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June 30, 2023

Two aimless leaves the wind blew away

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The rise of Mexican regional music is one of the industry's big stories of 2023: Styles like ranchera , corrido and of course cumbia h...
June 28, 2023

Charts June 19-25, 2023

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WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 KILTRO | Underbelly | ONErpm 2 JANTRA | Synthesized Sudan: Astro-Nubian Electronic Jaglara Dance Sound...
June 24, 2023

Creatures of habit

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Kiltro is a band from Denver that has the most diverse set of influences I think I've ever seen.  Leader Chris Bowers Castillo is part C...
June 21, 2023

Charts June 12-18, 2023

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WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 FRANKLIN BOUKAKA | L'Immortel: The 60s Rumba Revolution In Congo | Fremeaux & Associes 2 ALTIN ...
June 16, 2023

I'm a gypsy, I'm a musician

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This week (Sunday June 18, 1:00-3:00 PM on WRIR, for two weeks afterwards at wrir.org/listen , check your local listings for airing on other...
June 13, 2023

Charts June 5-11, 2023

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WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 CONJUNTO MEDIA LUNA | Noches De Media Luna | Little Beat More 2 WITCH | Zango | Desert Daze/Partisan ...
June 9, 2023

Noches de media luna

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Conjunto Media Luna from Bogotá Colombia describe themselves as anachronistic.  Yes, they play cumbia in Andrés Landero's traditional f...
June 6, 2023

Charts May 29 - Jun 4, 2023

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WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 WITCH | Zango | Desert Daze/Partisan 2 ALOGTE OHO AND HIS SOUNDS OF JOY | O Yinne! | Philophon 3 BEL...
June 1, 2023

Wasted days and wasted nights

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Baldemar Huerta decolonized music fans' ears for six decades.  As El Bebop Kid he was one of the first Latino rock stars in the 1950s, a...
May 30, 2023

Charts May 22-28, 2023

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WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 SON ROMPE PERA | Chimborazo | AYA 2 SHONO | Kolkhozoy Traktor | CPL 3 JACOBO VELEZ Y LA MAMBANEGRA ...
May 26, 2023

Future of a 1000 years

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I have to admit, I thought the great crate-digging wave had already unearthed all of the notable Afro-funk records that had ever been presse...
May 23, 2023

Charts May 15-21, 2023

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WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 BOMBINO | "Tazidert" [Single] | Partisan 2 TINARIWEN | Amatssou | Wedge 3 ALI FARKA TOURE ...
May 19, 2023

They left me naught to dig his grave

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Sunday is the 82nd birthday of Martin Carthy, the English singer and guitarist who has done as much as anyone alive today to perpetuate and ...
May 16, 2023

Charts May 8-14, 2023

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WRIR World's NACC Top Ten 1 BABA COMMANDANT AND THE MANDINGO BAND | Sonbonbela | Sublime Frequencies 2 REMI KABAKA | Son Of Africa ...
May 12, 2023

The opposite of auto-tune

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It's not often that Richmonders get a chance to see one of the most original, electric, mind-blowing bands in all of Africa, playing in...