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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 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 […]

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 […]

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