"I'm in a love affair with music/and I think I am obsessed/I search for new and quirky sounds/and celebrate the rest.."My intro is by Gabriel Yared, from the sdtrk to French film Betty Blue..The Participant (experimental Australian music community), 4 Non Blondes, katie dey, Morcheeba, Arvid, Glass Beams, August, Yours Truly, Imagine Dragons, ("....a fun thing as a DJ is to leap from an unusual indie track to a pop song, so that's what I did") Morcheeba, Arvid, Legendary Pink Dots, Concrete Blonde (great George Harrison cover) Imperial April (Aldous Harding cover), Daphne's Demise, bunkbed nights, Kristin Hersh (w/Michael Stipe!) Micah P. Hinson, Friends of Dean Martinez, Sam Amidon, "presenting" Insta phenom Todd Crozier, Tim Buckley, Arvid, poem, "Cereus" by Henri Cole (August 17 issue of The New Yorker), Hayley Williams, The Participant, David Bowie (we miss you), HAAi & Echonomist (two great producers), Thomas D feat. Franka Potente, Moby, A Flock of Seagulls, OneRepublic, the Doors, ("....so we did it...we 'ran' - we were running...it just sort of happened..and then we...walked a bit"): Flash and the Pan, Laurie Anderson, Bob Dylan, WONDER OF BIRDS SEGMENT ("some birds keep clean by keeping their feathers covered with ANTS!!"), Celine Cairo, GaiaGram (climate change news produced by Kevin Gallagher), Marianne Faithfull, The Bony King of Nowhere (another Aldous cover!) Hozier....
NEXT SHOW AND PODCAST IS SEPTEMBER 3, 2026!!!!!
What is A Miniature World with Binnie Klein?
My musical tastes swerve through Euro-pop, trip-hop, electronica, indie-rock, singer-songwriters. You might hear Icelandic rock, World music, Radiohead, Bjork, Tricky, Kate Bush, Cocteau Twins, The Books, Caroline Polachek, weird cover tunes, Milosh, Stevie Nicks, PJ Harvey, Cat Power, Owen Pallett, Hot Chip, Dandy Warhols, Kae Tempest, In These Trees and Tartie, Perfume Genius, Brian Eno, Karsh Kale, War on Drugs, Moby, Patti Smith, Juana Molina, Peter Gabriel, to name a few. And poetry. And words.
My interviews have included Chris Frantz, Jeff Pevar, Dick Cavett, David Denby, Harry Shearer, Katha Pollitt, Bert Randolph Sugar, Abigail Thomas, Carl Safina, Matthew Klam, Gretchen Rubin, Tig Notaro, Ophelia Eisenberg, and many more! Many will be available on my Interview podcast, coming soon.....