Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for July 13, 2019

A program for a lovely summer's day in Somerville, and hopefully wherever else you may be.
This week's program brings us down the similar first hour jazzy, second hour free-form.

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Webcast information for July 6, 2019

Today we are still away from Unpopular Music Central, still hearing residual fireworks go off, and so we will be rerunning the episode from November 17, 2018. I trust the shift from post-Independance Day to pre-Thanksgiving will not be too jarring.

Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for June 29, 2019

Two second hours for today's program. I came up with some longish jazzy things for the first hour, but couldn't assemble them around the usual break point,s so one less talking break. The second hour, after a rocky start, skews towards the contemporary classical, with a couple of segments that came around on the shuffle play this week which sounded good together, occasionally obscuring where one track ends and the next begins. Maybe not the most professional way to program, but it worked. (or did it? you be the judge)

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Livestream info

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Well, it seems that StreamLicensing.com, the company that providers the livestream on the Boston Free Radio homepage has gone out of business. At this point, I don't know what the plans are to replace it.

Currently there is no way to get the stream from the homepage. The best way is to listen is on Tune In. I think we are also in the radio section of Apple Music, but, not being a subscriber, I have no way to confirm that.

Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for June 22, 2019

A happenin' program for the first full day of summer. A typically jazzy first hour with a free-form second hour which gets a bit mellow toward the middle. A good time can be had by all.




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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for June 8, 2019

A by the seat of my pants presentation mostly held together. A jazzy first hour, and a mix and match second hour. Enjoyable sounds for an enjoyable day.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for June 1, 2019

Music for a sunny Saturday with a bit of ocean chill to it. A jazzy first hour featuring some new additions to the Unpopular Music Central Library. A free form second hour also skews jazzy, but has some rockin' string quartet music, some African sounds, and a couple of pop oddities.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for May 18, 2019

A variety show for you today on this lovely afternoon in Somerville. A jazzy first hour, with some more contemporary (classical and otherwise) in the second, featuring some crazy piano music, some crazy piano music transcribed for barrel organ, an excerpt from a banjo concerto, some minimalism-meets-math-rock-meets-jazz and more. Several of the Unpopular Music All-Stars are also heard from.



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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for May 11, 2019

Some music for a lovey day in Somerville. We're pretty jazzy for both hours. I get lazy and bust out a twenty-minute version of an Art Ensemble classic in the second hour. Monk comes back after a couple of weeks off. We also get some revolutionary French jazz from the seventies.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for May 4, 2019

Greetings from Somerville, where April showers bring May showers. We have a few flower references regardless. There's the usual jazz/not jazz breakdown between hours one and two. We've got some faux-Wagner film music. Some legendary guitarists getting introspective. And of course some May flowers.

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No Star Wars references except for an RIP to Peter Mayhew.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for April 27, 2019

A program as eclectic as today's weather. We have a pretty jazzy first hour. A set focused around 1960, and another from the last few years. The second hour contains jazz, some slightly contemporized early music, a bit of high modernism, and some elevated pop music.

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Webcast info for April 20, 2019

 

Not an Easter song, just a song about a rabbit, so when else do I play it

I'm away this weekend for the holiday, so today we present the episode from January 7, 2017 which had been meant to have been rebroadcast on January 12, 2019.

As I said on both occasions, it features a "raucous first hour, [and a] contemplative, yet not, somnambulant second hour." Having not re-listened to the program since I chose it as a rerun, I've forgotten what I meant by that. I guess I'll have to listen in, too.

Oops, it was actually the episode from January 20, 2018. I don't know where I came up with that phony information.

Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for April 13, 2019

Today we present a program of various sounds, progressing from the usual jazz opening, to a variety of sounds. There's a historical electronic piece, some avant-garde jazz and theatrical music.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for April 6, 2019

A mix-and match show today a jazzy first hour, with some classical asides. Followed by an electronics heavy variety show for the second hour.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for March 30, 2019

Today we belatedly celebrate World Piano Day, which was yesterday, as March 29 is the 88th day of the year. (I only heard about this in a promotional email, so as far as I know, Deutsche Grammophon made the whole thing up.) We feature a variety of jazz, contemporary classical and one or two oddities, all featuring the piano.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for March 23, 2019

A variety show for you today for the first Saturday in spring. We start with a jazzy set on springtime themes. Followed by a short set from a couple of Unpopular Music All-Stars. The second hour brings us some rockin' Rite of Spring variations, some volcano atmosphere, a long whisper-to-a-scream track, heavy metal goes classical and a few other odds and ends.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for March 16, 2019

The first set starts with a pair of be-bop classics, ends with something from one of the first steps beyond, and has something contemporary in the middle. The second set is the ruminative set for the show. While the second hour has a set of collage pieces, the first of which is a great influence on my musical aesthetic in general, and the webcast in particular.

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A word from John Zorn

...and a preview of this week's webcast.

From the liner notes to John Zorn's Spillane album.

Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for March 9, 2019

Today we acknowledge (or perhaps even celebrate, we'll see how the program goes) the fifth anniversary of the first Unpopular Music webcast!

No special programming to present. It's a mostly jazzy show with some 20th-century classical stuff in hour two, plus a coule of pop songs at the end. We return to a few records I've been featuring lately. Many of the Unpopular Music All-Stars make an appearance. A good time is had by all.

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Playlist for the Unpopular Music webcast for March 2, 2019

March is coming in like a lion, so lay like the lambs and listen in. We have birthday tributes to Lou Reed (born March 2, 1942), Kurt Weill (born March 2, 1900) and Robyn Hitchcock (born March 3, 1953) Sorry, I don't have any Mikhail Gorbachev records (born March 2, 1931).

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