Sonic Cafe #340/Down The Rabbit Hole

Sonic Café, Digging in the Dirt that’s Peter Gabriel from 1992, so how you doin? I’m Scott Clark and this is episode 340. Today’s Internet, Al Gore claims to have invented it via legislation crafted in the early nineties. Whether true or not, today the net is a force changing our world in ways Al could never have imagined, because we now have the power of instant information, available anytime, which has led to the phenomenon known as going down the proverbial internet rabbit hole. This time the Sonic Café boldly dives deep down the rabbit hole with comedians Rick D’Elia, Ellen DeGeneres, Emmy Blotnick and Andy Hendrickson. Their rabbit hole stories our wrapped in a music mix googled from that last 56 years. Listen for Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver, a 1995 Primus track with one of the best music videos ever. Check it out if you can. Also Ambrosia, Neil Finn, The Gang of Four, The Clash and more, including You Really Got Me, a 1964 Kinks classic, rated number 80 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 greatest rock songs of all time, all that and more as we all go down the rabbit hole together, from that little radio café way out here in the magnificent Pacific Northwest. Here’s Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver, and we’re the Sonic café.

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Tom Moore

"All Things Cage" is a weekly program featuring conversations between Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, and Cage experts and enthusiasts from around the world. If youd like to propose a guest or a topic for a future program, write directly to Laura at lkuhn@johncage.org.Laura Kuhn presents the first recording of John Cages Europera 5, preceded by her reading Recollections of the Premiere Performance by Yvar Mikhashoff. This recording of Europera 5 was produced by Brian Brandt and released on the Mode Records label as Mode 36 in 1995, with performers Yvar Mikhashoff, Martha Herr, Gary Burgess, Jan Williams, and Don Metz. Europera 5 is the last and most diminutive of Cages operas " preceded by Europeras 1 & 2 (1984-1987) and Europeras 3 & 4 (1991) " and was instigated by pianist Yvar Mikashoffs desire for a small, more practical and portable, and more easily performed work in the series, which had its premiere in Buffalo at the North American New Musical Festival on April 12, 1991.

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Sarah Sweeney

Welcome to "The Radio Art Hour," a show where art is not just on the radio, but is the radio. "The Radio Art Hour" draws from the Wave Farm Broadcast Radio Art Archive, an online resource that aims to identify, coalesce, and celebrate historical and contemporary international radio artworks made by artists around the world, created specifically for terrestrial AM/FM broadcast, whether it be via commercial, public, community, or independent transmission. Come on a journey with us as radio artists explore broadcast radio space through poetic resuscitations and playful celebrations/subversions of the complex relationship between senders and receivers in this hour of radio about radio as an art form. "The Radio Art Hour" features introductions from Philip Grant and Tom Roe, and from Wave Farm Radio Art Fellows Karen Werner, Andy Stuhl, Jess Speer, and Jos Alejandro Rivera. The Conet Project's recordings of numbers radio stations serve as interstitial sounds. Go to wavefarm.org for more information about "The Radio Art Hour" and Wave Farm's Radio Art Archive.

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Dead Man Woking

"Turn On The News" is the weekly newscast from the fictional Radio Network, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. Tune in "Turn On The News" each week for the latest news, radio art, and more from our robot reporters, making sure you hear both sides -- good and evil -- every time you "Turn On The News." It is often a mash-up of the week's news, and sometimes a radio news fantasy with song parodies and covers similar to "Dr. Demento" and comedy skits and more. The show airs at 3 p.m. Thursdays on WGXC, and also most weeks on WGRN, WRWK, KFUG, KACR, KRFP-LP, KMSW, and many other stations. Produced by Tom Roe at Wave Farm and WGXC. For more information go to: https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/93bbe3

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Cheeze Pleeze # 987

In these unprecedented times, we'll go back in time for a positive groove with a 60s teen album that screams of those cheezy kids....some wise words about babies...and mitch miller will be tootin his own horns

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Episode 517: It's good to be the king

SMOKES Episode – A takeover style episode with Caldwell Cigars. They were one of early all Dominican Republic brands even though they now source from others places as well. We cover the product line that you can find most anywhere. Mike got lost, then found, and in the end was really lost all along.

