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The Annexation was an eclectic music and talk show that aired every Thursday at midnight on Appalshop’s WMMT 88.7 FM. The show featured local musicians, organizers, and small business owners who took to the airwaves to express their opinions on various topics and play their favorite music. WMMT’s mission is to be a 24-hour voice of mountain people’s music, culture, and social issues, to provide broadcast space for creative expression and community involvement in making radio, and to be an active participant in discussion of public policy that will benefit coalfield communities and the Appalachian region as a whole.

The Annexation (April 11, 2014)

The Annexation is an electronic music radio show. It airs every THURSDAY at MIDNIGHT (ET) on WMMT 88.7 FM. For streaming, go to www.wmmt.org/listen.

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The Annexation  (April 25, 2014)

The Annexation (May 1st, 2014)

The Annexation (May 9th, 2014)

The Annexation (May 23, 2014)

In this podcast, Roadside’s artistic director Dudley Cocke and John O’Neal, co-founder of the Free Southern Theater and founder of New Orleans-based Junebug Productions, talk about their 38 years of collaboration. Their candid conversation covers a wide range of topics – from the role of theater in a people’s movement to their memories of traveling on the road.

Theater's Place In A People's Movement

On Class and Capitalism

John's Memories Of Working With Roadside

Energy

Bayard Rustin and Ella Baker

Advice To Young Theater Makers

38 Years Of Collaboration

On this special episode of The Annexation we talk about the technical abilities of our sweet DJs, discuss our favorite kinds of cheesecake, compare old time VS rock music, talk about monkey days, and listen to an excerpt from Alan Watts. Oh, the music is great, too! We start with rhythms from Africa, take a short and sweet electro-detour, and end up with DJ Weather Vein, who closes the show with one of his signature otherworldly sets!  

The Annexation (January 29, 2015) w/ WholeCard/WeatherVain/RoosterEars/BatGirl/MonkeyDay/Spinladen

The usual suspects return with yet another midnight annexation. We start this campaign with French rock from La Femme, progress into FUNK & 80's grooves , and go full country by the end (which seems to be a new tradition)...  this time, we talk about the great Merle Travis! DJ Weather Vein plays one of his hour-long otherworldly sets and uncovers the weather's forecast for us...  I hope you enjoy this one!

The Annexation (March 20, 2015) w/ Whole Card, Weather Vein & Champagne Logic

We talk about Merle Travis @ The Annexation

The Annexation (March 27, 2015)

The Annexation (May 21, 2015)w/ DJ Whole Card, DJ Champagne Logic, and DJ Rooster Ears

Remote Witness Radio's first episode! We talk about rural and urban living, maintaining friendships, and embracing human connection.

Intro | Demoiselle Dner - La descente
Outro | John Bartmann - Tupac Lives

Related links:

Rem Koolhaas / "Countryside: The Future" : https://oma.eu/projects/countryside-the-future

"Aristotle | Friendship is a Basic Human Need" (video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucB_X6h_Mi4

Bulgarian Folk Dance - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEBFDzWIgXQ

RwR - Friendship

Though we initially intended to explore our friendship, we end up discussing one of our favorite topics: decay.

Intro | Loyalty Freak Music - Ghost Surf Rock
Outro | Loyalty Freak Music - Harsh Love

Related links:

Pentagon releases UFO videos for the record - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52457805

World’s billionaires have more wealth than 4.6 billion people - https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/worlds-billionaires-have-more-wealth-46-billion-people

George Carlin - Politicians - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07w9K2XR3f0

RWR - Decay

RwR's guest facilitates Community Cultural Development residencies throughout the United States, including workshops on community-based theater, low-cost media, and cultural organizing. We talk about farming and community-building in Appalachia.

Intro & outro by Blue Crown.

Related links:

Learn more about the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange  - www.kyrux.org

RwR - Community

We talk about addiction, as well as religion, pleasure, social media, aging, and other odds and ends that define the human experience. 

Intro | Loyalty Freak Music - One Cool Minute
Outro | Komiku - Mushrooms

Related links:

The Power of Addiction and The Addiction of Power: Gabor Maté at TEDxRio+20 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66cYcSak6nE

RwR - Addiction

We proceed to talk about the high school days, journey into the world of music, the power of performance, and the many benefits of an honest and open community.

Intro and outro are from original compositions by Joe. 

Apologies for the occasional subpar audio quality. We liked our conversation so much that we wanted to publish it regardless of how it sounded.

RwR - Presence

We discuss the storming of the Capitol on January 6 and what it means for the future o the USA. 

Intro| Bauchamp - 13 glorieux pop 
Outro | Loyalty Freak Music - Everyone

Related links:

Howard Zinn - Hidden History of The American Working Class - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgzB07b2qzs

It’s Time to Rein in Inflated Military Budgets (Scientific American) -https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-rein-in-inflated-military-budgets/

RwR - U.S. Politics

A podcast about friendship, creativity, and the human experience. Hosted by Zhivko.

This channel also features recordings from The Annexation (2014-2016) an eclectic music and talk show that aired on Appalshop’s WMMT 88.7 FM—a community radio station located in Whitesburg, Kentucky.

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