Community Noise Radio

16/01/2024

Sorry to report that Community Noise is officially on hiatus now. I'll leave this page active for now, I guess.

However, I received a note from FB that this page may be deleted due to IP infringement of one particular post. Bo****ks -- which post? So, this page may disappear.

23/03/2023

Even the undead are welcome in the crypt.

Community Noise has been on a short hiatus, vacation for DJ Barnabas in search of fresh blood. The reruns have been great. New shows should begin appearing by April!

Wednesdays 8-10pm and Thursdays 8-10pm on KBFG Seattle.

18/01/2023

This week on Community Noise, we celebrate John Cale for the first hour, and return to our typical schizophrenic programming for the second our.

Normally, we would celebrate Cale in March, he is a fellow Pieces, but he has a new album out now, so ... We will have several examples of his multi-genre solo work, one VU track, and a sampling of others' works that he has produced.

Community Noise airs Wednesday evenings 8-10pm and Thursday mornings 8-10am on KBFG 107.3 North Seattle, and streaming from www.KBFGseattle.org/listen .

26/12/2022

This week on Community Noise, DJ Barnabas will virtually spin 2 hours of greatness. Details provided during the show.

And a reminder to musicians, poets, and audio artists: please consider donating MP3 tracks to Community Noise and to KBFG to help spread listenership of your material!

Community Noise airs Wednesday evenings 8-10pm and (repeat) Thursday mornings 8-10am on KBFG 107.3 North Seattle, streaming from www.KBFGseattle.org/listen .

Woohoo!

21/12/2022

This week on Community Noise, we play both John Cage and John Cale, but do not confuse them. We have a short Frank interlude and a longer THE interlude. All to be explained.

Community Noise airs Wednesday evenings 8-10pm and Thursday mornings 8-10am on KBFG 107.3 North Seattle, streaming from www.KBFGseattle.org/listen

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14/12/2022

This week on Community Noise, a strange and excellent show awaits you. A current project has our household locked into the 1950s, and I’ve been using a playlist of mostly 1950s stuff to help with atmosphere, and therefore almost all of this show is locked into the 1950s. The boogie woogie stuff is earlier, but useful to the playlist, and we also play side B of the Brian Eno / Jah Wobble collaborative album, Spinner, which completes a task previous started.

So that’s ep 426 – 1950s jazz, early rock ‘n’ roll, some boogie-woogie, and the Eno/Wobble thing. Great show.

Community Noise airs Wednesday evenings, 8-10pm and repeats Thursday mornings 8-10am on KBFG 107.3 North Seattle and streaming from www.KBFGseattle.org/listen

Join us, won’t you?

27/09/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdtwNqaqG9I

The past couple of weeks, my household has been listening to a lot of Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, and other 1950s jazz. I have a writing project that is embedded in the 1950s, and I'm doing some background listening.

In my head, I can hear Frank singing "There's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" it's one of his best songs. And I thought, "yes, that's what I want to play on my show this week." The thing is, I can find no recording ,no indication, of Frank ever singing this song. I listened to a bunch others -- Al Jolson, Dean Martin, Frankie Laine, Bobby Darin -- nobody can sing it like Frank in my head. Hands down, Brian Setzer has the best version out there.

We'll listen to that, other Sinatra songs, and Ela Orleans, Earth Wind & Fire, Allen Ginsburg, Sharon Jones, Oliver Elf Army, Alarm Will Sound. Lots lots more.

Great show this week!

Community Noise airs Wednesday evenings 8-10pm and (repeat) Thursday mornings 8-10am on KBFG 107.3 North Seattle / streaming from www.KBFGseattle.org/listen.

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupThere's a Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder · The Brian Setzer OrchestraThe Brian Setzer Orchestra℗ 1994 Hollywood Recor...

30/08/2022

Can you tell that I'm burning out on social media? Still, Community Noise continues!

13/07/2022

DJ Barnabas is not getting his homework done, tsk tsk, therefore this week on Community Noise, we will re-air episode 410, wherein all music is stuff that people have gifted to Community Noise for radio play. !!!

( ...and I give up getting to work on FB ...)

Community Noise airs Wednesday evenings 8-10pm and (repeat) Thursday 8-10am on honest FM radio KBFG 107.3 North Seattle and streaming worldwide at www.KBFGseattle.org/listen.

28/06/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GLIHRLgtI4

We never rest at Community Noise. One hand working on the new show for this week, while the other hand is dabbling in finding more stuff. Perhaps shades of a future show, below is a link to Gabba -- a cover band playing Abba songs ala The Ramones (e.g., Gabba Gabba Hey!).

Our show this week may or may not feature Abba, but will feature a Hotels theme for about the first 40 minutes, at the 9 o'clock hour we'll play side A of the second lp of Frank Zappa's 3-lp set, Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar, and lots lots more.

Tune into Community Noise on Wednesday evenings 8-10pm and (repeat) Thursday mornings 8-10am on KBFG 107.3 North Seattle, also streaming from www.KBFGseattle.org/listen.

Gabba - Waterloo.This is the second video from Swedish band Gabba.Very special guest star: Janne Schaffer, the guitar player on the Abba original. Special gu...

19/05/2022

Every summer we partner with Seattle Arts & Lectures (SAL) to create a Summer Book Bingo card for adults.

18/05/2022

That's a hell of a picture, "isolation" was a hell of a theme a couple of years ago, pandemic lock-downs and everything. But now, get out and roam around the best you can, but first! listen to my cool shows.

Community Noise airs Thursdays 8-10am on KBFG 107.3 North Seattle, and streaming from www.KBFGseattle.org/listen. This week we'll have repeat episodes from 2020, #59 and #60, including The Specials, Star Meets Sea, Sly & The Family Stone, Abba, Caribou, The Fall, apparently some Bugs Bunny, and much much much more.

Tune in !

Next month, new shows should start arising....

07/05/2022

Friend of and contributor to Community Noise Dean Rosenthal will appear on WGXC, NY Radio show, "All Things Cage" today at 4pm and repeat Monday 1am. Should be a treat!
https://wavefarm.org/radio/wgxc/schedule/218cxy?fbclid=IwAR2Qg5K4atnL5zoPqDK3BXJSkH8_kC2FI3QCofAfANeRbROsdbywYhdHgow

Kuhn’s guest today is the amiable composer Dean Rosenthal, a resident of Martha’s Vineyard, where in 2012 he composed his ongoing international performance piece Stones/Water/Time/Breath. This has become a popular piece, and in 2016, participants in 11 cities and 3 countries performed this work ...

28/04/2022

Someday, I will get back to creating new shows, but for now, we get to enjoy another rerun -- episode 82 for those of you keeping score at home, from July 2021.

We feature a Built to Spill album of Daniel Johnston covers, and get mouthfuls of Sergei Rachmaninov, Velvet Underground, Philip Glass, Sleater Kinney, Sky Cries Mary, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and much much much much more.

Join DJ Barnabas for Community Noise, Thursdays 8-10am on KBFG 107.3 North Seattle and streaming from www.KBFGseattle.org/listen.

13/04/2022

When I created this show, we were all new learners to what a global pandemic is like, thus the Yellow Jack flag. And now, I am playing reruns for completely unrelated reasons.

Still, great shows tomorrow -- episodes 50 and 51 for those of you keeping score at home -- when means The Clash, De La Soul, Blessed Blood, compositions by Frank Zappa and Morton Feldman, the latter giving us "Rothko Chapel". I mean come on, great show, right?

All on Community Noise, Thursday 8-10am, on KBFG 107.3 North Seattle, and streaming from www.KBFGseattle.org/listen.