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Thursday, October 14th, 2010, 9am - Noon
on Talk's Cheap with Jason Sigal
At 11am, Eric Steuer from Creative Commons calls in to talk about the licenses that facilitate sharing, openness and innovation everywhere from The White House to Al Jazeera to WFMU's own Free Music Archive. Earlier this week, CBC Radio revealed that they will stop using Creative Commons music -- once a prominent feature of programs like Spark -- due to the usage restrictions of CC's more popular noncommercial licenses. A virtual riot ensued. To gain a better understanding of the situation, we'll crack open CC's recent Study of How the Online Population Understands "Noncommercial Use" and discuss how this might play into the future of Creative Commons. Speaking of The Future, the nonprofit organization is currently in the midst of their Superhero campaign.
Atari Teenage Riot
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010, 8pm - 9pm
on Nardwuar The Human Serviette Show
An interview with Alec Empire of Berlin's Atari Teenage Riot! Doot doola doot doo... doot doo!
Former National Lampoon Illustrator Rick Meyerowitz
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on Irwin Chusid
Former National Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz will appear on Irwin's show, Weds. Oct. 13 from 4-5pm. Meyerowitz will be interviewed about his new book, DRUNK STONED BRILLIANT DEAD: The Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great. The interview will not just be a staff post-mortem, since Rick is very much alive. National Lampoon was extremely influential on American culture, helping launch Saturday Night Live, the film "Animal House," and countless books, films and writing careers. NatLamp succeeded because, as the late staff writer Michael O'Donohue said, "Making people laugh is the lowest form of humor."
Wolf Eyes and Richard Pinhas
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on Brian Turner
Richard Pinhas has long been regarded as one of France's seminal experimental composers and musicians. His 1970's combo Heldon were severe competition for the Krautock first string, and his continual forays into electronic and progressive sounds were highlighted by his Robert Fripp-like approaches to guitar. Over the years Pinhas has produced excellent solo material, influencing many in the '80s new wave and ambient worlds. Today Pinhas plays electric guitar on Brian's show sitting in with Michigan's legendary Wolf Eyes, who know a thing or two about outer explorations. As an added bonus, Wolf Eyes will feature Aaron Dilloway who's been on the bench for a few years, stirring up some alien weirdness in the WFMU studios today with bandmates John Olson and Mike Connelly. Do not miss!
Saturday, October 9th, 2010, 6pm - 9pm
on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
A buoyant live session with Lo'Jo, a wide-ranging multicultural and counter-cultural band very highly regarded in European world music circles. Lo'Jo sprung from a communal artistic collective in Angers, France in the early '80s and has retained that spirit: Members still live and work collectively in a farmhouse given to them by the mayor of Angers in exchange for teaching music to local kids. Among many accomplishments over the years, Lo'Jo helped launch the first edition of the now famous Festival in the Desert in northern Mali in 2001, and won a BBC World Music Award in 2007.
John Wesley Coleman
Saturday, October 9th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
Terre T is excited to welcome John Wesley Coleman to the Cherry Blossom Clinic this Saturday October 9th. Coleman is a member of the Golden Boys, who have topped Terre T's Best Ofs in past years. He wowed us at Gonerfest and John Wesley Coleman is on tour thru the US for the month of Oct supporting his new album "Bad Lady Goes To Jail" (out on Goner Records Oct 26). His new band solo venture expands on the Golden Boys awesome acid fried country rock! Go check out Coleman playing on October 8th and 9th at Lulus in Brooklyn, but tune into the Cherry Blossom Clinic this Saturday to hear him live on WFMU!
Sharon Van Etten
Saturday, October 9th, 2010, 6am - 9am
on Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison
Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten takes a break from her busy touring schedule to join us for a live session in the studio. She's just released her latest CD, "Epic", for Ba Da Bing, and you'll hear why she's a rising star on the local scene as well as garnering attention wherever she goes. She'll be doing an acoustic set.
Rev Billy Returns to WFMU with his Choir
Friday, October 8th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on Put The Needle On The Record with Billy Jam
WFMU regular The Reverend Billy returns to the Jersey City studios, this time with his twenty-plus member The Life After Shopping Gospel Choir for what promises to be a charged, high energy radio performance. This special WFMU live set by these post consumer era, pied pipers of a new culture & economy will preview several songs from their October 10th "Gardens and Mountains" production at the Highline Ballroom.
The Communion
Friday, October 8th, 2010, Midnight - 3am
on Wm. Berger presents My Castle of Quiet
The Communion (from Bethpage, NY) don't linger in one spot long enough to be easily defined or categorized. The metal/hardcore quartet can create angst-ridden explosions that make most power electronics bands seem "light," then on to black metal shrieking and blast-beat takeoffs that are just as easily swapped out for classic hardcore 2/4, and swinging sludge riffs akin to Eyehategod. The Communion do it all, and do it all well, often in the context of a single three-minute song. Their writing and song-structuring are top shelf, and the intensity of their execution make The Communion a hellish live bludgeoning that's not to be missed. Live videos of The Communion taken by Wm. Berger --- Conjugal Apparition | Iron Lung Dust Bowl.
Jett Williams
Thursday, October 7th, 2010, 9pm - Midnight
on Music To Spazz By with Dave the Spazz
Spazz talks with Hank Williams' daughter Jett on the release of the Complete Mother's Best Radio Show box set.
Tim Catlin
Thursday, October 7th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on Strength Through Failure with Fabio
Tim Catlin from Melbourne, Australia, performs live.
