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Underground Spiritual Game: Mostly Afrobeat Sat. 3.13.10 8-10 PM

First Hour…

Nigerian Police Force Band – Asiko Mi Ni
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra – Na Fo Iyawo Mi
Fela Anikulapo Kuti – Who No Know Go Know
The Sahara All-Stars – Alikali Adajo
Bembeya Jazz – N’gnamakoro 1979
Bright Engelberts & the B.E. Movement – Get Together
T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou – Kou Tche Kpo So O
The Yahoos – Mabala
Jovens do Prendo – Africa Merengue

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Another Spring Equinox Enviro Show, 3/16, 6:30pm


Greetings Earthlings. Breakout the scarlet eggs and round-up those hares, it’s almost time to celebrate Lady Day or the Festival of the Goddess Eostar. Our in-house pagans, Laura & Penny return to these microphones to explain the Rites of Spring. As usual we’ll also checkout the latest enviro news in the Echo Chamber and the local angle in our E-Valley-uation segment. Additionally, we present The Enviro Show Quote of the Week and Meet the New Boss, but first it’s time for…Revenge of the Critters! Speaking of the Spring bunny, let’s rewind the: Crazed hare attack!

In our Meet the New Boss segment it’s same old/same old as Lisa Jackson’s EPA fails us on several fronts. Clean water? Maybe not!. Carbon emissions as pollution? Maybe later. And finally this: Obama greenwashes nukes. Yes he can!

On to The Enviro Show Echo Chamber! Time for some good news, yes? Grist informed us months ago that properly sited wind power and a good grid really can free us from fossils. And this: Groups Oppose Tax Credits for Biomass Burning. Also from Grist: Big Oil’s astroturf efforts against so-called “energy taxes” features fake people! As it turns out, the “Americans” presented in the ad are stock photos from Getty Images. What? They can’t find real people to support them?? And finally, nitrous oxide in ocean dead zones are trashing the atmosphere. Will we die laughing?
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Music Charts March 2010

Here are some musical highlights as heard on Valley Free Radio: March 9, 2010. Read more on Music Charts March 2010…

Underground Spiritual Game: Movement of the Afrobeat People Sat. 3.6.10 8-10 PM

First hour…

A good chunk of the hour is devoted to a Fela classic performed live in Amsterdam on November 28, 1983.

TP Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou – Mi Ve Wa Se
Fela Kuti – M.O.P. (Movement of the People)
TP Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou – Mi Si Ba To
Honore Avolonto – Na I Do Gbe Hue Nu
Lafayette Afro-Rock Band – Malik

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Underground Spiritual Game: Afrobeat Show, Sat. 2.27 8-10 PM


First hour playlist….

Sonny Okosun – Oenigbo
Fela Kuti – Unnecessary Begging
Honore Avolonto – Setche Weda
African Brothers Band – Wope Me A Aka
TP Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou – Mede Ma Gnin
Fela Kuti – Perambulator
The Psychedelic Aliens – Gree Keke Wo Taoo

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The Endgame Enviro Show, Tues. 3/2, 6:30pm


Greetings Earthlings. In keeping with our notoriety for gobs of gloom & doom here on The Enviro Show we get a call from Derrick Jensen, writer, activist, alarm-sounder and all around tree-hugging dirt-worshiper (hey! not unlike yours trulys!). We’ll be talking about some of his latest tomes like “What We Leave Behind” & “Endgame”. What? Not happy-clappy enough? Also, we delve into the latest enviro news in the old Echo Chamber, as well as in our E-Valley-uation segment; checkout The Enviro Show Quote of the Week; and visit the Bus Stop Billboard, but first it’s time for….Revenge of the Critters! You guessed it: captive Killer Whale lives up to its’ name. So why is it a captive again?

In our E-Valley-uation segment the BIG news is Vermont’s Senate voting not to extend VT Yankee’s funky old nuke an operating license beyond 2012. Don’t think for one minute that old leaky nuke doesn’t concern you here in the Valley. You are downwind and downstream and speaking of down: SHUT IT DOWN!

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Underground Spiritual Game: Afro-funk and Afrobeat, Saturday 2.20.10 8-10 PM


This first hour…

TP Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou – Eke Mi Akbe
Kasai Allstars – Kafuula Balu
Femi Kuti – Alkebu-Lan (Cradle Of Civilization)
Tony Allen – Jealousy
Bokoor Band – Maya Gari
The Hygrades – In the Jungle
Oghene Kologbo and Afrobeat Academy – Remember Fela Anikulapo Kuti
Sir Victor Uwaifo and the Melody Maestroes – Joromi
TP Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou – Non Gbeto Do Mahu Tche
Os Kiezos – Muxima
Music is the Weapon – Alla måste dansa!

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Underground Spiritual Game: Afrobeat and more, 2.13.10 8-10 PM


First hour of nyash-shaking Afrobeat…

Wganda Kenya – Shakalaode
Albino! – No Go Sell
TP Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou – Ako Ba Ho
Ignace Souza – Paulina
Veve Star – Bassala Hot
Orchestre Africa Fiesta – Sookie
Gnonnas Pedro – Okpo Videa Bassouo
Fela Kuti – J.J.D. (Johnny Just Drop)

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The Dept. of Consternation & Reprobation Enviro Show; 2/16, 6:30pm


Greetings Earthlings. Do you trust the Massachusetts Department of Conservation & Recreation (DCR) to care for your forests? What do you think of clear-cuts in the Quabbin? Licensed forester, Dave Gafney calls in to bring us up to date on the state of forestry in the Commonwealth. We’ll have a look at their present DCR “Vision” thing while we’re at it. Like on near every show, we’ll give you some of the latest news in our Echo Chamber, have a look at local enviro situations in our E-Valley-uation segment, give you The Enviro Show Quote of the Week and checkout the Bus Stop Billboard, but first it’s time for….Revenge of the Critters! Fox…….Run!

In The Enviro Show Echo chamber we visit the ever entertaining state of Texas and their resistance to…..clean air! And speaking of clean air, wouldn’t it be excellent to have municipal utilities that are more accountable to the community for air quality? Sign the petition here. Did you hear about our new ally in the struggle against the climate crisis? It’s Osama!…….or maybe the Ghost of Osama, depending on who you want to believe on that account.

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Underground Spiritual Game: Afrobeat and Funk from Panama, Brazil & Africa Sat. 2.6.10 8-10 PM


First Hour: an hour of Afrobeat both classic and modern,

Fela Ransome Kuti & Africa 70 – Gentleman
Pax Nicholas and the Nettey Family – Na Six Feet
Fela Anikulapo Kuti – Coffin for Head of State
Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra – El Machete
Ikebe Shakedown – Afro Fred

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