Latest Programs
Pandemic of Angst: Elite need to control masses as democracy is dismantled Kees van der Pijl
April 1, 2022, 2:31 p.m.
TBR 220401 - Crisis Capitalism Gone Wild*
April 1, 2022, 9:45 a.m.
This week’s archive radio show reveals recently discovered payroll deductions from ancient times, a carving from not so ancient times, we ponder who really needs who around here, we compare the incarceration experience in Canada and the United States, and for the feature we describe how crisis capitalism is going into overdrive.
Hang onto your brains. It’s time for the Thunderbolt…
Sonic Cafe #283/You May Already Be a DJ!
April 1, 2022, 8:42 a.m.
Sonic Café, this is where the fun is! Music there from Bad Religion, so yeah welcome to the Sonic Café⦠this is where the fun is! Iâm your host Scott Clark, that guy in the booth, in the back, in the corner in the dark, ahem and this is episode 283. This time the Sonic Café is all about the DJ. Why? Because DJâs are everywhere. Heck you may already be a DJ and donât know it. Yeah, if you put your own playlists together, guess what, youâre a DJ! How about that? Listen for comedian Emily Heller. Emilyâs brain is a DJ⦠ahh that doesnât take requests. Also confessions from Patton Oswalt, a former wedding DJ, and Dave Stone, whoâs plan was to break into the radio biz as a big time rock ân roll DJ, but ahh ended up spinning southern gospel tunes instead. Our DJ stories are background to a music mix pulled from the last 41 years, including Cafe Jacques, Blackberry Smoke, Brian Eno & David Byrne, Genesis and more, from our little radio café in the pacific northwest, a place where everybody âs a DJ. Hereâs Belly, Belly Nice⦠Dave Matthews Band, as always weâre the Sonic Café.
March 31, 2022, 10:34 p.m.
Two from France kick off a nautical 1st half hour; new Grumpy O Sheep and Barbar O'Rhum, then moving to other conveyances by Santiago Molina and The Duhks PLUS brand new Yoko Pwno!
March 31, 2022, 10:31 p.m.
Two from France kick off a nautical 1st half hour; new Grumpy O Sheep and Barbar O'Rhum, then moving to other conveyances by Santiago Molina and The Duhks PLUS brand new Yoko Pwno!
World Beat Canada Radio April 2 2022
March 31, 2022, 10:28 p.m.
15 incredible World Beaters including debuts from Portugal's Seiva, Granada's Ninos Luchando, Surrey's Khanvict, even Rochester's Televisionaries!
March 31, 2022, 4:57 p.m.
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. Sputnik Radio, NHK Japan, and Radio Havana Cuba.
Ukraine: Countering the Spin on "Russian aggression"
March 31, 2022, 3:38 p.m.
This week on the global Research News Hour, we will explore the realities of fake news and distorted coverage of the war in Ukraine coming not from Russia but From Ukraine and the NATO side.
Weâll start with a review by Independent journalist Max Blumenthal of TheGrayZone.com We will next here from Yves Engler about some of the lies and underhandedness on the part of the Canadian government. And in our final few minutes we will be joined by Winnipeg Peace activist Glenn Michalchuk about the alterations if any to his groupâs campaign for veering away from militarism in Ukraine after 4 weeks of a Russian-led incursion into the country.
March 31, 2022, 12:27 p.m.
Eric Kirk and David Frank discuss the politics of the day. Recorded 3-30-2022.
Colin Walters, Nick Zavaglia, Eugenie Jones
March 31, 2022, 11:37 a.m.
A weekly one-hour program focused on jazz and improvised music, news, radio, conversations, and more. Tune in for new releases, news about the people, eco-systems, history, and culture of jazz and improvised music. Hosted by Cheryl K., host of "The Jazz Disturbance" every Sunday on WGXC-FM.
Colin Walters, Nick Zavaglia, Eugenie Jones
March 31, 2022, 11:37 a.m.
A weekly one-hour program focused on jazz and improvised music, news, radio, conversations, and more. Tune in for new releases, news about the people, eco-systems, history, and culture of jazz and improvised music. Hosted by Cheryl K., host of "The Jazz Disturbance" every Sunday on WGXC-FM.
March 31, 2022, 11:33 a.m.
"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.
March 31, 2022, 11:25 a.m.
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, and Jess Speer. 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.
A Slap in the Face of Democracy
March 31, 2022, 11:22 a.m.
"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.
March 30, 2022, 7:03 p.m.
Hass insists that covering Palestine from Palestine is as necessary as covering Britain from London, and France from Paris. Her reports for the Israeli daily Haâaretz, which she says "cannot be objective, just as any reporting about wrong-doing cannot be objective," have won her enemies in all camps. Forced by Hamas to leave Gaza earlier than planned, in 2008, she was detained in Israel twice for entering Gaza without a permit and staying in an "enemy entity."
March 30, 2022, 5:37 p.m.
Back in the 1950s, the rock n roll monster records were popular cheeze back then and we'll play a few to try to scare you, terry snyder comes back to beat his bongos (man....doesn't that sound risque?) and a celebrity Canadian Actor who is obsessed about cod liver oil....never a dull moment around here....it's actually rather slick if I do say so...get it? oil....slick???? OK just listen.....
Union Busting at WTTW - Chicago Public TV
March 30, 2022, 12:43 p.m.
Members of IBEW Local 1220 Radio and Television Broadcast Engineers strike at Chicago Public Television - WTTW. The union has represented production workers there for over 50 years with out a labor stoppage. Management at the station wants lower waged, unprotected workers to take over their jobs. The stations new corporate director has taken a hard nosed position, refusing to negotiate with the employees who reject her demand that they allow themselves to be replaced by non union workers. From the picket line Brett Lyons provides the details.
