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Currents with Brian D: Playlists and Archives

Music inspired by life and current events

November 30, 2024: "Destruction then becomes the prominent end of hatred. All means may be adopted for this end."--Aleander F. Shand | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
November 23, 2024: “Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth.”--William Blake | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
November 16, 2024: "History is what's happening." | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
November 9, 2024: "Now you gotta answer your own question..." | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
November 2, 2024: "Look around / Believe in what you see..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 26, 2024: "Bet you I won't be blue always / 'Cause the sun's gonna shine..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 19, 2024: "Always reaching, never teaching..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 12, 2024: "I woke up this morning with the blues all around my head..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 5, 2024: "I bought a ticket to the world / But now I've come back again..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 28, 2024: All Over The Mapp with PGB filled in. Listen here.
September 21, 2024: "Chains are broken in the morning..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 14, 2024: "The body breaks, it disobeys, betrays its woes and weakness..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 7, 2024: "I crawled the earth, but now I'm higher..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 31, 2024: "You may live in this garden if you keep the waters clean..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 24, 2024: "Rolling home to you..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 17, 2024: Rhinestone Dinosaur filled in. Listen here.
August 10, 2024: "The sweat, the victory and sorrow, the smell of fear..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 3, 2024: "The busier you are, the less you see..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 27, 2024: "I don’t think the culture could sustain anything like the Voice today because there is this great impatience for reading anything you disagree with."--Richard Goldstein in The Freaks Came Out To Write | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 20, 2024: "Unless I dream you there..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 13, 2024: “It should be our ambition to say nothing but the truth — but the whole truth.”--Christophe Deloire | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 6, 2024: "I got medicine to cure all y'alls ills..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 29, 2024: "All the news is bad, is there any other kind?" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 22, 2024: "You know that this'll be the Saturday you're reaching your peak..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 15, 2024: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world..."--W.B. Yeats | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 8, 2024: “And everything I had to know / I heard it on my radio…” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 1, 2024: "I'd build a road in gold just to have some..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 25, 2024: "I wanna live, and I wanna dance awhile..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 18, 2024: "Hide your memories, hide them all, hide em all..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 11, 2024: Matty Notimes filled in. Listen here.
May 4, 2024: "When there's bombs in the Middle East, you want to hurt yourself..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 27, 2024: "But keep my place and the empty chair..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 20, 2024: "We live together in a photograph of time..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 13, 2024: "Who cares, who cares what the future brings?..." with an Interview with artist Audrey Flack | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 6, 2024: "Someday the sun will shine so close, it hurts..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 30, 2024: “Is this the winter of our fall…?” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 23, 2024: "Well I'm the luckiest guy / Not the loneliest guy..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 16, 2024: "If you want a revolution, baby, / There is nothing like your own..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 9, 2024: "I want you to get together..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 2, 2024: "C'mon baby, let's get out of the cold..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 24, 2024: "A window on a world / With a lovely view..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 17, 2024: "Their mind is confused with confusion / With their problems since they've no solution..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 10, 2024: Rhinestone Dinosaur filled in. Listen here.
February 3, 2024: "Somebody holds the key..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player! | Pop-up player!

