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 […]

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 […]

We weren’t able to cook up an entire episode of fellow traveller underdog instrument content for World Nyckleharpa Day, but last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir program kicks off with an acknowledgement of that august occasion, celebrated around the world. Also Harry Belafonte’s passing is marked with a great selection from his catalogue, […]

Introducing the ECO-rdéon, “the first vegan accordion on the planet! … this accordion does not contain any animal products, was assembled using eco-friendly glue without off-gasses and finished with an eco-friendly varnish.” Here it is, last night’s new episode of CFRO Co-Op Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast, where we play accordion music in all styles from all […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

As with last week’s episode, this week’s new episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s Accordion Noir radio broadcast again focused on the theme of women in the accordion world. Many genres, locations and eras are represented, but again, all of the song selections nonetheless have a couple of things in common. If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) […]

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 […]