Celebrate Somerville Media Center's Community Media Week

This week Somerville Media Center, home to Boston Free Radio and the Unpopular Music webcast is presenting Community Media week. Although this is a tradition going back several years now, this is year it  is being tied in to SMC's fundraising efforts, which have become more urgent as the the sources of funding, particularly what we get from cable TV companies has changed in recent years, and will likely change in the near future. See the schedule below and find out more here.

Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for October 19, 2019

A variety show today with some film music, Burmese chamber music jams, Messiaen shouting about birds, artificial folk music, and the usual jazz offerings presented today in two long sets, but with some extra jabbering from me about the Somerville Media Center's upcoming Community Media Week fundraiser.

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See the playlist after the break...

Webcast info for October 12, 2019

This week I'm away celebrating the holiday by setting off to a faraway location, ending up somewhere else entirely, claiming that place for myself regardless of the people already living there. (actually, I'm just visiting my mom.)

In my stead, we will be re-broadcasting the episode from October 13, 2018, which was an unboxing of sorts of a recent record store binge in Portland ME, along with an RIP to baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett.

Also, please enjoy the holiday pageant presented above.

Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for October 5, 2019

Yet another last minute creation, which I do think came out rather well. We have a few new jazz releases, plus the usual variety show. I'm not using the late start as an excuse for playing a twenty-six minute track (not that it didn't help), but when I heard this piece yesterday, for the first time in a long time, I thought "this is the sort of thing I wanted to have a radio show in order to play." So, there is is.

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See the playlist after the break...