This week on The Bugcast: Manny Martinez, William Orbit, Jimmy Cricket, Glen Hansard, amateur radio, TuxJam Half-Cut, and eight tracks of Creative Commons and independent music.

• Strange Pink – Pencil Chewer – from Hull, UK – source NSFW
• Carosone – Alex (feat. Aussens@iter, Colin M) – from Europe – source
• So Said Mende – I Didn’t Authorise That – from Australia – source NSFW
• Ridgewell – Flavour of the Month – from Ipswich, UK – source
• DID – Feel The Love (feat. Junior Paes) – from France – source
• MorWeen – Stone Reminders – from Paris, France – source
• Salanje – Follow The Monkey – from Germany – source
• Anyone’s Guess – Re_Tep (Point) – from Orlando, FL – taken from the album Point:Counterpoint NSFW

Intro: Chris Juergensen – Bug Lips
Outro: Mark Marshall – Man Walking

• Facebook: Manny Martinez from Anyone’s Guess has died
• BBC News: Madonna and Blur producer William Orbit dies aged 69
• BBC News: Comedian Jimmy Cricket dies aged 80
• BBC News: Oscar-winning songwriter Glen Hansard killed in crash
• Moo passes her Foundation exam
• Idle Fantasy
• TuxJam Half-Cut review

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