Accordion Noir Radio

There were a lot of disappointments last fall. Of course, the course of the US Election was a big one, and naturally the interruption of service by the Internet Archive by hackers also really brought us down, because the episodes of our program we had been putting together and broadcasting (such as the one that […]

Last night’s episode of the weekly, hour-long alt-squeezebox Accordion Noir program pays impromptu tribute to one of our patron saints, Garth Hudson of The Band, who died this week. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy […]

It’s been a rough century for trademark and copyright law, with much legal precedent for musical compositions and recordings thereof subject to decisions made in a bygone age governing punched paper rolls of player piano sheet music.  In all the back and forth, the societal interest in releasing creative works to the public domain was […]

Due to unscheduled downtime at the Internet Archive, we were unable to share this episode online when it first aired back in November, and frankly the mindspace it is informed by is possibly better left behind us, but be that as it may it is surprisingly difficult to play accordion with your head stuck in […]

I guess there’s been so much AI in the discourse lately, Bruce apparently generated this week’s Accordion Noir broadcast playlist using the assistance of an algorithm. But I understand it had been trained on his curation, so the mentality guiding the trajectory of this musical journey was that of a Virtual Bruce, if you will.  […]

So… our podcast schedule got disrupted by the Internet Archive hack late last year, and we never quite got caught up. But we can get closer. Here, today, I can share with you our incredible episode from the night before Halloween, 2024, our final broadcast before the world as we knew it ended. Yes: by […]

New week, new episode of the weekly Accordion Noir alt-squeezebox broadcast! New year, new edition of the Accordion Babes pin-up calendar! For the first episode of our program in the new calendar year, we shone the spotlight on the crop of talented babes populating the popular calendar/album this year, including an interview with local Accordion […]

As part of a Christmas miracle (sorry, I made that joke in the last write-up too, didn’t I?), this week’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir alt-squeezebox broadcast is somehow available online even before it airs on the radio. It absolutely is programmed with an eye to a seasonal sub-theme in the music selections, though […]

(This would have made for excellent cover art as well, but I opted to do the right thing and respect the stated copyright terms.) As you may recall, Bruce and I started the Accordion Noir broadcast way back in December of 2006 (18 years ago, yow! Bruce, we didn’t even observe the occasion, it got […]

In addition to sharing episodes of our alt-squeezebox broadcast from ten years ago and from a month ago, once in a while these days we also have the pleasure of sharing with you episodes of our weekly radio program from the same week in which it actually aired.  It’s a bit like living in the […]