The Ninth Circuit federal appeals court said on Sept. 10 that a lawsuit accusing Google of illegal wiretapping could proceed. The court defined "radio" as just FM and AM, and not all the other radio waves. The "Off The Hook" show discusses the ruling in this excerpt.

Five hours of DJs, mash-ups, 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: "Rich Arlin/K7SZ, renowned qrp dx'er, tells how to work the world on HF using 5 watts or less.'"

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

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: "New Zealand and Japan sign a new reciprocal operating agreement; unlicensed operations on 2 meters in Europe becomes a growing problem due to cheap hand-held radios; a wildfire in Northern California destroys several repeaters; a move to restructure the FCC passes the House pf Representatives and a pair of solar powered pico balloons set a new European flight endurance record."

Soccer chants from Barmy Army, football stories from Andy Griffith and Bill Cosby, and songs from Mojo Nixon, Belle & Sebatsian, Queen, David Lynch, and others on the subject.

Radia Show 441: Postcards from Italy by Gianmarco Del Re (for Radio Papesse, Firenze, IT) "Radia" is an international network of 23 station interested in new and forgotten ways of making radio. Each week, one station makes a show for all the others. This week: "Taking cue from Gianmarco Del Re’s column on Fluid Radio, which profiles the most interesting sound artists and musicians currently operating within the Italian electroacoustic scene, musicians Giulio Aldinucci and Attilio Novellino have launched the Postcard from Italy project. They invited the Aips collective artists to take parte in the project asking them to take field recordings in their own respective cities and areas, which were then redistributed amongst the group on an anonymous basis in order to be reworked and processed. The resulting sounds ended up being a multifaceted sonic snapshot of the Italian peninsula, articulated into an album to be released this September, a live event that took place in London July21st, 2013 at Café OTO and an installation at SoundFjord. This Radia Show was then produced by the original inspirator of the whole project, Gianmarco Del Re. He assembled fragments of the compositions included the Aips album, mixed them together with the original field recordings, excerpts from the installation sounds and recordings form the live shows of the Aips collective at CaféOTO and Power Lunches. The result is a 28minutes compendium of processed sketches from Italy.

News mash-up show hosted by Paul Fischer. "In politics..."explainers" range from Pres. Obama's speech to the nation on Syria on the eve of a nine-eleven anniversary...to Bill Clinton being Obama's "Secretary of Explaining Stuff" in his speech the other day on "Obamacare"...to evasive congressional hearings .. where it's hard to get a straight answer on whether the IRS only looked into tea party tax exemption requests..or whether it looked at progressive group requests for tax exemptions, as well. And then..there are "explainers" in journalism. This episode is replete with examples of all of the above ( set to music, as usual." From Pacifica Radio. Let England Shake P.J. Harvey Let England Shake. Vagrant 2011 03:04 Gunshotta (Radio Edit) Machinedrum Vapor City. Ninja Tune 2013 03:35 Atlas Coldplay Hunger Games 2 Soundtrack Album. Republic 2013 04:00 Travelin' On Norah Jones Little Broken Hearts. EMI 2012 00:00 Sister Morphine ( Digital Remaster 2009) The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers. Universal 1971 05:30 DNA Bank Freelance Whales Diluvia. Mom+Pop 2012 07:40 Be Above It Tame Impala Lonerism. Modular 2012 03:03 Society Is My Friend Kurt Vile Smoke Ring For My Halo. Matador 2011 05:35 Bitter Rivals Sleigh Bells Bitter Rivals. Mom+Pop 2013 03:19 Golden Arrow Darkside ( Nicolas Jaar and David Harrington) Darkside. Other People 2013 11:20 Daredevil Fiona Apple The Idler Wheel.... Epic 2012 03:20 Lusaka By Night John Wizards John Wizards. Planet Mu 2013 02:59 The Game Gets Old Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings Give The People What They Want. Daptone 2013 03:54 Additional Credits This program contains soundbites...including excerpts from Pres. Obama's speech to the nation on Syria the night of Sept. 10th... montage of Obama interviews the night before with 6 network anchors...(Blitzer, Guthrie, Pelley) excerpts of McCain town meeting on Syria with constituents in Ariz... Bill Clinton "explaiiner" on Obamacare... congressional investigation of IRS targeting of certain groups. Was it just the tea party or were progressive groups targeted, too? Reps Connoly and Cummings and IRS Inspector General J. Russell George and Rep. Chris Van Hollen. And, what are "explainers" in the world of journalism.... ( network evening news headline montage)...from C-Span, media and political websites for illustrative, analysis and commentary purposes.