Vermillion Sands
Thursday, October 7th, 2010, Noon - 3pm
on Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock
Fortunately, this country-tinged fuzz-pop combo from Treviso, Italy, sound nothing like the Buggles song of the same name. As someone previewing their Cleveland show last month wrote, "Vermillion Sands sound like they could be the house band at the dystopian oceanside resort that features prominently in the J.G. Ballard short story collection from which the group takes their name." We concur! Their first U.S. tour ever has seen the band rock Gonerfest and be featured on a WFMU bill at Maxwell's in Hoboken.
Nardwuar vs. Charlie Murphy & Melissa Auf de Maur
Wednesday, October 6th, 2010, 8pm - 9pm
on Nardwuar The Human Serviette Show
M for Murphy and Maur! Interviews with comedian Charlie Murphy and Montreal punk rocker Melissa Auf de Maur! Doot doola doot doo... doot doo!
Therese and Mike host the Best Show
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010, 9pm - Midnight
on The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling
Kowloon Walled City and Batillus
Tuesday, October 5th, 2010, Noon - 3pm
on Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine
Back-to-back bludgeoning on the Fun Machine! Diane welcomes San Francisco's Kowloon Walled City, along with local outfit, Batillus for a double live session! The final show of their tour is Saturday October 2nd at the Acheron in Brooklyn, go support them before, and listen in later! Kowloon Walled City is a tight combo full of sludge, anger and toxicity; downtuned and aggressive. Batillus are fans of heavy textures, and doom monsters in their own right. This show will transform your relationship to "heavy" music forever- be prepared to worship!!
Toot'N Blink Live from New York Harbor / Balval
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010, 6pm - 9pm
on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
From 7 to 7:30 pm, a special live broadcast of composer / performer / sound artist Charlie Morrow's large scale maritime performance / radio piece Toot'N Blink, live from New York Harbor between the Battery in Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. Featuring avant garde vocal great Joan La Barbara, audio artist / musician / producer extraordinaire Ed Herrmann, the US Coast Guard, and an armada of tooting (and blinking) boats - including the historic retired fireboat John J. Harvey and toots from the steam whistle of the famous, ill-fated French liner Normandie. As Morrow puts it, "Toot 'N Blink "is a celebration of the expanding use of the waterfront and of machines as music-of-the-people, an echo of Futurism."
Plus, on a less nautical and more intimate scale, a visit with two members of the Parisian ensemble Balval, who (contrary to the prevailing political winds in France) are deeply inspired by East European Romani (Gypsy) culture and set Romani poems to music. Balval is coming over for gigs at Drom (NY Gypsy Festival) in the East Village on Oct 3, The Shrine in Harlem Oct 6 and Barbes in Park Slope Oct 7.
Jay Sherman-Godfrey
Saturday, October 2nd, 2010, 11am - 1pm
on Michael Shelley's show
Michael chats with singer/songwriter/producer Jay Sherman-Godfrey about his current series of virtual 45s, available for free download at his website.
William "Upski" Wimsatt
Friday, October 1st, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on Put The Needle On The Record with Billy Jam
In 1994 journalist, graffiti writer William "Upski" Wimsatt published his book on hip-hop culture from a white person's perspective. "Bomb the Suburbs," along with 1999's "No More Prisons," set the stage for "Please Don't Bomb The Suburbs: A Midterm Report on My Generation and the Future of Our Super Movement," on Akashic Books, in which the author weaves a first-person tour of America's cultural and political movements from 1985 up to the present. The author will read excerpts from his new book when he stops by the WFMU studios.
Uz Jsme Doma (pronounced "Oosh Smeh Do-Ma") and Zuby Nehty
Friday, October 1st, 2010, 9am - Noon
on Inner Ear Detour with David
Still skronking after twenty-five years, Uz Jsme Doma stands second only to the Plastic People of the Universe in the inter-galactic rankings of legendary Czech bands. Recent years have seen them collaborating with The Residents and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and gearing up for their 2,000th (!) show in 2011. If you have an itch for some joyous, fire-breathing prog from Prague, tune in as these multimedia mischief-makers return to WFMU for the first time since 1997. They will be joined by all-female Czech stalwarts Zuby Nehty, which has also been wowing audiences since the 1980s. Fans of the Slits, the Raincoats, and Essential Logic, please take note!
Josh Dunn
Thursday, September 30th, 2010, 3am - 6am
on Awesome New Place with Bennett4Senate
A DJ and designer of consummate taste, Josh Dunn was distilled in Detroit and thankfully imported to Brooklyn a few years back. He designs LPs for Kenny Dixon's Mahogani Music and is the Art Director at Wax Poetics magazine. Josh Dunn the DJ selects strong songs - the kind of emotionally potent disco, r&b, and funk that gets blog comments from forgotten small town producers who find Josh's mixes when Googling their own names.
Gavin McInnes
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010, 8pm - 9pm
on Nardwuar The Human Serviette Show
An interview with Gavin McInnes from StreetBoners and TVCarnage.com about Street Boners, Vice Magazine and well, TV Carnage! Doot doola doot doo... doot doo!
Seven Second Delay at Upright Citizens Brigade Theater
Wednesday, September 29th, 2010, 6pm - 7pm
on Seven Second Delay with Ken and Andy
Seven Second Delay returns to the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theater for another hour of live broadcast comedy. Joining them will be SIXTY GUESTS. Yes, that's a guest for every minute of the show. Fancy yourself one of the city's most interesting people? Want to join us on stage for a chance to promote your creative project, fascinating profession or ultra-short performance? Send Producer Andrea an e-mail: asilenzi [at] wfmu [dot] org. The UCB is located at 307 West 26th St. near the corner of 8th Ave., NYC $5.
Justin Aguinaldo
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010, 6pm - 7pm
on Pig Talk with Bronwyn C.
