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i26connector – 103.3 AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions – Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 – 8-10p – streaming world wide at www.ashevillefm.org

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“i26connector”  This weeks’ Special Musical Guest –  performing live from the 103.3 AshevilleFM studio

– Join DJ Bryan – our host for another great ALMS show (live performance / interview) – starts at 8pm –  broadcast live on 103.3FM..

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Join us! / Tune in – Turn it up!   Thursday, April 23rd, 2026

AshevilleFM is pleased to present this special event..  Support also comes from Arts AVL, Buncombe County, and North Carolina Arts Council

 

MUSICAL GUEST:   i26connector 

i26connector is a small North Carolina band based out of Asheville, crafting a distinctive sound that fuses Midwest emo vulnerability with the raw storytelling of country music. Their songs drift between twang and reverb-soaked melancholy, exploring themes of longing, faith, and the quiet tension between the earthly and the divine. With an ethereal, almost biblical tone, i26connector captures the feeling of searching for meaning somewhere between back roads and heaven.

Upcoming shows May 1st at Static Age Anniversary Fest, May 30th with Crate, Hook of Moon, and Seven and a half giraffe at static age. Open to anything ! We recorded the entire album from home, which we love to talk about our setup and that we all live together.

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Tonight!! “We Have Ignition” – Live on the 103.3 AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions – Thursday, April 2nd, 2026 – 8-10p – streaming world wide at www.ashevillefm.org

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“We Have Ignition”  This weeks’ Special Musical Guest –  performing live from the 103.3 AshevilleFM studio

– Join Dave Baker – our host for another great ALMS show (live performance / interview) – starts at 8pm –  broadcast live on 103.3FM..

 

AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions..

Join us! / Tune in – Turn it up!   Thursday, April 2nd, 2026

AshevilleFM is pleased to present this special event..  Support also comes from Arts AVL, Buncombe County, and North Carolina Arts Council

 

MUSICAL GUEST:   We Have Ignition 

We Have Ignition plays high energy original instrumental music. The band was founded by RL Martin on guitar with original members Jeff Manson on bass and Nick Harvey on drums. The bands influences stem from artists such as Man or Astro – Man?, The Dead Kennedy’s, Devo, and Dick Dale among others.

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Liaizon Wakest on Autonomous Social Media and the Fediverse

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Liaizon Wakest on Autonomous Social Media and the Fediverse

proposed vediverse logo of multicolor pentagon/pentagram with logos for 6 different fediverse projects around it

This week, we spoke with Liaizon Wakest. Liaizon grew up in an anarchist commune in rural America. They can be found climbing into dumpsters from Mexico to Kazakhstan looking for trash to make art with. In recent years they have been focused on research into ethical technology and infrastructural anarchism. For the hour we speak about the interoperable, open source ensemble of federated online publishing servers and platforms known as the Fediverse and its most popular component, Mastodon. This conversation takes place in the context of media hullabaloo about Elon Musk seeking to purchase Twitter, the paradigm in which a rich egomaniac can own the addictive social media platforms over which so much social and political life is engaged and what positives we can draw from alternatives like Mastodon and the Fediverse.

You can hear this interview at TheFinalStrawRadio.NoBlogs.Org

You can find Liaizon’s account on Mastodon (an analog of twitter) at @[email protected] or on Pixelfed (an analog of Instagram) at @[email protected]. And you can follow us on Mastodon by finding @[email protected] or by visiting https://chaos.social/@TheFinalStrawRadio in a web browser.

