"Loaded" by Ricky Martin stops on the word stop, into the list it goes docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Bucharest Nov 14-15

Moses Araktingi Cohen (b. Aleppo ca. 1892-3), immigrated 1908 and worked initially with his brother in the jewelry business before going into business for himself selling lace curtains from a storefront at 121 Canal St. He lived on the Lower East Side and and recorded 3 discs for Columbia…

Acoma musicians Philip Sanchez and Wilbert Hunt. 1928 in New Mexico by Frances Densmore

NEW: I arrived in the U.S. eight weeks ago to report on how the administration’s immigration crackdown was playing out from the front lines. What I saw Thursday was the culmination of ICE’s aggressive behavior. By @tilleckert.com

RIP Danny Thompson, one of the best to do it www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0DO...

Whoa. Shadow Ring. foeg.dk

Trump administration fires more immigration judges www.npr.org/2025/09/23/n...

fucking outrageous

Israeli Conductor Calls on International Community: Do All You Can to Stop Gaza War - Israel News www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Zekia Agob (b. Damascus, Syria 1886; d. Brooklyn NY 1950) was the first Arab-American woman to make commercial discs - 6 of them from ca. Aug 1917-Jan 1918. I believe they were privately funded. I added a quick restoration of this rough copy here: canary-records.bandcamp.com/track/yalwat...

Many thanks to Oliver Nießen who contacted me that he had a Dec. 1925 disc by Nick Prince Nazaroff (b. 1891; d. 1961) from Poltava, Ukraine to add to the EP Canary released last year. This side featuring Nazaroff's whistling is jewel: canary-records.bandcamp.com/track/zapria...

Bandcamp Friday this week thank god Couple heavy setbacks lately. I’m hoping Friday helps I made Canary’s Full Discography (196 titles; $1,000+ value) $161 until Saturday You could make it your full-time job for a month to listen to all of it. Or buy it for a friend canary-records.bandcamp.com

drummer Ed Swierad (b. 1918; d. 1970) & his Aristocrats. Chicopee, Massachusetts ca. 1949. Both of Swierad’s parents were born in 1885 in a Carpathian mountain village in southeastern Poland. He worked on a dairy farm and as an inspector at an auto parts manufacturer. Loved basketball.

Preceding my tour of Europe in mid-November, you can attend a zoom talk for free on Oct. 28 via the Association for Cultural Equity. Register here: www.culturalequity.org/tradition-ta...

NEW CANARY ALBUM canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/ukrain... Violinist, bandleader, music teacher, and songwriter Jozef Snihur was born in rural Pidhorodne, Donetsk Oblast in Eastern Ukraine on November 17, 1906.

when I moved in with Blaster Al Ackerman ca. 2003, there was a worn 2”x3” yellow card over the stove with one word printed on it. I have a vivid memory of mentioning it to him when he appeared out of his room one evening, clearly about a bottle of wine deep. “You know what it means?” he smiled.

when I asked Blaster what he wanted to name the album, he said he'd need some time to think about it. When he came back about a week later with I Am Drunk, I said I liked it but asked him why. He said because he was thinking about what would have horrified his mother most. youtu.be/0gkipXB4qKE?...

Naomi Lazard (b. March 1928; d. Dec. 2021) “Ordinance on Arrival” Nov. 1975. broadsheet printed holograph on handmade paper. Later printed in her book Ordinances (Ardis 1978)

Check out this book talk with Immigration and Ethnic History Society Board Member @sfahrenthold.bsky.social: youtu.be/-UJHOuqFPvg?...

Never use a question mark on social media even if you sometimes think in questions. People will think you are asking them a question, and you will have to read their replies and think of something nice to say. It’s a nightmare. Anyway, here’s a good record.

Spanish musician Pablo Garcia (Pablo Und Destruktion) names Zabelle Panosian’s “Groung” as the song he’d like played at his funeral. www.efeeme.com/pistas-con-p...

It’s bandcamp friday. Promo code aug2025 for 10% off There’ve been 16 new releases since the last bandcamp friday in April and 26 total since Jan. 1st. canary-records.bandcamp.com

I’ll do the same show in the evening at Rhizome in Takoma Park www.rhizomedc.org/new-events/2...

