News from radio and media worlds.

Short radio theatre works from Gregory Whitehead, 31 Down, Anna Friz, and others.

Rebroadcast of Max Goldfarb's "Sexbot" episode.

The Tue., March 12 U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing “Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission.”

Free Speech Radio News reports on the radio-controlled drone wars: First, the ACLU wins a transparancy lawsuit over drone inf; and a report shows the unpopularity of drone strikes in Pakistan. Plus highlights of U.S. Senate Commerce Committee's "FCC Oversight" hearing. Plus news about radio pledge drives, the financial problems at "Free Speech Radio News," and local amateur radio meetings.

Andrew 'weev' Auernheimer was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for figuring out a security flaw in AT&T's website, and a solar storm March 15 makes the northern lights visible as far south as Colorado.

Two times the sounds, and songs that struggle with identity from The Cure ("Why Can't I Be You?), The Replacements ("I'll Be You"), and others.

Rebroadcast of March 8, 2013 live broadcast from Spotty Dog Books & Ale in Hudson, NY. Crank Sturgeon has been active in performance, installation, and sound art since the early 1990’s. Accompanied by ridiculous costuming, pointed instructions, and parables (gone awry), and even the occasional dirigible or two, these elements intertwine, transforming into space-defying interventions, and invariably involving audience participation.

Since the Eighties, Al Margolis has run the indie cassette label Sound of Pig Music. His own music has succeeded in fusing ambience with industrial and musique concrete, producing strange soundscapes that are both soothing and unnerving, often at the same time. In the Nineties, Margolis evolved the Sound of Pig label into Pogus Productions, replacing the cassette medium with compact disk technology.

In this episode, that powerhouse duo of Doc P. Ellis and Doktor Bugbladder analyze deadly political intrigue throughout the ages...and into the future. Beginning with the Julius Caesar hit, they trace a damning, bloody trail of conspiracy machinations from the marble floors of the Roman Senate all the way to the marble floors of the U.S. Senate. Kevlar togas recommended--and yeah.

Two recent episodes of "Zoom," a new radio show from Tyson Hauf that airs at 11 a.m. Wednesdays on WGXC 90.7-FM.

Interview with Nell Abram from "Free Speech Radio News," and segments from the weekday radio news show.

SORRY, TECHNICAL PROBLEMS TONIGHT AND NO WEBSTREAM.

Live webstream for this, and most, shows at Spotty Dog Books & Ale available from free103point9 and WGXC at http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/spottydog.mp3.m3u. This show will be rebroadcast on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM (later in the night) at midnight, March 20.

J. Collin, Manchester based ruminative, minimal guitar playing. Reminiscent of John Fahey (electric period) and Loren Mazzacane Connors. Also plays in Vampire Blues and Whole Voyald Infinite Light and runs the Winebox Press cassette label; Chalaque, solo guitar noise from Nick of of Golden Lab Records, also the founder member of free-rock action units Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura and Beach Fuzz; yek koo is Helga Fassonaki, half of Metal Rouge, appearing in a stripped down, raw outfit of guitar play and wailing vocal punk-chant poesis comprising a sound that is composed yet free, dirty yet pure - nu-psych; Zaïmph is the solo project of ambient noise artist Marcia Bassett. As a co-founder of Philadelphia’s shambolic psychonauts un and tectonic drone pioneers Double Leopards, Bassett is deeply entwined with the American noise underground, and has mapped regions still only dimly understood by subsequent sonic travelers.

Excerpts from the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee today held a hearing titled, "Threats from Space: A Review of U.S. Government Efforts to Track and Mitigate Asteroids and Meteors."

Episode 873 of weekly experimental new music show, by folks formerly behind Staalplaat. Click on title for playlist 873: tracklist for Vital Weekly 873: 0000 Tune; 0014 Alexandr Vatagin - Bows And Airplanes; 0318 Human Flesh - Alone (Second Part); 0610 Philippe Lamy - Une Autre Couche; 0914 Chihei Hatakeyama - Bare Strata; 1212 IA - Mirage; 1514 Budhaditya Chattopadhyay - Eye Contact With The City; 1812 Mike Kramer - Mijn Gehoor(d); 2122 Loopy Day - Lighthouse; 2422 VA AA LR; 2723 Zbeen - Soundness; 3028 Clinton Green & Andrew McIntosh; 3330 Mark Lorenz Kysela - Druckblocke Und Zeichenakkumulationen BCC; 3635 Tune.

