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Accordion Noir Radio

"Ruthlessly pursuing the idea that the accordion is just another instrument." Join the front-lines of the Accordion Revolution, broadcasting around the world almost every Wednesday since 2006. From Punk to Piazzolla (a variety of loud rock and roll, and a famous tango composer). The most unexpected variety of squeezebox music you"re likely to subscribe to today.

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Accordion Noir 2025-04-30: Women’s #AccordionBandcamp...

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2025/05/02

This week’s episode of CFRO’s hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast shone the spotlight on (mostly) women accordionists selling music on the Bandcamp platform — as today is Bandcamp Friday, their best shot at actually getting paid for selling music recordings online all month! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-04-23: Get Lucy...

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2025/04/25

You can’t fool us! Alt-accordion fans are always in pursuit of the new big thing, and so for last night’s episode of our weekly Accordion Noir broadcast, Bruce has put together a program of tunes looking at “artists with new music and upcoming projects”. I guess that means that everyone in this week’s episode is […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-04-16: Vancouver...

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2025/04/18

Accordion Noir radio’s parent radio station, CFRO Co-Op Community Radio, just celebrated its 50th anniversary! In recognition of the occasion, Bruce has stacked this week’s playlist of accordion songs with offerings dating to CFRO’s year of establishment, 1975. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-04-09: Donate to...

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2025/04/10

The new episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast features all recently-released music from the past couple of years, a playlist calibrated to inspire you to join us at the 50th anniversary party for our parent radio station CFRO Co-Op Community Radio, taking place this Saturday night at the Legion hall on Commercial Drive (at […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-04-02: Blues for...

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2025/04/04

In honour of the birthday of famous bluesman Muddy Waters, who got his start on the accordion, on the latest episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir program Bruce has planned a squeezy tour of the blues for you. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability yet, you […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-03-26: Seasoning...

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2025/03/28

Many things are afoot, and your host Bruce is up to a lot in a turbulent and inconstant world, but ultimately it all filters through his squeezy brain and gets interpreted in accordion music playlist form. This week is no exception! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-03-19: Spring...

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2025/03/20

Bruce is feeling the imminent change of the season in his squeeze-bones, and hopefully with it… a lot of other change coming, too, for the better! If you are interested in getting a finer-grained understanding of how he’s doing, there’s no better way than carefully listening to this hour of accordion music he’s plotted out […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-03-12:...

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2025/03/13

This week Bruce lodged a complaint at the local DOGE consulate and discovered which country pulled the “accordion” straw in the Eurovision song contest this year — it’s Sweden! All that and more in this week’s episode of your favorite all-accordion, alt-accordion radio show / podcast! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t […]

Accordion Noir 2025-03-05: Bandcamp Friday Preview...

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2025/03/06

For the first time this year, we’re celebrating Bandcamp Friday — a day when the Bandcamp e-storefront waives its share of revenues from digital music sales, passing their portion along to your favorite recording artists. (In our case, your favorite accordion recording artists!) Everyone featured in this week’s episode has music available for sale on […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-02-26: Travellin’...

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2025/02/27

Bruce is on the road tonight, wearing a rut in that long trail entre la jeunesse et la sagesse, but though he can’t be in the CFRO radio studios airing our weekly squeezebox music broadcast this week he can at least use the information superhighway to pipe the episode to us via his parent’s bathroom, […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-02-19: Punch a...

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2025/02/20

Look out, Nazis! Bruce is in a real antifa mood this week, so if that’s going to hurt your feels… well, you’re probably better off unsubscribing and finding another podcast, I bet Joe Rogan will have a suitable guest this week. But if you are energized a bit at the prospect of Americans resisting the […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-11-27: Geoff...

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2025/02/18

Photo by David DG Jones Last winter we kept making new episodes of our weekly alt-accordion radio program, but they weren’t getting shared with our podcast subscribers because our host, the Internet Archive, was paralysed for a long time after a heinous hack. Since then we have been sharing the missing episodes with you as […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-02-12: Valentine’s...

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2025/02/13

It’s that time of year again, when lovers’ thoughts turn to accordions! Well… OK, maybe when accordionists’ thoughts turn to love. In any case, this week’s fresh episode of our hour-long alt-squeezebox broadcast is full of squeezy love songs, so we cover both possibilities. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-11-20: November of...

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2025/02/10

A few months ago, our podcast host over at the Internet Archive got hacked, and it temporarily became impossible for us to submit recordings. And yet, our weekly alt-accordion music broadcast schedule kept up at its regular pace on the radio. Ever since then, we’ve been trying to get “caught up”, making episodes that dropped […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-02-05: Wintery...

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2025/02/06

We don’t often have the white stuff on the ground here in Vancouver, but currently we do and Bruce was moved to program an hour of wintry squeezebox songs on frosty themes for this week’s episode of our alt-accordion broadcast. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to the episode’s availability […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-01-29: What Hath...

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2025/01/30

Already the end of January? Every day feels like a lifetime of torments and yet… the time seems to be briskly whizzing away. Well, here’s a fresh helping of accordion music to help the time pass. 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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-11-13: Farewell...

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2025/01/27

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-01-22: Garth...

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2025/01/23

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-01-15: Welcoming...

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2025/01/17

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-11-06: Beginning...

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2025/01/13

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 […]

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