January 27, 2024: "Half a million boots went slogging through hell..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 20, 2024: Darren filled in. Listen here.
January 13, 2024: "The photograph reflects..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 6, 2024: "I'm gonna take the song from every bird..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 30, 2023: Music from the Editor's Desk | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 23, 2023: "Jesus lying in his mother’s arms / Is a photon released from a dying star..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 16, 2023: "My street lamp is so glacially alone in the night... / It says: We are all far from home. / There's no hope anymore."--Rolf Jacobsen | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 9, 2023: “We can all be refugees / Nobody is safe, / All it takes is a mad leader / Or no rain to bring forth food, / We can all be refugees / We can all be told to go, / We can be hated by someone / For being someone.”--We Refugees by Benjamin Zephaniah | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 2, 2023: “That were picked up and tortured and framed by the law / And the filth got promotion, but they're still doing time / For being Irish in the wrong place and at the wrong time…” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 25, 2023: "Other nights would be / Long and dark ages for me..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 18, 2023: "I am seen and I have been heard..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 11, 2023: "All the things we love, we love, we love, we lose..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 4, 2023: "When it comes to our future..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 28, 2023: "But for now, I'm coming down..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 21, 2023: "But now it's come to distances and both of us must try..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 14, 2023: "Until the flags are put down and the exceptionalists / Are buried under the ground..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 7, 2023: "Just like children sleepin'/We could dream this night away..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 29, 2023: PGB filled in. Listen here.
September 23, 2023: "Throw my thoughts like tomahawks / Into this world which I disown..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 16, 2023: "Listen to the silence, let it ring on..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 9, 2023: "In the light you will find the road..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 3, 2023: “Economic for the rest of our days…” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 27, 2023: "I raised the wall and I will be the one to knock it down..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 20, 2023: "Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as to its victims: the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.”—Simone Weil | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 13, 2023: "Madness seeks out a lover..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 6, 2023: "Rattled by the rush (makes you wanna say your prayers)..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 30, 2023: I Am Up with Jen filled in. Find the show here.
July 23, 2023: "Racial persecution does not exist because some nations have no territories but because nations exist at all."--Morris Myerson | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 16, 2023: "At least music is playing in my head..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 9, 2023: "Get teenage kicks right through the night..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 2, 2023: "When I hear the word 'culture,' I get out my checkbook." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 25, 2023: “Closer than you know, love each other so…” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 18, 2023: "Income tax deduction, what a hell of a function..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 11, 2023: "Put a peephole in my brain..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 4, 2023: "Never forget in the story of Jesus, the hero was killed by the state..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 28, 2023: "I'm all tuned in, I see all the programs..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 21, 2023: "Blood on the rise it's following me..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 14, 2023: "I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 7, 2023: "I was hearing... Hearing something else..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 30, 2023: “In a world that's constantly changing…” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 23, 2023: Material Eyez with Naomi Shambles filled in. Find the show here.
April 16, 2023: "'Cause in the darkness there'll be hidden worlds that shine" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 9, 2023: I am Up with Jen filled in. Find the show here.
April 2, 2023: "What's the matter with you, boy?" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

March 26, 2023: "A system failure left behind..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 19, 2023: "Don't worry, baby, your credit is good..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 12, 2023: See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 12, 2023: "Oh, it's called love / And it belongs to us..." | See the playlist
March 5, 2023: "It's too loud..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 26, 2023: "And I pretend to pray..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 19, 2023: "Cuz our poor boy/Believes in chance..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 12, 2023: "You can get it fast in Armageddon..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 5, 2023: "My brother, my sister / When you're dragged toward the Hell-mouth / You will beg at the end / But there ain't gonna be one, friend..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 29, 2023: "I don't want to think at all..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 22, 2023: "We are not so gullible.." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 15, 2023: "Ride the train/I'm far from home..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 8, 2023: "Dreaming is free..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 1, 2023: A Year in Songs... and Pictures | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 25, 2022: I Am Up With Jen filled in. Find the show here.
December 18, 2022: "I get up in the evening/And I ain't got nothing to say..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 11, 2022: "How the world keeps on spinnin'/It goes spinnin' out of control..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 4, 2022: "I don't wanna be a pinhead no more..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 27, 2022: "I feel beneath the white/There is a redskin suffering/From centuries of taming..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 20, 2022: "Well it just goes to show/Things are not what they seem..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 13, 2022: "My life is a sham / I pretend that I'm free..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 6, 2022: Sara Terry joins us to discuss her documentary "A Decent Home" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 30, 2022: "The death of the party/Came as no surprise..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 23, 2022: Singles Going UNsteady | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 16, 2022: Blondes, and other stories. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 9, 2022: "To be done with all this measuring of proof..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 2, 2022: "Make you sing and make you tell the whole wide world..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 25, 2022: I Am Up with Jen filled in. Find the show here.
September 18, 2022: "Is this the highway/Of all mankind?" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 11, 2022: "From disreputable sources..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 4, 2022: "Some strange music draws me in..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 28, 2022: "There ain't no asylum here..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 21, 2022: "Free yourself/that leash is long..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 14, 2022: "I thought innovation and progress were synonyms. I can’t be so sure anymore.”--Karl Bartos | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 7, 2022: "Fells dust into ash..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 31, 2022: “What we want and what we need…” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 24, 2022: "I hear a voice cry out you want something good..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 17, 2022: "The minor fall, the major lift..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 10, 2022: "Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 3, 2022: "And here's to the life that's not saved..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 26, 2022: "They like me better when I'm sedated..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 19, 2022: "Leave Kanye out of this..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 12, 2022: "White supremacy is ubiquitous in the US. It operates in the most mundane aspects of daily life; in the economic order that decides who has what and how they get it; in the historical amnesia that makes some stories disappear..."--Hazel V. Carby, LRB | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 5, 2022: "I don't know why you say goodbye..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