New tracks from noise bands are featured including Keith Fullerton Whitman live at Lilypad, Cambridge, MA, March 17, 2013 and an Oct., 2012 set from 2/5bz on the Istanbul Courthouse steps.

First, "The RAIN Report," with John Amadeo, NN6JA, talking about producing "Last Man Standing," the ABC sitcom with an amateur radio angle. Then, "PiratesWeek," with host Ragnar Daneskjold from upstate New York. Pirates in the news this week include a pirate bust in Brockton Mass. Select postings from the Free Radio Network, HF Underground and note stations logged per the Free Radio Weekly. ‭Off Air Recordings include the stations of: The Crystal Ship, Wolverine Radio, the Euro pirate Radio City and another Blast from the past- WDRR. We listen to Allan Wiener describe some of his early pirate transmitters.

"Free Speech Radio News" reports that Republican FCC commissioner Robert McDowell (R) announced during the Federal Communications Commission's monthly meeting, that he would be exiting the agency "in a few weeks."

Songs about movies, and clips from films, are featured. Including every pop culture reference, chronologically, in Quentin Tarantino films. Songs include "Deeper Into Movies" by Yo La Tengo; "The Right Profile" by The Clash, "Cassavetes" by Fugazi, "B-Movie" by Elvis Costello, ""Like Dylan in the Movies" by Belle & Sebatsian; "Girls on Film" by Duran Duran, "Celluloid Heroes" by The Kinks, "Western Movies" by The Olympics, "It's All in the Movies" by Merle Haggard, "Mae Jean Goes to Hollywood" by The Byrds, and others.

From "The Chill Room," 14 September 2012, on killradio.org via Radio4All.org. John Cage 100th birthday tribute: from Silence / Imaginary Landscape No. 1 (1939) / Empty Words / The Williams Mix (1953) / The Fontana Mix (1958) / Electronica: Can-"Oh Yeah" (1972) / Cabaret Voltaire-Do The Mussolini (Headkick) (1978) / Throbbing Gristle-United (1978) / Fad Gadget-Back to Nature (1979) / Afrika Bambaataa-Planet Rock (1982) single and Planet Rock (Soul Sonic Force) (dub version) (1986) / Kraftwerk-The Model (1978) / Steve "Silk" Hurley-Jack Your Body (1986) / Phuture-Acid Tracks (1987) / The Tape-Beatles-O For Frog (1990) / Arthur Russell-Being It (1986) / 2Unlimited-No Limit (1993) / Massive Attack-Be Thankful for What You've Got (1991) / Burial-Distant Lights (2006) / Burial-Fostercare (2009) / PSY-Gangnam Style (excerpt) (2012) / The Allophone-Bow (2012) (they're a band from Florence Italy founded in 2010) / Julia Holter-This Is Ekstasis (2012) / The Loulees-Send It Back (2012)

The House Science, Space, and Technology Committee held a hearing March 19, 2013 titled, "Threats from Space: A Review of U.S. Government Efforts to Track and Mitigate Asteroids and Meteors."

Do not call during rebroadcast! Shortened edition due to WBAI transmitter fund pledge drive. Off The Hook, from the hacker zine 2600, airs every Wednesday night at 7 p.m. ET in New York City on WBAI 99.5 FM, and is rebroadcast the next morning at 5 a.m. on WGXC and free103point9 Online Radio. It is simulcast online via streaming MP3 and via shortwave on WBCQ The Planet at 5110 KHz. Join #offthehook on irc.2600.net to chat during the show. Email show at oth [at] 2600.com Do not call during the 5 a.m. rebroadcast.

From Radio Theater Project, KSVR Studios at the radio station KSVR-FM in Mount Vernon, Washington via Pacifica Radio. The actors are from the Skagit Radio Repertory Company. The producer is Joseph C McGuire.

On Mar 19, 2013 a House Judiciary subcommittee met about updating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA). Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), heard here interviewing a Google spokesperson, does not seem to understand how Google uses keyword searches, without retaining email data, to match ads to likely customers. The Google representative explains four different ways, to no avail.