Justin Aguinaldo, co-founder of both the Mess Kollective bike messenger co-op and the Bamboo Bike Studio, joins Bronwyn and Jay to discuss bikes, wheelies, bar spins, bike messengering, sustainable development, and the glory of pedal power. Bamboo Bike Studio guides people through the process of building their own bamboo bike frames and assembling finished bikes over the course of a weekend. BBS is also working to develop local manufacturing of bamboo bikes in countries such as Ghana. Justin will take Listener calls about bicycles, while Bronwyn and Jay handle Listener calls about fluoride, on the next Thunk Tank.
The Artifacts (Tame One, El Da Sensei & DJ Kaos)
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010, Midnight - 3am
on Coffee Break For Heroes & Villains with Noah
Legendary Jersey hip hop group The Artifacts released their first album, "Between A Rock And A Hard Place" in 1994. It was well received, featured production by Buckwild (from the DITC crew), T-Ray, Redman and became a classic amongst many for embracing rap, b-boy and graffiti themes. Sadly the trio broke up shortly after their second album, "That's Them," in 1997. On August 2, 2010 at The Rock Steady Crew 33rd Anniversary Celebration in Newark, NJ, both El Da Sensei and Tame One along with DJ KAOS performed officially as The Artifacts. This was the first proper show in over 13 years and it's been confirmed that the Brick City Kids are back together and collaborating on a new album. Tune in as Tame One, El Da Sensei & DJ Kaos perform live on the radio for the first time in over a decade! Also playing records tonight will DJ Porno & DJ Rhino CMZ.
CANCELLED due to rain - midnightGOODBIKE: Sound and Safe Live from a Bicycle
Monday, September 27th, 2010, 9pm - Midnight
on Sound and Safe with Trent
Cancelled due to rain -- It's like a regular edition of Sound and Safe, but it's on a trailer on the back of a bike. Join Trent, Marty McSorley, Delicious Beverages and Band of Bicycles for an epic journey through Brooklyn. You can join the fun in person: meet at the gorgeous new addition to Brooklyn Bridge Park at the base of Old Fulton Street at Water Street for some casual picnic fare at 8pm, then bike along with the show from 9 to midnight. The show will wind up at the Knitting Factory (361 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg) where Marty and Trent will play records and drink a lot of cheap drink special drinks all the way until 2am. It's gonna get weird.
Guča, Serbia's Brass Band Bacchanalia / Adam Pogoff
Saturday, September 25th, 2010, 6pm - 9pm
on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
Brass bands are a big deal in Serbia. And ground zero is the legendary Dragačevo* Trumpet Festival held annually in the small village of Guča*. The famously raucous gathering brings over half a million people and dozens of brass bands to the small village every summer. Filmmaker and audio documentarian Adam Pogoff and crew accompanied New York's Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band to this year's festival. (Pogoff is working on a film, Brasslands, about the band's trip and the festival.) Adam will talk about the experience and share field recordings from his musical adventure.
*PRONOUNCERS: Goo-tzah; Drah-gah-tze-voh
New Jersey Returns to Old Jersey, Broadcasting live from the Branchage Film Festival (Billy Jam fills in for David)
Friday, September 24th, 2010, 9am - Noon
on Put The Needle On The Record with Billy Jam
For the second year in a row WFMU New Jersey will next travel to "old" Jersey in the UK's Channel Islands to broadcast live from the Branchage Film Festival which takes place September 23rd to 26th. On Friday September 24th between 9am and noon (New Jersey time which is 2pm to 5pm local UK time) during Inner Ear Detour with David's usual time slot WFMU's Billy Jam will broadcast live from the festival's Spiegeltent set up in creative director Xanthe Hamilton Billy's numerous live guests will include old Jersey seafarer/tale teller Dominic Jones, Jersey Constable Simon Crowcroft, filmmakers Chloe Rutheun, Liz Mermin, and Simon Chambers, and musicians The Wizz, Just Muz, The Quietus, and Stanley Forbes. (Note that Inner Ear Detour with David will be doing Billy's usual 3-6pm time slot that same day, Sept. 24)
No Age + Hubble (Ben Greenberg)
Friday, September 24th, 2010, 3am - 6am
on Marty McSorley's show
DIY, Grammy Award nominated destroyers of rock and torchbearers for all thing all ages, No Age of L.A. take some time off of their tour with Pavement to stop by the WFMU studios for a special live ambient set. With a new record about to drop on Sub Pop and a show with Sonic Youth at the Hollywood Bowl, something tells me these kids are going places. I think you should maybe tune in.
Then, punk rock prodigy Ben Greenberg (of Z's, pygmy shrews, and Little Women) debuts his new solo guitar piece Hubble live on WFMU. Tune in for heavy riffs and trancendent trills that will teleport you into uncharted regions of the sonic universe.
Ike Turner & Ed Lasko
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010, 8pm - 9pm
on Nardwuar The Human Serviette Show
An interview with Ike Turner plus a special visit from record collector Ed Lasko who will be focusing in on "The Rarest of the Rare: Canadian Rockers vs. American Rockabillys Part 2!" Yes, many toons will be played and lots of different price guides will be quoted! Doot doola doot doo... doot doo!
Dave Soldier + Irene Moon
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010, 7pm - 8pm
on Do or DIY with People Like Us
An old musician's joke is on the order of "it takes him half an hour to play the Minute Waltz". Today, WFMU's favorite local classical music composer Dave Soldier visits for a live performance of his newest collaboration, with the late Frederic Chopin and living electronic musician Sean Hagerty. Soldier performs the Minute Waltz on the grand piano at Le Poisson Rouge very very slowly, lasting a half hour, while Hagerty stretches each piano note out over time. Chopin may make a surprise appearance.
