsetto. No doubt he would've said a lot more had he lived. RIP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRl_C73vFtQ

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  #SaturdayOnStage #ExperimentalJazz #TheRemoteViewers - "Returning Ghosts" (Live at Iklectik, 10-03-2020) London's Remote Viewers have been channelling their distinctly Cold War-era musical paranoia for 30+ years now - long may they conspire https://theremoteviewers.bandcamp.com/track/returning-ghosts-live-encore

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  #NowPlaying #SaturdayOnStage #ExperimentalMusic #ExperimentalJazz #BigBand #AmbiancesMagnétiques l'Ensemble SuperMusique - Excerpts from "Résistances" (Live in Montreal, 2017) Love watching #JeanDerome conduct this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJaFZ76UOfc

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  #NowPlaying #MondayCovers #MilesDavis - "Perfect Way" (1986) That slightly vertiginous, giddy moment when not only Miles, but #ChakaKhan and frickin' #AlJarreau were all waxing songs by #ScrittiPolitti's #GreenGartside https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN-ClAJlE_A

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  #8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats And here I had always assumed the #longbox first came into prominence during the #CD era. Behold: longbox #8Track tapes!

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  #NowPlaying #ModernClassical #ModernComposition #Improvisation #LukasLigeti - Notebook (New World Records, 2026) 'While some moments are clearly composed and others clearly improvised, there are many gradations—“an infinite amount of right”—in between.' https://newworldrecords.bandcamp.com/track/color-gradations

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  @emma best new Masto tagline: "it's for the greater good"

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  #NowReading #NonFiction #NatureWriting #Wolf #Wolves "For you will search the oldest written texts we know and all those that followed until Scotland lost interest in its absent wolf over a hundred years ago, but you will search in vain for the real living wolf, for it is not there. Myths survive but 'only in the faintest echoes, all meaning lost, their outer shells turned into cosmic tales.' The stories - the countless stories - about how innumerable 'last wol...

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  #NowPlaying #MondayCovers #TheSmiths #TheBeautifulSouth - "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" (2004) Trading in some of that annoying solipsism for a bit more bounce, this is a guaranteed #Morrissey-free listen (feat. singer #PaulHeaton, who still regularly gives a shout-out to #KarlMarx in interviews) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6TtHmGPdN4

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  #NowPlaying #MondayCovers #RandyAndTheRainbows #SouthBaySurfers - "Denise" (live at Sacred Grounds Coffee House, San Pedro, CA 1998) Eat your heart out, #Blondie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ddGD8_qKnk

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  #NowPlaying #MondayCovers #YonicSouth - "Girl U Want" (Wild Honey Records, 2023) Taken from their appropriately titled Devo Challenge Cup EP, Italy's Yonics revisit a song I watched #Devo themselves perform live on stage as a 12 year old back in frickin' Dec 1982. My energy dome hasn't been the same since. https://yonicsouthtwix.bandcamp.com/track/the-girl-u-want

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  #8TrackTuesday #DeadFormats #HomeTapingIsKillingMusic This home taped #OtisRedding & #JimiHendrixExperience #8TrackCartridge eBay-find initially had me stumped. Where oh where had I seen those long legs on the original tape label peeking out from underneath at the bottom? Then I flashed on it: it's the Fool On The Hill album by #SergioMendesAndBrasil66, that easy-listening warhorse of conservative household music collections all across the US in the early 70s. Finally, Sergio M...

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  #MusicWomenWednesday #HippieMusic #FolkRock #Honk - "Circles In Sand" (20th Century Records, 1973) My favourite Orange County, CA band of all time. They beat any punker band you wanna point to with a beautifully jazz inflected, hippie-as-surf sound. Singer/songwriter #RichardStekol was the nominal leader, but across 3 great albums they showed that every member could write, sing, and play their ass off - including singer #BethFitchetWood, who still performs these songs around...

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  #MusicWomenWednesday #Funk #KendraFoster - "Promise To Stay Here" (2016) Best known for her wonderful work not only with a latter-day #GeorgeClinton and his #PFunkAllStars but also the angelic #DAngelo and #TheVanguard, Kendra Foster was also totally comfortable doing it by herself. This track of hers haunted my playlists from a decade ago and still gets me hitting repeat before I can let it fade away entirely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tkLg2A54aM

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  #NowPlaying #MusicWomenWednesday #PunkRock #Hardcore #SIN34 were an early 80s West LA hardcore band notable for ushering drummer/filmmaker #DaveMarkey (Desperate Teenage Lovedolls, The Year Punk Broke, etc.) on to the scene. But they were also one of the few to have a female singer (#JulieLanfeld), and a rad one at that. She had guts, a sense of humour, and one of those deep SoCal drawls that covered up for the fact she couldn’t actually sing. But then, what self-respecting HC singer could? (...

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  #NowPlaying #MondayCovers #Runt じゅにち もりわき (Junichi Moriwaki) - "Baby Let's Swing" Japanese tribute to a #ToddRundgren tribute to a young #LauraNyro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwyTTnGdy2U

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  #NowPlaying #MondayCovers #PunkRock #Milo Love that young people love #TheDescendents as much as I still love them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk-STt7Qwkk

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  #NowPlaying #PostPunk #GarageRock No one remembers Augsberg's #CreepingCandies anymore - but man I used to looove these ESL-damaged Bavarian longhairs something fierce. So did #NikkiSudden (RIP), who produced their first 4 records. https://thecreepingcandies.bandcamp.com/track/ride-your-own-horse