Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center 91.7 FM WHUS

07/26/2025

Highly Recommended!!

A new set of songs from Emily Duncan and Randall Woolf brings together the gorgeous textures of flute, piano, violin, cello, and more, all put together with elements of narration that tell intimate stories and pull the listener in with orchestrated and beautifully woven arrangements that come throug...

07/26/2025

Greetings! In this week's musical assortment: new/new, old/new, new/old, old/old. Your job, figure out which is which. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: [email protected] Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social 7-19-25 PTE Playlist Satan's Mysterious Feeling - Roy Haynes - Hip Ens...

07/05/2025

Greetings! 7/5 PTE: We've got a mostly prog Phase Two with some fine new releases including a 10 disc mega box set of live performances from Caravan and a wonderful 2 disc extravaganza from Iona co-founder, Dave Bainbridge. In contast, Phase One is all over the place genre-wise as you will soon hear...

06/29/2025

Greetings! This show took a while to assemble due to technical difficulties, requiring me to please stand by. I now have a new computer on order and have managed to coerce this one to be a bit more cooperative for right now. On board, lots of new releases, an older Jah Wobble track and a couple of t...

06/16/2025

Greetings! Let's see... a couple of new items from our friends at 577 Records, some carnivalesque music in Phase One, classic stuff from the ready to re-boot label Table of the Elements and a smathering of other goodies! Enjoy! Joel e-mail: [email protected] Blue Sky: https://bsky.app...

06/10/2025

Greetings! Just back from Providence, Rhode Island where I experienced the I Heart Noise Festival 2025 in all it's noisy ambient, drone, experimental, rocked out, spacey glory. Today's program will serve to present the featured artists in the order they played that evening. Kudos to Ilya S. who put....

06/07/2025

Greetings! Lately I've been sifting through a passel of new releases, most from artists not currently in my purview. These make up a sizeable chunk of today's program, along with a few classics/favorites. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: [email protected] Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpush...

05/30/2025

A FREE Festival of NEW MUSIC this weekend – 2pm till dark - on Sat.May 31, 2025 [rain date Sun.June 1] in Milton Delaware! Featuring the The Messthetics, Bob Boilen, Cuneiform recording artists Luke Stewart Silt Trio and Janel Leppin-Pirog's Ensemble Volcanic Ash, and a collective ensemble - conducted by Anthony Pirog - performing Terry Riley's composition "In C". IN C BY THE SEA!!! Not to be missed!!!

05/27/2025

Greetings! Today's program is a bit of a world tour, starting in Shropshire, UK, then moving along to distant climes including Princeton, New Jersey, Hamburg, Germany, Norway & Quebec, Canada. Good luck with your passports! Listen & Enjoy! https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-2hs7g-18adbc6 Joel e-m...

05/22/2025

Greetings! Today's program starts with tracks from my latest Bandcamp Friday haul, wanders around a bit and towards the end celebrates the 50th birthday of the Tangerine Dream classic, "Phaedra". Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: [email protected] Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/env...