Irene Moon and a cast of characters from the Auk Theater perform a musical mystery theater about insects. Each character has an insect of choice that is suspect in a recently discovered serial murder. Information about insects is introduced as they try to unravel the "who done it." Not all of the content is logical, but it is absolutely factual. Irene is an entomologist and musician at North Carolina State University whose present research involves the dissection of wasp heads and the representation of the muscles found within the head. She was quoted recently to say, "social bees and wasps are commonly found and easily organized. It's the non-social beasts that fascinate and truly demonstrate how many creative methods there really are to dispose of an unfriendly caterpillar."
The Work Show
Tuesday, September 21st, 2010, 6pm - 7pm
on Pig Talk with Bronwyn C.
Consider the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet they get to fly around and sing and have bird sex, so what's the deal with that? And they eat worms; Jay saw one do that just the other day. The Brainiacs discuss "work," this week on Thunk Tank.
El G of ZZK Records - DJ set
Monday, September 20th, 2010, 9pm - Midnight
on Sound and Safe with Trent
The wildest, most futuristic electro-cumbia on the planet right now comes from Buenos Aires, more specifically from a label called ZZK Records. El G is the man behind the label - join Trent in welcoming him back to WFMU for an hour of mesmerizing beats from the deep, deep deep deep deep south. Also: catch El G and friends in your town on the Frikstailers tour at the end of the month.
Tonight on TMI
Monday, September 20th, 2010, 6pm - 7pm
on Too Much Information with Benjamen Walker
Learn about the connections between market research and Allen Ginsberg - and plastic bear shaped honey bottles and Henry Darger. Also - Richard Kern reflects on the cinema of transgression, and Philip dray talks about his new history book "There is Power in a Union" - plus Groupon! All that and more tonight at 6 pm on Too Much Information.
Ahmet Erdogdular / New York World Festival Preview
Saturday, September 18th, 2010, 6pm - 9pm
on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
This month multi-culti musical powerhouses World Music Institute and the Center for Traditional Music and Dance join forces to present the New York World Festival, spotlighlighting music from the Black Sea regions of Europe. There will be a multi-national multi-artist Central Park Summerstage concert, the Black Sea Roma Festival on Sunday afternoon September 26, and three other big events. Tonight's guest Ahmet Erdogdular is a vocalist and virtuoso of the tanbur (plucked long-necked lute). This rising star of Turkish classical music is one of several accomplished artists featured in the festival opener, the Strings of the Black Sea concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday afternoon Sept. 19.
The Girls At Dawn
Saturday, September 18th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
Terre T is excited to welcome The Girls At Dawn to the Cherry Blossom Clinic on Saturday September 18th! This all-girl NYC trio lays down a trippy sound that is equal parts '60s psych and '80s shamble, and their upcoming Norton full-length is sure to make plenty of Best Of lists for 2010. The Girls At Dawn will be playing the Silent Barn in Brooklyn on September 18th, the Knitting Factory on September 22nd and the Mercury Lounge on September 24th. You can also see them live as part of the legendary GonerFest in Memphis. But be sure to check them out on the Cherry Blossom Clinic on September 18th from 3-6 PM!
Horrible Foreigners
Friday, September 17th, 2010, 6pm - 7pm
on Shut Up, Weirdo with Frangry and Michele with One "L"
In celebration of Frangry's triumphal return from Italy, where she found the locals not quite to her liking, Shut Up, Weird explores the wonderful world of horrible foreigners--those people from other lands who, well, just aren't our cup of tea, old chap. It's fun with stereotypes on a global scale! Call in and kvetch about charming national quirks, or even make them up! (Like on Fox News.) And just because USA = #1 doesn't mean we Norte Americanos are exempt (as we are from the ICC, Kyoto Protocol, and the metric system). It's an hour of fun you'll never forget, unless you're from Peru--Peruvians are so charmingly forgetful. Call Andy and Frangry on the air (201-209-9368) this Friday from 6 to 7pm ET, in America.
Italy to NYC Hip-Hop Special
Friday, September 17th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on Put The Needle On The Record with Billy Jam
NY emcees Bisco and Broke MC, along with Italian emcees B.Q. and Ram will join Billy Jam in the WFMU studios to play their own music plus a sampling of Italian hip-hop, discuss the parallels between American and Italian hip-hop, and how both mainstream and underground American hip-hop have directly helped shape the sound of contemporary Italian hip-hop. Additionally NJ born, Bay Area based emcee Rashaan Ahmad will phone in, and the in-studio guests will do a special WFMU freestyle session.
Husere Grav
Friday, September 17th, 2010, Midnight - 3am
on Wm. Berger presents My Castle of Quiet
This Texas-based project is certainly "metal" enough to have a page on the rigidly parametered metal archives--Athanor (aka Todd Watson) having been 1/2 of Homunculus, who released three full-lengths over 2005-6--but Husere Grav combine black-metal presience (ala Paysage d'Hiver) with MB-like crumble and haunted tunneling. All the Husere Grav releases, including vinyl splits, self-released CDrs, and tapes, are gloriously dark trip-out music (the untitled cassette on Stunned comes highly recommended), and Todd's live visit to the Castle comes highly anticipated. Athanor renders a unique performance for WFMU and My Castle of Quiet, and you can also catch Husere Grav live the following night, at Port d'Or in Brooklyn, with Castle favorites Hex Breaker Quintet and ISA Christ.
Thursday, September 16th, 2010, 3am - 6am
on Awesome New Place with Bennett4Senate
Bennett is joined by Tackleberry, co-host of the disco haven 'A Downtown Affair' on WNYU. It'll be thrift store show-and-tell, with Tackleberry presenting the finest in slightly askew boogie b-sides, unconvincing ballads to forgotten girlfriends, and Sunday school funk, dutifully excavated from Goodwill and Salvation Army stores from Bed-Stuy to his old country home in the Carolinas.
