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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 radio playlist 2025-01-08: Oh, Eight’s...

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2025/01/10

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. […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-10-30: Electronic,...

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2025/01/09

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 […]

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

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2025/01/02

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-12-25: Holiday...

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2024/12/25

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-12-18: Southern...

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2024/12/19

(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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-12-11: December...

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2024/12/13

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-10-23: Combined...

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2024/12/11

A lot of ground work was required, but we are just about ready to unleash the motherlode of missing episodes dating to the Internet Archive disruption earlier this autumn. Hopefully we will have a chance to share them all and get caught up before the end of this year! Here is a recording of a […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-12-04: Last...

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2024/12/06

Apologies for the ongoing delays in getting our recent episodes online for the enjoyment of our podcast listeners! Here’s this week’s episode — it’s far from the first time we were shills for Bandcamp Friday, and hopefully it won’t be the last! We like the idea of recording artists getting a fair(er) shake at the […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-10-16:...

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2024/12/03

Better late than never, your squeezy host Bruce was very up front about the theme of this delayed October episode of our weekly program: other than containing accordion music, the only criterion was that it was made of up songs that he enjoyed. (I don’t imagine he programs many episodes filled with accordion music that […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-10-09: October In...

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2024/11/19

A few weeks ago, our podcast host at the Internet Archive went offline following a big hack. Since there, we’ve necessarily experienced a month of delays before being able to get the weekly episodes of our hour-long accordion music broadcast to you folks out there in cyberspace. (Hey, it’s not like we missed anything important, […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-10-02: Bandcamp...

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2024/10/04

Not every month hosts a Bandcamp Friday, but this month does, so we’re here to encourage you to go financially support your favorite recording accordionists with the biggest cut in the online music storefront business — at least, for one day a month. All of the performers in this week’s episode of Accordion Noir should […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-09-25: Farewell In...

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2024/09/26

Page one of the piano accordion sheet music to the “Farewell Polka” This week’s episode of Accordion Noir opens with a tribute to the recently passed Zulya of Australia and continues in a casuallly autumnal vein. 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 2024-09-18: Don’t Tell...

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2024/09/19

The evenings grow chill again, the mornings thick with dew and fog, and a massive harvest moon loomed in the sky last night. We don’t have to tell Bruce it’s autumn, he’s already been told. He reflects upon this annual turn of the seasons in this week’s episode of our weekly alt-accordion broadcast. If […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-09-11: September...

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2024/09/13

Last week we were presenting our mainline Vancouver accordion fest outdoors at a park, our eponymous Accordion Noir Festival (enjoy video documentation on YouTube!) kicked off lo these many years ago by Geoff Berner, and this weekend he’s at the heart of another one, the second installment of Vancouver’s Clean Air Festival! Casting the spotlight […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-08-28: Polkamania...

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2024/08/29

A month ago I alerted your regular Accordion Noir host Bruce Triggs that “Weird Al” Yankovic had just released a new polka medley to celebrate the ten-year anniversary 🗓️ of the release of his “Mandatory Fun” album, and maybe ours would be the kind of speciality radio program that might air it! Bruce doesn’t do […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-08-21: Squeeze in...

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2024/08/22

Here’s a little breather, a music-focused episode of Accordion Noir between two weeks leaning on guest interviews. Last week Bruce chatted with Emily-Rose Šárkova, and next week he’ll be talking polkas (again) with “Weird” Al! This week, though, he just played his standard mellow mix of outstanding squeezebox recordings. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-08-14: Emily-Rose...

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2024/08/16

(different interview, but the thumbnail was so applicable to our situation we couldn’t resist reusing it.) This past Sunday we learned about a traveling accordion performer who was scheduled to be performing in our town the following night and across our country in the following days and weeks. Jaron Freeman-Fox pointed her in our direction […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-08-07: Phonograph...

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2024/08/09

(Note: despite the obvious superficial similarities in names and appearances, phonographs and gramophones are different things. One is the horned music player that plays from wax cylinders, and the other is the horned music player that plays from flat records. Like mixing up a VHS and a Betamax — very different!) Not content to rest […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-07-31: Post Folk...

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2024/07/30

The wild thing about a festival of the age and breadth of scope of our Vancouver Folk Music Festival, is that in addition to the main draw — all the incredible international performers demonstrating their regional specialities typically not on tap locally — also if you go by the “merch table” tent, you have one […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2024-07-18: Vancouver...

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2024/07/19

Greetings out there! If you were wondering what happened to this week’s episode of Accordion Noir, you’re not alone! No worries — it did end up airing on Co-Op Radio, and now it has gone up online with this very post. The focus of this week’s episode is this weekend’s return of the recently-frail Vancouver […]

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