8 O'Clock Buzz

WORT 89.9FM Madison · Reverb’s, The Pedal Movie, Dives Through the Rich History of Guitar Effects Pedals

Effects pedal, Stomp box, or whatever you like to call them – These colorful boxes are at the feet of just about every electric guitar player you’ve ever liked or heard. They can become an obsession for musicians, but even if you’re not a musician, pedals have played a major role in shaping the sound and course of rock music since the 1960s.

The Pedal Movie is the first full-length movie from Reverb and traces the history of effects pedals. Producers/directors of The Pedal Movie, Michael Lux and Dan Orkin, sit down with Friday 8 O’clock Buzz host Jonathan Zarov to talk more about it.

(Images courtesy of Reverb)

Eight million American households do not have a bank account — but did you know that for half of the 20th century Post Offices provided banking services, until banks lobbied against it. Christopher Shaw, historian and author of a number of postal banking articles including “Could Postal Banking Address Inequality in the Financial System?” talks about Kirsten Gillibrand’s pilot program to re-introduce postal banking to some communities in the U.S.

Western news reports of homemade Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel is like reporting that a raped woman scratched her attacker — according to Mazin Qumsiyeh, peace activist in Bethlehem and author of “Jerusalem Uprising? Mainstream Western Media Equates Oppressed with the Opressor”. Recent action by Israel, to prop up popularity of Benjamin Netanyahu, restricts Palestinian Muslims and Christians in Jerusalem from attending their holiest places of worship — with $4 billion in aid every year coming from the U.S. to Israel, so support the 4th largest army in the world.

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Professor Amaud Jamaul Johnson is the Halls-Bascom Professor of English at University of Wisconsin and teaches Creative Writing.  He is a distinguished scholar and has the published several books, and joins us to talk about his latest book of poems, “Imperial Liquor” about the experience fo being Black in America.

More about Professor Johnson and his work: https://amaudjamauljohnson.com/

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Artists and healer Nibiiwakamigkwe from giige Collective join us to talk about water protection, Line 5, the Michigan Governor’s decision to halt construction of the line through the Straits of Mackinac, and Wednesday’s “TeeJop Walk for Water” from Tenny Park Locks to Yahara Place Park.

More about giige: https://www.giige.co/ and https://www.facebook.com/gigiigemin

And the walk on Wednesday: https://fb.me/e/TvWtvb1g

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Dayvin Hallmon is the Founder & Music Director of The Black String Triage Ensemble, he joins us to talk about their incredible mission and using music for healing.  Black String Triage Ensemble plays music representing the five stages of grief and attempts to use it to comfort and confront violence and trauma at the scene of the incident.

More information on the ensemble: https://www.theblackstringtriageensemble.org/

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Beth Kille of Gin Chocolate and Bottle Rockets on their Mother’s Day concert

Gin Chocolate and Bottle Rockets’ Beth Kille talks to Friday Buzz host Jonathan Zarov about their upcoming Mother’s Day concert at Olbrich Botanical Gardens.

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Manika Agarwal & Sanjay Gupta of Covid Care are Raising Money for Oxygen Concentrators for India

Manika Agarwal and Sanjay Gupta of Covid Care join Friday Buzz host Jonathan Zarov to talk about India’s Covid-19 crisis and how Covid Care has been raising money for oxygen concentrators and other medical supplies to send to India.

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Free the 350’s Liam Manjon on their upcoming Non-Fungible Token Art Auction on Mother’s Day

Free the 350’s Liam Manjon talks with Friday Buzz host Jonathan Zarov to talk about the 350’s upcoming Non-Fungible Token art auction on Mother’s Day to raise money to help black mothers in the Dane County jail system make bail.

Free the 350 Bailfund is a community run bail fund that aims to help people of color make bail who aren’t able to do so themselves. They seek to prioritize bailing out Black people incarcerated in the Dane County jail system, and to end the unjust and antiquated prison and jail system.

(Photo by Matthew Ansley on Unsplash)

At 6PM on Friday, May 6, 2021, Peggy Choy, Associate Professor, Dance Department/Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, will coordinate a on-line performance webinar entitled “Community Healing in the time of BLM: Anti-Asian Violence and BIPOC Solidarity“. She and guest artist Lacouir D. Yancey (Bboy Spirit)talk about the program which will involve a healing circle, Q&A, and encourage audience participation and sharing. Registration is required for this free event — contact Peggy Choy at [email protected]