Joanna Newsom, Biz Markie & Wyclef Jean
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010, 8pm - 9pm
on Nardwuar The Human Serviette Show
This week it's interviews with Joanna Newsom, Biz Markie & Wyclef Jean! Any suggestions for next week? Doot doola doot doo... doot doo!
Ergo Phizmiz Special
Wednesday, September 15th, 2010, 7pm - 8pm
on Do or DIY with People Like Us
Join Ergo Phizmiz in the studio for this week's DO or DIY featuring the premiere broadcast of the entirety of Ergo Phizmiz's score for "La Puce de Neige" ("The Snow Flea"), a mime puppet-opera for Buchinger's Boot Marionettes, which premiered in Marseille, November 2009. The show, created for children, tells the story of Kerugug, a snow flea who in the Arctic who is displaced to Antartica through a hole in the world, and his journey back - with an evil ice-cream in hot pursuit, sneaking snow fleas to use as anti-freeze in his produce. The piece combines field-recordings of Inuit folk songs with a memetic score that references Mussorgsky, Moondog, French folk songs, Augustus Pablo, Prokofiev, Strauss, and Raymond Scott.
Man And Wackiman with Wally Wackiman and Hatch
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010, 9pm - Midnight
on The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling
The Gun Show show
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010, 6pm - 7pm
on Pig Talk with Bronwyn C.
Bronwyn and Jay report on their 9/11 trip to the Middletown Gun Show: guns, ammo, beer, and Chief Towaco vs. the Brainiacs. Get the Full Report on this week's Thunk Tank.
Junk Science, Tone Tank & Scott Thorough
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010, Midnight - 3am
on Coffee Break For Heroes & Villains with Noah
Old friends and members of the Nuclear Family crew return to the show to play goodies and talk about beer and things. Junk Science has a new record out and so does Tone Tank & Scott Thorough. Tune in, listen up and be cool!
Mexican Independence Bicentennial w/ DJ Mezcalito + DJ Trent's Mom
Monday, September 13th, 2010, 9pm - Midnight
on Sound and Safe with Trent
DJ Mezcalito combines the sharp bite and morning-after regret of distilled agave spirits with the commercial tenderness of Mexican pop culture confection. Join us for a brief, reverse chronological celebration of the bicentennial of Mexican independence, beginning with today's downtownest hipsters and ending with classic(al) music even your (grand)mother could love.
And a special set from the most important DJ in the universe, DJ Porter, Trent's mother.
Mark Pilkington, Michael Benson, and Stan Gaz
Monday, September 13th, 2010, 6pm - 7pm
on Too Much Information with Benjamen Walker
Author Mark Pilkington talks about the CIA's attempts to seed the UFO community with disinformation. Artist Michael Benson explores deep space, and photographer Stan Gaz stares at meteor craters - it's FAR AWAY, SO CLOSE on TMI.
John Bellows
Monday, September 13th, 2010, Noon - 3pm
on Liz Berg's show
One-man recording artist John Bellows visits WFMU, bringing his own raw, twisted take on loner/troubadour songwriting. John hails from Chicago via Kentucky, and his 2005 lo-fi weirdo masterpiece "Clean Your Clock" was re-released on the Moniker label earlier this year. Fans of Beck, Daniel Johnston, Jonathan Richman, and Jeffrey Lewis are sure to dig this!
Saturday, September 11th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
Terre T is stoked to welcome the Oblivians to the Cherry Blossom Clinic! These Memphis legends created some of the most brutally grimy low-fi garage rock in the mid '90s before packing it in to form bands like Reigning Sound, Bad Times and Jack O and the Tearjerkers. This session was recorded during their brief reunion swing through NYC in July. You can catch the Oblivians in late September playing another reunion show at GonerFest in Memphis, but if you can't make it there, listen to the Cherry Blossom Clinic on Sept 11!
Andrew Gregory
Saturday, September 11th, 2010, 11am - 1pm
on Michael Shelley's show
Michael chats with Andrew Gregory part of the team responsible for the current top 100 Billboard charting song "Bed Intruder Song" by Antoine Dodson & The Gregory Brothers - aka the catchiest #1 hit this year!
Dirty Jersey: Throw the needle in the River
Friday, September 10th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on Put The Needle On The Record with Billy Jam
In recently scouting the upcoming WFMU remote broadcast location in Kearny - directly across the water from Newark - along the banks of New Jersey's polluted Passaic, Billy Jam and FMU guest Passaic River anthologist Wheeler Antabanez witnessed an endless flow of garbage including used condoms & syringes float by and then decided to affectionately call their WFMU tribute to the Passaic "Dirty Jersey: Throw the Needle In The River." For this special WFMU NJ riverbank live remote broadcast they will pay homage to the Passaic River and the dirty, gritty side of New Jersey with guests that will include Passaic River lifer 73 year old Bill Rapp, the two Marks from Weird NJ magazine, WFMU personality & lifetime Kearny resident X-Ray Burns (from the Glen Jones Show), and NJ graffiti writers Snow & Demerock.
