2026
OFF KEY WITH NINABIRD, SHOW #3 : A-MESS-I-CA
A radio show with music, talking, and sometimes stories that make not much sense.
This time around a pop music adventure in a week of woe. America is a mess.
A-MESS-I-CA
In the words of artist MIKE KELLEY,
“All you can really do now is work with the dominant culture, flay it, rip it apart, reconfigure it!”
So, let’s do some reconfiguring. shall we?
What you heard:
Visions of Gideon, SUFJAN STEVENS
Song for the Dead, THUNDERCAT
Weary, SOLANGE
3am, THUNDERCAT
I’m A MAN, KIM GORDON
Nina + The Cops, CAMERON WINTER
Les Hommes, ALICE
Song for my Sad Friends, FEIST
Nearly There, STEVE GUNN
Song of My America, DANIEL VIGLIETTI (from PROTEST SONGS OF LATIN AMERICA)
America, COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS
America, ALLEN GINSBERG
This is America, CHILDISH GAMBINO
I’m Afraid of Americans, DAVID BOWIE
AMERIICAN REQUIEM, BEYONCE
NUEVAYoL, BAD BUNNY
EL POBRE Y EL RICO, Los Olimareños (from PROTEST SONGS OF LATIN AMERICA)
WHISKEY BLUE, Suzuki Tsunekichi