Another excellent show this week on Radio Active Kids! We’ll interview Silly Goose & Val about her TWO new EPs: Be a Friend & Life Beyond Sight! Can’t wait! Also, new songs by Uncle Jumbo ft. Lucy Kalantari, Louis and Dan and the Invisible Band ft. Tesfa Yohannes Wondemagegnehu, little hurricane, 31 minutos, FIRE DOG, EVT Kids, Key Wilde & Mr Clarke, Nutshell Playhouse, Twinpop, Lauren Fairweather, & Cory McAtee, plus older tunes by Gustafer Yellowgold, The Pop Ups, Kyle James Riley, ScribbleMonster & more!!! 8-10am ET Saturday at ashevillefm.org/show/radio-active-kids or tun.in/pjiei & podcasting at mixcloud.com/Radio_Active_Kids!

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Hot summer days are here and I’m thirsty for some blues! Quench your thirst by tuning in the Blueshound on Soul of the Blues this Thursday from 12-2pm at AshevilleFM! Listen live at 103.3fm or stream it live and anytime for two weeks after it airs at ashevillefm.org! Got some smokin’ new blues for ya from Canadian blues band Jim Dan Dee, veteran blueser Mike Guldin, dynamic blues singer Kat Riggins and more Canadian blues from The Hogtown Allstars! Got some older blue gems for ya from Randy McAllister, Dayton, Ohio’s Noah Wotherspoon and George Thorogood! The Notcho’ Blues Artist this week is Harry Nilsson with Son of Schmilsson! Join the Blueshound this week on Soul of the Blues for two hours of mind fizzling, butt sizzling blues!

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Join The UnCola at 8 PM est tonight live on 103.3 Asheville FM for our third special show in tribute to African American Music Appreciation Month – African-American artists playing soul, funk, jazz, reggae, rock, pop, hip-hop, gospel, and country.

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Rojava Again Under Threat of Turkish Invasion

Emre, Rimac, Xero and Anya, members of the Emergency Committee for Rojava join us on the show this week to talk about the escalation of violence and threats of invasion by Turkey into northeast Syria, updates from the region and their thoughts on how people in the West can help folks living under the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria. You can learn more about their work at DefendRojava.Org and find related interviews covering some of the subject matter discussed and past events on our website by searching for Rojava.

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You can keep find Xero’s upcoming podcast, a member of the Channel Zero Network, at ManyWorldsPod.Github.io and you can find the latest of Anya’s co-authored pieces at The Nation (though it’s paywalled).

There is a longer version of this episode available at our website, TheFinalStrawRadio.NoBlogs.Org

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Featured Tracks:

• Beritan from Jîyan Beats (dedicated to fallen PKK fighter, Gülnaz Karataş aka Beritan, who threw herself from a cliff after a fierce battle in Xakurke rather than surrender to Turkey on October 25, 1992)
• Instant Hit (instrumental) by The Slits from Cut

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From the early 70’s through the 80’s and beyond, innovative Black composers and musicians have pushed structural and stylistic boundaries of Rhythm and Blues, incorporating elements of progressive rock, psychedelic and jazz-fusion. Progressive Soul features an eclectic range of influences, from both African and European sources, with complex, ambitious and relevant compositions. Artists like Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Earth, Wind and Fire, and others, created album-oriented musical concepts and socially conscious lyrics based in the African-American experience.

The original progressive soul movement peaked in the 1970s, but later, both American and British artists have recorded music in its tradition. The Neo-Soul wave of the 2000’s, is considered a derivative of the Progressive Soul genre. Hear an hour of JD’s favorite prog-soul songs, on Thursday from 2-4 PM…

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