Pushing The Envelope: Music Decidedly Left of Center 91.7 FM WHUS

09/06/2025

Greetings! Happy belated International Strange Music Day!! The brainchild of composer/musician Patrick Grant, he of Tilted Axes fame, it took place on 8-24 and in true PTE style, a day (or so) late, but defiinitely not a dollar short as we present a plethora of interesting pieces for you to consider...

08/30/2025

Greetings! Phase One has us delving into the realm of Dub in it's many incarnations, followed by many new releases in Phase Two. Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: [email protected] Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social 8-23-25 PTE Playlist Human Self-Pollination - mo...

08/23/2025

Greetings! For a majority of the 8/16 edition of PTE, I would like to share in the bounty of my Bandcamp Friday b***y for August! From avant-big band pop and microtonal music to impaired kidney function electronics and multiple Casio CZ-101s, it's all here! Listen & Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingth...

08/16/2025

Greetings! This week we have everything from neo-classical orchestral music to outright noise. Multi-genre avant-garde as it should be! Enjoy! Joel 8-9-25 PTE Playlist Short Step - Mwendo Dawa Trio - Melodic Hope - lj Records (2025) https://www.lj-records.se/mwendo.html Jamie Muir - Joseph Benzola /...

08/07/2025

Greetings! This week we're airing "Intortus," the winner of the 2024 Musicworks electronic music composition contest, created by composer Rocío Cano Valiño. In addition, you'll hear the unique cornucopia of interesting music that has defined PTE for the past 35 years. Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingth...

07/26/2025

Highly Recommended!!

A new set of songs from Emily Duncan and Randall Woolf brings together the gorgeous textures of flute, piano, violin, cello, and more, all put together with elements of narration that tell intimate stories and pull the listener in with orchestrated and beautifully woven arrangements that come throug...