Friday, September 10th, 2010, Midnight - 3am
on Wm. Berger presents My Castle of Quiet
The solo electronics of Todd Brooks (aka Todd Pendu) are underrecorded and not celebrated nearly enough. He shows up with everything he needs in two hands, and with that gear creates multiverses worthy of the maestros Klaus Schulze and Roland Kayn. Todd seems to work tirelessly on pendu.org, which encompasses art gallery and occult happenings (like an Austin Osman Spare 123rd birthday party), live music every Tuesday at Brooklyn's Glasslands, the online pendu magazine--with its popular Artists & Cats gallery--and the Pendu Sound Recordings imprint, releasing recordings by Sasha Grey's aTelecine, among others. In the midst of all this somewhere fits the amazing music of Chaos*Majik, generated by Todd through several small, often home-built or home-modified boxes and devices, suitcase-bound, including a light-stimulated resonator, off of which Mr. Pendu mirrors the dancing of a candle's flame. All the Chaos*Majik sound-making devices are labeled and / or held together with dayglo electrical tape--the pendu symbol is absolutely bitchin'--and Wm. Berger is a sucker for a great marriage of sound and aesthetics...and multiverses...and alter-verses, and you will be, too. Todd performed on WFMU last November 11 on My Castle of Quiet, as 1/2 of the duo Ghost Moth, with American jazz multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, and that session can be found here. Todd returns to the Castle this time solo as Chaos*Majik, to perform one, continuous, 45-minute electronic suite, prepared especially for this broadcast.
Nardwuar vs. The Misfits & The Mentors!
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010, 8pm - 9pm
on Nardwuar The Human Serviette Show
Interviews with The Misfits' Jerry Only, Dez Cadena and Marky Ramone plus a conversation with Heathen Scum of The Mentors! Doot doola doot doo... doot doo!
Gwilly Edmondez
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010, 7pm - 8pm
on Do or DIY with People Like Us
Improvising vocalist and sampler-spitter Gwilly Edmondez joins People Like Us to talk about paperweights, bog-standard footwear and 50 Pence, while dashing off a handful of 21st century pop songs that are already ahead of their time. In a revealing discussion, Gwilly helps unravel some of the mysteries of modern awareness while promoting the complete decomposition of all music.
Maluca + Araabmuzik
Monday, September 6th, 2010, 9pm - Midnight
on Sound and Safe with Trent
Join DJ Trent as he welcomes Maluka and Araabmuzik to Solar 1 and the WFMU airwaves. Maluca - Bronx-born, Dominican-raised, now part of Diplo's Mad Decent crew - is full of hyperfast rap-sing bounce. She'll bring it with a dance crew in tow. Rhode Islander Araabmuzik - you've probably heard his work on the Dipset track "Salute" - is a prodigy on the MPC drum machine, banging out otherworldly beats you won't believe are being performed live with just two hands. DJ Trent will also bring a stack of videos to screen live, honoring the women of hip-hop who have made the world a lot more interesting in recent decades. Join the fun live at Solar 1 on the East River at 23rd Street - and enjoy really cheap, really good beer - or tune into live audio and video streams at WFMU.org and 91.1 / 90.1FM.
Thomas Patrick Maguire and Two 15 Year Old Kids (Keili fills in for Dave Mandl)
Sunday, September 5th, 2010, 10pm - Midnight
on Beastin' The Airwaves! with Keilidh
Joining Keili will be singer/songwriter Thomas Patrick Maguire, in to share some songs from his upcoming EP, Corporation Town. Also coming in - two 15 year old guys Keili met in Times Square: one plays a recorder on each nostril, the other plays guitar!
Iggy and the Stooges, the Scientists, Sonic Youth, Mudhoney and more: Live from All Tomorrow's Parties New York
Sunday, September 5th, 2010, 3pm - 10pm
on Live Broadcasts and Special Events
Heading back to the Catskills! WFMU is going to be live from All Tomorrow's Parties at Kutshers Resort in Monticello, New York on Sunday, September 5th from 3-10PM. We'll be set up at both stages giving play by play, and carrying full and partial sets from some of the festivals' participants. Keep an eye on the home page and WFMU's Facebook and Twitter for further details, but we will be carrying Iggy and the Stooges (doing Raw Power in its entirety with James Williamson on guitar!), Mudhoney, Hallogallo, Fursaxa, White Hills, Dungen (pron. DOON-yen), Sonic Youth, Australian post-punk godfathers the Scientists, Kurt Vile, and more! This year's festival is being curated by filmmaker (and WFMU supporter!) Jim Jarmusch. If you're at Kutshers, come say hi at the WFMU broadcast booth in the hall between ballrooms, and visit our own Marty McSorley DJ in the Deep End Bar Saturday night from 8-10PM! Tentative broadcast schedule: 3:10 Scientists 4:00 Mudhoney 4:50 Hallogallo 5:25 Fursaxa 5:50 Sonic Youth 6:45 White Hills 7:00 Kurt Vile 7:30 F***ed Up 8:00 Iggy and the Stooges 9:30 Dungen
Lou Barlow
Saturday, September 4th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
The Cherry Blossom Clinic is honored to welcome Lou Barlow back to the WFMU airwaves! As a founding member of both Dinosaur Jr and Sebadoh, Barlow is a living legend by this point, and his emotive and brutally honest style of songwriting has influenced countless bands. He is currently touring with Wye Oak, who also back him up during the electric portion of his live show. You can catch Lou at the Mercury Lounge on September 1st and Maxwell's at an early show on September 4th, but be sure to tune into on September 4th between 3-6 PM to hear him do his thing live on the Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T!
Roc C
Friday, September 3rd, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on Put The Needle On The Record with Billy Jam
Stones Throw recording artist Ron C may not be quite as well known as some of the acts he has collaborated with over the years, including J-Dilla, Madlib, Aloe Blacc, and Oh No, but that looks set to change when he soon unleashes his new solo project Scapegoat. The emcee will stop by WFMU to talk with Billy Jam about this forthcoming release, and also to freestyle.