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Alice Rothchild talks with Phil Weiss about her new young adult novel, Finding Melody Sullivan

Alice Rothchild is doctor, writer, filmmaker and activist who has spent decades in key social justice movements. She is the author of three books, Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience was released in 2007, On the Brink: Israel and Palestine on the Eve of the 2014 Gaza Invasion, came in 2014, and Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine, was published in 2017. This year Cune Press will publish her first young adult novel, Finding Melody Sullivan. It is the story of a half-Jewish, half-Catholic, 16-year-old girl told against the backdrop of the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Phil Weiss spoke with Alice recently about the book and her experiences writing it.

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Between the Lines for May 24, 2023

Can Chinese Diplomacy Help End the Ukraine War?; DOJ Ignores Trump Scheme to Steal 2020 Election Software; 23 More Stop Cop City Activists Charged with Domestic Terrorism.

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What are the impacts of Israeli apartheid and occupation on Palestinian public health?

Yara Asi speaks with the Foundation for Middle East Peace's Sarah Anne Minkin about how to understand Palestinians' access, if any, to public health resources. As Minkin details, Israeli policy is essentially to cruelly reduce or eliminate any such access just as much as possible. The so-called Palestinian Authority is no help, by design. Thus, when a Palestinian or his/her child needs a doctor's or hospital's attention immediately, he/she is put through a sadistic wild goose chase from checkpoint to checkpoint to checkpoint. Some make it, some don't. What are possibilities and priorities, if any, for change? Essentially, none. That's what Israel calls public health -- for Palestinians.

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Daniel Ellsberg: The Doomsday Machine - Secret Launch Plans for US Nuclear Weapons

In 1971, the young defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg had taken on the Nixon administration, risking his career and freedom to leak the Pentagon Papers. He showed the world that the U.S. government had lied repeatedly about beginning and winning the war on Vietnam. Now, over 40 years later, Ellsberg is sharing the research from his most ambitious project yet, The Doomsday Machine — a stunning insider’s tale of the American nuclear procedures. Ellsberg was a nuclear war planner during the 1950s and '60s. In The Doomsday Machine Ellsberg offers an expose about "the nuclear war planners, of which I was one, who have written plans to kill billions of people," calling it "a conspiracy to commit omnicide, the death of everyone." Ellsberg asks us, "Can humanity survive the nuclear era? We don't know. I choose to act as if we have a chance." For decades he has put himself on the line to oppose those plans: writing, speaking, standing up, and sitting-in against the threat of nuclear annihilation. Ellsberg has been hauled off to jail for civil disobedience against war over 80 times. On Dec 13, 2017, Daniel Ellsberg was on stage at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. He had an engaging conversation with the Club’s President, Dr. Gloria Duffy. She and Ellsberg share a similar background. She worked as a resident consultant at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, where Ellsberg had been 6 years earlier. She then was Communications Director at the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C.. This broadcast is part of a celebration of the work and life of Daniel Ellsberg. He recently disclosed that he has pancreatic cancer and has only three to six months to live. He remains active in his anti-nuclear work and wrote that his editor knows that he works better under a deadline. And Ellsberg adds Quote: It turns out that I also live better under a deadline!

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Sunsara Taylor and Rafael Kadaris, “Woke” Lunacy v. Real Revolution; Title 42, We Have an Imperialism Problem. And from the Vault: Douglas Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name; “Who is Dayani Cristal?”

From the vault: Filmmaker Marc Silver, and Robin Reineke, one of the participants in the documentary “Who is Dayani Cristal?” Douglas Blackmon, author of Slavery By Another Name, The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Plus, Rafael Kadaris and Sunsara Taylor talk about the “Woke” Lunacy vs. Real Revolution tour, and play part of a program at UC San Diego. The End of Title 42, We Don't Have an Immigrant Problem, We Have an Imperialism Problem, with Atlas Winfrey

