WFMU: Currents with Brian D: Playlists and Archives

Currents with Brian D: Playlists and Archives

Music inspired by life and current events

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Sat. Oct 7th, 6am - 9am: Interview with award-winning photographer Meryl Meisler (More info...)
Currents with Brian D welcomes award-winning photographer Meryl Meisler to discuss her ongoing solo show “Simply Scintillating,” which looks at the world of New York City nightlife from the heyday of Studio 54 in the mid-1970s to the gender-twisting fabulousness of drag parties in 2023 Brooklyn.

September 23, 2023: "Throw my thoughts like tomahawks / Into this world which I disown..." | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
September 16, 2023: "Listen to the silence, let it ring on..." | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
September 9, 2023: "In the light you will find the road..." | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!
September 3, 2023: “Economic for the rest of our days…” | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | Pop-up player!

August 27, 2023: "I raised the wall and I will be the one to knock it down..." | See the playlist | Listen: MP3 - 128K | 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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