Phoole and the Gang

Life down? Music UP. Originally broadcast live worldwide via Slipmat, Mixcloud and Twitch on Friday, 9 Jan 2025, 6:00 p.m. Central US time. Photo by Tom Barrett of Shepard Fairey’s VOTING RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS Milwaukee mural, incorporating art by Milwaukee artists Tom Jones, Dyani White Hawk, Tyanna Buie, Niki Johnson and Claudio Martinez, with the mural’s central figure based on a Civil-Rights-era photograph by Steve Schapiro. Photo, art, music, and selection by humans, not by AI.

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JUST THE MUSIC from Phoole & the Gang Show #529! To hear the whole show with the talking parts included, check https://hearthis.at/phoole. And to catch the show live Fridays 6pm Central US time, tune in at https://next.slipmat.io/phoole, https://mixcloud.com/live/phoole or https://twitch.tv/phoole! Photo by Tom Barrett of Shepard Fairey’s VOTING RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS Milwaukee mural, incorporating art by Milwaukee artists Tom Jones, Dyani White Hawk, Tyanna Buie, Niki Johnson and Claudio Martinez, with the mural’s central figure based on a Civil-Rights-era photograph by Steve Schapiro. Photo, art, music, selection, and performance by humans, not by AI.

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ATTENTION ADVENTURERS! Presenting almost seven hours of music and amusing announcements from Madame Phoole's Panharmonium live at the 2026 Gardens and Gears Steampunk Faire in Milwaukee's beautiful Mitchell Park Domes Horticultural Conservatory! Recorded live on Saturday, 7 March 2026. The 2026 theme was "Modern Wonders of the World," so sounds evoke the Pyramids at Giza, Chichen Itza in Peru, the Great Wall of China, the giant statue of Christ the Redeemer in Brazil, and travel to exotic locales in general, with dashes of bal-musette, vals criollo, tango, and Jazz Manouche, along with plenty of crowd-pleasing Dixieland jazz and Tin-Pan-Alley ragtime piano. The event took place in a giant glass dome, which was connected to two other giant glass domes, each of which contained immersive botanical gardens. The Show Dome, in which Mme. Phoole performed, also housed an exhibit of model trains, the tracks for which wended their way in and out amongst the foliage, so tunes about trains are sprinkled throughout. The cavernous, echoing venue suggests to Madame Phoole a multi-modal station for every kind of steam travel, so the goofy, pseudo-British-dialect announcements interspersed amongst the tunes are themed to H.G. Wells-esque kinds of travel and adventure. Phoole and Tiffany play a lot of Walkabout Mini Golf in virtual reality, so a few of our favorite compositions by Chris Reyman from that game’s soundtrack make cameo appearances. Because the States are still steeping in a very 1933-in-Germany zeitgeist, many 1930s tunes performed by Max Raabe & Palast Orchester are played, along with a too-brief dip into Chap-Hop.

PHOOLE & THE GOTH! ️ It’s Friday the 13th, right before Valentine’s Day, so let’s have a Gothentines playlist of doomed eternal love from the late 1970s through modern darkwave, industrial and EBM. LOVE WILL TEAR US APART. ️ Originally broadcast live worldwide via https://slipmat.io/phoole, https://twitch.tv/phoole, & https://mixcloud.com/live/phoole on Friday the 13th of February 2026, 6:00 p.m. Central US time.

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JUST THE MUSIC from Phoole and the Gang 528! To hear the whole show with the talking parts included, check https://hearthis.at/phoole. And to catch the show live Fridays 6pm Central US time, tune in at https://slipmat.io/phoole!

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This week’s Phoole and the Gang is a Pretty Good Show. If you know, you know. Most of the tunes in the show have ‘pretty’ or ‘good’ in the tune title or the name of the act.

✅ Originally broadcast live worldwide via Slipmat, Mixcloud and Twitch on Friday, 30 Jan 2026, 6:00 p.m. Central US time.

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JUST THE MUSIC from Phoole & the Gang Show #527! To hear the whole show with the talking parts included, check https://hearthis.at/phoole. And to catch the show live Fridays 6pm Central US time, tune in at https://slipmat.phoole.com!

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Radio show! This episode of Phoole and the Gang is a radio show *about radio.*

Originally broadcast live worldwide via Slipmat, Mixcloud and Twitch on Friday, 23 Jan 2025, 6:00 p.m. Central US time.

* This show contains music and chat! For the music-only version, visit https://hearthis.at/phoole/526-music-only

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JUST THE MUSIC from Phoole & the Gang Show #526! To hear the whole show with the talking parts included, check https://hearthis.at/phoole. And to catch the show live Fridays 6pm Central US time, tune in at https://slipmat.phoole.com! Photo of downtown Milwaukee by Aaron Johnson.

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⚡ Loud is good; fast is better; loud and fast is best. A made-up maestro said this, but the feeling is real. ‍ We are also in the midst of the Passion of David Bowie (born 8 Jan, died 10 Jan), so some Bowie tunes occur. Originally broadcast live worldwide via Slipmat, Mixcloud and Twitch on Friday, 9 Jan 2025, 6:00 p.m. Central US time.

* This show contains music and chat! For the music-only version, visit https://hearthis.at/phoole/525-music-only

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