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Walkuman Style #355

(1.) The Thoro Side - Teflon ft. M.O.P. (2.) Mbeguel (Love) - Raashan Ahmad ft. Ngnima-Tie (3.) You Out There - J-Live (4.) Eyein' Win - Es & Das Da Beat Junkie (5.) Blue and Orange Everything - Skyzoo (6.) Drink Away The Pain (Situations) - Benny Reid and Havoc (7.) Keep It Jazzy - Kid Abstrakt & Leo Low Pass ft. vsteeze (8.) Straight Classic - Doctor Omega ft. Tragedy Khadafi (9.) Die With A Buzz - Sam Be Yourself, Nathan Hui-Yi ft. Ronnie Alpha (10.) Black Clouds - bloodmasta cut & RakyMcFly (11.) Dilla Villa Vibe - Prev-L ft. Sergius (12.) Pity Party - The Emsee (13.) Ain't Changed - Fatlip & Blu ft. Slimkid3 (14.) Gunz from Italy - Realio Sparkzwell & Tone Spliff (15.) Life In 3D - John Robinson & Figub Brazlevic (16.) Jazz Boutique - Shuko (17.) By Myself - 1773 & Terse (18.) 3 vs. 3 - Rah Scrilla & Profound79 ft. Fan Ran and Illa Styles (19.) Commandifesto - Pseudo Intellectuals ft. Nelson Rivera (20.) Stop This - Fortunato & Sean One (21.) Music Box - Harrison

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Wood Pellets: The New Coal (re-broadcast)

Back in the 16th century, when England began to run out of trees, it started burning coal. And by 1700, most Brits were using coal as their main source of fuel. But then coal became scarce. To come full circle, today England is burning large amounts of wood again – much of it in the form of wood pellets from the US. Wood has somehow been designated as a renewable energy source since the Kyoto Protocol in 1992 and the repercussions have been devastating. This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak to journalist Justin Catanoso, a journalism professor at Wake Forest University, about the dangers of this latest transition to a fuel source which is leading to deforestation and pollution. We learn about the wood pellet industry, manufacturing giant Enviva, and the wide-ranging problems caused by burning trees.

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Struggle and Freedom for Palestine - What is to be done?

Chief Nkosi Mandela, grandson of Nelson Mandela, speaks of the long solidarity between the people of South Africa and their Freedom movement, the ANC, and that of the Palestinians in their struggle to regain their human rights, dignity and land from the Zionist apartheid settler colony Israel. He recounts how the ANC's nonviolent campaign against apartheid was answered by the South African State with violence and repression which they then responded to with armed resistance and the call for an International campaign to Boycott, Divest and Sanction as the Palestinians are today. He speaks of the diversity and range of support that the ANC received from people and countries around the world, the Palestinians being significant in that they too were engaged in a freedom struggle against a racist western settler colonial government that was imposed on them by European Imperialist powers. He pays tribute to the Cuban people for the sacrifices they made that enabled the defeat of military forces supported by the United States, Great Britian, Israel and other colonial powers that sought the defeat of the ANC at the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola. That defeat lead to the negotiations that resulted in the end of Apartheid South Africa. He then points to the hypocrisy of people and governments who now fawn over his grandfather's memory as Freedom Fighter, President of South Africa, and Nobel Prize recipient but previously labeled him a terrorist, a label he would proudly ware in supporting a similar goal of freeing people from a murderous, white supremacist colonial State. He then addresses the audience on "what is to be done?" and what he learned from his grandfather.

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Episode 279 - Irradiated Grandmas Sending Naked PIctures

It's good to keep up to date on the latest in cannabis legalization and laugh a lot when Joe gets talking! Tune in on Monday's at 8pm, either we're live or we're a recast, we'll let you know. Tune in at http://www.chiampa.org

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Outrageous: The Queer History of Australian TV (Pt. 2) + global LGBTQ news!

How Aussie audiences embraced TV’s first queers; Estonia’s government proposes marriage equality, Namibia’s highest court approves foreign-wed queer bi-national couples, married lesbian and gay Taiwan couples gain full adoption rights, China’s government shuts down the Beijing LGBT Center, Florida’s anti-LGBTQ campaign drags on, Nebraska and Texas Republicans batter trans youth, Missouri’s A.G. withdraws his absurd ban on all trans healthcare, and West Hollywood honors "This Way Out"! Those stories and more this week when you discover "This Way Out": the world's audio oasis for queer news and culture.