Sounds from the earth's magnetic fields, and songs from the band by that name.

05/2013 playlist: clean feed: capricorn climber: kris davis & band; hammered: ches smith and the arches; gregg simpson new orchestra quintet, complete recordings 1978-79; roguart the tree on the mound: jeff albert's instigation quartet; unknown known: joshua abrams quartet; norbert stein pata on cadillac: norbert stein & band; slam d'istante3: blaise siwula, giancarlo mazzu, luciano toja; relative pitch take your time: vinny golia, bobby bradford, ken filiano, alex cline; peter van huffel howl: peter van huffel's gorilla mask; max ridgway souldust: ridgway, cheryl pyle, randall colbourne; rich halley back from the woods: rich halley 4; tum ancestors: wadada leo smith, louis moholo moholo.

Selected songs from the free jazz band from Atlanta, and now in New York City too. Several recordings from free103point9 events are included.

An hour talking with avant-garge jazz pianist Matthew Shipp about his music, his life and the ideas behind the universe of music he has brought into being over the last 30 years. Shipp has recorded more than 50 cds over the years in all kinds of formations and reaching across many musical genres from his free jazz base all the way through electronica and hip-hop.

Days after FCC commissioner Robert McDowell announced he was leaving, the chairman now resigns. Both their resignation announcement speeches, two days apart, in the same building, were nearly identical, and this report compares the audio.

Art, and sound art in particular, about the destruction of buildings, is included here. Grindcore band Napalm Death were going to play a concert at the Victoria and Albert Museum today, but the museum cancelled the show fearing that "the high level of decibels generated by the performance would damage the historic fabric of the building." The group was to play through a sculptural ceramic sound system built by artist Keith Harrison. The sculpture was expected to crumble under the volume of the performance. The show will also look back at a 1984 Einstürzende Neubauten performance at London's ICA, when the band drilled through the stage with a cement mixer and jackhammers. The show will also discuss Gordon Matta-Clark's "building cuts," a series of works in abandoned buildings in which he variously removed sections of floors, ceilings, and walls. And David Byrne's attempts to listen to buildings.

From Dec. 1, 2012 "Saturday Afternoon Show," and interview with sound artist Frédéric Acquaviva.

Old time radio. From Pacifica Radio archives.

Two hours of shortwave radio-oriented programming, starting with solar weather, news on meteor showers and ham radio, and other reports. Other reports include:

5:15 a.m.: "The RAIN Report: "John Amadeo, NN6JA, talks about producing Last Man Standing."

5:30 a.m., "The Shortwave Report" with host Dan Roberts and international news via shortwave radio. This week's show features stories from NHK World Radio Japan, China Radio International, the Voice of Russia, Radio Deutsche-Welle, and Spanish National Radio.

6 a.m.: "Glenn Hauser's World of Radio"

6:30 a.m.: "Amateur Radio Newsline" This week: An antenna battle down under pits a ham antenna against a landscape view; a big win in New Jersey as a ham is finally granted approval for his tower and antenna; a Coronal Mass Ejection on the sun hits Earth on St. Patrick's Day; the Federal probe of the so-called zombie attack on the United States Emergency Alert System continues and GPS jamming becomes a threat to public safety in the UK.

WGXC airs a special on church and pipe organs. Talking Head David Byrne sets the scene, with a recent essay in McSweeney's about how sound was created for various settings, including churches. We'll excerpt the part about churches and organs here. Plus, the show will sample all sorts of church organs, and hear Brian Dewan's radio play "King of Instruments." Organ music of all types will be featured from Quintron, Jimmy Smith, Walter Wanderly, Walter/Wendy Carlos, the BBC Radiophonic studio, and others. Anna Friz's radio play "The organ dreams of leaving the grinder" will be featured. From Sept. 29, 2012.

"Please Assist Us With Transmission." Anyone can contribute to the show in many ways on "Open Air." Matt Bua hosts live transmission art show about local transmissions from the Catskill Community Center. You make up the show with stories, phone calls, messages, requests, further information, and more. Please help be a part of the show. Stop by the Catskill Community Center in person. Call in at 518-219-WGXC. Tweet requests @WGXC. Skype calls at WGXCfm. Talk on Channel 6 on CB radio, we are tuning in. Features include solar weather, shortwave news, and more.