Another interesting anarchist media project engaging the Fediverse is Kolektiva, which has a PeerTube instance at https://Kolektiva.Media (analog of youtube) and Mastodon at https://Kolektiva.Social where they’re welcoming new users. Kolektiva includes participation from projects like Sub.Media and AntiMidia

You can find a real good interview by our comrades at From Embers about Mastodon which I mention in the interview from February 3rd, 2022 entitled Social Networks, Online Life and The Fediverse: https://fromembers.libsyn.com/social-networks-online-life-and-the-fediverse

Announcement

Eric King Arrives at USP Lee: call-in continues

As a quick update on the situation of Eric King, he has been transferred this week from USP Atlanta to USP Lee where he and his supporters are concerned he’ll be placed into solitary and isolated for attack. You can find info on his situation as well as who to contact to press for his return to a medium security facility to match his current security points, visit SupportEricKing.Org and find the May 3rd, 2022 post whose title starts “Eric Transferred”

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Homeless Organizing in Oakland and the Wood Street Movie

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This week on The Final Straw Radio, we’re featuring an interview with three participants in the feature length documentary Wood Street, about the community that formed in a parking lot at 1707 Wood Street in Oakland. The location was a destination for people evicted from encampments around the city, who either refused or were denied the low number of shelter beds available, or didn’t fit into the city lots for camping or recreational vehicles aka RVs. Over the course of 10 years at a few spots on the street, as guest John Janosko explains, residents got to know each other and build bonds to the place and each other as neighbors. The north portion of what became known as the Wood Street Commons was evicted by the city to build transitional tiny homes managed by a services organization called BOSS and residents at the south side of the Commons ramped up organizing with outside supporters to stop the city’s eviction plan in 2023 through lobbying politicians and proposing alternative plans. The film shows this work, snippets of the lives of residents and the eventual eviction of the Wood Street Commons in 2023, with over 300 people losing their homes in the end.

Since the eviction, the tiny home camp funding ended and it was vacated, the mayor Sheng Thao was recalled and indicted for corruption and the site became a parking lot for a minor league baseball park next door, but people have taken their energy and experience to keep advocating for themselves and other Oaklanders around issues of houselessness. For the hour we speak with John Janosko, a featured face in the film, as well as our past guest Freeway and the film’s director Caron Creighton. The Wood Street Movie is touring a number of film festivals and looking to feature elsewhere, in hopes that the film can act as a support and inspiration for other homeless organizing in communities across the country.

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This Week – Pierce Edens – Live on the 103.3 AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions – Thursday, Feb 26th, 2026 – 8-10p – streaming world wide at www.ashevillefm.org

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103.3 AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions

“Pierce Edens”  This weeks’ Special Musical Guest –  performing live from the 103.3 AshevilleFM studio

– Join Bruce Swan – our host for another great ALMS show (live performance / interview) – starts at 8pm –  broadcast live on 103.3FM..

 

AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions..

Join us! / Tune in – Turn it up!   Thursday, February 26th, 2026

AshevilleFM is pleased to present this special event..  Support also comes from Arts AVL, Buncombe County, and North Carolina Arts Council

 

MUSICAL GUEST:  Pierce Edens

WNC local songwriter for the last 20 years. Homesteading storyteller, cleaning up after the hurricane.

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AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions

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HAPPENING TONIGHT!! Santiago Y Los Gatos – Live on the 103.3 AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions – Thursday, Feb 19th, 2026 – 8-10p – streaming world wide at www.ashevillefm.org

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103.3 AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions

“Santiago Y Los Gatos”  This weeks’ Special Musical Guest –  performing live from the 103.3 AshevilleFM studio

– Join DJsmittyMon – our host for another great ALMS show (live performance / interview) – starts at 8pm –  broadcast live on 103.3FM..

 

AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions..

Join us! / Tune in – Turn it up!   Thursday, February 19th, 2026

AshevilleFM is pleased to present this special event..  Support also comes from Arts AVL, Buncombe County, and North Carolina Arts Council

 

MUSICAL GUEST:  Santiago Y Los Gatos

Santiago y Los Gatos blends indie rock with a Latin soul, crafting emotionally charged songs that explore love, loss, and identity. Their latest album, Washing Away Wetiko, is a genre-hopping journey of personal healing and cultural reflection.

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AshevilleFM Live Music Sessions

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@103.3ashevillefm /  https://ashevillefm.org/

 

 

 

 

 


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