Accordion Noir Radio
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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.
Accordion Noir Radio
2d ago
Last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly hour-long all-accordion radio program enjoyed a theme beyond our typical “if it has free reeds, it leads” system of musical curation. Anyone who listens to our show from their place of residence may appreciate its secondary theme of housing and its precarity. I would say we feel ..read more
Accordion Noir Radio
1w ago
A funereal floral arrangement is this week’s cover image in honor of Bruce’s springtime allergies. Last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio broadcast is now online and available for your listening enjoyment! There doesn’t really seem to be a theme beyond “great music with accordions playing on it, some ..read more
Accordion Noir Radio
2w ago
From Bandcamp’s “A Guide to Arhoolie Records’ Sixty Years of Down-home Sounds“ For last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, Bruce returned our focus back to the Arhoolie Records label, singular among American folk music collectors and curators for their interest in accordionic music styles of, eg., zydeco and tejano ..read more
Accordion Noir Radio
3w ago
One thing’s for certain: here at Accordion Noir we have really pulled behind the “Bandcamp Friday” initiative, for that e-storefront to waive its cut of proceeds from sales the first Friday of just about every month. Tomorrow is May’s opportunity for most of your music-buying money to actually reach its intended destination, the performers and ..read more
Accordion Noir Radio
1M ago
Here it is, friends, last night’s new episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio broadcast, where the only constant is… there’s some kind of squeezebox in every song, almost all of the time. Your host Bruce will tell you himself below that there really isn’t any theme beyond that standard criterion for ..read more
Accordion Noir Radio
1M ago
On many occasions now, we have celebrated and championed Bandcamp for their singular opportunity among online music e-storefronts, opening a small window on a monthly basis when musicians vending through their shop can get a halfway-decent share of the returns on their music sales. The occasion is Bandcamp Friday, the first Friday of just about ..read more
Accordion Noir Radio
2M ago
Greetings, accordion friends! This week our subscribers are in for a treat: they’re eligible to receive this week’s episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast an entire day early! Why is it so on top of its game this time around? I have no idea! Similarly, I cannot discern what its theme is, beyond ..read more
Accordion Noir Radio
2M ago
We’ve been big boosters of folk-rocker Jenny Conlee since way back here at Accordion Noir. When Bruce got word that she had a new album out — “Tides“, a pandemic project exploring Greek musical modality and the coast of the Pacific Northwest (and also some piano pieces, no less worthwhile but somewhat beyond our free-reed ..read more
Accordion Noir Radio
2M ago
Another year, another International Women’s Day. Many years we extend our observance of it to a whole darned month, because one day isn’t anywhere near enough. (A month isn’t anywhere near enough! Six months? OK, now we’re getting somewhere.) So this week’s episode of our weekly hour-long Accordion Noir radio broadcast out of CFRO Co-Op ..read more
Accordion Noir Radio
3M ago
This 2017 album not only features a hare on its album art, but… it is available on Bandcamp! How often do things align so neatly like that? It is that time again, friends: the first Friday of the month is Bandcamp Friday, when musicians can keep more of your online purchase dollar than they can ..read more