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Friday April 30 at midnight on XLII90 Live Music Radio Hour, Nufone Rick ended up switching it around at the last minute. Tony Markellis, bassist for Phish frontman Trey Anastasio‘s Band and the David Bromberg Band died earlier that day and in memory he did a show focusing on Tony’s work in Trey’s band. WORT’s music hosts are famed for doing great memorial tributes and this one’s no exception, so be sure to check it out on our archives.
[photo of Tony Markellis licensed by creative commons]
Long-time WORT Friday night rock host
Harry Rag interviewed Reasonable Facsimile, former WORT volunteer and a pioneer of Madison’s punk scene, with fascinating results! On
Friday April 30 from
8-11 pm he did a special
40th Anniversary edition of the show. Visit our website to stream the interview and the whole show on demand, and please feel free to leave comments for R.F. using the form at the bottom of the
story.
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Feed Me Weird Things this week
covered
1968-2021: 3rd Wave, Revival, Ska-Core, Ska Punk, Traditional, Two-Tone…Whatever you call it, it’s
all SKA, all night, on
Feed Me Weird Things’ 5th Week Wildcard Special early Friday morning April 30 from 2-5am CT on WORT 89.9FM. View host
Cardinal Din‘s website and playlist in
black-and-
white here.
[original FMWT art by Cardinal Din]
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Fans of British creative musician/producer
Tricky will want to check out
Bad Sister Heidi’s Extravaganza Spectacular from
Thursday April 29, 8-11 pm to hear three solid hours of music from
Tricky and his extended family.
[Photo of Tricky courtesy creative commons]
Peter Haney, host of Back Porch Serenade on Tuesday mornings said of his April 27 program, “I thought the U.S.’s recognition of the Armanian genocide was a good opportunity to sample music by Armenian and Armenian American composers.” The show includes the music of Alan Hovhaness, Aram Khachaturian, Arno Babadjanian, Loris Chobanian, and Eve Beglarian.
[Image of Khachaturian by Yerevantsi, CC BY-SA 4.0]
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In the wee hours of
4-27-21 (2-5 am)
Rolling with Scissors producer and host
Lucas The Prince of Darkness featured
all women artists – check out the playlist
here and listen to the show on WORT’s archives through May 11.
[Photo courtesy Lucas, Prince of Darkness]
WORT’s own
Nate Gibson of
Back to the Country (alt Weds 9 am-noon) says “I’m still pretty excited about the
April 24 episode of
Earworm on “
Trucker Country”featuring myself and friend
Travis Stimeling as well as
Chip Davis of “
Convoy” fame. Estelle and the folks at Vox did a really amazing job with this.” Check out that episode of the Vox video series
Earworm here.
Nate adds: “Wow, what an exciting week it’s been for Starday Records!
Vox just published a rad animated feature on the history of
truck driving music and I got to be one of the talking heads along with my pal
Travis Stimeling. I’m super impressed by the story, the animation, and all of the production that went into this 14-minute
Earworm episode and I am honored to be included. Many thanks and congratulations to
Vox, Estelle Caswell, Antonella Crescimbeni and
Travis for such a cool piece!
“This week I also learned one of my favorite podcasts,
Cocaine and Rhinestones, is doing a 2nd season (Hooray!) and the first episode this week is a 2+ hour feature all about
Starday Records. As
Tyler (the host) mentions at the end, my book was the primary source used throughout the show and I enjoyed hearing the various song snippets in between the stories. I very much appreciate Tyler’s kind remarks and enthusiasm for the Starday book and I hope some folks out there take him up on his recommendation to read the rest of it. Check out the podcast
here. For anybody who wants to purchase
The Starday Story, I have a few of the original
1st edition hardcovers left or you can request it from your favorite local bookstore or your local library.”
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