As we approach our parent radio station’s 52nd birthday, Bruce set his mind to wandering and contemplated what our program might have sounded like had it begun airing in that august year of 1974. (Definitely no “Weird Al”!) Come with us as he explores this historical thought experiment! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions […]

Thirteen years ago, Bruce workshopped a portion of his Accordion Revolution book here on the blog, a brief chapter about the squeezy cliche that is the Beer Barrel Polka. But apparently he did not get it out of his system, as this massive accordion hit through the ages is still rattling around in his noggin […]

This late in the day you’ve already weathered the worst of it, but today was April Fool’s Day and in honour of the occasion Bruce has queued up a set of silly, funny accordion music for this week’s episode of Accordion Noir radio. (Unrepresented in this recording, but co-host Rowan is also on track to […]

I’m not entirely sure what the theme of this week’s episode is either, but it definitely involves accordion music, which should be sufficient! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to it as digital audio courtesy of the Internet Archive. If […]

Apologies for the delay, I’ve been unwell, on vacation at a donkey refuge on Vancouver Island. (That old cliche!) If Bruce instilled a stealth theme underlying this past week’s program beyond “assorted squeezy odds and ends” [& the regular birthdays, and St P. Day 🍀 B.], I have been unable to discern it from scrutinizing […]

Not long ago, we observed a time of year that boasted multiple accordionic holidays taking place around the same time on the calendar. This week, conversely, sees an incredible conjunction of birthdays of profoundly influential accordionists across a wide range of styles and genres. This isn’t the first time we’ve built an episode of our […]

Not only is it Bandcamp Friday tomorrow, but it’s also the start of the month of March! To observe these two august (no, I said March!) occasions, Bruce has shared with us this week a playlist of accordionic marching music by squeezy musicians selling music on Bandcamp. If you hear something you like, maybe you […]

Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast of alt-squeezebox music touches on many currents of free-reed bellows music but all with the late squeezy innovator Guy Klucevsek on our mind, whose birthday is today. If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability […]

All right, enough resting on our laurels. Last week we celebrated the 1000th episode of our weekly alt-accordion broadcast. This week: it’s the first episode of our second thousand. Back to work! If your Apple or YouTube or iHeartRadio (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions (strongly recommended!) haven’t alerted you to this Accordion Noir episode’s availability yet, you can enjoy listening to […]

Seems like our 500th episode extravaganza with Geoff Berner and Dawn Zoe was just yesterday, but somehow this week was a thousand weeks since our first broadcast back at the start of December 2006, meaning that this week we celebrated our thousandth episode! (Later this year we’ll be observing its 20th anniversary.) We celebrated by […]