Monday   TOP

6 AM - 9 AM
Frank O'Toole's Who Done What? When?
Stuff you haven't heard before because it didn't exist until the artists were mashed up.

9 AM - Noon
Liz Berg's Awakening Sequence
Skip the coffee! Songs to deliver you gradually from a deep sleep or massive hangover to manic, multitasking mode.

Noon - 3 PM
Irene Trudel's Playdate!
More great performances from Irene Trudel's show: Another stellar collection of live songs engineered by Irene in the WFMU studios in 2012.

3 PM - 3:01 PM
Jim Price's The Best of Peter Blegvad - Live at WFMU 1988-89
Peter Blegvad, founding member of Slapp Happy and brilliant soloist, played live at WFMU nearly a half dozen times in the 80's. This CD features his best performances from these visits with Jim.

3:01 PM - 6 PM
Scott Williams' Synthaesthesia
These technicolor synth-jams sound so good you can smell them with your fingertips.

6 PM - 7 PM
Too Much Information's 2013 Special Marathoncast - The Info Dump Vol III
Another secret dossier of images, texts, audio files, and videos. Multimedia disc.

7 PM - 8 PM
Nardwuar vs. Bev Davies "Busy Doing Nothing" Punk Rock Calendar
A 2013-2014 calendar filled with photos by legendary Vancouver Photographer Bev Davies. Everything from The Slits to Girlschool to The Minutemen! Includes a long Nardwuar interview with Bev! Doot doola doot doo... Click Click!

[Not to be confused with the premium for Charlie Lewis' "Busy Doing Nothing" show. For that, scroll down.]

8 PM - 9 PM
Jesse Krakow's The Best Of Minor Music
A collection of the weirdest live performances from the youngest musicians on Earth! From the sweetest singer-songwriter to the artiest avant-jazz collective, from the most perfect of pop to the most demonic of death metal, "The Best Of Minor Music" contains the best live performances from our first season. Enjoy.

9 PM - Midnight
Airborne Event's Wrapped In Tangled Up Tape - Unspooling More of the WFMU Cassette Library
Dan Bodah delivers armfuls of obscure misfit music from analog obscurity to your digital devices.

Midnight - 3 AM
Nat Roe's DJ Interventions
Anybody can hash together an iTunes playlist. But these radio DJs remix, scratch and segue old songs into something new.

3 AM - 6 AM
The Frow Show presents Fallout from the Frow Zone
An hour-plus collage of birds, bells, rare noise, and interstellar matter. Mixed for the hallucinations.

Tuesday   TOP

6 AM - 9 AM
Marty McSorley's Chopped, Screwed, Misused and Abused
A mix of songs played miles away from their creators' intended sound. Horrifically brilliant covers, 45s played at 33, and remixes only a mother could love.

9 AM - Noon
Trouble's Pure Trouble - The Bests of the Bests!
Killer collection of the most fabulous sounds that have graced This is the Modern World. Music from all around, long ago and very now.

Noon - 3 PM
Joe Belock's Celebrities at their ... BEST! Vol. 2
Before they were famous, they were good! Another volume of stars doing it right before being dumbed down for mass consumption.

3 PM - 6 PM
Brian Turner's T-shirt
Designed by Jim Krewson. (Sizes available: M, LG, XL, XX)

6 PM - 7 PM
Aerial View's Flip-Top Lighter 2013 Edition
Chris T. brings the heat again with this limited-edition black refillable lighter. Second in a series: Collect 'em all!

7 PM - 8 PM
Miracle Nutrition presents The Hearty White Show DVD
A DVD of three episodes of Hearty's 2004 Tallahassee cable access TV show.

8 PM - 9 PM
Antique Phonograph Music Program presents Moving In Mono
A collection of disc and cylinder records depicting automobiles, airplanes, trains, ferries and other modes of transportation in the phonograph age.

9 PM - Midnight
The Best Show On WFMU with Tom Scharpling presents the "Come On Y'All It's Time To Have Fun" Fun Pack!
A Best Show Rain Poncho! An exclusive Gary the Squirrel And Friends Vinyl Single! And a Best Show Button Pack!

3 AM - 6 AM
Deed Runlea presents Live on Distort Jersey City WFMU
The best live sessions from the best DIY punk and hardcore bands. Welcome to 2012.

Wednesday   TOP

6 AM - 9 AM
John Allen's WFMU Class of 1973 T-shirt
A reprint of this classic design, back by popular demand. (Sizes available: M, LG, XL, XX)

9 AM - Noon
Ken's Night of a Thousand GIFs
A data CD's worth of the animated GIFs that were too large, disturbing or NSFW to be included on Ken's weekly playlist page.

