Wigi's Playlist

01/14/2025

Happy Monday night everyone! I'm here in the studio spending the tunes! I hope you'll tune me in, at 90.3 FM in Anchorage or, online at KNBA.org.

01/08/2025

New York, London, Paris, Munich...

M - Pop Muzik

01/02/2025

https://youtu.be/pivL4QdtiuM

Kirsty's version of her song "Terry" was released over a year before Tracey Ullman's cover. Both were minor UK hits. Another great Stiff Records video clip w...

12/31/2024

Happy New Year, everyone! I enjoyed last night's show... there was a lot of music that was new to me, and some old standards (such as they are).

2025 is going to be a great year for Wigi's Playlist... I have some great in-studio guests coming up. If you have suggestions of guests that you might like to have join me, or if YOU'RE someone that wants to be a guest, please let me know.

12/31/2024

Coming up at 8pm, the last Wigi's Playlist program of 2024! Lots of great music and fun... Tune me in at 90.3fm in Anchorage, out online at knba.org!

12/24/2024

I received a note the other day from a listener asking about Christmas and holiday tunes... and I have accepted the challenge!
Tune in tonight at 8 PM at 90.3 FM in Anchorage, or online at knba.org - Holiday tunes, but maybe a little more obscure. We'll have versions of the classics, some oldies, some new ones, lots of flavors of holiday tunes!

See ya soon on the air!

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12/21/2024

Frickin' Tom Waits...

Tom Waits performs "Christmas Card From A Ho**er in Minneapolis" from the album 'Blue Valentine' with a "Silent Night" intro live at Austin City Limits in 19...

12/19/2024

Few adults play musical instruments, and even fewer do so in a group, Caroline Mimbs Nyce writes. What health benefits might they be giving up? https://theatln.tc/oglkQfzJ

“Kids receive plenty of music education, but as people get older, they fall out of practice. Many stop picking up their instrument,” Nyce writes. “This is unfortunate, in part because plenty of research shows that adults could benefit from playing music.”

Playing music helps build larger brain networks and new pathways. “Musicians tend to have better attention than nonmusicians,” Nyce continues. “Banging on a drum or tooting a horn can also relieve stress, reduce burnout, and help with anxiety and depression. For older people specifically, research has shown potential cognitive benefits along with a possible decrease in dementia risk.”

Adults may be skipping out in part because music education is associated with childhood and coursework. And after people grow out of music education in their childhood, they tend to think that music is a special talent, Nyce writes, not something that just anybody can learn.

“Of course, people are busy; they simply may not have the luxury of sitting down to study Bach once a week, much less the money to pay for an instrument or private lessons,” Nyce writes.

Playing music in groups has additional benefits, such as allowing adults to feel more trusting of and connected to one another, and to the world in general. But while it’s easy to go to a park or gym and pull together a game of pickup basketball, “piecing together people at the same skill level to play a concerto or even just jam in a garage is another matter.”

Nyce herself recently began to play the recorder. “I plan to keep learning,” she writes, “not because it strengthens my neuropathways per se (though I certainly don’t mind that), but because making music, even when it’s silly—perhaps especially when it’s silly—is just a whole lot of fun.” https://theatln.tc/oglkQfzJ

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12/15/2024

https://youtu.be/qkamonwD2yM

Music video by Kathleen Edwards performing I Make The Dough, You Get The Glory. (C) 2008 Maple Music Recordings

12/10/2024

Happy Monday, everyone, I'm in the studio spinning the tunes! Tune in at 90.3 FM in Anchorage, it online at knba.org!

12/07/2024

A great piece about a great artist...

Anderson Cooper speaks with Laurie Anderson about her five-decade career as an artist, singer, composer and storyteller, and visits her largest-ever U.S. exh...

12/02/2024

Tune in this evening from 8pm to 10pm for Wigi's Playlist! We'll have a guest in the studio, Braden Rollins. You may have seen him perform this past Saturday night at The Williwaw with The Super Saturated Sugar Strings, with Blackwater Railroad Co., and in other places, too!

He'll be playing some music, and we'll be talking about his projects, and pretty much whatever comes to mind.

Tune us in at 90.3 FM in Anchorage, or online at knba.org!

11/26/2024

Happy Monday, everyone! I'm in the studio tonight and about to start this evenings edition of Wigi's playlist! Tune me in at 90.3 FM in Anchorage, or stream worldwide at knba.org!

11/21/2024

Hey everyone! I'm at KNBA for the Afternoon Music Show! Tune me in at 90.3 FM in Anchorage, or on the interwebs at knba.org!

11/19/2024

Thanks for tuning in last night... Here's the playlist for the show!

11/18/2024

https://youtu.be/Amx5CK7vdoc

XTC - "King For A Day" - Late Night with David Letterman - June 30, 1989courtesy of xtc4u.org

11/12/2024

First, I want to apologize about the audio problems with my show last night. Several people tried to let me know through various messaging platforms, and I was not paying attention to my phone... I was having too much fun with Roland Roberts!

Here is the playlist for the show... It was great fun for me, I am sorry it wasn't better for the listeners... and thank you to Roland for coming out on a Monday night!