Updates on the United States growing surveillance state. Collage of statements from Dir. National Intelligence James Clapper, including statements made in Congress. Plus, "Free Speech Radio News" reports about, "In Washington, the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill this week that would shield reporters in the event of an investigation. The measure follows a number of incidents criticized by press freedom advocates, including surveillance of journalists at the AP, prosecution of a Fox News reporter and threatening charges against a New York Times contributor if he doesn’t testify against a source. While the committee members approved the measure 13-to-5 on Thursday, they struggled to agree on who should count as a journalist and receive the law’s protections. California Democrat Dianne Feinstein pressed her colleagues to narrow the bill to only cover what she called “real reporters.” "Should this privilege apply to anyone? To a 17-year-old who drops out of high school, buys a website for 5 dollars and starts a blog? Or should it apply to journalists who have bona fide credentials?" Other lawmakers, including Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions thought no journalist who reveals any type of classified information should be protected. And Texas Republican John Cornyn suggested that the law only cover journalists who are US citizens. Both of those amendments were defeated. For more on the significance of the bill, FSRN’s Alice Ollstein spoke to Josh Stearns with Free Press."

Music, sounds, and interviews with artists and performers at the "Groundswell" show WGXC and the Olana State Historic Site are hosting at Olana on Sun., Sept. 22. Pauline Oliveros, Japanther, Bobby Previte, DJ Spooky, and bands with Greg Fox (Liturgy, others), are featured.

This live set by The Ashcan Orchestra was recorded by Issue Project Room in November 2012. Led by composer/performer Pat Spadine, the revolving Bushwick-based performance ensemble has been popping up in D.I.Y. style and art house venues throughout NYC and the eastern seaboard since 2007. Employing everything from children's hand bells, tape recorders, discarded televisions, homemade circuitry, light bulbs and mirrors, to more widely accepted noisemakers, Ashcan creates new music in forms more familiar than the instrumentation would lead the listener to believe. This process from humble and understandable beginnings to grander and more complex ends, has been a vehicle to both celebrate and emulate the physics that bind the known universe. This podcast was produced in collaboration with the radio station of the Clocktower Gallery, operating at artonair.org

This show is all about "Framing the Viewshed: Groundswell," an upcoming collaboration between the Olana Partnership and WGXC 90.7-FM. On September 22, 2013, artists including DJ Spooky, Pauline Oliveros, Japnather, Eteam, robbinschilds, Bobby Previte, Max Goldfarb, Greg Fox, Nadja Verena Marcin, David Kermani, Archie Rand, Nancy Shaver, Beth Schneck and Cara Turett will reflect and react on Olana as an ambitious and early environmental work. Tickets for Groundswell are available at groundswell.brownpapertickets.com..

For this show, live in the Wave Farm studio in Acra, NY, eTeam, Bobby Previte, and Max Goldfarb will discuss their performances and presentations at "Groundswell." Plus we'll hear an interview recorded at Olana with Pauline Oliveros about the event. And Hethre Contant, the latest Wave Farm artist-in-resident, previews her show Sept. 21 on WGXC about radio in the Weimar Republic. Hosted by Tom Roe. Plus radio news, and more.

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 either 5 a.m. (second/fourth/fifth weeks) on WGXC and free103point9 Online Radio, and at 10 a.m. (first and third weeks) on WGXC. 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 rebroadcast.

This edition of framework:afield, titled "Between Sleep and Dreams," that has been produced in the US by John F. Barber, in collaboration with the students from his Internet Radio class. For more information see http://www.nouspace.net/john. "Framework" broadcasts two distinct alternating formats, a regular edition, constructed and mixed by its presenter from contributions submitted by listeners and members of the field recording community, and framework:afield, a guest-curated series produced by artists from all corners of the globe and based on their own themes, concepts or recordings.

This show is all about "Framing the Viewshed: Groundswell," an upcoming collaboration between the Olana Partnership and WGXC 90.7-FM. On September 22, 2013, artists including DJ Spooky, Pauline Oliveros, Japanther, Eteam, robbinschilds, Bobby Previte, Max Goldfarb, Greg Fox, Nadja Verena Marcin, David Kermani, Archie Rand, Nancy Shaver, Beth Schneck and Cara Turett will reflect and react on Olana as an ambitious and early environmental work. Tickets for Groundswell are available at groundswell.brownpapertickets.com. This show includes audio works by DJ Spooky, Pauline Oliveros, Japanther, Bobby Previte, Max Goldfarb, and bands of Greg Fox (Liturgy, others).

