The late, great American composer James Reese Europe was born on this date in 1880! youtu.be/FvTEcarrHTk

The Old Fenian Gun Thomas Hannom 1924 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzxo...

I'm a highfalutin rootin' tootin' bluesky account mutin' ragtime buachaill bó www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR8-...

BOTD 1909 - Argentinian guitarist Oscar Aleman - half of Hawaiian/Tango duo Les Loups - became swing guitarist bandleader - friend of Django Reinhardt - influencing Jerry Garcia etc www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zSx...

pianist Jimmy Yancey BOTD c.1895 - on this 1943 recording he plays a Hammond Novachord - widely considered the world's first commercial polyphonic synthesize www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFB0...

they’ll bring back DDT next www.theguardian.com/environment/...

the first time those "give 'em a lift" cookeen ads ran - showing people floating off the ground after having eaten baked goods made with cookeen - a plant-based alternative to lard - i was in senior infants - i had a sausage roll in my lunch would made with cookeen - i was sure it was going to...

Holy shit. A lot of people have suggested this, but I don’t think Lieu would make the allegation unless he had seen some evidence.

ICE & DHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-KD...

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen.

Feb. 15, 1926: Piero Gobetti, an anti-Fascist journalist who had fled Italy last year after being beaten by a blackshirt mob, dies of a heart attack at 24 in exile outside Paris. A journal he founded, Liberal Revolution, explored political, literary and cultural issues.

Saddened to learn about the recent passing of Pete Devine - great drummer, jug-blower and cheekophonist - I don't know him very well - I met him a couple of times - tried unsuccessfully to get him on my radio show - he was a good guy www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AUV...

Today is Frederick Douglass's chosen birthday - I still need to invest in a book about his time in Ireland

Livre de la chasse, Paris, France, c. 1406-1407.

#BOTD 1921. Remembering jazz tenor saxophonist Wardell Gray. (d.1955) #Jazzsky

@ohbrothershow.bsky.social i'm looking for an email address for Adam Buxton - I have some super-rare Shooby Taylor artifacts for sale he might very well be interested in www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

If yooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooou can believe it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPjh...

Marc Chagall - people enjoying Solitude

spring is coming

That's my motto

The files, found on a bygone piece of audio recording equipment, may give scientists new evidence about how humans have changed the ocean.

I'm walkin' here 89.5fm kpoo San Francisco

v.nice transfer master classical guitarist Miguel Llobet El Mestre rec. 1929 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny51...

Some guy let ne touch his one hundred thousand dollar bill tonight

www.pbs.org/newshour/hea... I recall going on mushroom hunts with the NYS Mycologist and witnessing his difficulty in positively identifying certain species, and this was a guy with a PhD in Mycology! #science #biology #medicine #mycology #fungi

I dig the Muppets translated as Gaeilge (Irish language) - one time a clever joke based on the fact that the same word in the Irish language (francach) can mean either a person from France or a rat www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHWV...

Happy Caturday

Why are you displeased? / The Son - dearest in all the world Durgā Khoṭe Young India label 1938 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y62W...

Giles - enjoying the sunshine today

If nobody got me KPOO radio got me cc @gramophoneybaloney.bsky.social even if you’re not playing Love on Top rn

NEW CANARY EP 20 minutes of music from a label run by a Romanian immigrant in n the 1940s, Josef Cristea (b. Transylvania 1904; d. Santa Monica 1973). 3 tracks by immigrants in NYC; 4 tracks pirated from great performers from Romania in the ‘30s. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/dor-do...

When Peter Mandelson was European Commissioner for Trade - and made trade deals that were detrimental to EU interests.... 🤔 www.thebeefsite.com/news/18004/b...

Goalz. Always here for the bosky gloom.

Beatrice Harrison by Dorothy Wilding

Beatrice Harrison recorded by the HMV mobile recording unit in 1927 playing cello in her backyard with some nightinglaes www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpwa...

It's a teenage moon in a rock'n'roll world! www.youtube.com/watch?v=78Ez...

Got a 1924 s-mark dime in my change - rejected by the self check machine - 80% silver - seemingly worth upwards of six bucks !

It's toootally not a pro pedo move to brag about how easily it would be for you to be a pedophile, how you wouldn't even need other pedophiles or human traffickers, and how little being a pedophile would weigh on you or distract from your work or affect you in the slightest, right Mr. Musk? /s

How exciting to feel the earth a-tremble beneath my buttocks while I was working on the playlist for today's program cluster quakes galore!

Challenge complete - what a wild adventure! 🐯 Who'd've thought that one single post would receive almost as many likes as all the other 32 posts combined 🤯

Get yer old school rebetika with the Disciples of Markos on Feb 20 at the Little Hill Lounge. Authentic rebetika right here in the Bay Area! #rebetika #rembetika #greekmusic

Zora Neale Hurston - There Stands a Bluebird recorded by A. Lomax in Haiti in 1936 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKQR...

The late, great Sleepy John Estes was born on this date in 1899 or 1900! youtu.be/pcfo3xcDoS0

This morning in Raleigh ☮️ #WalkForPeace

normal dog, switzerland, 15th century

Sesame Street has released on YouTube more than 140 full episodes from past sea­sons. www.openculture.com/2026/01/watc...

It's #PenguinTime The Penguin Raymond Scott Quintette 1937 www.youtube.com/watch?v=682h...