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"Radia" is a group of international radio stations, including WGXC/free103point9, interested in new and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, one station makes a show that the rest air. This week: Radia Show 416: Shadow-walks (Florence) by Viv Corringham for Radio Papesse. Knowing where you are, is knowing who you are Steven Feld Your footsteps follow not what is outside the eyes, but what is within, buried, erased. Italo Calvino. Invisible Cities. "Shadow-walks (Florence)" is the Italian chapter of Viv Corringham's ongoing project that responds to people's relationship with familiar places and explores how that bond links to an interior landscape of personal history, memory and association. In Florence she has been walking together with an actress, a street vendor, a graphic designer, a performer and a former school teacher; they took her to the post office, the market, villas closed by walls, the hospital, an occupied house and cafés... she then walked the same routes by herself creating her own rendering through vocal improvisation. The project involves three main activities: walking with others, listening and singing; it relates with soundscape, the explored places and its inhabitants keeping in mind that knowing where you are is knowing who you are. Viv Corringham knows how to listen; in fact, this is the common thread that unites her work: vocal virtuosity, composition and improvisation are tools aimed at listening, our listening. Shadow Walk (Florence) is a five-stop walk in search of Florence out of the limelight. Like a game of Chinese boxes, one way of listening opens the door to another: from the street, we enter a bar and then the post office, from the fishmonger we go to the market, we go through the country and sit down in the hospital. Viv Corringham’s work does not mean to be a documentary or sociological, it does not claim to tell any particular ‘stories’, but as it drags us through the daily life of a neighborhood, it illustrates points of view that are unexpected or usually taken for granted. "Shadow Walks (Florence)" is a work by Viv Corringham for Nuovi Paesaggi [radiopapesse.org/nuovipaesaggi], a project by Radio Papesse and Villa Romana; it is produced by Radio Papesse and curated by Lucia Farinati. Viv Corringham lives and works in Minneapolis, US. This work was recorded in Florence (Italy) and produced in Autumn 2012. http://radiopapesse.org http://vivcorringham.org/home

This regular edition features Luca Nasciuta, Simon Whetham, Frederic Nogray, Maria Papadomanolaki, and tracks from the new framework:seasonal spring 2013 edition, issue #4, by Jay-Dea Lopez, Flavien Gillié and France Jobin.

Trace the connection between the minimalist composer and the rock band here, with covers of each others work, interviews, and original compositions, including an excerpt of Reich's new Radiohead tribute "Radio Rewrite."

"Radius Sketchpad" is an ongoing monthly program on WGXC 90.7-FM presented by the Chicago-based platform, Radius. This month features Ryan ⊥ Dunn's "Incidental Music", originally produced for Radius, and is followed by a playlist of works selected by the artist. "Incidental Music" is a broadcast of mashed sourced audio material set to your manifestation of color in a black and white map of associations. For Radius, IM is a collection from the space of broadcast and an invitation to participate in an additive process through locations within the broadcast range and your participation in the visual completion of the colorless guide. A dual psychogeographic map and coloring news sheet is provided in conjunction with the broadcast to suggest and create shared experiences and present the possibility of the actual. Please take crayons, markers, or any other materials you prefer and complete this radio listening experience by coloring in the imagery in this guide as you listen. Enjoy yourself, explore, and take a moment to have a new time.

Headlines from the week in radio news, new radio art, and Rush Limbaugh reviews the new Beyonce single. Hosted by Tom Roe live from Wave Farm Study Center in Acra, NY.

After the Weekly Presidential Radio Address, "PiratesWeek," with host Ragnar Daneskjold from upstate New York. Pirates in the news this week include a pirate bust in Brockton Mass. Select postings from the Free Radio Network, HF Underground and note stations logged per the Free Radio Weekly. ‭Off Air Recordings include the stations of: The Crystal Ship, Wolverine Radio, the Euro pirate Radio City and another Blast from the past- WDRR. We listen to Allan Wiener describe some of his early pirate transmitters.

