"Free Speech Radio News" reports: "Secret government documents leaked by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden and published by the Washington Post this week have shed light on which agencies get what share of a more than $50 billion annual budget that so far lacked public oversight. The documents show how much taxpayer money is given to tech companies for handing over private data about their users and that thousand of government employees work on circumventing encryption. Legal experts and transparency advocates say the government needs to release much more information so the public can have an informed debate on which programs deserve how much taxpayer money. In Washington, FSRN’s Alice Ollstein has more."

Ripping off Marvin Gaye (Robin Thicke and Velvet Underground edition), conspiracies, new TV On The Radio, Finest Worksongs, and more.

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" Hosted from Chicago by Hap Holly, KC9RP. This week: "Patrick Tice, WA0TDA, talks about 'today's Handihams.'"

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, Radio Havana Cuba, the Voice of Russia, Spanish National Radio, and Radio Deutsche-Welle.

6 a.m.: "Glenn Hauser's World of Radio" DX and station news countries all over the world.

6:30 a.m.: "Amateur Radio Newsline" This week: "The NTIA to lead a two year pilot study of all spectrum in the United States; hams respond to Colorado Flooding and the western states wildfires; hams in Ridgecrest California get some good news concerning tower installations and a Virginia radio club begins a computer loan out program to help needy high schoolers."

From Wikipedia: "Richard Dorian "Dickie" Goodman (April 19, 1934 – November 6, 1989) was an American music and record producer born in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for inventing and using the technique of the "break-in", an early precursor to sampling, that used brief clips of popular records and songs to "answer" comedic questions posed by voice actors on his novelty records.... In June 1956 Goodman created his first record, "The Flying Saucer Parts 1 & II," which he co-wrote with his partner Bill Buchanan, and featured a four-minute rewriting of Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio show. This recording was the subject of a copyright infringement case against Goodman. The lawsuit was settled out of court. "The Flying Saucer" was officially released under the artist name "Buchanan and Goodman" and was Goodman's highest-charting single on Billboard, peaking at #3. Buchanan and Goodman followed up with four other records: "Buchanan and Goodman on Trial" (#80 in 1956), "Flying Saucer The 2nd" (#18 in 1957), "The Creature (From A Science Fiction Movie)" (as by Buchanan and Ancell) (#85 in 1957), and "Santa and the Satellite (Parts I & II)" (#32 in 1957)." The trial song was about the legal wrangling over their use of popular songs in other songs,

Radia Show 439: Yaris AM 153, 225 and 1611 by Cedric Stevens and Vidar Martens producing show for Radio Nova, in Oslo, Norway. "Radia" is an international network of radio stations interested in creative and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, one station makes a show for all the rest, including Wave Farm's WGXC. This week: "What you hear is a field recording taken from the inside of a Toyota Yaris, driving through the city centre of Oslo in 2010. The radio is being changed between the different AM frequencies 153, 225 and 1611 at a high volume. Since AM frequencies is poorly supported in Norway, the Yaris pick up mainly electromagnetic signals from the surroundings like the tram, hospital or its own engine, instead of ordinary radio transmission from radio broadcasts. The Toyota Yaris works like a vehicle for translating nonperseptive surroundings to sound, as well as transporting passangers. This creates an exploratory AM soundscape of central Oslo."