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Tony Gosling: post Bilderberg debriefing & Jimmy Savile's MI5 protection, Richie Allen 22 May 2023

Tony Gosling: post Bilderberg debriefing & Jimmy Savile's MI5 protection, Richie Allen 22 May 2023

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22.5.23. The Canadian Electronic Top 10

Released on Mondays and playable for the whole week, this 100% CANCON 58min show counts down the latest and best Canadian Electronic Music from coast to coast to coast along with some of your favorites from the past and new songs you should pay attention to. IF YOU HAVE DOWNLOAD PROBLEMS ON THIS SITE THEN PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE SHOW DIRECTLY FROM OUR SITE: http://amplifiedradio.ca/download CONTACT: sean@seansavage.ca

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If Music Could Talk - May 21 2023

aired on non profit non commercial LPFM, WRIR 97.3FM Richmond Independent Radio on May 21, 2023

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Tribute With Host Danny Hensley

Murphy Hicks Henry is well known in the bluegrass community for her banjo playing, her Murphy Method by-ear teaching videos, her book Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass (University of Illinois Press), her long-running General Store column in Bluegrass Unlimited magazine and, in earlier years, her lively performing with the band Red and Murphy & Co. It was while playing with Red and Murphy & Co. that Murphy honed her considerable skills as a songwriter. Recently, for her 70th birthday, her son Christopher totally surprised her by masterminding and producing When My Momma Sang to Me: Songs of Murphy Hicks Henry, a CD which features over 30 well-known women in bluegrass playing and singing 23 of Murphy’s original compositions. The project includes early songs like “Riding Around on Saturday Night” and “Grandmother’s Song” as well as later songs like “All of Us Used To Be Skinny” and “Save Me A Square On The Floor.” In between are solid favorites like “Fried Chicken,” “M and M Blues,” and “I Ain’t Domesticated Yet.” Helping out on this project (and keeping totally mum!) were Rhonda Vincent, Alice Gerrard, AJ Lee, Kristin Scott Benson, Gina Furtado, Cathy Fink, Marcie Marxer, Laura Orshaw, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, the Price Sisters, daughter Casey Henry, and a host of other women including Murphy’s sisters.

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Community Science

This time on The Children's Hour we learn how everyone can contribute to active scientific research by participating in Community Science with groups like BEMP: the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program. The Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program or BEMP, studies the riparian forest along the Rio Grande in New Mexico as it travels from Colorados Rocky Mountains, down to the Gulf of Mexico in El Paso, Texas. Students in BEMP work with the program as part of their school science curriculum, taking multiple field trips to the bosque to collect data, from counting insects, to measuring leaf litter. When the kids collect their data, they are participating in community science. In order for scientists to understand as much as possible about our climate, soil health, endangered species, weather, and so much more, they need to get as much information as possible. Members of every community are needed to collect certain kinds of data from wherever they may live. BEMP helps teachers make that effort part of a day at school. More than 100,000 New Mexican students have worked directly with BEMP, as of fall 2022. You can learn a lot more about Community Science in our Learn-Along Guide thats posted above. Press the button and your download will start. This guide meets and cites US National Education Standards, and will expand on what we explored today on the show. This episode was produced by Katie Stone, our Executive Producer and our Senior Producer, Christina Stella. Our Learn-Along Guides are written by Jonathan Dunski, with help from Lorraine Archibald. Many thanks to Zoe Wadkins-Daniels for providing so many additional resources for us to share with our listeners. 2023 The Children's Hour Inc.

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WINGS #06-23 Homecare Worker Rally

Audio from an April 2023 rally in New York City with homecare workers and their supporters protesting 24-hour shifts paid for only 13 hours, sometimes for days in a row. City Council (now majority women and minority) promised to end this abuse and didn't. They are also getting screwed on a promised wage increase by the state. Speakers in various languages, with translation, include workers, organizers, feminists, former officials, and a tech worker with a similar problem.

