Whatever is going on in the world in a given week, there’s a fair chance that our crate-digger Bruce can come up with something applicable to it, as filtered through the lens of accordion music.  This week, naturally, it’s spotlight on Ukraine. We always try to help out as best we can — this time […]

Something happened with this week’s hour-long, er, bear-themed episode of Accordion Noir. It failed to air at its usual broadcast time on the radio, but happily — Internet time is forever, so hopefully it will eventually go out over the radio, but if you go out in the woods today, you can enjoy listening to […]

Bruce felt that Black History Month was the perfect time for someone to connect the dots and explore the common thread of squeezebox-percussion music running all through the musical cultures of the African diaspora of the Caribbean, filling in the blanks bridging the zydeco of Louisiana and Bahamian rake-and-scrape. Then he realised that “someone”, in […]

Over our many long years on the squeezebox beat, Bruce and I have enjoyed plenty of speculation into the profounder psychological ramifications of one’s choice of squeezebox — the particular impish perversity that inspires someone to pledge allegiance to one particular obscure model of free-reed aerophone over a different, far more popular (yet still generally […]

Over the past couple of gigless pandemic years, we’ve devoted more than our fair share of episodes (see for yourself) to the subject of Bandcamp, the digital music storefront that actually gives its artists a fair cut of the pie… at least one day a month more than the other competing music streaming services. When […]

Greetings and welcome to last night’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, focusing on the best squeezebox music in any style from all over the planet! This week’s instalment appears to be an excellent ambassador of our genre-agnostic programming approach, yielding zydeco, klezmer, blues, jazz, rock, microtonal Persian music, punk […]

In this week’s installment of our weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast on CFRO 100.5 fm, Bruce is in fine form demonstrating once again the squeezebox’s stylistic and geographic breadth, as demonstrated by this episode filled with music in very different styles from all over the place — our speciality! If your Apple or Android (or plain old RSS) podcast subscriptions […]

This week’s hour-long episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio 100.5fm‘s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast has left the barn and there’s no putting it back in! Looking over the list of songs included, it appears to be another splendid specimen of our variety sampler packs, representing different regional styles of squeezebox music… the house specialty! If […]

Phew, what an exhausting year! This one also seems likely to offer many of the same challenges that 2021 did… and also, lots of accordion music to help make it all worthwhile! Here we are, sharing the first episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly Accordion Noir broadcast of 2022, and it looks like the […]

In this week’s episode of CFRO Co-Op Community Radio’s weekly hour-long Accordion Noir broadcast, Bruce plays our last Christmas song of the year (“the opener is the last Christmas song, so they don’t have to worry about the rest of the show being too festive”) and we shift gears right into fully agnostic winter mode. […]