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09/24/2025

This morning's interview with Amanda and Mike of Golden-Fowler Home Furnishings.

https://soundcloud.com/wnmcradio/golden-fowler-edit

09/24/2025

Our latest Top 30 . . .

ARTIST Record Label
1 BASS DRUM OF DEATH Six Cobraside
2 IN THE PINES Sunbeam Dream Self-Released
3 CHAMELEONS, THE Arctic Moon Metropolis
4 BEN SIDRAN Are We There Yet Nardis/Bonsai
5 LATHE OF HEAVEN Aurora Sacred Bones
6 MARGO PRICE Hard Headed Woman Loma Vista/Concord
7 CASE OATS Last Missouri Exit Merge
8 CHARLEY CROCKETT Lonesome Drifter Lone Star Rider/Island/UMG
9 DK HARRELL Talkin' Heavy Alligator
10 MIKEY JUNIOR Tribute To Aleck "Rice" Miller AKA Sonny Boy Williamson 8th Train
11 GUERILLA TOSS You're Weird Now Sub Pop
12 DIVA JAZZ ORCHESTRA, THE Tappin' Thru Life DIVA Jazz
13 OSEES Abomination Revealed At Last Deathgod
14 RODNEY CROWELL Airline Highway New West
15 ARTICHOKE Artichoke Self-Released
16 COLIN HANCOCK'S JAZZ HOUNDS Cat And Hounds Turtle Bay
17 TOMMY CASTRO AND THE PAINKILLERS Closer To The Bone Alligator
18 BIG THIEF Double Infinity 4AD/Beggars
19 GILLES PETERSON PRESENTS INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM VARIOUS ARTISTS Atles
20 RORY BLOCK Heavy On The Blues MC
21 CHRIS SMITH Jazz Grunge Cellar
22 HARD BOP MESSENGERS Jazz Interpretations Of The Grateful Dead Self-Released
23 BLIND LEMON PLEDGE Lemon Live! Ofeh
24 BARRY CAN'T SWIM Loner Ninja Tune
25 GIACOMO SMITH Manouche Stunt
26 WET LEG moisturizer Domino
27 ROBBIE FULKS Now Then Compass
28 BETHS, THE Straight Line Was A Lie Anti-
29 PROBLEM WITH KIDS TODAY, THE Take It! In The Shed
30 CUT COPY Moments Cutters

09/16/2025

We'll be interviewing Mary Roach tomorrow (Tuesday) at 8am. She'll be at the City Opera House the following Tuesday 9/23 as part of the National Writers Series.

09/04/2025

An interview with Alex Tank of NMC's International Affairs Forum about IAF's upcoming season, which kicks off this evening with a talk on relations with China with Prof. David Shambaugh, Professor of International Affairs & Director of the China Policy Program, George Washington University.

That starts at 6pm with a reception at the Dennos Museum Center

tciaf.com for more information

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08/27/2025

our Top 30 from last week:

ARTIST Release Record Label
1 ACCIDENTALS, THE Time Out 3 Self-Released
2 PAXTON SPANGLER BAND Trick Bag Eastlawn
3 GILLES PETERSON PRESENTS INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM VARIOUS ARTISTS Atles
4 RORY BLOCK Heavy On The Blues MC
5 SHAKI TAVI Minor Slip felte
6 PIERS FACCINI AND BALLAKE SISSOKO Our Calling No Format
7 TIERNEY SUTTON Talking To The Sun Gemini
8 KIP LONDON The Last Dance MoMojo
9 DREAM IVORY When You Come Back I Have So Much To Tell You AWAL
10 ARTICHOKE Artichoke Self-Released
11 MIKE FREEMAN ZONAVIBE Circles In A Yellow Room VOF
12 ZURHUB Countryside Motorways Origin
13 CHRIS VINCENT AND THE RAW DEALS Good Crook Self-Released
14 CHRIS SMITH Jazz Grunge Cellar
15 GIACOMO SMITH Manouche Stunt
16 HAYES CARLL We're Only Human Hwy 87/Thirty Tigers
17 RACHAEL AND VILRAY West Of Broadway Concord
18 OSEES Abomination Revealed At Last Deathgod
19 NNENNA FREELON Beneath The Skin Origin
20 PSYCHEDELIC P**N CRUMPETS Carpe Diem, Moonman What Reality?
21 MICHAEL DEASE City Life - Music Of Gregg Hill Origin
22 DAWN CLEMENT Delight Origin
23 MAMALARKY Hex Key Epitaph
24 JOHNNY IGUANA At Delmark Delmark
25 WORMBURNER Last Of The Winter Light Dive
26 BARRY CAN'T SWIM Loner Ninja Tune
27 TEETHE Magic Of The Sale Winspear
28 WILLIE BUCK AND BOB CORRITORE Oh Yeah! Vizztone
29 GOLOMB The Beat Goes On No Quarter
30 PUG JOHNSON El Ca**on Self-Released