May 29, 2022: "Anywhere..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 22, 2022: "Another leap in the dark..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 15, 2022: "Got to scrape the s**t right off your shoes" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 8, 2022: "I like you!" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
May 1, 2022: "I could fake it... but I'd still want more" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

April 24, 2022: "Travel where you are, tourism is sin, these are the ruins we left behind, you can't take pictures of them..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 17, 2022: "I am tired, I am weary, I could sleep for a thousand years..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 10, 2022: "Hard to be human again..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
April 3, 2022: Fox filled in. Find the show here.

March 27, 2022: Thank you, thank you, thank you. Show is rerun from 7/11/2022. Clicking on playlist will take you to that playlist. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 20, 2022: We need you. They need us. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 13, 2022: It's a Marathon... and a sprint!" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
March 6, 2022: "War is hell." ALL war. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

February 27, 2022: War... and more. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 20, 2022: "Touch me I'm sick!" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
February 13, 2022: Fox filled in. Hear the show here.
February 6, 2022: "My heart besieged by anger, my mind a gap of danger. I walked among their old haunts, the home ground where they bled; and in the dirt lay justice like an acorn in the winter, ill its oak would sprout in Derry..."—Seamus Heaney | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

January 30, 2022: “Peace grows to itself and in itself. It has no other way.”—Penny Rimbaud | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 23, 2022: "I regretted that we were being called upon to fight against something regarded as wrong without at the same time having the conviction that we were defending a way of life that was right."--Eric Ravilious | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 16, 2022: “Be content with the world. Fight for it to remain.”—The Velvet Queen | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 9, 2022: Bowie is still CURRENT. | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
January 2, 2022: "Struggling, struggling/As I am for peace..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

December 26, 2021: "And where will she go, and what shall she do..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 19, 2021: "I'm making plans for the day all of this is through..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 12, 2021: “Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people.” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
December 5, 2021: "Debating: 'Would you rather be burnt or drowned?'" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

November 28, 2021: Fox filled in. Playlist and archives are here.
November 21, 2021: "I'd join, but I hear the atmosphere is toxic." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 14, 2021: "Trauma is not a competition." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
November 7, 2021: Extra Time | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

October 31, 2021: Halloween and Hell-Raiser -- What could go wrong? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 24, 2021: "So even though this is a small world, it’s Sue-meg, it carries so much to us, it carries so much more meaning to us."--Rosie Clayburn, the Yurok tribal heritage preservation officer | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 17, 2021: "Once you're a Chieftain, you're always a Chieftain." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 10, 2021: “We... need... nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.”--MLK | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
October 3, 2021: "Wherever you are, we are glad you are there." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

September 26, 2021: "While I was in prison the executions were always done at dawn, so when I saw the sun coming through the prison bars I knew I was going to live through another day." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 19, 2021: “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.” | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 12, 2021: "See the great white scar/Over Battery Park..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
September 5, 2021: "The infrastructure rots..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

August 29, 2021: Your knight in shining armor... | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 22, 2021: "How many times does an angel fall?" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 15, 2021: Are we all lost at sea? | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 8, 2021: "Destroy your safe and happy lives before it is too late..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
August 1, 2021: "We're not broken property..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

July 25, 2021: "A New Mother Nature" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 18, 2021: "Here comes sickness... again." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 11, 2021: "Ocean occupied someday." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
July 4, 2021: "And we don't have to buy it..." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

June 27, 2021: "Alas, NOT Total Football" | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 20, 2021: "The truth is out there." | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!
June 13, 2021: A Refuge | See the playlist | Listen: Pop-up player!

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