Theme-based radio show featuring music from various genres: 80s, goth, new wave, punk, classic country, Americana, experimental, oddities, etc . . .
The New York World's Fair opened on Sunday, April 30, 1939 in Queens. It's theme was the World of Tomorrow. This episode starts with some hits from 1939 and moves on to songs about the future.
An (incomplete) alphabetic journey through my (mostly) 1980s vinyl.
Postcard: Water Alphabet, 1998 by Abelardo Morell
April 16, 1943 was the day that Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the effects of LSD.
Book: The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, originally published in 1954 and 1956, Penguin paperback edition, 1971. Cover shows a detail from Max Ernst's Cocktail Drinker.
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern." - William Blake
Greg Stroud, one of my oldest and dearest friends, is my Special Guest DJ for episode #117. He brought a great playlist and during mic breaks he talks about living in Russia in the mid-nineties, adapting and producing a Chekhov play, and starting the CT Examiner in Old Lyme, CT.
Playlist to celebrate the upcoming eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024.
Postcard: Himmelsscheibe von Nebra (Nebra sky disc) - a bronze disc inlaid with gold symbols of sun, moon, and stars, 1800-1600 BCE
Emotions and feelings explored through songs. Happy Birthday to Leonard Nimoy (March 26, 1931 - February 27, 2015) an actor best known for playing Mr. Spock, a television character on Star Trek, who lacked emotions.
Postcard: Miss Maude Fealy from the "Celebrities of the Stage" series
Just a bunch of working women who kill it. Musically.
Postcard: Wonder Woman by Ellen Shub taken in New Words Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, 1976
My friend and fellow WAYO programmer, Sabra Wood (aka Clifton Wood), joins me for a mash-up episode of Ether Transmissions + Graphic Ear (on WAYO every Thursday from 5:30p - 7p). Lots of talk and some groovy tunes! Love this cat!
Photo: Sabra outside of the WAYO studios sporting her custom kitty hat knitted by the amazing Alyssa of Fuzzy Details
This week's show features a mini theme of Super Heroes and I came across this cool song by The Traits called "Nobody Loves the Hulk".
Image: Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman/Diana Prince and Debra Winger as Wonder Girl/Drusilla
Hits and obscurities from the 1930s to the present.
Postcard: Billie Holiday, New York City, 1949 by Herman Leonard