Whether the subject is impeachment, Canadian citizenship or the role of carbon dioxide in climate change...some of the latest comments from members of Congress are so amazingly uninformed, you really need to hear them in their full versions and in context. And it helps when someone else in government actually responds to their nonsense. Of course, as usual, it's all set to music and narration. Mash-up news show by Paul Fischer, through Pacifica Radio. America Laura Veirs Warp and Weft. Raven Marching Band 2013 04:14 On My Own Zero 7 single. Make 2013 09:10 Seven Horses Jonathan Rado Law and Order. Woodsist 2013 03:15 I'm From Nowhere Neko Case The Worse Things Get....... ANTI 2013 03:02 Avant Gardener Courtney Barnettt A Sea Of Split Peas. Marathon Artists 2013 05:12 Maxim's II Julia Holter Loud City Song. Domino 2013 05:30 Perpetual Surrender DIANA Perpetual Surrender. Jagjaguwar 2013 04:15 Love On The March Belle and Sebastian Third Eye Centre. Matador 2013 03:49 Be, I Do Nightmares on Wax Feelin Good. Warp 2013 04:47 Eater of Dreams Nine Inch Nails Hesitation Marks. Columbia 2013 00:53 Unbreak My Mixtape M.I.A. Matangi. Interscope 2013 04:26 North American Scum LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver. DFA 2007 05:26 Run Fast ( Radio Edit) The Julie Ruin Run Fast. TJR 2013 05:19 Additional Credits This program contains soundbites...including Speaker John Boehner (from This Week Q and A) and Michele Bachmann on climate change and carbon dioxide) Rep. Earl Blumenauer D -Ore responds to Bachmann on House floor.. Obama at SUNY Buffalo on his plan for rating the nation's colleges and universities, Sen. Tom Coburn, R- Okla, talks Obama impeachment at town meeting.. La. R- Gov. Bobby Jindal, responds and talks aboutt GOP strategy (MTP)...Colin Powell responds on GOP strategy ( Face)..Colo GOP state legislator, Vicki Marble, weighs in on poverty and race and food...Sen. Ted Cruz on being born in Canada...Sen Ted Cruz declines to endorse fellow Tex. Sen. Cornyn for reelection....from C-Span, media and political websites..for illustrative, analysis and commentary purposes.

U.S. Congressman Chris Gibson (R-Kinderhook) talks with Holly Tanner about the surveillance state, and we excerpt the interview here. Plus, sound artist Stephen Vitiello talks about his radio transmitter on top of the World Trade Center in the 1990s, and Jess Puglisi reports from Prattsville's Mud Fest on the two-year anniversary of the storms surrounding Hurricane Irene.

The Replacements reunite, including Hudson, NY resident Tommy Stintson, Aug. 25, 2013 at the Riot Festival in Toronto, and immediately post the audio online.

Sam Sebren, producer/creator of the NIRRH, recently asked a question to 36 people in NY's rural, Greene and Columbia counties: "Do you think capitalism is working? Why or why not? Or, if you would like to decline to answer, please state why." The anonymous assortment of friends, acquaintances, and strangers on the street were recorded on the spot, with no clue ahead as to what they were about to be asked. Workers, small business owners, retired people, and others of all ages from across the political, ethnic, and economic spectrum gave their spontaneous reply. None of their answers were edited (except in 2 cases to remove identifying info for anonymity and in one instance by request). All answers are heard here in the order they were recorded. There is no post-recording arrangement or grouping of viewpoints. Hear for yourself from a variety of everyday people - is there any consensus? As a line from the Gang of Four song, "Capital (It Fails Us Now)" says, "one day old and I'm living on credit." Few of us are economists, yet we are all born into a turbulent economic system we are expected to navigate as if it is completely natural. Through this random survey, Sebren attempts to find out how deeply "capitalism" is, or is not, on our minds. We will also hear about the Yes Men's prank on the Chamber of Commerce and some insights on daily consumer culture from comedian Tom Simmons, plus music from Pink Floyd and Suicide.

An elegaic, end of the summer show, with lots of crickets, new TV On The Radio, and television on the radio, Mercury Rev sings "Opus 40," Jerry Lewis checks in for Labor Day, new Matthew Shipp, and more. Hosted by Tom Roe live from Wave Farm.

Do not call during rebroadcast. 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.

Turn on the dial, or the dial will turn on you.