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: "Rania Khalek on non-violent Syrian opposition; Peter Ludlow on Barrett Brown."

DJ Frederick, formerly of the "One-Minute Zine Review" audio program, now offers a different format. This is a new lo-tech series from the producer of One Minute Zine Reviews exploring paper culture in the digital age. Future topics will include: letters, postcards, mail art and the postal service, small press publications, DIY resources, and more.

Works recorded from the Kingston, NY-based composer's new "Text Scores" book, before her performance from "Text Scores" Sun., Sept. 22 at Olana State Historic Site.

"Radio, Radio" is a sixteen-part series of forty-five minute broadcasts which asks an honest question: Is there really a place on radio for experimentation? Twenty people immersed in radio, sound and performance offer, in their own ways, answers to this question through conversation and the presentation of their work. This episode: Jennifer and Kevin McCoy are Brooklyn-based artists who cycle, repeat and morph pop-culture tropes and images. Their series of microradio installations conflate gallery patrons with pirate radio listeners while ironically tweaking the language of novels like Frankenstein, Alice in Wonderland and the corporate-promo-speak of the web. In New York City their work has been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, P.S.1, Postmasters Gallery, The New Museum and other venues.

Journalist Michael Paterniti discusses his latest book "The Telling Room," as well as issues about narrative and journalism itself with host Richard Wolinsky. From Pacifica Radio.

Roundup of the week's radio and media news from "Free Speech Radio News," "Off The Hook," and "Amateur Radio Newsline."

Radio and media news.

Rebroadcast from Sat., Sept., 14: This show is all about "Framing the Viewshed: Groundswell," an upcoming collaboration between the Olana Partnership and WGXC 90.7-FM. On September 22, 2013, artists including DJ Spooky, Pauline Oliveros, Japnather, Eteam, robbinschilds, Bobby Previte, Max Goldfarb, Greg Fox, Nadja Verena Marcin, David Kermani, Archie Rand, Nancy Shaver, Beth Schneck and Cara Turett will reflect and react on Olana as an ambitious and early environmental work. Tickets for Groundswell are available at groundswell.brownpapertickets.com..

For this show, live in the Wave Farm studio in Acra, NY, eTeam, Bobby Previte, and Max Goldfarb will discuss their performances and presentations at "Groundswell." Plus we'll hear an interview recorded at Olana with Pauline Oliveros about the event. And Hethre Contant, the latest Wave Farm artist-in-resident, previews her show Sept. 21 on WGXC about radio in the Weimar Republic. Hosted by Tom Roe. Plus radio news, and more.

International radio and media show. The show is produced jointly by PCJ in Taiwan and Canada. Producer/Presenter: Keith Perron.

From "Free Speech Radio News": "Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has canceled plans for a state visit to the White House next month. President Rousseff said she won't schedule a state visit until an investigation of NSA surveillance of her email and that of other Brazilians is complete. And according to the Washington Post, Brazil is also looking at discontenting from US-based internet systems, and insulating Brazilian content in a move that Sashca Meinrath with the New America Foundation says could endanger the “open, interconnected structure” of the internet. Information about the NSA spying on Brazil was revealed by former U.S. security contractor Edward Snowden."

Episode 897 of weekly experimental new music show, by folks formerly behind Staalplaat. Click on title for playlist 897. tracklist for Vital Weekly 897: 0000 Tune 0014 Antidröm - Rashomon 0313 Oh, Yoko - Radio Days 0617 Kajkyt - VI 014 Celer 1204 Tobias Hellkvist - Turquoise 1502 Nick Hennies - Cast And Work 1803 Nakamura & Ikeda & Date - Balcony II 2100 Mountain Black 2359 Wall To Wall Carpeting - Adeline Abbatage 2659 Tree 2958 D'Incise - (Aral) 3300 Lights Dim With Gallery Six - Sea of Tranquility 3608 Emmanuel Allard - Seance 3901 Marina Fages - AE 4209 Lethe - Catastrophe Point #10 4510 Rishin Singh - Ablute 4819 Jliat - Sein Und Zeit 5125 Tune

Strange situations, famous mishaps, and more radio station oddities.