08/07/2025

Eddie Palmieri Tribute today from 2-5pm. 90.7fm or wnmc.org

Eddie Palmieri has died. A sad day, especially since he was making interesting music well into his retirement years. But looking at the scale and duration of his musical career, you can't help but be happy and proud at the accomplishment of this kid from Spanish Harlem.

Palmieri was the biggest name on the artsier side of what would come to be known as the salsa scene in New York City in the 1960s. He and his brother, Charlie, were both serious pianists. And were both musically omniverous and wayward--"crazy" they called it--loving bombast and long musical tangents.

Charlie's became more of a name the folks on the inside knew. Eddie and his remarkable bands became world famous as musicians who were constantly trying new things and broadening their musical palette, drawing from R&B, jazz, Cuban roots music, pop and more. But always, especially, jazz. It would not be entirely out of place to call Palmieri the Miles Davis of Afro-Cuban jazz.

We're going to be listening to a big swath of Palmieri's music this afternoon from 2-5pm, as we tip our hat to a true great of salsa and Afro-Cuban jazz, Eddie Palmieri.

He roped salsa into conversation with jazz, rock, funk and even modern classical music. “A new world music,” one critic said, “is being born.”

08/06/2025

Top 30 Chart Entry for WNMC 90.7 FM
WEEK ENDING AUGUST 5
ARTIST Record Label

1 GILLES PETERSON PRESENTS INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM VARIOUS ARTISTS Atles
2 DELFEAYO MARSALIS UPTOWN JAZZ ORCHESTRA Crescent City Jewels Black Job Union
3 ETIENNE CHARLES Gullah Roots Culture Shock
4 TVOD Party Time Mothland
5 DAFNIS PRIETO SI O SI QUARTET 3 Sides Of The Coin Dafnison
6 WEST TEXAS EXILES 8000 Days Floating Mesa
7 DIVA JAZZ ORCHESTRA, THE Tappin' Thru Life DIVA Jazz
8 BEATRIO BEATrio Thirty Tigers
9 ANDREW DUNCANSON California Trap Run It Back
10 EDISON MACHADO AND BOA NOVA Edison Machado & Boa Nova Far Out
11 TROPICAL F**K STORM Fairyland Codex Fire
12 BRANDEE YOUNGER Gadabout Season Impulse
13 HARD BOP MESSENGERS Jazz Interpretations Of The Grateful Dead Self-Released
14 BOB JAMES AND DAVE KOZ Just Us Just Koz
15 BARRY CAN'T SWIM Loner Ninja Tune
16 AZYMUTH Marco Passo Far Out
17 WET LEG moisturizer Domino
18 THROWING MUSES Moonlight Concessions Fire
19 GARAJ MAHAL Rotifer Wahdude
20 BABE RAINBOW Slipper Imp And Shakaerator p(doom)/Virgin
21 MARK STEWART The Fateful Symmetry Mute
22 WILD IRIS BRASS BAND Way Up Ear Up
23 BRANDON SANTINI Which Way Do We Go MoMojo
24 ALINA BZHEZHINSKA AND TULSHI Whispers Of Rain Tru Thoughts
25 MARI KATTMAN Year of the Katt Metropolis
26 SOULWAX "All Systems Are Lying" b/w "Run Free" [Single] Soulwax
27 LAEL NEALE Altogether Stranger Sub Pop
28 ARTICHOKE Artichoke Self-Released
29 PUG JOHNSON El Ca**on Self-Released
30 DEAD TOOTH Dead Tooth Trash Casual
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08/06/2025

Bassekou Kouyate's birthday is tomorrow, and tonight (Wednesday 8/6) his music will be featured on WNMC's Africa Beyond from 7-9pm.