Noon - 3 PM
Duane's An Artist and His Music
Duane has been known to be an obsessive fan of this artist and he has some fave selections he'd like to share with you. Many of said selections are rare and hard-to-find. They are on this Premium disc. There's also a lil book of cocktail recipes, that were inspired by said artist. Hmmmmmm.

3 PM - 6 PM
Irwin's Jazz Messengers - Heroes of Hard Bop
Bebop ('40s) + R&B ('50s) = Hard Bop. Graduates of the Art Blakey Academy. When 1940s Bebop began to burn out and 1950s R&B filled the void, Hard Bop emerged and prevailed, before it grooved into 1960s Soul Jazz. Seems like half these cats played with the great Blakey's ever-shifting "Jazz Messengers" ensemble. Compilation includes 15 tracks by many of the heavyweights — and one slick chick.

6 PM - 8 PM
Seven Second Delay's Chris Christie Commemorative Plate
Ken and Andy pose with New Jersey's beloved Comic Insult Governor. Ceramic Plate.

9 PM - Midnight
Evan "Funk" Davies' Make Your Own Mayhem III - The Return
Back after a 4-year hiatus! 20 punk / postpunk / power-pop rarities from EFD's personal collection, all from the late '70s & early '80s! Many unavailable elsewhere!

Midnight - 3 AM
100% Whatever presents The Language(s) of Love
Songs of love, sung in various languages. Are they actually love songs? Honestly, Mary Wing doesn't know, but she does know that she loves these songs.

3 AM - 6 AM
Dark Night of the Soul presents Insomniantics
Music for late night worrying. Work stress! Health fears! Strange noises! Enhance your worries or you might never wake up!

Thursday   TOP

6 AM - 9 AM
Underwater Theme Park presents Double the Separation, Part 4
A set of songs where each new song is a cover of a song by the artist who covered the preceding song.

9 AM - Noon
Hello Children's Official Mini-Fanzine + Mix Issue #1
Remastered rarities from DIY tweepop, britpop & post-punk fanzine cassette comps that have never before seen a circular medium. Charismatic, catchy, & pretty weird- packaged in a minicomic written & illustrated by the girl DJ Faye herself!

Noon - 3 PM
Diane Kamikaze's Peer Cheer!
Guests of Diane's Peer Pressure segments introducing songs they featured (and the songs) when guest DJing. More fun than it sounds!

3 PM - 6 PM
Fabio's Spirits, Apparitions and Audio Phantasms
A collection of audio documents, music, seances, etc, that reveals our collective obsession with the past and an alternate world.

6 PM - 7 PM
The Dusty Show presents Clay's Classics V
Remember last year's Dusty Show premium? Remember how you clutched it to your chest when it arrived and you spun around dreamily? How could such a moment ever come again? Enter CC5! Nearly as good as its predecessor, this Clay's Classics collection promises to deliver on almost every level. You get a CD chock-full of Pidge-curated fleamarket finds, PLUS, a Mystery Bonus CD that Clay gauruntees, "will play straight through without malfunctioning." Order now and ... always remember.

7 PM - 8 PM
Night People present Behind Closed Drawers DVD
Night People's first live-action docu-drama, in which Sandy and Dave explore the tedious, mundane galaxies of their most intimate boudoirs.

8 PM - 9 PM
Sinner's Crossroads' Slow Rockers
From female led slow moaners heavy on the bass pedal to quartet shouters with kick drums exploding like dynamite, here is a collection of 20-plus slow-swaying hymns that rock you with one steady roll. Sometimes the Lord rides the slow train. You'll be waving your hand from the mourner's bench.

9 PM - Midnight
Dave the Spazz presents the Music To Spazz By T-shirt
Make an ape-like fashion statement with the very first Music To Spazz By t-shirt! Personally designed by Dave the Spazz! (Sizes available: M, LG, XL, XX)

Midnight - 3 AM
William Berger's My Metal Singles
A collection of your My Castle of Quiet host's most-rare and ferocious metal 7"s: death, grind and black metal dating (mostly) from the years 1999-2003. 50-plus minutes of unrelenting brutality--not a slow-grinder in the bunch.

3 AM - 6 AM
Stan's Stardate 1.1
Imagine the feeling of floating in space. The sounds that would accompany such an event would be phenomenal. Here they are.

