Soundcheck in progress! The Prof.Fuzz 63 are in the house and @mariosantana is making sure they’ll sound great on the radio! Tune in to The Evan "Funk" Davies Show on @WFMU at the top of the hour for (surprise!) some records I picked up at Used Kids in Columbus on Monday, followed by the live set from The Prof.Fuzz 63, followed by the rest of the show! Only on #WFMU!
Coming up on my @WFMU show today: more Phoenix AND Texas record store finds (pictured)! More great new and recent releases that I know you’ll want to hear! Maaaayyyybe you’ll hear your new favorite song?? Better tune in just in case! 12 noon - 3pm EDT, 9am Pacific, 5pm UK on your #WFMU!
TODAY on my @WFMU radio show I’ve got a great live set from UV-TV! They released one of my favorite albums of 2021, and their next one promises to be just as good if not better, based on the songs they played during this session. Someone called it “post-punk jangle drone”?? idk
BUT FIRST! I just got back from a few days in Phoenix, and of course I went record shopping. I’ll share some of my finds to start the show.
Tune in to #WFMU at 12 noon EDT, 9am Pacific, 5pm UK , etc.
South Asian Vinyl Listening Party tonight on WFMU's Drummerstream! Bodega Pop presents three hours of vintage Bollywood, Lollywood, classical, qawwali, and more -- all on wax. 7-10 PM. Listen // Playlist // Live Chat here: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/138762
I will be presenting an hour-long tribute to John on my Crescent City Connection show this weekend, focusing on his jazz and blues inspired spoken word performances with his band the Blues Scholars. Catch it live on Saturday, 10am eastern on @WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Radio stream.
Tonight on #WFMU: Wrecking Crew guitarist-turned-television composer Mike Post visits Morricone Island with Devon E. Levins!
Post will discuss scoring for The Rockford Files, The A-Team, Magnum P.I., Hill Street Blues, White Shadow, NYPD Blue, L.A. Law and Law & Order's two-note “dun-dun!” Phew! Post also occasionally steps up front as bandleader, most recently with two expansive title pieces "Message from the Mountains & Echoes of the Delta," due April 5, that fuse orchestral suites and concertos with bluegrass and the blues. Tune in to WFMU from 8pm - 9pm to hear this conversation!
Station Manager Ken running through his song for tonight’s fundraising marathon finale! It’s a live band karaoke mishegoss that we’ve called The Hoof & Mouth Sinfonia since it started over 20 years ago. Tune in to #WFMU from 7pm - 12 midnight (EDT) for your favorite DJs a-singin’ and a-playin! Live video will be available at wfmu.org!
Todd-o-Phonic Todd Has just handed the first batch of song requests to Yo La Tengo and the annual pledge-thon on (and in support of) #WFMU is starting now! @bourgwick is your host, along with regular YLT co-host Gaylord Fields! This special show won’t be archived so make sure you’re tuned in now!
Call 1-800-989-9368 right now to make a pledge of $100 or more and request a cover song for Yo La Tengo to play tonight! Or, follow these steps to make a pledge online:
Make a pledge of at least $100 to Jesse’s show. (If you make a larger pledge you can split it with other shows, but at least $100 has to go to Jesse’s show if you want to request a song)
Type the name of the cover song that you want Yo La Tengo to play in the box that says "Comment (For DJ)" (see image). Don’t try to stump the band! As Ira said, “we’ll arrive already stumped.”
The YLT pledge-a-thon runs until midnight EDT! Get your pledges and requests in early, and thank you for your support!
It's been a busy week at #WFMU as we head into the first weekend of our annual fundraising marathon! Thanks to everyone who's pledged so far, and especially to our new and ongoing monthly Swag For Life supporters! If you have not had a chance to pledge yet, we still need you!
Please make a pledge here:
The best way to help, if you're able, is with a monthly pledge of $10 or more. We've got this exclusive Secret Handshake cap as a reward for monthly pledgers only! But even if pledge $20 we'll still send you a sticker. See all the swag at https://wfmu.org/swag/
Tonight on #WFMU, pipa soloist Min Xiao-Fen discusses her new album 'Metta,' which includes music she composed for live scores of 1930s Chinese silent films 'Romance of the Fruit Peddler' and 'Romance of the Western Chamber."
🗑️ @markhurst brings you a Dystopia Update on Techtonic: Camera-equipped police drones will start floating over New York City beaches at the same time that many hospitals are installing surveillance cameras inside their operating rooms. And a few days ago, ChatGPT started giving garbled, insane answers. These and more stories about the growing tech dystopia we now inhabit. (6pm ET)
🐞 Tune in for Episode 7 of Antenna Alley, a new series of short, absurd yet factual insect-music adventures created by Irene Moon for Daniel Blumin's show. This episode features a musical composition created for Antenna Alley by Ironing! (9pm ET).
6pm: Astronomy professor Sam Lawler describes the problems with Elon Musk's Starlink satellites on Techtonic, hosted by @markhurst. These problems include the streaks of light ruining astronomers' photographs, the increasing danger of collisions in orbit, the addition of toxic chemicals to the upper atmosphere, and the sheer scale of the "megaconstellation," which is planned to grow to tens of thousands of satellites.