Hurricane Irene barreled down on the Catskills Aug. 27, 2011 only as a Tropical Storm, but still packed a wallop, With ground saturated from weeks of rain, as much as 20" of rain fell overnight and into Sunday, Aug. 28, and a flood nearly wiped the town of Prattsville off the map. Other floods came through Hunter, Windham, and other areas in Greene, Schoharie, Delaware, Ulster, and other counties in central New York. Only a few people died, but many faced death, and more faced enormous losses. A few days later, Tropical Storm Lee inflicted more damage.

WGXC will cover the second anniversary of the floods in a series of special reports, interviews, features, live events, and other programming. Tune in to WGXC for a recounting of what happened and what will happen next time. We will detail how the community recovered, and worked together in new ways.

Shows include:
"The Storm Breaks"
WGXC recounts its pre-storm interview with Greene County Emergency Services director John Farrell, and replay station recordings as the first rain fell Sat., Aug. 27, 2011, until WGXC lost power early Sun., Aug. 28, 2011.

"The Water Recedes"
Paul Smart drives around the area immediately after the storm, and one year later, with a report on the differences. WGXC will also replay other reports in the first days after the storm, including rumors that the Gilboa Dam was going to open, fake charity scams, and an quick network of individuals and groups banding together to help their neighbors. Dharma Dailey talks to the folks behind "Neighbors Helping Neighbors" that formed out of the storm's aftermath. We will interview many other local residents one year later.

"The Watershed Post"
Dharma Dailey interviews the folks behind the most important source of news during the storm's immediate aftermath, the blod "The Watershed Post." WGXC will also replay parts of their live radio show after the storm with Gov. Andrew Cuomo jumping in during the show.

"Between the Lines"
Ann Forbes Cooper talks with Professor Robert Titus, known as the "Catskill Geologist," and Carolyn Bennett, historian of the Zadock Pratt Museum in Prattsville and Larry Gambon, a photographer who shot extensive footage of the damage done by the Hurricane Irene, about Prattsville one year on.

"Prattsville Remembers Irene" Jess Puglisi and Lynn Sloneker talk with residents of Prattsville and Lexington about their experience during the flooding that resulted from Hurricane Irene that obliterated much of their town, along with observations about the first year of recovery. Prattsville, a town of seven-hundred situated at the junction of the Batavia Kill and the Schoharie Creek, was left in ruins after both bodies of water flooded with unanticipated speed and force. Residents interviewed include Beth and Donald Ballard, Michelle Petricini, Frank Hagan, David Murphy, Ronald Jones, Kaitlynn Cross, Melinda Sokoll, and Lynn Byrne.

The Art of Mudfest Two years later, Jess Puglisi talks with two Prattsville art centers helping the town recover.

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:"Phyllis Bennis on Syria, Harvey Wasserman on Fukushima."

Songs in and of the marketplace, for Labor Day, working songs.

Curator and writer Manuel Cirauqui's Symposium is a monthly program about lectures and other related modes of critical discourse, presented with a strong focus on contemporary art and critique. The program uses radio as a creative device for mediation, reproduction, re-contextualization, and commentary. Presented in two parts, Hearing Hearings focuses on German poet, playwright, theatre director, and Marxist, Bertolt Brecht's hearings and Eric Bentley.

An elegaic, end of the summer show, with lots of crickets, new TV On The Radio, and television on the radio, conspiracy theories, and more. Hosted by Tom Roe from Wave Farm. Rebroadcast from Aug. 31, 2013.

There's more news about the government surveillance programs, and there cost, from Free Speech Radio News. Plus, radio in Syria, Stephen Vitiello, and more.

Special Labor Day edition. "On Capitol Hill, elected officials have long supported big agricultural and industrial-scale farming that requires massive inputs of chemicals and fossil fuels. But can this system continue to feed the population of a warming planet? Just a few miles up the road from where lawmakers set far-reaching policy, some DC residents are organizing to create something different. FSRN’s Alice Ollstein takes us to a farm called Three Part Harmony, where we explore what urban, organic agriculture could do both for a community and the environment they live in, and how US policy could better support it. This documentary was produced by Alice Ollstein and edited by Shannon Young. Our technical producer at KPFA is Jeannine Etter. The original music in this documentary was performed by Owen Grooms, a young farmer in North Carolina."

