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Renegade Arts of Downtown NY: John Reed to Lou Reed and Post-Punk to Punk Jazz…

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Jersey City, NJ

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Renegade Arts of Downtown NY: John Reed to Lou Reed and Post-Punk to Punk Jazz…

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English


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A Kerouac Salute— and more from Mar 12, 2025

3/13/2025
NAKED CITY - "Skate Key" [0:00:00] Jack Kerouac/Steve Allen - "October in the Railroad Earth" [0:19:47] Jack Kerouac/Steve Allen - "MacDougal St Blues" [0:27:28] Lydia Lunch - "Bowery Blues (Kerouac)" [0:30:11] Allen Ginsberg - "Elegy For Neal Cassady" [0:32:39] William S Burroughs - "What Keeps Mankind Alive? (Brecht!)" [0:38:00] Allen Ginsberg/Bob Dylan/Peter Orlovsky - "Vomit Express" [0:56:07] Ava Mendoza - "Sun Gun." [1:02:21] Live reading: John Pietaro - "From ‘And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks’ /Charlie Parker w Strings" [1:08:13] Jack Kerouac - "The Subterraneans" [1:14:49] Val Kinzler - "Nothing Sacred About Hatred" [1:18:31] Lorraine Leckie & Her Demons - "My Lucky Number is Zero" [1:21:42] Genre Is Death - "Beyond Good People" [1:23:57] Allen Ginsberg - "America" [1:25:24] Phil Ochs - "Here’s to the State of Richard Nixon" [1:31:54] Richie Havens - "Eleanor Rigby" [1:36:06] The Ruminators - "Shadow People" [1:39:15] The Ruminators w Patti Rothberg - "Man Whore" [1:40:47] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/150026
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Vomit Express (and then some) from Mar 5, 2025

3/6/2025
Naked City - "Skate Key" [0:00:00] The Velvet Underground - "Rock and Roll" [0:13:29] Lou Reed - "Vicious" [0:17:01] Lou Reed/Ornette Coleman - "Guilty" [0:19:33] Ellen Christi & William Parker - "Baldwin" [0:24:34] Eric Mingus, David Amram, Larry Simon (Langston Hughes poetry) - "Weary Blues" [0:32:41] Phil Ochs - "No More Songs (rehearsal, previously unreleased)" [0:36:41] Lennie Tristano - "I Surrender, Dear (previously unreleased) alternate take" [0:41:57] The Lounge Lizards - "I Remember Coney Island" [1:01:06] Karen Mantler Trio - "That Damned Volcano" [1:03:59] Lou Reed - "Walk on the Wild Side" [1:09:15] Jackie Curtis/Paul Serrato - "The Marrying Kind" [1:13:17] Aretha Franklin - "A Change is Gonna Come" [1:15:30] Fairport Convention - "Suzanne" [1:24:25] Allen Ginsberg - "Stanzas: Written at Night in Radio City" [1:25:55] John Lennon - "Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)" [1:31:17] The Beatles - "Tomorrow Never Knows" [1:33:59] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/149801

Duration:02:01:42

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XX-Centric Behavior Feb ‘25: What the Fck?? from Feb 26, 2025

2/27/2025
Just Jill - "What The Fuck?" [0:00:00] Nina Simone - "Feeling Good" [0:10:10] Nina Simone - "My Baby Just Cares For Me" [0:10:45] Nina Simone - "I Put a Spell On You" [0:16:58] Nina Simone - "See Line Woman" [0:19:19] Nina Simone - "Ain’t Got No—I Got Life" [0:22:22] Nina Simone - "Mississippi Goddamn" [0:23:37] Puma Perl - "The Day After, Part 2" [0:28:15] Claire Daly - "I’ll Be There" [0:32:44] The Pretenders - "Back on the Chain Gang" [0:53:43] Roxanne Fontana - "Card Throwing #2" [0:56:24] Jill Kroesen - "Fuck off" [1:01:29] The Runaways - "Cherry Bomb" [1:04:42] Janis Joplin - "Move Over" [1:08:46] Linda Ronstadt - "You’re No Good" [1:09:44] X Ray Spex - "Oh Bondage Up Yoursc" [1:14:10] Queen Latifah - "Ladies First" [1:16:36] Patti Smith Group - "People Have the Power" [1:19:55] Joan Armatrading - "Show Some Emotion" [1:32:48] The Slits - "Typical Girls" [1:36:50] Laurie Anderson - "It Tango" [1:42:12] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/149568

Duration:02:00:38

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Easy Money from Feb 19, 2025

2/20/2025
Yoko Ono - "Kiss, Kiss, Kiss" [0:00:00] Yoko Ono - "Kiss, Kiss, Kiss" King Crimson - "Easy Money" [0:04:26] John Lennon - "Dear Yoko (stripped down mix)" [0:11:47] Yoko Ono/Danny Tenaglia - "Walking On Thin Ice" [0:14:53] Yoko Ono/Jason Pierce - "Walking On Thin Ice" [0:17:47] Yoko Ono - "Walking On Thin Ice" [0:22:48] The Music Improvisation Company - "Third Stream Boogaloo" [0:26:17] The Muslims - "Punch a Nazi" [0:51:48] The Muslims - "Punch a Nazi" [0:51:57] The Muslims - "Punch a Nazi" [0:51:57] Phil Ochs - "I Ain’t Marching Anymore" [0:53:55] Sonic Youth - "Youth Against Fascism" [0:56:37] Band of Susans - "Ice Age" [1:00:18] Anne Husick & Exit 99 - "Nickel Down" [1:09:28] Live reading: John Pietaro - "Fantasmas for 47" [1:12:31] Cabbage - "Uber Capitalist Death Trade" [1:13:10] Jackie Curtis/Paul Serrato - "Zodiac" [1:22:37] Jackie Curtis/Paul Serrato - "Who Are You?" [1:23:23] Anne Waldman & Fast Speaking Music - "Astral Omens" [1:25:47] The Fugs - "Slum Goddess" [1:32:32] The New York Dolls - "Jet Boy" [1:34:26] Hal Blaine - "Love-In (December)" [1:39:03] Paul Revere & the Raiders - "Indian Reservation" [1:41:29] Simon & Garfunkel - "America" [1:44:05] Adele Bertei - "American Elegy" [1:47:59] Brian Eno-David Byrne - "America Is Waiting" [1:51:19] Dave Sewelson & Claire Daly - "Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries" [1:54:42] Bob Dylan - "Subterranean Homesick Blues" [2:01:09] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/149343

Duration:02:04:24