2PM Sun Aug 3 I’ll talk about early 20th century immigrant & native commercial recordings at the Rust Library in Leesburg, Loudon County, VA loudoun.libnet.info/event/14004444

NEW CANARY ALBUM Among the most important performers of the hardanger fiddle, Anund Roheim (b. 1913: d. 1999) had an immense repertoire, all learned by ear. He won over a hundred prizes in Norway and the US where he lived for over 40 years. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/v-rlen...

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

Son of legendary Fairuz and composer Assi Rahbani, he was also a playwright, pianist and political provocateur.

NEW CANARY ALBUM with special thanks to Gene Baron An exceedingly scarce private press LP by a father-and-son duo performing music from the Greek islands. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/dodeca...

Master of Reality, Vol 4, and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath are as beautiful and wholesome as Rubber Soul, Between the Buttons, and Blonde on Blonde. What a great band. Thanks Ozzy youtu.be/nUb0QaDjP78?...

Sweet, little profile of Canary in the UK folk magazine Songlines. www.songlines.co.uk/features/lab...

A thing I didn't do: In recent months, I wound up with a group of discs made in 1930 of folk religious choral music in the U.S. from an ethnic minority immigrant group. I thought the music was compelling, so I made transfers and restorations of them and started researching them.

Hey if anyone wants a copy of this book, message me. $25 post paid. brooklynrail.org/2025/07/musi...

NEW CANARY ALBUM I don't know what heaven has against me. I cry day and night, my eyes are bloodshot. Who wouldn't want to be happy in this world? Even if I were pleased, my troubled heart would be unhappy. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/what-h...

Tomorrow I’ll release the 193rd Canary album. I know it’s dumb expecting people to pay for obsolete music, particularly since it looks like I’m just leaving it at the side of the road. No promotion. No branding. No merch. But $70 gets you a lot to chew… canary-records.bandcamp.com/subscribe

40s US pirate of a 30s recording

NEW CANARY ALBUM Gail Holst-Warhaft: “For me [she] is still the best of the female rebetika singers, with a voice as deep as a man's and as full of pain as Billie Holiday's. Bellou lived hard, served time in jail, earned a lot of money, and spent a lot of it helping other musicians.”

In a box of Turkish, Armenian & Arabic discs I was gifted yesterday, there was a copy of this record that I just added. Not a record you see every day. Or decade. Meyrem Xan (b. 1904; d. 1949) was the first Kurdish woman to have recorded. canary-records.bandcamp.com/track/lo-lo-...

CDs are available from the exhibit that I curated at the Jewish Museum of Maryland earlier this year. $10 each plus shipping. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/to-say...

Baltimore Afro-American 1923-29

Rainy Tuesday night near DC listening to Folk Music (Wooley-Smith-Corsano)

Sharing a June album that I enjoyed, in no particular order, one a day for a few days nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/useza

Fire sale going on..until 7/4 everything here is a buck. New here...from today until july 4th everything here: kevindrumm.bandcamp.com is a buck each.Fire sale season. All the macs here are dead...need new old cheap ones...forget roofs,valves, retinas or jaws...that stuff can wait...go nuts!

Andrew Hagopian (son of oudist Richard) transferred the session tapes for two late 50s LPs by violinist Fred Elias & drummer Buddy Sarkissian. Among them were this hour of previously unreleased, spectacular Near Eastern / bellydance material. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/outtak...

2PM Sun Aug 3 I’ll talk about early 20th century immigrant & native commercial recordings at the Rust Library in Leesburg, Loudon County, VA loudoun.libnet.info/event/14004444

A selection of title pages from my collection of books on U.S. immigration policy published 1905-1943. Almost all are discards from universities libraries who consider them obsolete, when in fact…

Daniel Conrad - Enter/ Exit (16”x20” automatic color changing light box using Xmas light strings) August 2002 Sound: Ian Nagoski - Violets for Your Furs, composed mid-2000 to mid-2001

the Greek alt music press in praise of the recent Epirot Canary releases: In the 1st 10 days of June, these 2 digital releases were released by the American Canary Records… www.avopolis.gr/articles/art...

If one remade In the Loop now, of course you’d have to replace the “boring psycho” neocons and their flavorless toadies with amphetamine addled White Nationalists and the morons who believe that life is a game show and are just waiting for their shot at the Showcase Showdown of realpolitik.