A Miniature World with Binnie Klein July 16, 2026 The Wonder of Birds

A Miniature World with Binnie Klein July 16, 2026 The Wonder of Birds

It's not an easy time. From the perils of violence to the perils of bacteria to the perils of the air to the misfits at the helm...it's as if a powerful, cross-cultural "trickster" has been set free to roam at will. The chaos is alternately mesmerizing and numbing. So we turn to art and each other !!    Here, for 3 hours, is a miniature world of cool, surprising music and wry commentary AND a new feature .....about the wonder of Birds!!!!    The details: Ben Bohmer, Feist, Oklou, Mogwai, Lia Ouryang Rusli, Robert Wyatt, First Aid Kit, Madi Diaz, Timber Timbre, raeann fetcho, The Slip, Cabaret Nocturne, Baptiste W. Hamon, Marianne Faithfull, Boards of Canada, The Rolling Stones, Hibou, Sneaks, Christopher Mir,more eaze, REM, The Innocence of Mission with "The Wonder of Birds" and a fascinating fact about birds and sleep, REM, Curiosity Shop, Merce Lemon, Mary Lattimore & Julianna Barwick, Kevin Gallagher's segment "GaiaGram" about the effects of climate change on our planet, Tom Paxton,El Buho, Arooj Aftab & Bonobo, midori jaeger, Animal Collective, Obongjayar, Lorelle Meets the Obsolete, M. Ward, Hot Chip, Arms, Triggerfinger, Emily Wells.....next show  August 6, 2026!

A Miniature World July 2, 2026 "Strong but steady, Subtle but Sublime"

I hope you are inside (heat wave). and that yr animals are inside. And that "inside" is significantly cooler than "outside" If you ARE outside, may you be listening in the middle of a lake, river, pond or pool. A Miniature World is 3 hours where I smooth things out by mixing things up. Where we go strong but steady and subtle but sublime and pick you up when you feel like falling    Artists today: Gabriel Yared, Patrick Watson, midori jaeger, Kely Pinheiro, Motte, Broadcast, Donovan, PJ Harvey, KARYYN, Trippin Jaguar, Akin Sevgor, Manchester Orchestra, Him & Earl, The Delmonas, Jefferson Airplane, Led Zeppelin, Esta Tonne, The Civil Wars, Lowenzahnhonig, James Baldwin, Trippin Jaguar, The Last Dinner Party, Mulatu Astatke, Mozart Gabriel, Mo'ti tei, Curiosity Shop, Charley Ann, Single Gun Theory, Lowenzahnhonig, GAIAGRAM from Kevin Gallagher (climate news), ear, Wild Beasts, Kazdoura, Yoshida Brothers, Drupad at the Lake, Mo'ti tei, Kodak to Graph, Tracy Chapman, Manha de Carnaval by Elizete Cardoso, Vince Staples, The Church, Erik Strauss.....    BACK WITH YOU JULY 16, 2026 WITH ANOTHER EPISODE OF A MINIATURE WORLD WITH HOST BINNIE KLEIN

A Miniature World with Binnie Klein June 4, 2026 Soft weather, sun

Soft weather, sun. A romp through indie and assorted genres with a spicy seasoned curator of alternative radio. Gabriel Yared, Dan Deacon, Blood Orange, Trills, Laurel Halo, The Beatles, Kayef, L'1consolable, Grand Prize, The Tulips, SYML, Keaton Henson, Allivm, Trills, Woods, Afro Celt Sound System & Peter Gabriel, Nymphlord, Ulali, Boards of Canada, Laurel Halo, Karsh Kale, The War on Drugs, Hamilton Leithauser & Rostam, Mimi & Richard Farina, Project Lo w/Happy Rhodes, Wayne Perry, Statik Sound System, Laura Veirs, A Man Called Adam, The Apes of God, Steve Nieve & Laurie Anderson, High Places, Wild Beasts, GaiaGram (produced by Kevin Gallagher), Donovan, Tipper, Single Gun Theory, Los Halos, Lhasa De Sela.....

A Miniature World with Binnie Klein, May 21, 2026 - Fertilizing

I go into this mid-Spring as if this is the year! Bountiful container plants on the deck! Peonies encased perfectly in ungainly hoops! The sight of a tulip I don't remember planting! But first you have to toss what didn't make it over the hill. Do you know? The birds won't come to the feeder that isn't clean? They have better sense than we do. Here's today's Miniature World fertilizing: Music and words from Gabriel Yared, Love and Rockets, Widowspeak, Pet Shop Boys, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Rahill, Spelling, Low, Lucrecia Dalt, Invisible Pyramids, Lykke Li, Black Country, New Road, Fink, Dumama, NEW SEGMENT: songs that always mesmerized and you just heard again - today is Tim Buckley from a 1968 appearance on The Monkees TV Show (yes, I'm that ancient!), Ofir J. Rock & Itzhak Ventura, Ruti, Mizmo, Hante, Dengue Fever, Lana del Rey, Gregory Alan Isakov, The National, Fever Ray, Wye Oak, Sudan Archives, Ljadu Sisters, Jai Paul, November Bird, Georgia, Cigarettes after Sex, PJ Harvey, GaiaGram (produced by Kevin Gallagher), Woods, Baths, Poem: Feeding the Worms/Danusha Lameris, Lhasa de Sela, Roy Harper, Dave Van Ronk, Bonobo.......next show is Thursday, June 4, 2026 9 am - Noon!!

A Miniature World with Binnie Klein May 7, 2026 Ruby, Blue & Green

There's a mug I lost that was totally me/with its jewel tones and thick crockery/and a handle that held my trembling hand/if i ever find another/i'll know it's mine/my cup for all time. Music from Gabriel Yared, Nicolas Jaar, Faithless, Jamie xx, Daft Punk, Costanza, Daft Punk, Odile Ohms, Kerala Dust, angel corpus christi, The Last Dinner Party, Maddie Ashman, Ofir Ganon, Damon Albarn, Bo Harwood & Bobbie Permanent, The Tragically Hip, Laurie Anderson, Paul Weller, Steven Wilson, Marnie Weber, Abigail Snail, alice does computer music, Ed O'Brien, Jefferson Airplane, The Veils, David Bowie, poem by BK, Ohama, Ane Brun, Gary Numan, Catherine Elms, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Sparks, Bell Orchestra, Girls in Trouble, GaiaGram by Kevin Gallagher, January, Boom Bip, Brothers Page, poem by BK, Steve Nieve, Sia....back with you May 21, 2026 I saw a small child With unkempt hair Alone Playing with a  Yellow pool noodle On dry land      -- Binnie Klein, May 2026