Malian griot Bassekou Kouyaté has emerged as one of African music’s visionaries, investing his four-stringed ngoni with the grandeur of a rock guitar or the 21-string kora. Kouyate has toured and collaborated with global musicians like Toumani Diabate and Blea Fleck, and has now grown into one himself. His indtrument, the ngoni, a tiny west African lute, is an unlikely source of international stardom. Over four albums, Kouyate has single-handedly changed its status, first with 2007’s acoustic Segu Blue, before turning electric and adding the pedals and effects commonplace to rock guitar, a process climaxing on 2015’s furious Ba Power. (Largely cribbed from The Guardian and The Observer. Check them out: https://www.theguardian.com/)

08/02/2025

Our Top 30 from last week . . .

Rank | Artist | Record | Label
1 | JAZZ DISPENSARY: NIGHT LIGHTS | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Jazz Dispensary
2 | MIKEY JUNIOR | Traveling North | 8th Train
3 | ANDREW DUNCANSON | California Trap | Run It Back
4 | ANDY NEVALA | El Rumbon | Zoho
5 | STEREOLAB | Instant Holograms On Metal Film | Warp/Duophonic
6 | AZYMUTH | Marco Passo | Far Out
7 | JOHN PRIMER | Grown In Mississippi | Blues House
8 | MADELINE KENNEY | Kiss From The Balcony | Carpark
9 | LAZARUS OST | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Milan
10 | THE CONVENIENCE | Like Cartoon Vampires | Winspear
11 | WET LEG | moisturizer | Domino
12 | BRIAN BILSTON AND THE CATENARY WIRES | Sounds Made By Humans | Skep Wax
13 | GINA BIRCH | Trouble | Third Man
14 | WILD IRIS BRASS BAND | Way Up | Ear Up
15 | YHWH NAILGUN | 45 Pounds | AD 93/Many Hats Endeavors
16 | STELLA | Adagio | Sub Pop
17 | BEN SIDRAN | Are We There Yet | Nardis/Bonsai
18 | REMI GEFFROY | Carrefour Des Anges | Collectif Vacance Entropie
19 | MONKEY HOUSE | Crashbox | Alma
20 | LIV GREENE | Deep Feeler | Free Dirt
21 | GILLES PETERSON PRESENTS INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Atles
22 | CLIFFORD JORDAN | Glass Bead Games | Strata East
23 | ALEX G | Headlights | RCA
24 | MEKONS | Horror | Fire
25 | BRIAN JACKSON AND MASTERS AT WORK | is It Jazz? EP | BBE
26 | KUARUP COMPILATION | VARIOUS ARTISTS | Kuarup
27 | BARRY CAN'T SWIM | Loner | Ninja Tune
28 | DUTCH INTERIOR | Moneyball | Fat Possum
29 | MOTHER MOTHER | Nostalgia | Warner
30 | LOVE AXE | Optimism Paranoia Desperation Abolition | Self-Released

07/29/2025

Highly eclectic, jazz-based show. Celebrating South African reed man Kippie Moeketsi, and bringing in a boatload of new releases as well.

07/28/2025

There's a new Talking Heads band bio, and it's pretty interesting! Follow the link for a full review . . .

Book Review: Burning Down the House Jonathan Gould Mariner, 2025 Talking Heads was one of my bands as a young person. I was a bit too young ...

07/23/2025

Mulebone dropped by the studio today! They're playing GrowBenzie tonight (Wednesday 7/23) at 7pm and tomorrow (7/24) at the Music House Museum in Acme, also at 7.

Here they are in studio with Takin' My Time . . .

Mulebone dropped in for an interview! They'll be playing Wednesday July 23 at GrowBenzie at 7pm, then at the Music House Museum in Acme on Thursday 7/24, also at 7pm.