Sublime vintage sounds from Zanzibar, Sudan, Djibouti, and Somalia. www.mixcloud.com/jimiinc/a-wo...

In case you missed it last week, Radio Tombola is a new podcast of improbable covers recorded by @jimiinc.bsky.social and myself. The setlist has been added in the comments on @mixcloud.bsky.social ! www.mixcloud.com/RadioTombola... #music #podcast #world #jazz #rock

My young old friend Ben Felten @mysteresdeparis.bsky.social and I have started a new podcast called "Radio Tombola" (you never quite know what you're going to get when you reach inside), and the first episode is about "improbable covers". It's a fun hour-and-a-bit. www.mixcloud.com/RadioTombola...

For the three of you who miss my musical radioing / podcasting, @jimiinc.bsky.social and I are launching a new podcast, RADIO TOMBOLA. I think it's a ton of fun, and hopefully the first of many. Please like, share, email, talk about it!

First time I've spoken in this series. In fact, I talk quite a lot here, sharing anecdotes and music connected to some Memphis music legends I had the strange fortune to encounter through the course of my life. www.mixcloud.com/jimiinc/a-wo...

When is Shumer doing Newsom's "Nazis Are People Too" podcast?

On Walcot Street in Bath, if you look up on the high wall on the west side of the street, you'll see some very interesting faces. There are many more, but these really stood out to me.

Shameful coverage of the Tesla reputation-laundering stunt at the White House by @news.sky.com. No mention of the obvious quid pro quo between Musk ($300m in campaign donations) and this ludicrously corrupt event.

Watching Enron nearly burst into tears when the odious Larry Kudlow asks about his inability to run his various stupid companies while simultaneously destroying the government is almost sad. But remember his own words: "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Cry more, Enron.

If you're in need of a great read, if only as a distraction from the endless doom scroll, I heartily recommend this portrait of a true revolutionary. I grew up a few blocks from Sam's house in East Memphis and often saw him out mowing his own lawn in the sweltering Memphis summer heat.

The awesome Bacana Funk tonight in Bath.

No one's going to Mars.

Some people knit, some people journal. I make these. They're intended as a sort of mystery journey for the listener - some familiar sounds, some unknown, some mashed and mangled. All intended as a reminder of our humanity in these awful times. I hope they might be helpful. www.mixcloud.com/jimiinc/

Seems like a country with 400 - 500 million guns in circulation and a lot of inventive drone enthusiasts could get quite unruly at some point.

Musk used Air Force One and Marine One to fly his mother to the White House, where she's apparently rooming/living(?). Mike Johnson lives in the home of a Christofascist mega-donor. Kash Patel is running the FBI from his home in Vegas. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

There aren't many sources of joy around, but I love watching the dead eyes and blank expression of Marco Rubio, as he goes through each nightmarish day wondering how he ended up in this shit show. You can actually see tiny vestiges of his soul screaming in agony as they die, and it is beautiful.

Redbone doesn't get nearly enough love. If people know them at all, it's because of "Come And Get Your Love", which wasn't representative of their total output. The early albums contain biting social & political commentary, much of which suits 2025 just as well as 1970. youtu.be/T_CfqhAj3P0?...

Yesterday in Bath.

Anyone surprised by this has either been in a coma for the past decade, or lobotomized. Still great to see this story spreading. Maybe it will help the hard-of-thinking connect a few dots.

If it isn't clear to you, Nahtsee Rocket Boy wants to raid the Treasury to fund his Mars fantasy, which anyone who has read science, rather than science fiction, knows is not fit for human habitation. I don't care about the Matt Damon film, it ain't happening. www.shesabeast.co/mars-radiati...

I truly feel for the person in suburban Birmingham who was faced with pawning their tabla.

A World Away Pirate Radio Episode 23, featuring: M.A.K.U. Soundsystem Orquesta Rafalo Abelardo Carbonó Mwanahela & Golden Star Taarab Slim Ali & The Famous Hodi Boys Joe Bataan Lee "Scratch" Perry Gordon Jenkins Delia Derbyshire The RSFSR Variety Orchestra Sato www.mixcloud.com/jimiinc/a-wo...

The second-best band in Memphis, but the best people. I genuinely love these guys, the songs are killer, and Tim Prudhomme is a true, straight-up, legitimate, Zen genius. I love that he will hate me for saying that in public. As if he would even know what BkueSky is/was... youtu.be/F37m5_-JGyU

Medicare and Social Security aren't some sort of magical gifts from an unseen deity in heaven. They are social programs paid into over decades by hardworking people. Isn't it possible to stage the mother of all class action lawsuits against those who want to kill them, for breach of contract?

I think I just coined the term "incelligentsia", but even if not, please feel free to use it liberally, with extreme prejudice. #incelligentsia

Dua Lipa rules, but Bennie Lifts!

This is the same guy who has a "quarterly review" with his partner of their relationship, right? www.thenational.scot/news/2493240...

Fascinating, if dated, documentary on Paraguay from Alan Whicker. The lone outspoken padre interviewed here observes that anything the regime dislikes is "Marxism". Substitute "fraud and waste", and you have the DOGEbros' mantra. The net can be as wide as as they need it to be. youtu.be/67DE3bQ9RBs

I used to do this sort of thing for a local "c0mMunity rAdi0 $tation" in Memphis. Most locals didn't give a shit, but maybe someone here will find it of interest. There's 104 episodes in the series, all part of a playlist called "A World Away" in my SoundCloud. on.soundcloud.com/DKPTcbwiwGS4...

Amazing time today at the Coventry Music Museum, which I cannot recommend highly enough. The backstory here is that the museum was looking to acquire *a* car like the one seen in the "Ghost Town" music video, but ended up accidentally acquiring *the actual car* itself.

I made another "woke" thing. www.mixcloud.com/jimiinc/a-wo... Featuring: Redbone Mama Honey ÌFÉ Unknown Mortal Orchestra Willie Williams Bob Marley & The Wailers Guelewar Band Of Banjul Combo Chimbita Jefferson Airplane The United Nations/George Harrison/Jimi Inc. Charles Ives Redbone

Bob Marley & The Wailers live at The Rainbow 1977 is on BBC2 right now, so suck it, America.

Yeah, no shit.

Art Ensemble of Chicago, live in Berlin 1991. "From the ancient to the future" youtu.be/SOEe_hG6mio

www.mixcloud.com/jimiinc/a-wo... A World Away Pirate Radio #21, featuring: Combo Chimbita Los Ésplifs Abelardo Carbonó Linton Kwesi Johnson Midnight Groovers Timothy Leary Snakehips Los Dug Dug's We All Together The Chocolate Watch Band Laurie Spiegel John Ciardi Polar Bear Super Furry Animals

You gotta lose your mind in Wolverhampton, rock city!

Currently detoxing from five years back in Amerikkka, it's amazing to me that I can randomly turn on my telly in Birmingham to see the exquisite Carole King on BBC2. #itsthelittlethings

Birmingham, first wander on my first-ever visit. I like it.

And so America's Gold Leaf Age begins.

Hello again, London, it's good to be back.

Pam Bondi looks like the love child of Edgar Winter and Michael Jackson. Pass it on.

Somewhere in Niigata Prefecture, 1990. Lest coffee be required.