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Overlooked: Big Ears 11: Apr 24, 2024
Each year at the end of March, Knoxville, Tennesse...
Overlooked: Points of Departure, Part 2 (Disease): Apr 09, 2024
This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will be...
Overlooked: Aural Illusions: Mar 27, 2024
This pre-recorded edition of “Overlooked” will exp...
Overlooked: Aural Illusions: Mar 22, 2024
Overlooked: New Releases - The Long and the Short of It: Mar 12, 2024
This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain focuses...
Overlooked: Newly Released Music - "Lucky 13 Pledge Drive" Edition: Feb 28, 2024
This WGXC “Lucky 13” Pledge Drive live broadcast o...
Overlooked: Newly Released Music - "Lucky 13 Pledge Drive" Edition: Feb 27, 2024
Overlooked: Relentless & Ecstatic: Feb 13, 2024
Coming a day before Valentine’s Day, this live bro...
Overlooked: Relentless & Ecstatic: Feb 12, 2024
Overlooked: 23 Left Over From 2023: Jan 24, 2024
This live broadcast from Overlook Mountain will fe...
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Rob Saffer: Jun 19, 2019
Rose City Band album cover.: Jul 11, 2023
Rose City Band album cover.
Baskot Lel Baltageyya album cover.: Jun 13, 2023
Baskot Lel Baltageyya (Akuphone)
Big Ears Festival logo.: Apr 25, 2023
Big Ears Festival logo.
Giant Brain image.: Apr 11, 2023
Giant Brain image from Smallstone Recordings, 2023...
The Beat of the Earth (1967): Jul 26, 2022
Balungan / Kudu Bisa Kudu: Jun 28, 2022
Iannis Xenakis: May 24, 2022
David Friend and Jerome Begin, Post- (New Amsterdam Records): May 10, 2022
David Friend and Jerome Begin, Post- (New Amsterda...
Mingus: The Lost Album from Ronnie Scott’s: Apr 26, 2022
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20241112: Nov 12, 2024: 12pm - 2pm
After the local news at noon, “Overlooked” is a sh...
20241023: Oct 23, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm
20241022: Oct 22, 2024: 12pm - 2pm
20241008: Oct 08, 2024: 12pm - 2pm
20240925: Sep 25, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm
20240924: Sep 24, 2024: 12pm - 2pm
20240910: Sep 10, 2024: 12pm - 2pm
20240828: Aug 28, 2024: 10pm - 11:59 pm
20240827: Aug 27, 2024: 12pm - 2pm
20240813: Aug 13, 2024: 12pm - 2pm
Thread, Cellos, Artifacts: Dec 14, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
Cello can closely approximate human voice, making it approachable and beloved. This broadcast will celebrate the cello in myriad settings and forms, as well as in several compositions from two recent...
The Seventh Annual Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 25, 2021: 8pm - 9pm
The first hour of Overlooked's “The Seventh Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music” is rebroadcast from Nov. 23, 2021. Tryptophanfests are created to present an array of music so unl...
The Seventh Annual Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 23, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
After the local news at noon, Overlooked presents “The Seventh Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music.” Tryptophanfests are created to present an array of music so unlistenable that y...
A Love Supreme: Nov 09, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
It is that rare occasion when there is newly released John Coltrane music. It is a much rarer day when a live version of his opus A Love Supreme is released. The only time, since 2002, when the other...
New Sounds for New Supporters: Oct 27, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
This WGXC 10th Anniversary Open Ears Pledge Drive broadcast will feature the typical open ears, unexpected sonic explorations that Overlooked listeners have come to expect, representing the station’s...
New Sounds for New Supporters: Oct 26, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
Rip Rig and Pigbag: Oct 13, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
After the local news at noon, the broadcast will feature two under-heard and overlooked bands: Rip Rig and Panic and Pigbag. Both bands were recording and performing in London in the early 80s when "O...
Rip Rig and Pigbag: Oct 12, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
Gauzy Atmosphere: Sep 28, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
Toward the end of summer and beginning of autumn the atmosphere on Overlook Mountain often alternates between brisk, strikingly clear days and those that are characterized by a deep, hazy gauziness. T...
Gnawa’s The Time: Sep 22, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
In this broadcast, a focus on Moroccan Gnawa music, with special emphasis on collaborations with western, often jazz musicians. The music is based in healing and prayer and is usually performed at ni...
Gnawa’s The Time: Sep 14, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
Celebrating Pres and Bird: Aug 25, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
Tune in for a celebration of ’The President,’ Lester Young and Charlie “Yardbird” Parker. Born August 27 and 29, respectively, and known simply as Pres and Bird, these two saxophone colossi helped inv...
Celebrating Pres and Bird: Aug 24, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
After the local news at noon, tune in for a celebration of ’The President,’ Lester Young and Charlie “Yardbird” Parker. Born August 27 and 29, respectively, and known simply as Pres and Bird, these tw...
New Releases Oddly Juxtaposed: Aug 11, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
In this broadcast, a musically diverse, wide range of newly released music spanning genres and continents. An array of recordings that offer the ear unusual musical juxtapositions and pairings: a stri...
New Releases Oddly Juxtaposed: Aug 10, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
After the local news at noon, a musically diverse, wide range of newly released music spanning genres and continents. An array of recordings that offer the ear unusual musical juxtapositions and pairi...
20210728: Jul 28, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
After the local news at noon, “Overlooked” is a show focusing on overlooked and under-heard jazz, improvisational, and other fringe music, from early roots to contemporary experiments, a mix of famili...
Newly Recorded Jazz and Improvised Music: Jul 27, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
After the local news at noon, a score of new scores, charts, and improvised music played and composed by musicians typically considered to be working in the jazz idiom. The broadcast will include 19 n...
