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WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 11/29/20
Jessie Wagner: Over & Over – Shoes Droppin (Wicked Cool, 2020) Laura Marling: Strange Girl – Song For Our Daughter (Partisan, 2020) Andy Watts: Burning Deep (w/Joe Louis Walker) – Supergroove (Booga/VizzTone, 2020) Luluc: ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 11/22/20
Ennio Morricone: Fuggire Lontano (Alt. Take) – Morricone Segreto (Decca, 2020) A Culture of Killing: All Will Be Fine – The Feast Of Vultures, The Cry of A Dove LP (Drunken Sailor, 2020) Kimm ...
Music, Culture, Arts and Entertainment 11-23-2020
Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We spend the hour talking with Elisa Gabbert about her terrific collection of essays, “The Unreality of Memory.” It’s a contemplation of life in the pre-apocalypse, with profound and ...
News and Public Affairs 11-23-2020
Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Caroline Fredrickson is the former President of the American Constitution Society, Distinguished Visitor from Practice at Georgetown Law School and Senior ...
Music, Culture, Arts and Entertainment 11-16-2020
Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with Les Leopold about his Uncle Walter’s remarkable diary of life as Jew in Nazi Germany, “Defiant German, Defiant Jew: A Holocaust Memoir from Inside the Third ...
News and Public Affairs 11-16-2020
Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Paul Street, an independent progressive policy researcher, award-winning journalist and historian. Street, author of the recently published book, “Hollow Resistance: Obama, ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 11/15/20
Brittany Howard: You'll Never Walk Alone – single (ATO, 2020) Hayes Carll: Another Like You (feat. Cary Ann Hearst) – KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories) (Lost Highway, 2011) Jeannie Seely: Peaceful Waters – ...
Music, Culture, Arts and Entertainment 11-09-2020
Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with translator Stephen Snyder about his translation of Yoko Ozawa’s acclaimed novel “The Memory Police.” It’s an allegory for our age. Then we hear from Marian Lindberg ...
News and Public Affairs 11-09-2020
Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Vijay Prashad, executive-director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, is an Indian historian and journalist who is the author of thirty ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 11/8/20
Andrew Cronshaw: Sea-Ice – Zithers (Cloud Valley, 2020) H.E.R.: Carried Away – I Used to Know Her (RCA, 2019) Tom and his Computer: Lovers and Gasoline – Future Ruins (In My Room, 2020) Dave ...
Music, Culture, Arts and Entertainment 11-03-2020
First Voices Radio with Tiokasin Ghosthorse Mark K. Tilsen is an Oglala Lakota poet and educator from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. At Standing Rock Mark stepped into the role of a direct action ...
News and Public Affairs 11-02-2020
Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Sylvia Albert, Director of the Voting and Elections program at Common Cause discusses the work she and a national coalition of ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 11/1/20
Elvis Costello: Phonographic Memory – single (Concord, 2020) Dave Alvin: (Variations on Earl Hooker’s) Guitar Rumba – From an Old Guitar: Rare and Unreleased Recordings (Yep Roc, 2020) Ak'chamel, The Giver Of Illness: The ...
News and Public Affairs 10-26-2020
Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Ben Clements, Board Chair of Free Speech For People and attorney, discusses the lawsuit his group has filed on behalf of ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 10/25/20
Willie Nelson: Vote ‘em Out – single (Legacy, 2018) Half Japanese: Wondrous Wonder – Crazy Hearts (Fire, 2020) Emma Swift: The Soft Apocalypse – single (Tiny Ghost, 2020) Modeste Hugues & Kilema: Tromba – ...
Music, Culture, Arts and Entertainment 10-19-2020
Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with psychologist Katherine Kinzler about her book “How You Say It: Why You Talk the Way You Do — And What It Says About You.” Then, we ...
News and Public Affairs 10-19-2020
Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Lisa Graves, founder, Executive Director and Editor-in-Chief at True North Research, talks about her recent article, “Dark Money for Supreme Court ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 10/18/20
Hamell On Trial: No Problem – The Pandemic Songs (Saustex, 2020) Yotam Avni: It Was What It Was (Album Version) – Was Here (Kompakt, 2020) The Cool Greenhouse: Alexa! – The Cool Greenhouse (Melodic, ...