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May 21, 2023: They left me naught to dig his grave

Happy 82nd birthday to Martin Carthy; the unlikely duo of Venezuelan Larry Bellorín on llanera harp and American Joe Troop on banjo; another new single from Denver Latin-folk-psych combo Kiltro; a set of Afro-reggae and ska; the latest Sahara desert blues from Tinariwen and Bombino; one more song by Baba Commandant & The Mandingo Band who will be at the Get Tight Lounge on Wednesday May 24

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On Fire Again

Early Spring wildfires cover parts of North America with smoke. Record temperatures roast the Pacific Northwest, again. India and Thailand went into their ninth straight week of unbearable heat, into the mid-40s Celsius, well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Thats how it was last week during this decade of climate shift. This week you will hear 3 of my best interviews on wildfires. But first I want to explain why I almost gave up.

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Bobby Sands

Bobby Sands was twenty-seven years old and had been on hunger strike for sixty-six days when he died on 5 May 1981. His testament "A Day in My Life" reflects a political prisoner's courage and indomitable struggle for freedom.

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Episode 135, May 21, 2023 - Another fun romp thru the forgotten history of popular music

Another wild ride on Backbeat this week as we start out with a blues song that was also a hit in Cajun, Reggae and Country versions, the Ink Spots sing the praises of coffee and we hear a Kenyan group who obviously loved the Ink Spots. We'll even throw in a Black string band from the 1930s, some lovely country harmony from the Miller Sisters (pictured), a Beatles instrumental and a Bill Monroe classic just for fun.

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Episode 135, May 21, 2023 - Another5 fun romp thru the forgotten history of popular music

Another wild ride on Backbeat this week as we start out with a blues song that was also a hit in Cajun, Reggae and Country versions, the Ink Spots sing the praises of coffee and we hear a Kenyan group who obviously loved the Ink Spots. We'll even throw in a Black string band from the 1930s, some lovely country harmony from the Miller Sisters (pictured), a Beatles instrumental and a Bill Monroe classic just for fun.

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The Appalachian Sunday Morning with Danny Hensley

Join me for a wonderful Sunday Morning broadcast featuring all Gospel music selections with your program & station host - Danny Hensley. This week features music from The Journeys, Daughters Of Calvary, Don Rigsby, The Erwins, The Browns and many others. Join us at www.sbbradio.org 91.7 FM Community Radio Quick Listen Link: station.voscast.com/5c2bf0e47fbe8/ Hear the radio station live at live365 under Southern Branch Blugrass

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The Pauly Remakes Show 093

Annie Lennox, Nirvana, No Doubt, Eartha Kitt, Dinah Eastwood, Joe Cocker, Eva Cassidy, Elton John, Jeff Healy, Tavares, Willie Nelson, Jimi mHendrix, Boby Womack, Heart.! Enjoe The Remakes. Mercy.!

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Indigenous in Music with Larry K - Dan Linitie in our Spotlight Interview (Hip Hop, Reggae) HR 2

Welcome to Indigenous in Music with Larry K, this week we welcome from Quebec, Canada, Indigenous Rapper, Dan Linitie is in our house. He has just released his 3rd album is out entitled “Tome III: L'accomplissemt.” A nice fusion mix of Hip hop and Reggae. Read all about his and hear his music on our website at www.indigenousinmusicandarts.org/past-shows/dan-linitie. Enjoy music from Dan LInitie, STOik, Jak'kota, Plex, Drezus, Solju, Hayley Wallis, Angel Baribeau, QVLN, 1915, Old Soul Rebel, Latin Vibe, Dan L'initie, Graeme Jonez, Aysanabee, Low Budget Rock Star, Carsen Gray, Samantha Crain,Thunderhand Joe and the Medicine Show, Redbone, Morgan Toney, Emma Stevens, Esther Pennell, Indian City, Shon Denay, Aocelyn, Shauna Seeteenak, Alexis Lynn, Brandis Knudsen, G Precious, Alan Syliboy & The Thundermakers, NORTHBOUND51, The City Lines, Isaac Murdoch, Matt Epp and much much more. Visit us on our new website at www.IndigenousinMusicandArts.org and find our all about us and our programs and visit our SAY Magazine Library with all our featured guests.

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