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06/03/2026

Our Top 30 from last week . . .

Rank | Artist | Record | Label
1 | CHICAGO SOUL JAZZ COLLECTIVE | No Wind And No Rain | Calligram
2 | PURRS, THE | All Of Us Right Now | Swoon
3 | FABIANO DO NASCIMENTO AND VITTOR SANTOS ORQUESTA | Vila | Far Out
4 | COLA | Cost Of Living Adjustment | Fire Talk
5 | TELEHEALTH | Green World Image | Sub Pop
6 | HEY COLOSSUS | Heaven Was Wild | Wrong Speed
7 | CONSCIOUS PILOT | Human Poultry | Devil Duck
8 | BOBBY MATOS HERITAGE ENSEMBLE | La Pena | LifeForce Jazz
9 | KING TUFF | MOO | MUP/Thirty Tigers
10 | LADYTRON | Paradises | Nettwerk
11 | TOADIES | The Charmer | Spaceflight
12 | NEW CANDYS | The Uncanny Extravaganza | Fuzz Club
13 | WHITE DENIM | 13 (Thirteen) | Bella Union
14 | JOE SYRIAN MOTOR CITY JAZZ OCTET | A Blue Time | Circle 9
15 | OSCAR PETERSON TRIO | Live At Baker's Keyboard Lounge | Verve
16 | ED O'BRIEN | Blue Morpho | Transgressive
17 | LUKE WINSLOW-KING | Coast Of Light | Bloodshot
18 | MUD MORGANFIELD | Deep Mud | Nola Blue
19 | SELWYN BIRCHWOOD | The Church Of Electric Swamp Funkin' Blues | Alligator
20 | JAMES SUGGS | For All We Know | Arbors
21 | TOUCH GIRL APPLE BLOSSOM | Graceful | K/Perennial
22 | IGUANA DEATH CULT | GUNS OUT | Greenway
23 | CHARLIE BARATH | Issaquena Getaway | Self-Released
24 | TINSLEY ELLIS | Labor Of Love | Alligator
25 | ECCA VANDAL | LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW | Loma Vista/Concord
26 | SG GOODMAN | (Re) Planting By The Signs | Slough Water/Thirty Tigers
27 | ARTURO SANDOVAL | Sangú | TM
28 | OMAR SOSA | SENDAS | Redeye
29 | SUNGLACIERS | Spiritual Content | Mothland
30 | HAMMOCK | The Second Coming Was A Moonrise | Self-Released

06/03/2026

Today, June 3, is the birthday of Joe Higgs!

Joe Higgs is most famous for having taught the (very) young Wailers the rudiments of harmony. Higgs, though a successful musician, lived in the Kingston ghetto and took time out to teach neighborhood kids about music.

Higgs was parts of a duo, Higgs & Wilson, that had a number of hits during the rock steady era (mid- to late-1960s). He toured as Bunny Wailers replacement with Bob Marley's Wailers, and as music director with Jimmy Cliff. Higgs was acknowledged by both the Wailers and Cliff as being an important help in their careers.

Though he never quite found his footing in the American or European music markets, he cut a number of very good albums in his later career.

Higgs died of cancer in 1999.

Here's a highlight cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNbLNXLlN-o

05/28/2026

Last Thursday of the month, and that means NMC75 Trivia at 8am!

Text or email your answers at the end to 231-715-1090 / [email protected]

Fabulous prizes are at stake!

05/13/2026

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05/10/2026

Fundraising edition of Head for the Hills coming up at 10am!

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05/08/2026

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05/03/2026

WNMC's Top twenty-something from last week . . .

Artist | Release | Label
Charley Crockett | Age of the Ram | Island
Luke Winslow-King | Coast of Light | Bloodshot
Tinsley Ellis | Labor Of Love | Alligator
John Lee Ho**er | That's My Story: John Lee Ho**er Sings The Blues | Craft
Fabulous Thunderbirds | What's The Word (1980) | Chrysalis
Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials | Slideways | Alligator Records
Rick Vito | Slidemaster | Momojo
Tony Trischka | Earl Jam 2 | Down the Road
VA | Old No. 1 Revisited | Truly Handmade
Catrin Finch | Notes to Self | Bendegedig
Curtis Salgado | Legacy Rewind: Live in '25 (Live April 5 at The Triple Door, Seattle, WA) | Nola Blue
Failure | Location Lost | Failure
Oscar Peterson Trio | At Baker’s Keyboard Lounge (1960): The Complete Recordings | Verve
April Verch & Joe Newberry | Blessing On The Wing | Slab Town
Cheikh Ibra Fam | Adouna | Cumbancha
Holy F**k | Event Beat | Satellite Services
Le Vent du Nord | Voisinages | self-released
Mola Oddity | Cave Crackers - EP | NomadCityRecords
Neba Solo & Benogo Diakite | A Djinn and a Hunter Went Walking (The Complete Sessions) | Nonesuch
Pictureplane | S*x Distortion | Music Website
Selwyn Birchwood | Electric Swamp Funkin Blues | Alligator
Tom Paxton & John McCutcheon | Together Again | Appalseed Productions
VA | The Horizon Spirals / The Horizon Viral | Thrill Jockey

04/28/2026

Last Thursday of the month this week, and that means another edition of NMC 75 Trivia on Mornings on WNMC!

This time we're going back to the late 1970s and early 1980s . . .

Tune in this Thursday at 8am to 90.7 fm or at wnmc.org online. Fabulous prizes are at stake!

04/24/2026

In today's Unusual Almanac: Halley's comet, famously depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, first sighted by the hostile forces on the Channel on this day in 1066. The tapestry (usually at the Bayeux Museum in France) returns to England in September for the first time in nearly a thousand years.

New research challenges the long-standing image of King Harold racing across England before the Battle of Hastings. New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) suggests that King Harold’s famous 200-mile (322-kilometer) march to the Battle of Hastings in 1066 likely never took place.