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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 2026-02-11: Welcome to...

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2026/02/12

All right, enough resting on our laurels. Last week we celebrated the 1000th episode of our weekly alt-accordion broadcast. This week: it’s the first episode of our second thousand. Back to work! 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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-02-04: Accordion...

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2026/02/05

Seems like our 500th episode extravaganza with Geoff Berner and Dawn Zoe was just yesterday, but somehow this week was a thousand weeks since our first broadcast back at the start of December 2006, meaning that this week we celebrated our thousandth episode! (Later this year we’ll be observing its 20th anniversary.) We celebrated by […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-01-28: January...

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2026/01/30

Last night’s episode of Accordion Noir observes the end of the month and … our final appearance measurable in only three digits. You can’t really hear any of that in the playlist selections, but nevertheless the songs are good and the music is hot and squeezy, so go get an earful! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-01-21: Greenland...

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2026/01/22

With all the talk about Greenland in the news recently, Bruce was inspired to devote an episode to the topic of that big cold island. (He didn’t get very far on short notice, but it’s worth investigating further!) 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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-01-14: Johnny...

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2026/01/15

There are some dates and weeks that are loaded with birthdays and anniversaries for people and events that loom large in accordion history, and this week is one of them, which lends itself neatly to a musical playlist. 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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-01-07: Immigrant’s...

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2026/01/08

I can’t put it better than Bruce did in his words below, so I’ll leave it to him to elaborate on last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast, on themes of solidarity and unity in times of great division. If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-12-31: Public...

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2026/01/02

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-12-24: Some...

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2025/12/25

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-12-17: A few...

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2025/12/18

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. […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-12-10: Accordion...

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2025/12/11

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 […]

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

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2025/12/04

One more time before the year is up, we’re hosting another #AccordionBandcamp special on the occasion of #BandcampFriday coming up this week, 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 old RSS) podcast […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-11-26: Whatever We...

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2025/11/27

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-11-19: Tommy...

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2025/11/24

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-11-12: November...

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2025/11/13

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-11-05:...

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2025/11/06

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-10-29: Squeeze...

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2025/10/29

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 […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-10-22: Dr. Carmel...

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2025/10/24

NOTICE about next week’s special 3 hour episode:Accordion Noir: Squeeze into the Long Nights: Drone & Experimental AccordionSPECIAL EARLY SHOW NEXT WEEK: WED. OCT 29, 9 PM-MID.Should just roll out on your podcast as an extra-long 3-hour episode.Starting Co-op Radio’s Fall Member Drive a few days early. This Week’s Show features a remix of a […]

AccNoir–2025-10-15, Rowan’s Italian Travel Romance

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2025/10/17

Hey all! This week Accordion Noir co-host and podcast upload coordinator Rowan is globetrotting with his family in sunny Italy! Which we celebrate in tonight’s playlist with a set of mostly Italian tunes. (With a few “Romantic” ones by Canadians because that seemed enough of a connector.) As mentioned, this week’s first track is from […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-10-08: October 8 1/2

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2025/10/09

(That’s the half-an-accordion in the title.) I don’t believe that last night’s episode of our weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast has an underlying theme beyond “varied squeezebox music”, and I think that if you asked its programmer Bruce he’d say the same thing, so all I can tell you is: enjoy an hour of free […]

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-10-01: First...

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2025/10/02

Here we go again! When live music venues shut down at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, we stepped up looking for ways to financially support our favorite (squeezebox) musicians deprived of performance income — and Bandcamp’s “we waive our cut of the revenues” Bandcamp Fridays made them the most efficient way to take money […]

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