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Aug 10, 2026 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Music

With Tis

50% video game soundtracks, 110% heart.
we're gonna dance, we're gonna feel feelings, and we're gonna make connections.

ep 58: any day now (i shall be released)

we're here today, above all, to honor Glen Hansard, whose busker-to-movie star story obscures a career of surpassing passion, beauty, and fellowship. he was a neverending source of abundance in his performance, and more importantly in his care for others, and as a musical community we'll be poorer without him.

before that main event, though, we'll spend an hour on the journey of death more generally -- musing, as this show does, with a combination of video game and other music. that long lonely walk home is waiting for all of us, and all we can control is how we approach it.

3:02 PM		Hirokazu Tanaka Stage 1 Hirokazu Tanaka Game Sound Museum ~Famicom Edition~ 13 Paltena no Kagami Scitron Discs 2004 Kid Icarus released 1986 for NES
3:03 PM		Glen Hansard Stay the Road (Off Camera ver.) Glen Hansard 2016
3:07 PM		The Bedquilt Ramblers This World Is Not My Home The Bedquilt Ramblers Kentucky Route Zero (Original Soundtrack) Annapurna Interactive 2020 Kentucky Route Zero completed 2020 for various platforms
3:10 PM		Zoh Amba Another Time N Eyes Full Matador 2026
3:13 PM		Toby Fox Walking Home Toby Fox DELTARUNE Chapter 5 (Original Game Soundtrack) Materia Collective 2026 DELTARUNE Chapter 5 released 2026 for various platforms
3:16 PM		Jules Reidy Search Light Jules Reidy Ghost / Spirit Thrill Jockey 2025
3:19 PM		Masaaki Iwasaki At the Grounds of Eternal Atonement Masaaki Iwasaki GLORY OF HERACLES SOUND CHRONICLE Game Music Discovery Series, SuperSweep 2018 Heracles no Eikou IV: Kamigami kara no Okurimono released 1994 for SFC
3:22 PM		Mississippi John Hurt You Got To Walk That Lonesome Valley Mississippi John Hurt From Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest
3:25 PM		Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura Biting Cold Tales of Phantasia sdtk. Tales of Phantasia released 1995 for SFC
3:28 PM		André De Shields Wait for Me (Reprise) Hadestown (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Sing It Again Records 2019
3:31 PM		Jeff and Rob Pfeifer Love Theme Jeff and Rob Pfeifer Down the World: Mervil's Ambition sdtk. Down the World: Mervil's Ambition released 1994 for SFC
3:35 PM		Fergus McCreadie The Pass Fergus McCreadie N The Shieling – Companion Pieces Edition Records 2026
3:39 PM		Darren Korb Paper Boats (feat. Ashley Barrett) Darren Korb Transistor (Original Soundtrack) Supergiant Games 2014 Transistor released 2014 for various platforms
3:43 PM		ella guro the known Saint Elizabeth 2026
3:51 PM		Why Cry Body of Mind N How Now Why Cry 2026
3:57 PM		Hirokazu Tanaka Stage 4 Hirokazu Tanaka Game Sound Museum ~Famicom Edition~ 13 Palutena no Kagami Scitron Discs 2004 Kid Icarus released 1986 for NES
4:00 PM		Glen Hansard The Auld Triangle (live) from Lollapalooza 2014
4:09 PM		The Frames Revelate (live) The Frames From The Late Late Show (3 March 1995)
4:13 PM		The Commitments Chain of Fools The Commitments The Commitments (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Geffen 1991
4:16 PM		Glen Hansard & Lisa O'Neill Fairytale of New York (live) From Shane McGowan's funeral, 2023
4:23 PM		Jack Johnson & Glen Hansard Any Day Now (I Shall Be Released) From Myles O'Reilly's short film of the same name
4:27 PM		Liam Ó Maonlaí An Raibh Tu Ag an gCarraigh? (Were You at the Rock?) (feat. The Swell Season) From Czech broadcast (9 June 2008)
4:35 PM		The Swell Season Low Rising The Swell Season Strict Joy (Deluxe Edition) Masterkey Sounds & Plateau Records 2009
4:40 PM		Glen Hansard Sure as the Rain Glen Hansard All That Was East Is West of Me Now Anti/Epitaph 2023
4:45 PM		The Swell Season Back Broke (live) The Swell Season From Tiny Desk, 2010
4:54 PM		The Swell Season When Your Mind's Made Up (Live) The Swell Season From Tiny Desk, 2010
4:58 PM		Markéta Irglová & Glen Hansard Falling Slowly (live) From the PETROF acoustic sessions

Chat is archived.

we out here

Hey hey! I caught a few minutes of your show last night as I drifted between sleep and the world of the living

Perfect, so you're ready for today's theme :D

But I'm here wide awake now, about to drive back down from Mitsuwa Edgewater.

🫡🫡🫡

welcome aboard!!

🖤📻🎶

🥰🥰

Still gotta play this lol

This fall I definitely have to

just for act III alone! that song by itself makes the entire game

This song is hitting RN not gonna lie

solidarity, friend; it's what glen would want

hey DJ you played Kentucky Route Zero this morning, I'm reporting this show to the radio authorities!!!!!!

YAY DELTARUNE

This scene was so fkn heartbreaking ugh

@Tomi uh, that show was clearly labelled it breaks what it outs, whereas this is now it is what it is, duh

@TAndy it def sounds it!!!!

<3<3

Yo!

Omg hi Catemoji!

