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Identical Stangers- Radio Diaries

The latest Radio Diaries is featured on today’s NPR: Story of the Day podcast. It’s a multi-p.o.v. sound-portrait of twins separated at birth, “Identical Strangers” (13:10 mp3):

BG Bikes- Nature Stories

The Nature Conservancy’s Nature Stories podcast features a bike-mic collage, produced by Emily Botein, of my two-wheeled self-propelled roadtrips. From Stories from the Heart of the Land, “Biking the Back Roads” (10:05 mp3):

Wildfire Maps

KPBS-FM has made a Google Map for wildfire updates in the San Diego area. And here’s Los Angeles wildfire updates from the LA Times. Both are linked from the maps.google front.

Joe Frank- Life

Saw Joe Frank a couple weeks ago perform “The Blue Room” at Largo’s in LA, along with a live groovin’ Frank-en-jazz band. Quite the show. Don’t have audio from that night, but here’s another taste of JF live— his acceptance speech for the Third Coast International Audio Festival Audio Luminary Award:

Mt Kailash nature-cast

The Nature Conservancy’s Nature Stories podcast has Scott Carrier’s piece, from Stories from the Heart of the Land, on circling the sacred Tibetan “Mount Kailash” (20:26 mp3):

Red Sox Winning

Today’s most pressing news is not from Iraq, Wall Street, or the Presidential campaign; rather it can best be expressed as music, specifically some ancient hippie crap from the 60s Boston band Earth Opera (w/ Peter Rowan and David Grisman) whose song-title sez it all— “The Red Sox Are Winning” (3:32 mp3):

Operation Homecoming 6 cast

This week’s HV cast is from the NEA book project, Operation Homecoming, writings of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. We end our series with editor Andrew Carroll and project creator Dana Gioia (Chairman of the NEA) discussing the book and its contributors; and we hear troops reading their works. Music: Jess Atkins. A story by Barrett Golding, “Operation Homecoming- NEA” (5:47 mp3):

Outta Iraq- NPR’s Bullock

NPR reporter Tom Bullock had a nice music-laden commentary this Morning Edition about leaving Baghdad for the last time, “Journalist’s Assignment in Iraq Ends” (5:47 mp3):

So Strangely- Radio Lab

From last year’s Radio Labs episode Musical Language, check their segment “Behaves So Strangely” (mp3):

It’s an intervu w/ music-psych prof Diana Deutsch about the “series of striking auditory illusions and curiosities of sound perception” found on her CD Phantom Words and Other Curiosities.

Scott’s Pots

Artist Scott Edmonds (my good bud) has a ceramics exhibit at MDH Fine Arts Gallery, 233 West 19th St NYC, thru Nov 21 2007. Opening is Oct 25 6-8pm.

Scott’s Pots | Early Dreamwave drawings

From Burma to Indianapolis

Very nice piece on this past Weekend America by AnnH & KaraO on Burmese refugees in USA, “One Thing: From Burma to Indianapolis.” Features music and Burmese poet Sui Tluangneh.

Munster Beat!

We’ve blogged Martinibomb and The Coconut Monkeyrocket before. Here they both are at Oddio Overplay with the Halloween happy “Munster Beat!” (3:17 mp3):

BJ Nilsen- Short Night

Sound artist BJ Nilsen has a new CD (Touch Records) “based on field recordings and electronics, with mostly analogue equipment, using up to 50 year-old tapemachines, filters and generators.” From The Short Night here’s “Black Light” (4:16 mp3):

BJNilsen: site | revus | d/l

Operation Homecoming 5 cast

This week’s HV cast is from the NEA book project, Operation Homecoming, writings of troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Part 5 in our series: Sergeant Clint Douglas exchanges some bizarre cordialities between bitter enemies. Music: Jess Atkins. A story by Barrett Golding, “Lunch with Pirates” (5:47 mp3):

How Not to Intervu

Painful & amusing video of NPR host (from new Bryant Park Project) trying unsuccessfully to melt the frozen Icelandic band Sigur Rós, repeatedly pursuing unpromising lines of questioning, which NPR titles “When Good Interviews Go Bad.”

This has inspired Stereogum to collect bad musician intervus. And while you’re wincing, here’s some Sigur Rós;, “Untitled 4” (mp3):

Iran So Far- SNL Short

Andy Samberg’s (SNL) love song to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, “Iran So Far:”

Sample is Aphex Twin’s “Avril 14th;” singer is Maroon 5’s Adam Levine.

Jimmy Rogers

Too down home for words, Jimmie Rodgers sings “Waiting On A Train”:

via some velvet blog.

Bush Globally Warms

Prez GW Bush (Will Farrell) on Global Warming:

Pacifica Howls

On October 3 1957, San Francisco Municipal Court Judge Clayton Horn ruled Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” was NOT obscene, despite lines like “who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy.” A full fifty years later WBAI still feels it legally risky to broadcast the poem, so instead offers it in an online-only special at Pacifica.org. “Howl Against Censorship” includes intervus w/ poets Lawrence Ferlingetti and Bob Holman (1:32:08 mp3):

Radio -3BY

Talk about oldies radio, this signal left the station three billion years ago, and it’s just arriving: from SPACE.com “Astronomers Find Mysterious Radio Burst.” Tune in if you’re roadtripping thru the small Magellanic Cloud (a couple small galaxies, about 200K LY away, in orbit around our Milky Way Galaxy) — that’s the direction in the Southern sky the signal was detected.

More at National Radio Astronomy Observatory, “Powerful Radio Burst Indicates New Astronomical Phenomenon.” The burst lasted less than five milliseconds. Journalists say the scientists say, “it may signal a cosmic car crash of two neutron stars, the death throes of a black hole—or something else.” Aka, dunno what ’tis. Maybe they can use it to fill the “Enormous Hole in the Universe” astronomers also recently found (“nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies, and gas, and the mysterious, unseen ‘dark matter'”).