First, radio historian Scott Childers/W9CHI relates a short history of "the Big 89", WLS with "The RAIN Report" host Hap Holly, KC9RP, from suburban Chicago, Then, Ragnar Daneskjold hosts "PiratesWeek," an overview of shortwave and FM pirate radio activity. This week: "No pirates in the news this week but we do take a look at the FCC Activities. ‭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: Boards of Canada, Radio Ice Cream, Radio Casablanca, Radio Gallifrey Intergalactic, BlackCat Radio, and a very special clip from Radio Free Whatever. International Radio Report brings news of the demise of the Voice of Russia."

From "Free Speech Radio News": "Civil liberties advocates continue their push for the Obama administration to reign in government surveillance after the secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court released an order justifying the mass collection of telephone metadata. Groups are also calling for limits to FBI surveillance, after a new report documented many years of abuses, including the widespread monitoring of activists and communities of color. In Washington, FSRN’s Alice Ollstein has more."

Works from the performers at the Sept. 22 "Groundswell" show from WGXC and the Olana State Historic Site on the grounds at Olana.

WBAI alternate news talk show. This episode: "Our past guest Dr J. Marvin Herndon a geophysicist discussed his 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 wrote an article 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. Dr. Herndon suggests in his theory that the Earth's magnetic field could be emanating from a glowing atomic sphere inside the Earth, about 24 kilometers in diameter. From Pacifica Radio.

"The Abbott & Costello Show" episode "Radio Station." With Bud Abbott and Lou Costello with guest Alan Ladd. From March 30, 1944.

The Federal Communications Commission holds an online "webinar" to help potential applicants for the low-power FM licences available in October for non-profit groups.

The night's harvest moon, and food stamp cuts, are considered.

Performance from Sept. 13, 2013 at LIttle Berlin, Philadelphia. Chris Forsyth: guitar, vocal; Paul Sukeena: guitar; Peter Kerlin: bass guitar ;Steven Urgo: drums.

Bunnybrains, People Like Us, and Carlos Giffoni's "Live Inside the Radio" are featured.

Shadows from Scanner, Abbott and Costello, and others.

Mash-up show from Jon Nelson. 01 The Bran Flakes – “Autumn” 02 Douglas Kahn – “Chuck and Rona” 03 E-603 – “Lights Out” 04 People Like Us – “Guide to broadcasting” 05 Greater Than One – “Learn With Pleasure, Knowledge Is Power” 06 the Cranial Fishers – “Deadline” 07 DJ Danger Mouse – “Moment of Clarity” 08 Cassetteboy – “Clever girl” 09 Lasso The Moon – “Religion in the wind” 10 Bernard Parmegiani – “Du pop a l'ane” 11 Colatron – “Faithless Praise"

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 either 5 a.m. (second/fourth/fifth weeks) on WGXC and free103point9 Online Radio, and at 10 a.m. (first and third weeks) on WGXC. 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 rebroadcast.

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 live on WGXC 90.7-FM at midnight, after the show, Saturday morning, Sept. 21.

Kath Bloom + Linda Draper http://www.americansongwriter.com/2013/03/song-premiere-linda-draper-hollow/ Channeling the finger-plucked folk music of Joni Mitchell and Nick Drake, Linda Draper gets back to her acoustic roots with “Hollow,” the new single from Edgewise. It’s a haunting ballad, with dark lyrics that contrast Draper’s sweet, lilting voice. “I’ll blow away your sorrow; I am the promise of good fortune and all that is hollow,” she saings like a siren, luring some would-be lover to his grisly doom. http://pitchfork.com/artists/5083-kath-bloom/ In Kath Bloom’s 1982 ballad “The Breeze/My Baby Cries,” the cult singer-songwriter’s weary voice gnaws into the listener’s hide from the very start, as she sings, “I’d like to touch you, but I’ve forgotten how.” At the same time, avant-garde blues guitarist Loren Connors stretches the worn strings of his instrument around the devastating melody. It’s a stark reminder that the everyday can weigh a ton. On the tribute album Loving Takes Its Course, an assortment of high-profile Bloom fans — including Mark Kozelek, Josephine Foster and Devendra Banhart — cover her early-’80s work with Connors, as well as her solo return in the mid-’90s. For those who know the benefactors but not the beneficiary, the set places the covers on one disc and the originals on another, giving a new audience the opportunity to discover Bloom’s heartbreaking work firsthand.