Aliens invade the radio all night.

J. Marvin Herndon is a geophysicist who came up with the radical theory about the Earth's core and its relationship to the Earth's magnetic field. The shield that protects our planet's animal and plant life from the sun's radiation. Dr. Herndon published the feature article in the wonderful Dot Connector magazine. The article is titled The Corruption of Science, and relays disturbing evidence of how the National Science Foundation and other institutional structures have created an oppressed environment for scientists effecting the free exchange of ideas. The article examines how to rid the scientific field in the United States of charlatans, science barbarians and create an environment how the truth can flourish and scientists can work freely without fear of retribution or denouncment for challenging ideas or failing to adopt the politically correct consensus-approved storyline. From Pacifica Radio, via WBAI in NYC.

Live sounds and pre-recorded sounds mixed in a fashion one can speak over. Call in 518-622-2598 to have your say.

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Post VOV episode. We play tapes from Filth Beast, Millions, Steve Hauschildt, Headboggle, Telecult Powers, Quicksails, Joey Molinaro, John Olson, Ironing & Hal McGee, Moth Cock, Shingles, Tusco Terror, and a few conversations recorded at the fest with Josh Millrod, David Suss, Witchbeam, Ben Billington, Chris Donofrio, and Moth Cock. Cassette show airs monthly on WGXC.

From his home studio/ham shack in suburban Chicago, Hap Holly, KC9RP hosts "The RAIN Report." This week: "Rich Arlin/K7SZ, renowned qrp dx'er, tells how to work the world on HF using five watts and less.

Report from PCJ Media that sequester cuts are ending USAF Space Surveillance Radar.

Futurism in radio, Pierre Henry, and cartoons are consideed.

John Zorn is turning 60.

Rebroadcast from Sept. 22, 2012. Wave Farm artist-in-residence David Galbraith (New York) hosts live from Wave Farm in Acra. The program will feature his contribution to 120 Hours for John Cage: John Cage Reflections.

Heidi Boghosian, author of Spying on Democracy and host of Law and Disorder on WBAI, is guest.

Excerpts of radio theatre from Random Rainbows, from Baltimore and Philadelphia. Rebroadcast from Aug. 24, 2013 at Wave Farm in Acra, NY.

Live performances at Spotty Dog Books & Ale in Hudson, NY are streamed live at wgxc.org, and broadcast live and/or rebroadcast on WGXC 90.7-FM. Live webstream for this show available from Wave Farm and WGXC at http://comm.free103point9.org:8000/spottydog.mp3.m3u and WGXC 90.7-FM will rebroadcast at midnight Fri., Sept. 6.

Recently transplanted to Austerlitz, Pigeons is a band from Bronx, NY. Mad Nanna is a Melbourne five-piece, fitting somewhere in the centre of a triad consisting Jandek, the Dead C and the Shadow Ring.

From "Free Speech Radio news": "In the midst of increasing consolidation of big media, there’s a new chance for local communities to bring their voices to the air. This October, the Federal Communications Commission will begin accepting applications from around the country for local non-profits, schools, unions, First Nation tribes, religious groups and public safety organizations to own and operate their own low-powered radio stations. Media justice advocates say this unprecedented expansion of community radio will be a major step in addressing the consolidation of media and the lack of diversity in station ownership, and could give local artists and activists a place on the dial. In Washington, D.C., FSRN’s Alice Ollstein reports."

Soccer chants from Barmy Army, stories from Andy Griffith and Bill Cosby, a skit from the "M*A*S*H" movie, and songs from Mojo Nixon, Belle & Sebatsian, Queen, David Lynch, and others.

From WDCE-FM, via Pacifica Radio, a set of Chet Baker.

Great Barrington-based John Snyder improvises on drums and tape loops.