20210714: Jul 14, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
Jazz Mahoffs: Jul 13, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
Most languages have words for it. In English, it’s big shot, big wig, or big cheese. In French, it’s gros bonnet. In Italian, it’s pezzo grosso. In Spanish, it’s mandamas. In Yiddish, it’s macher. And...
New Sounds for New Supporters: Jun 23, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
This pledge drive broadcast will feature new recordings in the hope of attracting new sustaining supporters to Wave Farm's WGXC. The program will shift between genres and sonic extremes: noisy guitars...
New Sounds for New Supporters: Jun 22, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
More Newly Released Music (not Jazz): Jun 09, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
Rebroadcast from June 8, 2021, some offbeat, soon-to-be-not-overlooked non-jazz. Like most Overlooked new releases shows, there will be many different sonic palettes in this broadcast: vocally driven...
More Newly Released Music (not Jazz): Jun 08, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
After the local news at noon, some offbeat, soon-to-be-not-overlooked non-jazz. Like most Overlooked new releases shows, there will be many different sonic palettes in this broadcast: vocally driven a...
New Jazz Recordings: May 25, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
After the local news at noon, newly recorded music commonly described as ‘jazz’ in proper order: solos, duets, trios, quartets, and quintets — quite the opposite of Overlooked’s typically freewheeling...
Newly Released Music: May 12, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
A rebroadcast from May 11, 2021, another genre-spinning and globe-spanning review of recently released music: trippy rock; noisy, jazzy, jittery, punky stuff; lots of vocals, from black metal opera to...
Newly Released Music: May 11, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
After the local news at noon, another genre-spinning and globe-spanning review of recently released music: trippy rock; noisy, jazzy, jittery, punky stuff; lots of vocals, from black metal opera to Ch...
Blue Marc: Apr 28, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
Rebroadcast from April 27, 2020. After the local news at noon, two hours of healing through radio and music. Personal friend, occasional Overlooked, guest and jazz archivist Marc Epstein recently expe...
Blue Marc: Apr 27, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
After the local news at noon, two hours of healing through radio and music. Personal friend, occasional Overlooked, guest and jazz archivist Marc Epstein recently experienced the passing of his wife J...
String Theory: Apr 14, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
After the local news at noon, this rebroadcast from April 13, 2021 will showcase the more practical than theoretical ways jazz musicians and improvisers incorporate string instruments into their compo...
String Theory: Apr 13, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
After the local news at noon, this broadcast will showcase the more practical than theoretical ways jazz musicians and improvisers incorporate string instruments into their compositions and their band...
Newly Released Music: Mar 24, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
In this broadcast, an ear feast of newly released music, all styles, all over the place: music collage, skittish polkas, slippery strings, noisy guitars, noisy pianos, new jazz, old jazz, new chants,...
Newly Released Music: Mar 23, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
20210310: Mar 10, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
William Parker: Mar 09, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
Those who have spent any time exploring New York City's downtown scene or been a fan of cutting-edge jazz for the past four decades are likely familiar with William Parker, bass player and bandleader,...
New Releases, Finally: Feb 24, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
This rebroadcast from Feb. 23, 2021 comes during week two of WGXC’s Winter 2021 10th Anniversary Pledge Drive, a perfect time to play music released in 2021 that highlights a variety of musical perspe...
New Releases, Finally: Feb 23, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
This broadcast comes during week two of WGXC’s Winter 2021 10th Anniversary Pledge Drive, a perfect time to play music released in 2021 that highlights a variety of musical perspectives, genres and st...
20210210: Feb 10, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
Julius Hemphill, Julius Eastman: Feb 09, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
Overlooked host Rob Saffer presents Genii Julii: the music of composer/musicians Julius Hemphill and Julius Eastman. Since both Julii were genii, we’ll limit our palette to two box sets of recordings...
Awesome Tapes from Africa and Sahel Sounds: Jan 27, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
The broadcast will focus on two unique record labels that are bringing overlooked African music to ears around the globe while compensating artists 50/50 for their work — something like Fair Trade mus...
Awesome Tapes from Africa and Sahel Sounds: Jan 26, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
20210113: Jan 13, 2021: 8pm - 10pm
Ta-Ta 2020: Jan 12, 2021: 12pm - 2pm
In this broadcast, host Rob Saffer says ta-ta, bye-bye, and good riddance to 2020 by playing the last new releases of the decade, featuring new vocal music in languages ranging from Farsi to Yiddish,...
Cantaloupe and Beethoven: Dec 22, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
The broadcast will feature new music from Cantaloupe Music, the recording label created by Bang on a Can founders and composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe. Plus a tribute to the 250th...
20201209: Dec 09, 2020: 8pm - 9pm
New, New Amsterdam Records: Dec 08, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
This broadcast will highlight the artist-run, nonprofit recording label New Amsterdam Records. The label focuses on album-based music without walls or an agenda. A diverse selection of new, New Amster...
20201125: Nov 25, 2020: 8pm - 10pm
The Sixth Annual Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music: Nov 24, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
Overlooked presents the sixth annual "Thanksgiving Tryptophanfest of Intolerable Music.” Past Tryptophanfests were created to present an array of music so unlistenable that you would want to turn off...
20201111: Nov 11, 2020: 8pm - 10pm
Under Three: Nov 10, 2020: 12pm - 2pm
There is a noticeable and welcome trend toward shorter, sometimes miniature compositions that pack lots of musical information into a short period of time. This broadcast will highlight new releases u...
Lots of Guitars: Oct 28, 2020: 8pm - 10pm
Rebroadcast from Oct. 27, 2020, “Overlooked” is a show focusing on overlooked and under-heard jazz, improvisational, and other fringe music, from early roots to contemporary experiments, a mix of fami...