9pm: Episode 5 of Antenna Alley, a new series of short, absurd yet factual insect-music adventures created by Irene Moon on Daniel Blumin's show. Tonight's episode features musical compositions created by LoVid + The Virus along with a reading by porest!
➡️ On Techtonic, hosted by @markhurst: Can we make better choices in tech? The world seems to have chosen the path of maximal technology, no matter the cost. Take the AI server farms that consume immense amounts of energy and clean water - and Big Tech is building more of them. But some people are making better choices - like the boarding school that got rid of smartphones. (6PM EST)
➡️ Episode 3 of Antenna Alley, a new series of short, absurd yet factual insect-music adventures on Daniel Blumin's show, created by Irene Moon. This episode features sounds recorded by lbro T Gaul for the 1960 "Sounds of Insects" LP as reworked by Matmos! (9PM EST)
Coming up on #WFMU: Steve Wynn and Jason Victor of The Dream Syndicate play live on Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock!
Steve and Jason return to WFMU for a live performance and a preview of what's in store for 2024 for the pioneering Paisley Underground band, starting with their show on Jan. 20 at Knitting Factory New York. Tune in from noon - 3pm (ET).
Tomorrow night (Sunday Jan 7) at Monty Hall, our performance/event space in Jersey City, it's another WFMU Movie Night!
Come out for a screening of 'What's So Bad About Feeling Good?', a "Hippiesploitation flick [that] manages to be both pro- and anti-hippie at the same time."
This 1968 movie stars George Peppard and Mary Tyler Moore, and was directed by George Seaton.
Tickets and more info at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/whats-so-bad-about-feeling-good-tickets-766600943057
Proceeds benefit #WFMU!
There are no words for the next episode of the Crescent City Connection - because it's an all instrumental show! This week's show features an hour of slammin' NOLA jazz, funk and blues instrumentals. We're gonna let the cats play this week on the Crescent City Connection, Saturday at 10am on Rock'n'Soul Radio from @WFMU!
Today on Radio Ravioli, hosted by Olivia: Composer and pianist Kelly Moran drops by #WFMU to play tracks from her EP ‘Vesela,’ released on Warp Records in November. Tune in now for a live piano performance, coming up shortly!
🌥️ At 6pm on Techtonic, hosted by @markhurst, Guillaume Pitron discusses his book 'The Dark Cloud: The Hidden Costs of the Digital World.' The book quantifies the environmental impact of all the hardware, software, infrastructure, and energy it takes to maintain the internet. (Spoiler: it's not good.)
🎵 At 7pm, film critic and prog-rock aficionado Glenn Kenny will be @dmandl's guest on It's Complicated. Glenn will be spinning tunes from some of his favorite proggy film soundtracks.
Listen to WFMU on the radio at 91.1fm (NJ), 91.9 fm (NYC / Rockland County NY), and 90.1fm (Catskills / Hudson Valley NY); and online from anywhere at https://wfmu.org
🎵 Brooklyn-based producer Kaye Loggins, who goes by the name Time Wharp, joins Olivia on Radio Ravioli. She'll play different tracks from her gorgeous, minimal synth wave, eponymous debut full-length. (3:01pm)
⌨️ Recent tech news has revealed what the tech companies wanted to keep out of sight: deception, exploitation of workers and children, and lots and lots of surveillance. Tonight on Techtonic, @markhurst explains what the tech industry tried - and failed - to keep hidden. (6pm)
This afternoon / this evening on #WFMU and our web-only streams:
🔈Bi-continental ambient gaze duo Tremosphere play live on Dark Night of the Soul, hosted by @julesette. With just one echoing guitar, reminiscent of the 4AD label in its heyday, and sultry female vocals Tremosphere skates gently along a wall of noise treading both into sorrowful dips and heavenly euphoria along its drone. (3pm - 7pm on our @WFMUDrummerStream)
🎬 MOMA Department of Film curator Josh Siegel joins Devon E. Levins on Morricone Island to discuss MOMA's upcoming Ennio Morricone retrospective, which runs from Dec. 1 - Jan 10. It includes 17 new digital restorations and 35mm archival prints of films featuring Morricone’s scores for Sergio Leone, John Carpenter, Roland Joffe, Bernard Bertolucci, Giuseppe Tornatore, Sergio Corbucci, Sergio Solima and Mario Bava, plus a rare screening of Morricone performing with Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza on a 1967 German television program. (8pm - 9pm on WFMU proper)
Tonight on Techtonic, hosted by @markhurst, Mark talks with Kris De Decker, the founder of Low-tech Magazine, which celebrates the use of low-tech, climate-friendly technology. The website for the magazine runs on a solar powered server that goes totally offline when the weather is bad. Tune in to #WFMU for a discussion about solar-powered websites and other low-tech solutions tonight at 6pm EST.
This weekend on the Crescent City Connection, it's an hour of hits and near misses from the classic era of New Orleans rhythm and blues, including great songs from Fats Domino, Johnny Adams, Clarence Gatemouth Brown and more. The reelin' and rockin' starts Saturday at 10am eastern on Rock 'n' Soul Radio from @WFMU
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