Music, Culture, Arts and Entertainment 10-13-2020
First Voices Radio with Tiokasin Ghosthorse Debra Utacia Krol, a citizen of the Xolon Salinan Tribe and an Indigenous affairs reporter at the Arizona Republic will discuss her article “Living with Fire.” Co-Host Anne ...
News and Public Affairs 10-12-2020
Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Steven Gardiner, Assistant Research Director with Political Research Associates talks about the recently uncovered militia plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 10/11/20
Sunflower Bean: Moment in the Sun – single (Mom+Pop, 2020) Katie Pruitt: Look The Other Way – single (Rounder, 2020) The Speedways: Number Seven – Radio Sounds (Snap!!/Hurrah!, 2020) Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers: ...
Music, Culture, Arts and Entertainment 10-05-2020
Digging in the Dirt with Kevin Gallagher Kevin Gallagher’s guest Ryland Engelhart Executive Director Kiss the Ground. Monday, October 5 at 5:00 PM. Writer’s Voice: with Francesca Rheannon Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon ...
News and Public Affairs 10-05-2020
Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Adele Stan, Director of People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch project, talks about Donald Trump’s refusal to condemn White ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 10/4/20
Loma: Ocotillo – Don't Shy Away (Sub Pop, 2020) Aya Metwalli: Matkhafsh Menni – Nisf Madeena (bandcamp.com, 2020) Petra Haden and Bill Frisell: Yellow – Petra Haden and Bill Frisell (Sovereign Artists, 2003) Gary ...
News and Public Affairs 09-28-2020
Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Arisha Hatch, Vice President of Color Of Change talks about her group’s response to Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron’s decision not ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 9/27/20
Stick in the Wheel: Villon Song – Hold Fast (From Here, 2020) Evelyn Rubio: Cruel (Spanish version) – Crossing Borders (Productions On Seaspeed, 2020) Cory Smythe: Kinetic Whirlwind Sculpture II – Accelerate Every Voice ...
Music, Culture, Arts and Entertainment 09-22-2020
First Voices Radio with Tiokasin Ghosthorse Roberto Rodriguez, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Mexican American Studies Department at the University of Arizona. He is author of “Our Sacred Maiz is our Mother: ...
News and Public Affairs 09-21-2020
Digging in the Dirt with Kevin Gallagher Kevin Gallagher’s guest is Jon Stokes of the web site Theprepared.com who will be talking about emergency preparedness and prepping checklists for everyone. The Prepared is a ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 9/20/20
Elvin Bishop & Charlie Musselwhite: What The Hell – 100 Years Of Blues (Alligator, 2020) This Is The Kit: This Is What You Did – Off Off On (Rough Trade, 2020) Bonnie Light Horseman: ...
Music, Culture, Arts and Entertainment 09-15-2020
First Voices Radio with Tiokasin Ghosthorse Nikki Ducheneaux is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and also Bitterroot Salish from the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. She is a founder and ...
News and Public Affairs 09-14-2020
Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Stand Up America Founder and President Sean Eldridge discusses the organizing and preparations now being made partner group Indivisible and more ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 9/13/20
Jon Langford & Skull Orchard: Hey! Rockstar – Lucky Seven Series, Pt 1 (Jon Langford, 2020) Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby: Vote That F****r Out – Single (Southern Domestic, 2020) Culture: Outcast – Chanting ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 9/6/20
Nils Lofgren: Too Blue To Play – Weathered (Cattle Track Road, 2020) Emma Swift: Going Going Gone – Blonde on the Tracks (Tiny Ghost, 2020) Karen Jonas: Pink Leather Boots – The Southwest Sky ...
Music, Culture, Arts and Entertainment 08-31-2020
Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with Margot Livesy. Her new novel, “The Boy In The Field,” explores the limits of free will and how we respond to what happens to us. Then, ...
News and Public Affairs 08-31-2020
Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Amanda Marcotte is a politics writer for Salon who covers American politics, feminism and culture. Her new book is titled, “Troll ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 8/30/20
Bent Arcana: The Gate – Bent Arcana (Castle Face, 2020) Istvan Peter B'Racz: Protean Seconds – Protean Seconds (B'Racz, 2020) Gary Lucas: Astronomy Domine – Operators Are Standing By: The Essential Gary Lucas 1988-1996 ...
Live Culture Episode 64 | 08-29-2020
Live Culture with Martha Willette Lewis Live Culture 64: How to Make a Scaffolding of Care... August 29, 2020 from 11-12 noon on WPKN 89.5 FM, at WPKN.org and as a podcast on ...
