umüvme features MICHAEL STEFFEN.  Steffen's first book, No Good at Sea, was published by Legible Press in 2002. His second, Heart Murmur, has just been released by Bordighera Press. Michael was granted a 2002 Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals including Poetry, Potomac Review, The Ledge, Poet Lore, Rhino and many others. Michael is a Y2K graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Vermont College and currently resides in Roseto, Pennsylvania.

Plus, we've just acquired the freshly released Gil Scott-Heron album, I'm New Here, so we'll be hippin you to that as well...Don't miss it!

Listen to FEWSH this evening. You may feel a sense of gladness (or something more complicated) in having done so.

This week on Grand Format Presents, all the songs are from Pennsylvania. Request your favorite PA songs and be sure to tune in tonight, from 8-10 p.m. live on gtownradio.com.

Playlist after the jump.

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You are listening to a live performance from the First Fridays we do at InFusion Coffee and Tea.

Sit back relax and enjoy!

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For reasons including the cold, record amounts of snow, shoveling, a need to unplug from the grid for awhile and several other lesser reasons Neu-Matic is featuring NO NEW MUSIC this week.  Instead we are trolling the library here for sonic comfort food. Songs you (should) definitely know and most likely love.

Serving Line:

Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere

Patti Page - Tennessee Waltz

The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail

The Beatles - One After 909

Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning

The Melodians - Rivers of Babylon

**Tangential (at best) Super Bowl Block**

The Who - Don't Let Go the Coat

A-Team TV Theme

Tom Waits - Step Right Up

The New Seekers - I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing

**I Remember that Video from the 80's Block**

The Waitresses - I Know What Boys Like

Tommy Tutone - Jenny (867-5309)

Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels

The Tubes - Talk to You Later

The Outfield - Your Love

**Songs by Reggae Artists Not Named Bob Marely**

Jimmy Cliff - I Can See Clearly

Tenor Saw - Ring the Alarm

Toots & the Maytalls - Pressure Drop

Sister Nancy - Bam Bam

**Yo! Mtv Raps**

Special Ed - I Got It Made

Marley Marl - Symphony Vol 1 (ft. Masta Ace, Craig G., Kool G Rap & Big Daddy Kane)

Big Daddy Kane - Ain't No Half Steppin

3rd Bass - The Gas Face

**TV Theme Songs**

Spiderman Cartoon (70's)

M*A*S*H - Suicide is Painless

Alice TV Theme

Good Times TV Theme

Joey Scarbury - Greatest American Hero

G-town Radio is proud to present news breaks from the Media Mobilizing Project.  You will hear new pieces each week on Tuesdays and Thursdays (noon & 5 PM).

This week's On Blast segment is called The Struggles of the Homeless in Philadelphia (1995-96).  In January of 2010, the Poverty Initiatve, a group based in New York that aims to reignite Dr. Martin Luther King's Poor People's Campaign, visited Philadelphia for an immersion tour. The tour highlighted the history of the struggles of poor people in this city. Willie Baptist and Liz Theoharis shared stories about the struggle of the homeless in 1995 and 1996, which included a "tent city" and the takeover of an abandoned church.  This piece was produced by Gregory Jordan-Detamore.

Labor Justice Radio this week features a piece called "They're Not Considering Us As Human": A Worker Speaks Out.

No talking.
No humming.
No pausing to drink water.
Don't stop moving.
Don't complain about lack of ventilation.
Just keep cleaning.

These are the rules that workers like Darnell Dixon are expected to follow. Darnell is a cleaner in a prominent center city office building (which he chose not to name publicly.)  In this piece, he details the list of new rules for workers in his building and the ways that workers' human rights are being violated. John Mason conducted the interview for this piece.