<3. >.< <3

@Bike yo :)

I liked the ch4 walk home scene / music a lot better, but oh who's counting?

Perhaps I should dig into earthbound and mother 3 before chapter 6 comes out based on the parallels I've been seeing...

If I can't finish earthbound by the time school starts I will cast myself into the sea

Not a gamer, but these tracks are great!

oh no, ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ lucy take my energy ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

@Bike R thanks! it'll be a mix the first hour, then full Glen Hansard the second :D

@catemoji don't do that, we need you here!

Mississippi!! Excellent song right here

pure class, as they say

Top shelf as I say

top shelf wprb in jokes, haha

WAIT FOR ME

happy to! ☺️

Dude hadestown is so good!

@Norman saw the movie version last week-ish, which was my first exposure and i am one million percent in

Korbbbbb

Korb!

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@TAndy i like

'Lo again dj Tis! Yer a hardworking dj!

Bedquilt Ramblers! cool name

SUP MATS

SUP

TAndy, the dj's show last night wuz really cool. The utter uniqueness of wprb shows never fails to impress me.

I caught a liiiitle bit in between my weed coma and attempt for actual sleep

haaaaaaaaaa! Weed Coma, good band name

Regarding your comparison of shoegaze and dark music, Knifeplay is the perfect blend of both vibes imo. Saw them live earlier this year and it was evil sounding af

Mostly cos the tune they played in and the bass chords. Rare time where the venue sound actually improved the sound too

hi again Mats <3 end of august is always a happening time lol

TAndy dayum you are on top of things! I will check em out! Doomgaze is super interesting. Thanks TAndy !

evil bands rule

TAndy what was the venue?

Her New Knife too. Venue was Elsewhere our in Brooklyn

Tis, you reminded me of an obscure black and white postap movie called End of August at the Hotel Ozone. Brutal. Largely about women adapting to apocalypse.

Knife bands!

Doomgaze, def need more of that. Blackgaze kinda fits the bill but most of what I hear focuses moreso on the aesthetic

@Mats whoa, i gotta see that; nothing better than women adapting to apocalypse, tbh

Knife music rules dude

Tis good point

On theme for the show, listen to Black Knife by Toby Fox. Legit banger. Metalhead streamer vargskelethor even did a cover: https://youtu.be/k3cD_WXXjeY

Need to know about knife music

vargskelethor!!

Joel's streams are so much fun haha

Dude has that "playing random shit with an older sibling way past bedtime" energy

shocked and appalled to be having Feelings after showing up to this week's meeting of Feelings Club, how dare

@Mats his hand name is scythelord too if you heard of em

TAndy good descriptor

Chessie C LOL

scythelord! Love it

I learn more from WPRB than years of NJ schooling LOL (just kidding, NJ public ed was good overall)

Hands over your ears? It ain't difficult listening hour this week!

host also messed up the name of the song, might have been past his bedtime

haaaa the difficult listening section of the music store

MOOOOOOOOM

MOOM

Burn!

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yesssssssssssss

I wuz just reading good ol' trent reznor talking about Doom (game)

@TAndy not the doom logo lol

dj Tis, there was a dude years back who figured out how to load and play Doom onto weird devices like Tamagochi, primitive displays, weird places like that. Pretty brilliant.

"can it run doom" is one of my favorite genres of content :D

Yeah man this year is the 30th anniversary of NiN composing the music for QUAKE

be cool to play Doom on a smart fridge display

Pretty insane for a band to do something like that in the 90s

TAndy ah

gonna use "but can it play Doom?" when people show me something impressive, going forward

that era of id software was probably one of the most important periods for the future of games imo. Without DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein we wouldn't have any of our modern shooters. No Half Life, no CoD, no gmod :(

I remember back when I had an iPod, I side loaded Rockbox and DOOM was an approved mod lol

Wolfenstein! Holy guacamole you just took me back to 1987 or so. Achtung! Late 1980s Wolfenstein wuz intense.

Doom? Wolfenstein? What?!

Wish I was more tech savvy..I fucked up making microwave mac and cheese the other day, and it's nearly foolproof.

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Haha, right!

TAndy I mentioned this to dj Tis, but Extra Lives book by Tom Bissell is really good. Mass Effect, BioWare, Res Evil, RPGs, it's a deep read.

Tried making microwave mac, hand stuck in the butter churn #notmyfault

@mats if you can’t make Mac and cheese, how…?

TAndy haaaaaa! I could run Doom on a butter churn.

Playing DOOM with a butter churn as the controller

Bike R LOLOLOL. My mind is a fukn circus and I get lost up there.

TAndy LOLOLOL!

@TAndy now I know

I also like the books written about Postal and Shadow of the Colossus by Nathan Rabin. I think I like reading about games more than playin em LOL

Shane McGowan!!

Shane liked to drink now and again

Glen H was on Epitaph, interesting, Usually a punky label.

i think he was punk in the DIY till I Die sense, if not in the musical genre sense

Anti is a cool label. They put out Jason Lytle of Grandaddy's solo albums. I think Tom Waits was on Anti, too.

DIY til I die! Words to live by.

Tanks for the shows back to back, dj Tis! Great curation.

thank you for being here! enjoy the first ever encore in NPR Tiny Desk history <3

enjoyed the acoustic soundz

Tiny Desk! Those are rad.

me too, from time to time, and Hansard was a good one

Dirty 3 @ Tiny Desk is hilarious, he gets up on the desk and fiddles away.

oh my, his vocals...he is dialed the hell in

he could perrrrrform

wprb forevah

thanks y'all; peace out <3