Friday, September 3rd, 2010, 3am - 6am
on Marty McSorley's show
He has a spinna for a face . . . . and his face is a spinna. In spite of his handicap, this chromed-out mystery man rocks parties like you wouldn't believe. Is it a cheesy gimmick? A comment on the state of mainstream hip-hop? Or just a straight good time? Tune in get down with the grooves and decide for yourself.
G-Chat with Willy Staley
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010, 3am - 6am
on Awesome New Place with Bennett4Senate
Author, blog master, and San Francisco native Willy Staley joins Bennett for an assessment of rap in the internet age. Is the web ruining rap or democratizing it? But more importantly, is Lil B a genius or an idiot? What's the point of swag rap? Is Soulja Boy responsible for all this? What the hell is turf dancing? How do you "dougie?" Do you want to invest in my new streetwear company? Tune in for lots of links, and as many songs as we have time to censor. (When not articulating his views on "hella weak" raps on his blog "Nation of Thizzlam", Willy also writes for "Next American City," where he uses words like "multiplicative.")
Nardwuar vs. MGMT & Semi Precious Weapons
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010, 8pm - 9pm
on Nardwuar The Human Serviette Show
Interviews with MGMT & Semi Precious Weapons, plus a couple toons to help further stimulate your ears! Doot doola doot doo... doot doo!
Salutin' Putin
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010, 6pm - 7pm
on Pig Talk with Bronwyn C.
Bronwyn and Jay celebrate the world's most awesomest Head of State ever, with True Tales of Vlad and Putin fan fiction. Plus Kim Jong Il and Snowy the War Bear! Special guest appearance by hundreds of Gypsies expelled from France!
Guest DJ Tom Lax from Siltbreeze Records
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on Brian Turner
Tom heads up from Philly and reprises his yearly visit to BT's show with another box of excellent sounds: mostly 7" singles in the realm of curious outsiders, baked American and Japanese DIY auteurs putting out their own records and other miscellaneous home-brewed weirdness. A rare and always exciting opportunity to hear some real quality stuff from between the cracks you never even knew existed.
Youtube sensation thecomputernerd01 + Menya + Hasan Salaam (Keili fills in for Noah)
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010, Midnight - 3am
on Beastin' The Airwaves! with Keilidh
Youtube sensation thecomputernerd01 exposes himself to DJ Keili, sharing the genius behind his literal song parody videos, the inside scoop on his relationship with Tyler and explains why he beats up little plastic baby dolls.
After that, Menya will be in the studio to talk about what it's like to put your work out on youtube. And finally, Jersey-bred MC, community activist and Fuse TV's "Hip Hop President", Hasan Salaam comes in, armed with the truth, to talk with Keili about being a Muslim artist in the current Islamophobic climate. Like Keili, Hasan Salaam focuses his music on the commonalities that bind us.
Monday, August 30th, 2010, 7pm - 8pm
on Mudd Up! with DJ/Rupture
Jay-Oh from Berlin's DJ/producer/party-promoter duo The Sick Girls will join Rupture today for a live DJ mix and interview about Berlin's musical climate, testosterone's impact on club microgenres, and more.
Bibi Tanga and the Selenites
Saturday, August 28th, 2010, 6pm - 9pm
on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
Paris' sharp and engaging funk soul (and African) brothers Bibi Tanga and the Selenites seamlessly blend a wide array of African-American influences with African stylings reflecting the roots of singer / bassist / leader Bibi Tanga. We'll sample the Selenites' fine new CD Dunya (Nat Geo Records), hear them play a few songs live, and chat with Bibi.
Jay Vons
Saturday, August 28th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
Terre T is stoked to welcome The Jay Vons to the Cherry Blossom Clinic on Saturday August 28th. This NYC combo lays down a cool organ-driven '60s soul groove the organ courtesy of WFMU's own Dave Amels on loan from the mighty Reigning Sound! The Jay Vons' debut 45 "Maybe I Loved You" b/w "Never Take Me Back" is out now on Cryptovision Records recorded at Daptone House of Soul by Brothers featuring two of their self-described danceable heartbreakers, so pick it up! But check the Jay Vons out on the Cherry Blossom Clinic on Saturday August 28th first!
Roxanne Shante
Friday, August 27th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on Put The Needle On The Record with Billy Jam
Roxanne Shante was only fourteen years old when she began her rap career back in the first half of the eighties; first gaining widespread fame when she recorded her answer-rap to UTFO's hit "Roxanne, Roxanne." That was over 25 years ago, and while Shante's life may have gone through many changes in the years since then, the state of female rap (namely the uneven ratio of female to male emcees) has not progressed accordingly. One of the subjects of a new documentary "My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women In Hip-Hop" that premieres on BET August 30th, Shante will talk by phone with Billy Jam about this issue as well as her own career.
Friday, August 27th, 2010, 6am - 9am
on HotRod's show
Miami-born, Hong Kong-raised, Paris-based Ed Banger Records' artist Uffie stops by to chat with HotRod about her long-overdue debut album Sex Dreams and Denim Jeans. At the age of 22, she's ready to bridge the gap between cut-up basslines/distorted synths and a provocatively driven pop aesthetic.
Barry Hogan Interview and DJ set
Friday, August 27th, 2010, 3am - 6am
on Marty McSorley's show
Barry Hogan All Tomorrow's Parties founder and curator of curators comes by the station to play us some of his favorite tacks and talk about the up coming ATP NY Sept 3-5 at Kutsher's in Monticello.
