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A big thank you to the great Jim Neill for featuring FOUR songs from the new @gentlehen.bsky.social album, Wink, on his radio show this weekend on WRSI. So nice! rubwrongways.com/gentle-hen-w...

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Steve Johnson @luvthemats.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just because…🎶🎙️🎸🥁🎹🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊🔊 #MorningMusic ☕️☕️☕️🌧️💨💨💨 #nowplaying 📻🥤 m.youtube.com/watch?v=7wq2...

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Comfort Zone

YouTube video by Gentle Hen - Topic

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Henning @henningo.com · 28/09/2026

Nice to see You're Not Anywhere on New Tec Radio! Gentle Hen's new album Wink has been out for just a couple days and it's cool to see it popping up on playlists.

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Henning @henningo.com · 28/09/2026

The Replacements, Tomorrow, Squirrel Flower, Beck, VU, Breeders, Suzanne Vega, King Crimson, Automatic, Rayland Baxter and more in 25 Songs for This Week. Youtube and Apple Music links are in the thread below. Today's a good day to subscribe, save, follow the playlist.

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25 Songs for This Week

This mixtape has been changing weekly since 2017! FOLLOW it (click the heart!) to stay in the loop. If you find an artist you dig, please support them however you can.

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Henning @henningo.com · 27/09/2026

I remember that beard. I had it for about two months.

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Gentle Hen @gentlehen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Happy to be on the menu!

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Henning @henningo.com · 25/09/2026

A really lovely review of our new album by Eric Danton.

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Henning @henningo.com · 25/09/2026

It's so nice when someone listens AND it's really nice when they then post nice things like this.

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Henry Lipput @purepop4nowpeople.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The new @gentlehen.bsky.social is out tomorrow (9/25)! It's full of terrific tunes, pop goodness, and jangle as well as heartfelt (people use this term a lot but this time it's true this time) songs like "Parking Lot." Make sure you get yourself a copy!!!

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Rub Wrongways Records @rubwrongways.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of the great things about having a small indie record label: we just put an order for the new @gentlehen.bsky.social album in the neighborhood mailbox exactly four minutes after it was ordered. Is that a world record? rubwrongways.com/gentle-hen-w...

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Henning @henningo.com · 25/09/2026

I'm very happy and proud to release our new album Wink today. It's our 8th album, which is nuts. I know it's dumb to say but, it's our best yet. The way these songs came together was like magic. I've got the best bandmates. Here are all the Wink Links: rubwrongways.com/gentle-hen-w...

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Henning @henningo.com · 24/09/2026

As town square bells chime midnight our new album suddenly appears out of the mist.

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Henning @henningo.com · 24/09/2026

We've got a new album coming out tomorrow. I don't even know what to do about that.

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Henning @henningo.com · 23/09/2026

On the internet one person can be a mob.

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Gentle Hen @gentlehen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Friday is almost here…

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Henning @henningo.com · 23/09/2026

If there’s a lot of reverb on the rim clicks, that song takes place at night.

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Henning @henningo.com · 22/09/2026

Bought a book at a used bookstore with cash. Hid it under my coat from the traffic cameras. Covered my phone with a blanket while I read. The system doesn't know what I am reading. I am not being advertised to. I am not being counted. Not even A.I. knows. Don't tell Computer.

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Gentle Hen @gentlehen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wink is coming this Friday, September 25!

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Henning @henningo.com · 22/09/2026

Make sure you tune in to WRKC tonight! What a great time to be alive when you can listen to any radio station anywhere anytime. Imagine how magical that would have seemed forty years ago

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Henning @henningo.com · 21/09/2026

A nice interview about a really excellent album

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Henning @henningo.com · 18/09/2026

This is the kind of thing the algorithm shows me as news. The algorithm doesn’t know me.

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Henning @henningo.com · 18/09/2026

Imagine how crazy it would be to judge someone on what kinds of food they like or don't like to eat. Yet, here we are, everywhere, in every situation, all over the world, at all times.

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Henning @henningo.com · 18/09/2026

Do you want to invest in my new business? We're making beauty filters for Flock cameras.

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Henning @henningo.com · 18/09/2026

Four acts that I categorize as shy bands: The Church Yo La Tengo Teenage Fanclub The Lilac Time

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Henning @henningo.com · 18/09/2026

Normalize shunning establishments for AI designed images

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Henning @henningo.com · 18/09/2026

Consistently an up and coming artist. Eternally emerging. A fresh face forever. Budding for decades. Permanently promising.

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Henning @henningo.com · 17/09/2026

There's a whole lot of music by the Cure happening right now on www.kexp.org/listen. Tune in. Radio is the best.