A review of the star speakers at the CPAC (Conservative Action Political Conference) told through narration,music and soundbites. Amok Atoms for Peace Amok. XL 2013 05:18; The Party's Over The Delfonics Adrian Younge Presents The Delfonics. Wax Poetics 2013 03:04; Flying Without You Laura Mvula Sing To The Moon. RCA 2013 03:21; Daisyphobia Youth Lagoon Wondrous BugHouse. Fat Possum 2013 05:19; There's A Fire Dirty Projectors (single). Domino 2013 02:58; And the Sky Began To Scream How To Destroy Angels Welcome Oblivion. Columbia 2013 03:58; Your Fine Petting Duck Devendra Banhart Mala. Nonesuch 2013 05:48; We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace and Magic (Radio Edit) Foxygen We Are The 21st Century ;Ambassadors of Peace and Magic. Jagjaguwar 2013 04:25; Seamless Boogie Woogie II( BBC 10 pm) Clinic Free Reign II. Domino 2013 03:31; Sensitive New Age Guy John Grant Pale Green Ghosts. Bella Union 2013 04:42; Still Moving Marnie Stern Chronicles of Marnia. Kill Rock Stars 2013 03:06; Varsity Smith Westerns Soft Will. Mom+Pop 2013 04:00; Feel Real Deptford Goth Life After Defo. Merok 2013 04:13; Vultures of Tenderness Xander Harris The New Dark Age of Love. Not Not Fun 2013 03:56; Ride Home Skrillex Spring Breakers Soundtrack Album. ATL 2013 02:16; Additional Credits This program contans soundbites including...Dave Grohl at SXSW...Alan West..Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Sara Palin, CPAC head, Al Cardenas, Mitt Romney, Grover Norquist, Ted Cruz vs. Diane Feinstein, Donald Trump, Reince Priebus, GOP chairman Q and A Face The Nation....from C Span, media and political websites for illustrative, analysis and commentary purposes.

Live webstream for this, and most, shows at Spotty Dog Books & Ale available from free103point9 and WGXC at http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/spottydog.mp3.m3u. This show will be broadcast live on free103point9 Online Radio and WGXC 90.7-FM.

Highlights of the "WGXC Afternoon Show" from the Catskill Community Center, March 19, 2013 with hosts Peter Krug and Jill Sutton, and a guest appearance by Brian Dewan.

Radio and media news headlines.

Which is more ridiculous? Spiro T. Agnew's complaints about the media, or Stephen Colbert's performance in front of President George Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondent's Dinner. Then Jon Stewart tells everyone off on CNN.

Episode 12 of Jon Nelson's mash-up show. Featuring work by The Button, Escape Mechanism, Laso Halo, Lecture on Nothing, Mag Wheels, Rik Rue, DJ Shadow, David Shea, Silica-Gel and Turntable Trainwreck. 01 Lecture on Nothing - “Beyond names and forms” 02 Rik Rue - “Dream speed” 03 Silica-Gel - “Personal dream” 04 Turntable Trainwreck - ""Untitled)" 05 The Button - “Shifting frequencies” 06 Escape Mechanism - “Wake up” 07 DJ Shadow - “What does your soul look like (part 1 - blue sky revisit) 08 Mag Wheels - “Wake up” 09 Laso Halo - “Sleepy time jazz” 10 David Shea - “Shock corridor”

"Arabology" is a weekly radio program hosted by Dr. Ramzi Salti, Lecturer in Arabic at Stanford University and airs live on Thursdays 3-5 p.m. (PST) on KZSU Stanford 90.1 FM and streams at http://kzsulive.stanford.edu This episode: The March 21 Finale of 'Arabology' features a 4-part interview with Lebanese singer/musician Mike Massy (who is performing at the Merkin Concert Hall in NY on April 25) including his bio and songs.The second part showcases alternative Arabic music from the region.

Project Censored presents "Iraqi Frequencies," a documentary created for the ten-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion, and produced by Nora Barrows-Friedman. With Dahr Jamail, Sabah al Nasseri, Ali Issa, and others.

Antiwar Radio with Scott Horton with Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's Peter Hart on the media's 10-year Iraq War retrospective.

This is the 20th year of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting's media analysis radio show, hosted by Janine Jackson, Steve Rendall, and Peter Hart. This week: Diana Duarte on the Iraq War, and Barbara Miner on 'Lessons from the Heartland.'