News and Public Affairs 08-24-2020
Counterpoint with guest host Ebong Eudoma Monday, August 24 at 8:00 PM and in the WPKN archive. Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon We talk with Max Elbaum about the debate over whether the Left should ...
Music, Culture, Arts and Entertainment 08-24-2020
Digging in the Dirt with Kevin Gallagher Special guest Jennifer Jewell is a gardener, garden writer, and gardening educator and advocate. Since 2016, she has written and hosted the national award-winning, weekly public radio ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 8/23/20
Eels: Baby Let's Make It Real – single (E-Works, 2020) Cecil Taylor: Stepping on Stars – Garden 1st Set (hatOLOGY, 2015) Nils Lofgren Band: Don’t Let Your Guard Down – Weathered [Live] (Cattle Track ...
Music, Culture, Arts and Entertainment 08-17-2020
Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon Is the 2020 Presidential election being rigged, like Donald Trump claims? Yes, says investigative reporter Greg Palast — it’s being rigged by Trump himself, in collusion with the GOP. ...
News and Public Affairs 08-17-2020
Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Sarah Kendzior author of, “Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America,” and co-host of Gaslit ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 8/16/20
Bill Frisell: Keep Your Eyes Open – Valentine (Blue Note, 2020) Laurence-Anne: Accident – Accident EP (Bonsound, 2020) Shirley Collins: Canadee-i-o – Heart's Ease (Domino, 2020) Carmen Lundy: Eye of the Storm – Modern ...
News and Public Affairs
Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Kevin Martin, President of Peace Action and the Peace Action Education Fund, talks about the recent effort in Congress to transfer ...
Music, Culture, Arts and Entertainment
Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon Shaun King tells us about his life as a Black Lives Matter activist, what he’s learned about making change happen and how you can make change happen too. His ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 8/9/20
Emma Swift: One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) – Blonde on the Tracks (Tiny Ghost, 2020) The Psychedelic Furs: Wrong Train – Made of Rain (Cooking Vinyl, 2020) Frank Turner: Perfect Government ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 8/2/20
Ambrose Akinmusire: Yessss – On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note, 2020) Southern Culture on the Skids: Cicada Rock 2020 – single (Kudzu, 2020) The Psychedelic Furs: Wrong Train – Made ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 7/26/20
tone-cluster: Mangetsu (The Full Moon) – KYO SHU (Littlebox, 2020) Meena Cryle & the Chris Fillmore Band: It Makes Me Scream (Live) – In Concert (Continental Blue Heaven, 2017) Rogers & Butler: Writing to ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 7/19/20
Green Gartside: Tangled Man – single (Rough Trade, 2020) Josephine Foster: I’m a Dreamer – single (Fire, 2020) Eddie Kendrick: Girl You Need A Change of Mind – People… Hold On (Motown, 1972) Talking ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 7/12/20
Jeremy Denk: I Still Play – I Still Play (Nonesuch, 2020) Paul Weller: Baptiste – On Sunset (Polydor, 2020) Culture: Two Sevens Clash – This is Trojan Roots (Conscious Vibes from the Ghetto) (Trojan, ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 7/5/20
Anthony Braxton, Eugene Chadbourne: Improv Four – Duo (Improv) 2017 (Tri-Centric Foundation, 2020) Bob Mould: American Crisis – Blue Hearts (Merge, 2020) Beyoncé: Black Parade – single (Columbia, 2020) Kat Riggins: Cry Out – ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 6/28/20
Bad Moves: Local Radio – Untenable (Don Giovanni, 2020) Bettye Lavette: Strange Fruit – Blackbirds (Verve, 2020) Rudresh Mahanthappa: The Windup – Hero Trio (Whirlwind, 2020) Jon Hassell: Fearless – Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento ...
WPKN’s Favorite Tracks of the Week – 6/21/20
John Prine: I Remember Everything – single (Oh Boy, 2020) Sorry: Rock ‘n’ Roll Star – 925 (Domino, 2020) The Sons of the Soul Revivers: It Isn’t Safe – Songs We’ll Always Sing: A ...
WPKNs Favorite Tracks of the Week – 6/14/20
Dream Wife: So When You Gonna… – Dream Wife (Lucky Number, 2020) Lou Reed: Street Hassle – Street Hassle (RCA, 1978) D. Zhantsanchoy: The Black Stallion Zhonon of the Khalka Mongols – Mongolia: Traditional ...