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Listen | KEXP

Listen to KEXP's radio programming, archives of previously aired shows, podcasts, mixes, and more.

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Henning @henningo.com · 16/09/2026

And now I'm going to be walking back out to the mailbox to send more this afternoon. Thanks, everyone!

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Henning @henningo.com · 16/09/2026

I walked up to my blue neighborhood mailbox this morning and dropped in a pile of envelopes. Each had a copy of the new Gentle Hen album, Wink. Pre-orders for CDs. Now they're out there traveling in different directions across the country. It feels really nice to continue this musical tradition.

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Wink, by Gentle Hen

12 track album

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Henning @henningo.com · 15/09/2026

Your fancy websites keep crashing my old chromebook

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Unspun Heroes® @unspunheroes.com · 15/09/2026

Congrats! I really loved your last album so I'm looking forward to hearing this. I'll have to do digital, though. No CD player (I know, I know!)

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Henning @henningo.com · 15/09/2026

Mailing begins tomorrow for pre-orders placed for a CD copy of our new album, Wink. Yes, CD! A nice new CD showing up in your mailbox. In real life, like. Under the sky and sun and all the rest of reality. A limited run: gentlehen.bandcamp.com/album/wink

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Henning @henningo.com · 12/09/2026

I keep singing the words, “Hello darkness my old friend” to the tune of “Hello cowgirl in the sand”. I’ve been doing it all week. I can’t stop.

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Henning @henningo.com · 12/09/2026

The Nerves, Grace Jones, Allah-Las, Byrds, Lemon Twigs, Minnie Riperton, Riz Ortolani, YAZ, Mac DeMarco and more in 25 Songs for This Week. Youtube and Apple Music links are in the thread below. Today's a good day to subscribe, save, follow the playlist. open.spotify.com/playlist/7fy...

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25 Songs for This Week

This mixtape has been changing weekly since 2017! FOLLOW it (click the heart!) to stay in the loop. If you find an artist you dig, please support them however you can.

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Henning @henningo.com · 07/09/2026

Listen again! Thanks, Midweekmusings for playing Gentle Hen!

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Henning @henningo.com · 06/09/2026

I generally don’t ever want to post anything negative about music but… If you ever need an example of what the bad parts of music in the 80’s were, this is a good exhibit A. youtu.be/woOERC6iFAc?...

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Tearing Us Apart (feat. Tina Turner)

YouTube video by Eric Clapton - Topic

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Henning @henningo.com · 06/09/2026

Yesterday at the start of a 3 hour car ride, we stumbled upon a show on XM’s Classic Rewind channel: Top 40 cassette albums that turn 40 this year. So a best of 1986 in a way. Crazy how REM Fall on Me was the same year as Tesla’s Modern Day Cowboy. I miss MTV.

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Henning @henningo.com · 06/09/2026

So nice to be in this selection of artists. Thanks, NWR!

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Henning @henningo.com · 05/09/2026

It's already trying to kill us.

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Henning @henningo.com · 04/09/2026

A special thank you to those who have pre-ordered Wink today on Bandcamp Friday! I know some of you are here. It really means a lot to me and the rest of the band. You're the best.

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Wink, by Gentle Hen

12 track album

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Henning @henningo.com · 04/09/2026

It's a Bandcamp Friday miracle

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Henning @henningo.com · 03/09/2026

I'm very much looking forward to getting these songs out there.

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Bruno MacDonald @brunomacdonald.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐬' 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝟒𝟎 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲… …if you trust the date in Music Week at the time (spoiler alert: I do). Happy birthday Throwing Muses, you weird bundle of wonderfulness. Artwork: #23Envelope @kristinhersh.bsky.social @throwingmuses.bsky.social #throwingmuses

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robynhitchcock.bsky.social @robynhitchcock.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

GROOOVERS! Live From Tubby's House is back on YouTube tonight at 8pm Central Time. FREE show, with a 48 hour replay window. Requests welcome! Here's the link if you'd like to join us! youtube.com/live/ib-bxW3... Love on y’all RH

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Henning @henningo.com · 02/09/2026

Poutine now called Freedomtine

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Andy Beaton @aiabx.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I was a pretty conventional mid 70’s guy music guy- LZ, the Stones, Rush etc. then one night in 1978, CHUM-FM did a simulcast of some guy name Elvis Costello and 20 seconds into Mystery Dance, my musical life had changed. It was like being struck by lightning.

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Lisa Pearl @lisapearl.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

First time I heard "New Orleans is Sinking" by The Tragically Hip was when I walked into a small house party in North Bay, Ontario in 89/90 and it was blaring from a stereo. I remember hearing Gord Downie's voice and thinking "Who is THIS?!" I bought the cassette and never looked back

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