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A selection of superb jazz albums you can’t find on the streamers.

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Steve Barker gives a personal appreciation of the reggae historian and label runner who has died aged 80.

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In an exclusive extract from his new book Ukrainian Field Notes, author Gianmarco Del Re explores the soundscape of ScanEagles and Shahed drones turning the skies over Kyiv into a sonic warzone

This first Artemis crew includes a woman, a person of color and a Canadian, products of a more diversified astronaut corps.

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**The Police** 1979-03-23 The Edge Toronto, Canada FM broadcast 320 kbps Artwork Included 01. Truth Hits Everybody 02. So Lonely 03. Fallout 04. Born In The '50s 05. Hole In My Life 06. Be My Girl > Sally > Peanuts 07. Roxanne 08. Landlord 09. Next To You 10. Can't Stand Losing You ** ** **The Police - 1979-03-23 - Toronto, Canada (FM)** ** ** **1979 - #6:** In early 1979, The Police went on tour in North America in support of their debut album, Outlandos d’Amour. The tour kicked off on March 1 at the legendary Whiskey A Go Go in Los Angeles and ran until May 25, with the band criss-crossing the US and Canada. They often played 2 shows a night, and rarely took a day off. Given that the album had flopped when initially released, the band felt compelled to tour relentlessly in hopes of gaining exposure for themselves and airplay for their songs. The strategy seemed to work, as the album eventually climbed to the #23 position on the Billboard charts in the US, and rose all the way to the #2 position in the UK. In addition, 3 singles from the disc – Roxanne, Can’t Stand Losing You and So Lonely - charted in the top 20 in the UK in 1979. Roxanne also climbed to the #32 spot on the US Billboard charts. This soundboard recording captures the band early on in that tour, on March 23, 1979, 47 years ago today.

A huge treasure trove of songs and interviews recorded by the legendary folklorist Alan Lomax from the 1940s into the 1990s has been digitized and made available online for free listening.

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Wrongtom undertakes some detective work around the birth of the most famous digital dancehall riddim and discovers something unusual