WPKNs Favorite Tracks of the Week – 6/7/20
Tindersticks: Tough Love – No Treasure But Hope (Lucky Dog/City Slang, 2019) Chemtrails: Saint Vitus – The Peculiar Smell of the Inevitable (Punk Slime, 2020) Sara Hickman: Claim on My Heart – Shortstop (Elektra, ...
WPKNs Favorite Tracks of the Week – 5/31/20
Connie Han: Dark Chambers – Iron Starlet (Mack Avenue, 2020) Tears of Sirens: Under the Milky Way – Theremin 100 – Electronic Music Written For Theremin (NY Theremin Society, 2020) Janelle Monáe: Tightrope (feat. ...
WPKNs Favorite Tracks of the Week – 5/25/20
Arlo Parks: Black Dog – single (Transgressive, 2020) Martha Wainwright: Wolves (feat. Rufus Wainwright) – single (Cooking Vinyl, 2020) Mystic Bowie’s Talking Dreads: Boom Flick (The Naked Truth) – Boom Flick (The Naked Truth) EP (Mystic Bowie, ...
Music, Culture, Arts and Entertainment
Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon We spend most of the hour with Scott Turow, talking not only about the fictional case in "The Last Trial," but also about some very real cases going on ...
News and Public Affairs
Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Dr. James G. Kahn, emeritus professor at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, at the Department of Epidemiology ...
News and Public Affairs
Counterpoint with Scott Harris This week’s guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Marge Baker, Executive Vice President for Policy and Program with People For the American Way assesses the testimony of Rick Bright, ...
Music, Culture, Arts and Entertainment
Writer’s Voice with Francesca Rheannon The 2020 presidential election is looming on the horizon. Many fear the outcome will be hotly disputed. And the U.S. Constitution probably won’t help us out of the mess. ...
WPKNs Favorite Tracks of the Week – 5/17/20
Lucy Dacus: In The Air Tonight – 2019 (Matador, 2019) Butch Walker: Gridlock – American Love Story (Ruby Red, 2020) HoodCelebrityy: Run Di Road – single (Female Shotta, 2020) Ashley McBryde: Never Will – Never Will (Warner Music ...
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WPKNs Favorite Tracks of the Week – 5/10/20
Pam Tillis: Dark Turn of Mind – Looking For a Feeling (Stellar Cat, 2020) Daughters: What’s Inside a Girl – Really Bad Music for Really Bad People: The Cramps as Heard Through the Meat Grinder of ...
WPKN May 2020 News from Our GM
Note from the WPKN General Manager We are a community, non-profit radio station, dedicated to providing you with music and other entertainment, public affairs, news and some companionship during this time of disruption. ...
Music, Culture, Arts and Entertainment
Writer's Voice with Francesca Rheannon: We’re all used to narrative that’s told with words. But what about narrative that’s told through art? Book art? We talk with book artist Barry McCallion about book art ...
News and Public Affairs
This week's guests on Counterpoint, hosted by Scott Harris: Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M.Div, Assistant Clinical Professor in Law and Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine and author of the book, "The Dangerous ...
WPKNs Favorite Picks of the Year, 2019
Every year, WPKN polls our hosts to nominate their favorite picks of the year, and 2019 is no different. Our hosts are volunteers, and they put everything they've got into making the most unique, ...
WPKNs Favorite Picks of the Year, 2018
Every year, WPKN polls our hosts to nominate their favorite picks of the year, and 2018 is no different. Our hosts are volunteers, and they put everything they've got into making the most unique, ...
WPKNs Favorite Picks of the Year, 2017
Every year, WPKN polls our hosts to nominate their favorite picks of the year, and 2017 is no different. Our hosts are volunteers, and they put everything they've got into making the most unique, ...
WPKNs Top 10 Favorite Picks of the Year, 2016
Every year, WPKN polls our hosts to nominate their favorite picks of the year, and 2016 is no different. Our hosts are volunteers, and they put everything they've got into making the most unique, ...
WPKNs Top 10 Favorite Picks of the Year, 2015
Every year, WPKN polls our hosts to nominate their favorite picks of the year, and 2015 is no different. Our hosts are volunteers, and they put everything they've got into making the most unique, ...