A Miniature World with Binnie Klein March 19, 2026 What Was Under the Snow

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

A Miniature World with Binnie Klein April 16, 2026 Assorted Charms

Daffodils spouting white and yellow like eggs/spikes of grass like garnishes. Dogs poised at open windows. Here I am with a curated mix of Assorted Musical Charms. Gabriel Yared, Aldous Harding, Seren.sarac, Bjork, Arima Ederra, Anonhi and the Johnsons, Aldous Harding, MEMORIALS, Samantha Crain, The Neighborhood, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the xx, Hans Reichel, more eaze, Walter Verdin, Duffy, Macy Gray, Irma, Bazlab,, Nabihah Iqbal, Talking about Sprechgesang and Sprechstimme, the Windmill Scene.....Dry Cleaning, The Orb, Marta Del Grandi, Meg Lui, Jeremy Weber, NEW YORK, Mary Lattimore and Julianna Barwick, Joanna Newsom, Flea, Tori Amos, Patti Smith, Nation of Language, Ane Brun, Kelsey Lu, GaiaGram (climate news produced by Kevin Gallagher, Fergus Jones, Last Train, swelt, Zoh Amba, Nena, Marta Del Grandi.......Next podcast episode coming in May!  love, I'm reachable at binnie@wpkn.org

A Miniature World with Binnie Klein April 2, 2026 A Good Scream

Shake it up. Get out of the house. Live in the in-between. We could all use a good scream. Get underway with Gabriel Yared, Future Islands, swelt, Band of Horses, REM, Juana Molina, Lemoncello, Emma Ruth Rundle, Tori Amos, Five Green Moons, Camille Camille, Rosenau & Sanborn, Elisapie, Erika Angell, Tara Clerkin Trio, Snail Mail, Black Dog, Wu-Lu, Simon & Garfunkel, Gregory Alan Isakov, Wendy Eisenberg, Martha Skye Murphy, "Reservoir," by Tova Gannanna, The New Yorker, March 23, 2026, Steen Jorgensen, D'En Haut, the FVL, Liva Lumpe, Heilung, Lettie, Anna Calvi & Laurie Anderson, Hi! CAPABARAS, Elori Saxl, Yor, Devision Redux, GaiaGram from Kevin Gallagher, Chelsea Wolfe, Sarah Nixey, Black Box Recorder, Idus Abra, Tribute to Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall, Birute Galdikas, Stevie Nicks.  Back with you Thursday, April 16, 2026!!!!

A Miniature World with Binnie Klein March 19, 2026 What Was Under the Snow

Snow has melted and we see what was under the snow. A world teetering with tension, and now we're out of the house, talking too fast, all jagged and breathing and laughing too loud. Here's 3 hours of the beauty and peace that I wish was underneath the snow. Gabriel Yared, Big Thief, Suzanne Vega, Aldous Harding, Idaho, The Reflection Box, Widowspeak, The Walker Brothers, Nelly Furtado, Ela Minus, Vicky Sometani, The Caretaker, Swelt, tuna tres belle, Diza, Cate Le Bon, Shabaka, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Nailah Hunter, Christian Loffler, Joanna Newsom, Crosby, Stills & Nash (RIP Stephan Stills), Jessi Robertson, Patrick Watson, Jeff Buckley, plainhead, Sway, Swelt, Isolee, The Beasts of Eden, Beck, Tortois & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Suphala, GaiaGram by Kevin Gallagher, Bonobo, James Figurine, My Brightest Diamond, Barbara Morgenstern & Robert Lippok.... NEXT SHOW IS APRIL 2 and then blooming into an Apple Podcast!