“Winter” by Schulman We’re releasing this week’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast a little early this week as it is on seasonal themes and, gosh, it’s hard to get a winterier feeling than right now in these parts, temperatures sub-zero beneath a massive dump of white powder. You will find […]

Happy Solstice from Latvia! This week’s episode of CFRO’s weekly, hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast was cooked up by your humble host Bruce while on the road to visit family, so if it helps you to cast things in a more holiday mindset you can imagine him pecking away at his laptop with headphones in the […]

Bruce was feeling the weight of the years this week, as you can see from his song selections, not just because we are getting old, but — because Accordion Noir itself is getting old! This week’s episode was the 16th anniversary of its first going on the air back in December of 2006 (and I […]

Go On A Bat, Accordion Because the holiday giving season is nigh upon us (did you see the new edition of our accordion gift guide just dropped?), we are really hyping up Bandcamp Friday (this Friday) and encouraging people to purchase music from #AccordionBandcamp. That means this is another episode of our alt-squeezebox program devoted […]

Paper Foldable accordion calendar Once a month, on Bandcamp Friday — the magical first Friday of the month! — the Bandcamp e-storefront hosts a sale of sorts for the digital music sold there. The price doesn’t actually go down, but the company’s share of the revenue goes to the recording artists, so it’s a little […]

Last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast has a topic beyond our usual “great squeezy tunes from all over the planet” theme — often we find ourselves revisiting comforting old past favorite songs that have previously aired, but Bruce often reflects on just how much music there is in […]

We’re living through weird times at the moment, and a resurgence of interest in the life and career of famously squeezy parodist “Weird” Al Yankovic is resulting from the recent release of his mockumentary biopic on Roku. For our parent radio station CFRO’s fall member drive, Bruce has taken the opportunity to remaster his three-episode […]

“the band had been playing for many years and was called the Rubber Bandbecause it stretched to include anyone interested in performing“ Bandcamp Friday is once again in effect, the best way to get your music-buying dollars into the pockets of your favorite recording artists! Once again this week’s episode shines the musical spotlight on […]

(From Disney’s The Haunted House, 1929.) Here we go: the local weather has caught up with the spookiest time of the year, and it’s time for us to put one of the moodiest instruments on the musical spectrum through its gruesome paces, with morbid and gloomy tunes from all over. Sounds like a good time! […]

Bruce feels the passage of the seasons acutely, and habitually imposes them on his progamming selections, that you might better feel it also! So this week’s episode of Accordion Noir is dedicated to that wacky, smoky (around Vancouver, at least) month in which we currently find ourselves. Also, it (as usual) reaches out to diverse […]