With every year that passes, more and more of our cultural heritage passes from private ownership into the public realm, where anyone can use or enjoy it without being required to pay fees — typically because the creators have been dead and the creations now forgotten for many decades hence. But in a world of […]

If you’re going to be playing an hour of music on Christmas Eve, you need to either be explicitly embracing or rejecting the occasion. In this week’s episode of Accordion Noir, Bruce kind of does both at the same time — the show is all Christmas music, but that Christmas music includes a lot of […]

We’re getting into winter holiday season, and first up is Chanukah, a primary focus in this week’s episode of our weekly hour-long all-accordion broadcast. If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. […]

Some years, we make a big deal out of the anniversary of our radio program. (The first few years we would reconvene at our original broadcast time from 2-3 am for an hour of not-ready-for-prime-time pirate radio.) Other years, such as this one, it just quietly tries to slip past us. (Tries. It’s hard for […]

One more time before the year is up, we’re hosting another #AccordionBandcamp special on the occasion of #BandcampFriday coming up this week on Dec 5th, your chance to purchase accordion music from accordionic recording artists and have the lion’s share of the digital payments actually reach said artists! Happy holidays all around! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain […]

Bruce is getting a little postmodern with these programs: he has taken an episode of our program first aired a bit over eighteen years ago, located all of the songs included in it in his music collection, and has offset every song by one in the sequence of his overall collection. Why? You can’t interrogate […]

If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If you haven’t yet, please consider making a pledge to our parent radio station CFRO for the Fall membership drive! And now, here’s the playlist of […]

War: what is it good for? If I told you “great accordion music”, you wouldn’t believe me, but now you don’t have to. Either way, I’d happily do away with accordion in a heartbeat if it also brought an end to war, but sadly it doesn’t work that way. In any case, Bruce found himself […]

Bruce has… a lot of accordion music. He has so much of it that if he so cared to, he could just cruise by the “B” section of his alphabetised song library, and come up with an entire episode of our program simply by selecting a consecutive subset of all the songs in his collection […]

Long time coming gathering works for another episode of drone, experimental and noisy squeezebox to stretch your listening ears! This is a fine set of tones indeed as we did four years in the past five now. And we hope to continue the tradition if we can keep gathering enough material: If you know any […]