Metal Rouge
Friday, August 27th, 2010, Midnight - 3am
on Wm. Berger presents My Castle of Quiet
Andrew Scott and Helga Fassonaki--from New Zealand by way of Los Angeles--create surging, alive, dream-like improvisations on an assortment of stringed acoustic and electric instrumentation, voice and effects; they are formerly a duo, now a trio joined by Caitlin Mitchell (Thousands) on drums and trombone. Their newest LP, Trails, is an unpredictable, dazzling psych monster that runs a gamut of moods. After bringing a brighter-than-brimstone air to My Castle of Quiet (and WFMU's blog and FMA) last winter with an exclusive disc's worth of rarities, Metal Rouge return to the Castle in person (with live shows in NY 8/21-22) to render a unique performance. Their pieces strike down from the ozone, like slow-burn aerial attacks, with lots of space, percussive activity and tonal wonders aplenty. Enjoy, and be prepared to view the clouds from a different angle.
Thursday, August 26th, 2010, 3am - 6am
on Awesome New Place with Bennett4Senate
Cousins Tom and George patch together tropical thrift store bounce, amassing a back catalog for the A.D.D. generation like they're trying to exorcise the earworms of our collective youth. Tools of the trade include MPCs, totemic boomboxes, spot-on melodies, and a great sense of knowing when to change the channel. From Brooklyn by way of Providence, the duo has records out on Luaka Bop and Thrill Jockey, and is never not dropping mixtapes. After this WFMU sesh, they take their funky two-man electronic marching-in-place band act on the road to Brazil.
Nardwuar vs. Keith Morris
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010, 8pm - 9pm
on Nardwuar The Human Serviette Show
An interview with Keith Morris from Black Flag, Circle Jerks, and OFF! Doot doola doot doo... doot doo!
Live from the UCB Theater
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010, 6pm - 7pm
on Seven Second Delay with Ken and Andy
Seven Second Delay returns to the UCB Theater for another hour of live broadcast comedy. Joining them will be world record speed eater Crazy Legs Conti, comedy writer Tom Leopold, writer Mark Allen (and his gay deprogrammer), a mystery guest who Ken and Andy will have to identify with their stellar interview chops, and sanscrit chanting from Prince Rama. The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater is located at 307 West 26th Street in Manhattan, near the corner of 8th Avenue. $5.
Justic Yeldham
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010, 3am - 6am
on Nat Roe
Australia's Lucas Abela, aka Justice Yeldham, might just be the best live act on the planet in noise. Playing broken panes of glass led by contact mic through electronics, Justice presses his face to the glass and lets loose the weirdest sounds you've ever heard. Sonically, Justice's textures are as varied as they are beautiful. Live, Justice Yeldham is notorious for biting and smashing the glass over his head. Hence the best live act on the planet in noise comment. He's on the last leg of his (probably last ever) USA tour, so don't miss your chance!
Nick Robbins, Scientist and Expert on Zombies
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010, 6pm - 7pm
on Pig Talk with Bronwyn C.
Bronwyn and Jay welcome special guest Nick Robbins, a scientist and expert on ZOMBIES! Robbins studies the portrayal and meaning of monsters and zombies in popular culture, and is writing a book about the connections between zombie mythology and late-stage American capitalism. Robbins will answer Listeners' questions about all things monsters, zombies, cannibalistic banking, and will answer the age-old riddle: Which is scarier, fast zombies or slow zombies?
Hardcore History Day
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010, Noon - 3pm
on Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine
Hardcore History Day! Diane welcomes special guests, Tony Rettman - author of "Why Be Something You're Not - Detroit Hardcore 1979-1985," a book recently put out by Revelation Publishing, and Ian Christe, of Bazillion Points, who have just published, "Touch & Go, the Complete Hardcore Punk Zine '79-'83." We'll be discussing both endeavors, playing LOTS of Hardcore, and will also talk to Tesco Vee - Meatmen frontman and co-founder of Touch & Go Zine, John Brannon - vocalist for Negative Approach, Laughing Hyenas and Easy Action, Dave Stimson/DS, co-founder of Touch & Go Zine, and Steve Miller, vocalist of The Fix. The comments board and playlist will be LIVE, and we'll be taking listener questions! Tune in and inquire!
That same night Ian and Tony will be at powerHouse arena to do a signing party where some old HC videos will be screened. The event will be from 7 to 9 pm at powerHouse arena - 37 Main Street in Dumbo Brooklyn. Free beer!
DJ Set from Andy Votel
Monday, August 23rd, 2010, 9pm - Midnight
on Sound and Safe with Trent
Andy Votel is a man of with such curatorial prowess that he makes even WFMU DJs blush. As a co-founder of B-music, Finders Keepers Records, and Twisted Nerve Records, he's brought all types of music to the public ear, with heavy emphasis on psychedelia and foreign sounds that would remain undiscovered if it weren't for his incomparable passion for crate-digging. Most recently he's been on a motorcycle music kick. Tune in to hear 45s spun wildly from a man who knows how to do it unlike any other.
Khaira Arby
Saturday, August 21st, 2010, 6pm - 9pm
on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
Khaira Arby is a dynamic Malian singer with a distinctive style drawing on her mixed ethnic background - Berber and Songhai (the late great Ali Farka Toure was a cousin). Khaira and her potent electric / traditional band, veterans of Mali's Legendary Festival in the Desert are touring North America through early October: They're special guests on Sway Machinery's Jewish New Year concert at City Winery Sept 8 and headliners at Joe's Pub Sept 29. And they rock WFMU with a live session tonight.
Saturday, August 21st, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T is super stoked to host the return of the amazing Clinic to the WFMU airwaves. Clinic have been making some of the most engaging and influential music of the decade, and their new album "Bubblegum" introduces a majestic orchestral pop sound to the mix. You can also see them live 8/16 at the Bell House in Brooklyn, 8/19 at Joe's Pub in Manhattan, and 8/21 at Maxwell's in Hoboken, but check them out on the CBC on Sat August 21st!
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