"Ain't I Am Woman" Say Woman Working For Starvation Wages!
March 30, 2022, 11:26 a.m.
"Ain't I Am Woman" Say Woman Working For Starvation Wages!
Between the Lines for March 30, 2022
March 30, 2022, 6:27 a.m.
Preconditions Necessary to End Russiaâs War in Ukraine; US Weapons Feed Yemen War & Humanitarian Crisis; Campaign Pushes Back Against Federal Energy Regulatory Commissionâs rubber stamp of Fossil Fuel Projects.
March 30, 2022, 5:21 a.m.
Interview with Bob Naiman about the war in Ukraine, and the broader impact on issues like the war in Yemen.
Tadhg reviews Anti-Racist Baby. Noah reviews "Is it cake?"
March 30, 2022, 5:17 a.m.
On Ukraine by Noche Diaz, national spokesperson for the Revolution Club. Women's Rights are Under Attack, with Adrienne Lawrence of The Conversation and Sunsara Taylor and Lori Sokol, Rise Up for Abortion Rights. Two excerpts from the RNL, Revolution, Nothing Less Show, with Andy Zee and Raymond Lotta on War in Ukraine. And at the back end of the show, we hear from filmmakers Dave Zeiger and Mobolaji Olambiwonnu, on the upcoming film, Who the Hell is Johnny Otis?
Joanna Macy Remembers Thich Nhat Hanh
March 29, 2022, 9:14 p.m.
Thich Nhat Hanh was a Vietnamese monk, peace activist, poet, author, teacher and an inspiration for engaged Buddhism. Called Thay for short, Thich Nhat Hanh was exiled from Vietnam in 1966 after expressing opposition to the war. A year later Martin Luther King nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize. After a 39-year exile, Thay was permitted to visit Vietnam in 2005. He died on January 22, 2022.
Joanna Macy has lived in the SF Bay area for much of her life. While I was living in the area as I never missed a chance to hear her and talk to her. What intrigued me most were her anti nuclear campaigns - her many ways to inspire peace and her early recognition about the climate crisis and motivation to protect the living world - all animated by her practice of love and engaged Buddhism.
Gerald Horne on the Historic Roots of the Ukraine Crisis
March 29, 2022, 5:50 p.m.
This week, Back in the USSR is proud to broadcast The Left Lens's recent interview with African-American historian Dr Gerald Horne on the historic roots of the present war in Ukraine.
Jesse Tran: Coffee Waste Sneakers
March 29, 2022, 4 p.m.
According to a study conducted by Quantis International, footwear production is responsible for about 700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, or 1.4% of total global climate emissions. The negative impact of athletic footwear in particular includes problematic waste stream and labor practices, as well. So what can you do when you want to be responsible but you need new kicks? This week on Sea Change Radio, we speak with the founder of Rens Original, Jesse Tran, about his companyâs unique method of manufacturing shoes from spent coffee grounds and recycled plastic. Then, we revisit our discussion with independent journalist Brett Simpson as we imagine a world without traffic cops.
Ambiance Congo: March 27, 2022
March 29, 2022, 8:01 a.m.
Congolese popular music
Demanding a just peace in Ukraine and the abolition of all war
March 29, 2022, 6:50 a.m.
Sakura Saunders and Rachel Small are, respectively, a board member and the Canada organizer for World Beyond War, a decentralized global network with the goal not just of opposing the war of the day but of abolishing the institution of war. They talk about the organization's work globally and in Canada, about their war abolitionist politics, and about what their members and supporters have been doing to demand peace in Ukraine.
March 28, 2022, 5:22 p.m.
This time on The Children's Hour, we spend the hour with Cristina and Andres from Uno, Dos, Tres Andres, a bilingual indie band up for a Grammy this year for their release, Activate!
We'll hear some of their collaborations with other artists, and they'll introduce us to Spanish language children's musicians from Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Columbia.
This episode requires dancing! Join us for an hour of musical delight with Uno, Dos, Tres Andres!
If Music Could Talk - March 20 2022
March 28, 2022, 1:40 p.m.
Walkuman Style #320 - Common (Sense since 72')
March 28, 2022, 8:09 a.m.
(1.) Out For The Cash remix - DJ Honda
(2.) The Game - Finding Forever
(3.) State Of Clarity (*original and remix) - Guru
(4.) Take It EX - Can I Borrow A Dollar?
(5.) Like They Used To Say - One-Nine-Nine-Nine B-side
(6.) Charms Alarm - Can I Borrow A Dollar?
(7.) Confusion - Charms Alarm
(8.) Play Dis (99 remix) - Saukrates
(9.) UNIverse At War - The Roots
(10.) Resurrection 95'
(11.) Resurrection - Resurrection
(12.) Geto Heaven part 2 ft. D'Angelo - Like Water For Chocolate
(13.) State To State - No I.D.
(14.) Days Of Our Lives - De La Soul
(15.) The Truth ft. Talib Kweli - Pharoahe Monch
(16.) Chapter 13 (Rich Man vs. Poor Man) ft. Y-Not Never The Less - Resurrection
(17.) Respiration (instrumental) - DJ Hi-Tek
(18.) So Far, So Good (instrumental) - Yusef Dinero
March 27, 2022, 8:51 p.m.
Sister Helen Prejean in a West African setting; the irresistible sound of Cameroonian makossa; more chicha from Peru and beyond; Colombia's Viviano Torres aka Anne Zwing refracts African popular culture back on itself with his champeta versions of soul jive, bubblegum and soca