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Gil Scott Heron | I Think I'll Call It Morning | Pieces of a Man | Ash from Canadian wildfires clouds New York skies. Dave Sanders for The New York Times | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Langston Hughes | The Dream Keeper | The Dream Keeper | Member of the so-called Central Park 5, Yusef Salaam, after he was elected to the City Council. Jeenah Moon for The New York Times | 0:03:16 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Leonard Cohen | The Partisan | Songs from a Room | Dueling protests at Times Square. Barry Williams/NY Daily News | 0:07:41 (Pop-up) | ||||||
JJJJJerome Ellis | Bend Back The Bow and Let the Hymn Fly | The Clearing | A child on a school bus following a school shooting in Nashville last spring. Nicole Hester/The Tennessean, via Reuters | 0:12:33 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Clip: ABC Australia-reported irregularities during election in DRC | 0:23:10 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
Les McCann & Eddie Harris | Compared To What | Swiss Movement | R.I.P.: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/01/arts/music/les-mccann-dead.html | 0:24:09 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Les McCann | Soaring (At Dawn) Part I | Layers | Toxic cloud following train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. Gene J Puskar/Associated Press | 0:32:49 (Pop-up) | ||||||
DJ Mentos | Speaking In Keys | More with Les - The Jazz Jousters add Les McCann | Protest at Broadway-Lafayette subway station following the killing of Jordan Neely. Barry Williams/NY Daily News | 0:38:48 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Clip: Scripps-Chinese exchange student victim of cyber-kidnapping | 0:43:07 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
Black Star | No Fear of Time (with Yummy Bingham) | No Fear of Time | Rescue efforts following earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Emin Ozmen for The New York Times | 0:43:31 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes | Footprints | Cosmic Funk | Protests in Israel over proposed judicial reform. Oded Balilty/Associated Press | 0:54:35 (Pop-up) | ||||||
AMP DOG KNIGHTS | Over U | Over U | R.I.P.: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/26/arts/music/amp-fiddler-dead.html | 1:00:38 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Liquid Liquid | Lock Groove (In) / Lock Groove (Out) | Slip In and Out of Phenomenon | Homeless encampment on American River in Sacramento, Calif. Residents there affected by flooding this fall. Max Whittaker for The New York Times | 1:08:36 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Chumbawumba | Pass It Along | WYSIWYG | Aftermath of bombing in Ukraine. Nicole Tung for The New York Times | 1:16:42 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Clip: Reuters-concerns ahead of Bangladesh election | 1:20:06 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
William Butler + Sister Squares | Stop Talking | William Butler + Sister Squares | Haiyun Jiang-The New York Times | 1:21:18 (Pop-up) | ||||||
TALsounds | Slides | Shift | New Orleans summer heatwave. Bryan Tarnowski/The Guardian | 1:26:00 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Mark Van Hoen | Three Suns of Lanuvium | The First Cause | Jackson, Mississippi water crisis. Rory Doyle/The Guardian | 1:32:45 (Pop-up) | ||||||
False Prophets | Baghdad Stomp | False Prophets | Gaza. Mohammed Salem/Reuters | 1:39:24 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Swans | Blind Love | Children of God | Migrants met by border patrol after cross Rio Grande. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times | 1:53:01 (Pop-up) | ||||||
The Clash | The Magnificent Seven | From Here To Eternity | Migrants camped outside Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel. Luiz C. Ribeiro/NY Daily News | 2:00:54 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Menilek | Dub Along the Watchtower | Son of Solomon | Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times | 2:07:03 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Screensaver | Party Interest | Decent Shapes | Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times | 2:11:33 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Clip: WION-UK investigators looking into "gang rape" in Metaverse | 2:15:27 (Pop-up) | |||||||||
Self-Immolation Music | Hearing Voices | Infinity Trip | Maui following the fire. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times | 2:16:12 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Barbara Manning | Temperature's Rising | Charm of Yesterday… Convenience of Tomorrow | Fort Lauderdale airport floods following heavy rains in April. Joe Cavaretta/South Florida Sun Sentinal | 2:23:44 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Studded Left | Isolated Mess | Everyone Around Here | A Yemeni woman prepares food for her family members at a camp for internally displaced people in Yemen. Yahya Arhab/EPA | 2:28:45 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Bar Italia | Worlds Greatest Emoter | The Twits | Afghan refugee girls attend class at Syed Jamaluddin high school in Pakistan. Shahzaib Akber/EPA | 2:27:19 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Drop Nineteens | Hard Light | Hard Light | After fleeing their home, a family hides while the Myanmar military conducts airstrikes. Photo by Matias Bercovich | 2:35:59 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Tremosphere | Down the Road | Becoming Creatures | A Belarusian woman holds a placard calling for ‘freedom for Belarusian political prisoners’ during a demonstration in Warsaw. SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images | 2:38:59 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Eartheater | Chop Suey | Powders | A house burned down during an attack attributed to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), which claims affiliation with militant group Islamic State, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Joel Bibuya/AFP/Getty Images | 2:42:58 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Vagabon | Autobahn | Sorry I Haven't Called | Fireworks make patterns in the sky over the Brandenburg Gate at midnight in Berlin. Adam Berry/Getty Images | 2:46:57 (Pop-up) | ||||||
The Undertones | When Saturday Comes | Positive Touch / The Sin of Pride | People celebrate in China’s south-western Chongqing municipality. AFP/Getty Images | 2:52:24 (Pop-up) | ||||||
Ramones | I Wanna Be Sedated | Greatest Hits | 2:55:18 (Pop-up) |
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Happy New Currents.
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That picture of the girl on the bus is heartbreaking. Spread PEACE!! please
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Sometimes I’ve heard too much
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"We find this submission meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in fact whatsoever," US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told a Wednesday press briefing at the White House.
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I still have mental images of wandering through the moor hamlet. (I have photographs I could share.) Say hello to the neighbors.
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Some echoes of Trump as he was a sports star and rode that to a populist political career. Pakistan was hammered by floods, the military calls the shots (sometimes literally), they have nuclear weapons, and have an adversarial relationship with India.
Maybe I should pay more attention
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it's funny how easy to misinterpret the written word. i have realized how many times i've found confusion while texting
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“Drunk Girls” at 16rpm?
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I'm proud of this moment
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Discreet Charms at Young Ethel’s (5th Ave & 12th St. Brooklyn). They’re “Brooklyn Art punks with swagger”. WFMU’s Nate K on bass, Tom Dash (Hyland) on drums. (Speaking of WFMU DJs). It’s a free show. (Also Cut Worms at Union Pool that night is sold out)
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Happy New Year!!!
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