A list of audio content I’m listening to — music, podcasts, occasional lectures, and recorded books — mostly on YouTube, Spotify, and Audible, but also on CD, DVD, and local FM radio, with recommendations and reviews of some of the listed content.
Week of February 2, 2025
- Harlem Shuffle Colson Whitehead (Audible)
- “Michelangelo Antonioni” Caetano Veloso (YouTube)
- “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” Ryuichi Sakamoto (YouTube)
- “Show and Tell – Single” Chucky’sLife (Apple Music)
- “Take Care of You” Cherokee (YouTube)
- “Daft Punk – Something About Us” Cherokee Remix (YouTube)
- “Satin Jackets Lockdown Live Stream” Satin Jackets (YouTube)
- “Deep and Soulful House – Loc’d Grooves Ep 1, Black Impala
Restaurant” LocHive The DJ (YouTube) - “Groovy Disco and R&B Mix at a New York Basement Party” DJ Tinzo –
Book Club Radio (YouTube) - “Wernher von Braun” Tom Lehrer (YouTube)
- “Vatican Rag” Tom Lehrer (YouTube)
- “Remembering Octavia Butler: Black Sci-Fi Writer Shares Cautionary
Tales In Unearthed 2005 Interview” Democracy Now (YouTube) - “Octavia E. Butler Interview – Charlie Rose” The Charlie Rose Show
(YouTube)
“Octavia E. Butler Interview – Charlie Rose” The Charlie Rose Show
Watch Charlie Rose demonstrate New York baseline bigotry in this pathetic interview of one of SF’s only female African American writers.
For extra credit, pay attention to location 0:18 in the interview as Charlie further demonstrates his ignorance by referring to one of SF’s two most prized awards the “Neboola” Award. No doubt this native New Yorker thought the award was some black thing he and other New Yorkers wouldn’t understand. (And for the record, fuck NY: I still maintain it is the source of much of America’s disfunction. Or need I remind readers of Diaper J. Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, Rudy Giuliani, Bill Barr, the (R)ussian and Italian mafias. . . ?)
“Michelangelo Antonioni” Caetano Veloso
“Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” Ryuichi Sakamoto
“Deep and Soulful House – Loc’d Grooves Ep. 1” Black Impala
Restaurant” LocHive The DJ
“Groovy Disco and R&B Mix at a New York Basement Party” DJ Tinzo
Week of February 23, 2025
- “Street Talk” Thom Rotella – Street Talk, Single (Stingray Smooth
Jazz) - “Tropicool” Paul Hardcastle – Hardcastle 9 (Stingray Smooth Jazz)
- “Window Shopping” Jason Carroll and the Smooth Jazz Symphony –
2 Smooth (Stingray Smooth Jazz) - “The Closer We Get” Dave Koz – A New Day (Stingray Smooth Jazz)
- “Mister Magic” Grover Washington, Jr. – Mister Magic (Stingray
Smooth Jazz) - “Countdown (Captain Fingers)” Lee Ritenour – Rit (Courtesy the DJ
Who Resides in My Head) - “No More Mr. Nice Guy” Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies (KRFH)
- “Teenage Riot” Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation (KRFH)
- “Lovers Are Strangers” Michelle Gurevich – Party Girl (KRFH)
“Countdown (Captain Fingers)” Lee Ritenour – Rit
“Countdown (Captain Fingers)” was the B-side to Lee Ritenour’s hit single, “Is It You,” which peaked at Number 15 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100 for the Week of June 27, 1981.
“No More Mr. Nice Guy” Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies (KRFH)
“No More Mr. Nice Guy” was released as a single in 1973 from Alice Cooper’s sixth studio album Billion Dollar Babies. The single reached Number 10 on the UK charts and Number 25 on the US charts. Billion Dollar Babies reached Number 1 in both nations.
“Teenage Riot” Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation (KRFH)
Daydream Nation is the fifth album released by New York-based experimental “no wave” artists, Sonic Youth. At the time of this double album release, Sonic Youth were comprised of the following members: Kim Gordon (vocals, bass, guitar), Thurston Moore (vocals, guitar), Lee Ranaldo (guitar, vocals), and Steve Shelley (drums).
“Teenage Riot” was the first single released off the Daydream Nation album. It is likely the most-recognizable song produced by Sonic Youth and received considerable airplay in the United States and United Kingdom. In 2021, “it “Teenage Riot” ranked at Number 157 on Rolling Stone‘s list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”
“Lovers Are Strangers” Michelle Gurevich – Party Girl (KRFH)
Michelle Gurevich is a Canadian singer-songwriter whose music is influenced by her Russian heritage. Gurevich’s music has a haunting, Eastern European sound and is alternately described as slowcore rock and “lo-fi pop.” Born in Toronto, Gurevich is the daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants: her father an engineer in Soviet Leningrad and her mother a Kirov ballerina.
KRFH 105.1 FM, Radio Free Humboldt in Arcata, CA
KRFH is the student-run radio station of California State Polytechnic
University in Arcata, CA. KRFH began in 1990 when KHSU, Humboldt State University’s student-run radio station, dissolved affiliation with the HSU Speech Communication Department to become a community-supported, non-commercial public radio station under the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at HSU. Dr. Gary Melton and Professor Emeritus Mark Larson convinced the HSU Dean to in turn fund a student-run radio station at Humboldt State, which became KFRH 105.1 FM, Radio Free Humboldt.
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