Friday   TOP

6 AM - 9 AM
Jason Elbogen's Great Victory Life
A collection of catchy, noisy, and odd 1970's music culled from rare vinyl records made in China, Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Taiwan.

9 AM - Noon
Scott McDowell's Run Come Rally
100% handpicked dub/roots/reggae. Spaced out riddims and versions galore inna Long Rally style.

Noon - 3 PM
Bryce's Duty Cycle
Bouncey bleeps from new wave's earliest ripples.

3 PM - 6 PM
Miniature Minotaurs presents Friday the Kurteenth
A select mix of listener submissions to the Thelonious Monk and Jason Voorhees FRI13 specials, plus MP3s of the whole shebang.

6 PM - 7 PM
Frangry and Michele present The Shut Up, Weirdo You Don't Have to Choose Sides Anymore Bundle Wad
Limited edition face off T-shirt; Frangry, Foodbed & SUW stickers; handmade Weirdo friendship bracelet. (Sizes available: S, M, LG, XL, XX)

7 PM - 8 PM
Billy Jam's Put The Needle On 1993 Hip-Hop
A non-stop mix of 1993 hip-hop featuring rare & forgotten tracks, plus exclusive freestyles & artist interviews from that great year in hip-hop.

8 PM - 9 PM
Mr. Fine Wine's Gunslinger, Meet Soul Singer--A Bonanza of Wild West Rhythm and Blues
Marshal Dillon outdraws Buffalo Bill in Dodge City. In four-part harmony.

9 PM - Midnight
Pseu's Thing With a Hook presents On Tenterhooks
A collection of unforgettable songs from a most forgettable year. This is the pop that pulled you through the bitterness, the tears and the uncertainty of 2012.

Midnight - 3 AM
Rich's Floatin' 'Round the World with the Inflatable Squirrel Carcass
A 2-CD tour of the hemispheres: right (pop/rock) and left (traditional/ceremonial). This one's all over the map, folks.

3 AM - 6 AM
Bill Mac's Tulips on the Organ (In Praise of the Harmonica)
In the grand tradition of WFMU premiums, Bill Mac showcases the magic and splendor that is the harmonica - around the world and throughout the years. A passel of melodies that will prove once and for all that the mouth organ is the sonic superior of the ocarina.

Saturday   TOP

6 AM - 9 AM
Jeffrey Davison's Peaceable Kingdom
A collection of rare folk songs and tunes relating to animals. Cuckoos, bats, ravens and many more!

9 AM - 11 AM
Bob Brainen's Tracks
25 rare and awesome "you-are-there" session reel excerpts, instrumental-only backing tracks, vocal-only tracks, and karaoke tracks for your listening and singing-along pleasure. See: bit.ly/bb-2013

11 AM - 1 PM
Michael Shelley's I Can Hear Music
A genre defying collection of #1 hit freeform favorites. Free sticker w/ each CD! More info: michaelshelley.net/2013

1 PM - 3 PM
Rex's Little Green Men
'50s/'60s rockabilly, surf, country and R&B odes to outer space from the Fool's Paradise 45 Archives! A madcap martian invasion awaits!

3 PM - 6 PM
The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T presents the "Do The Prolixin Stomp" Party Pack!
A CD of punk/weirdo dance tunes plus a CBC flashlight you can use at (or as?) a club!

6 PM - 9 PM
Rob Weisberg's Have Tuba, Will Travel - The Wonderful World of Brass Bands
A treasure trove of screaming, squonking worldwide brass band mayhem brought to you by Transpacific Sound Paradise, the world's most trusted purveyor of global brass band music.

9 PM - Midnight
Daniel Blumin's The Thirteenth Letter
Meniscus Man, Machiavelli's Forklift, Maids of the Marsh?

Imaginary bands one and all, but perhaps not for long!

In the year 2013, some intrepid members of Blumin's Honorary Letter Preservation Outernational set out to celebrate the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet. Inspired by "M" (Fritz Lang's or Robin Scott's, but most likely neither), each artist heeded the call to form a one-time project that starts with the visionary letter. As with the last two premiums, all tracks are exclusive to this compilation!

Who's onboard this time? The choice morsels may or may not originate with an all-star cast of Wishbone Ash, Schneider TM, Dollops of Velcro, Andrew Liles, Caspian Curlicues, Matmos, Melancholy Flowerpot, Machinefabriek, Irene Moon, Geranium Warfare, Sudden Infant, and a magnificent multitude of others!

A few contributors' identities will be revealed during the fundraising marathon in March, but those receiving the premium will be provided with all the creators' true identities. M-tastic!

Midnight - 3 AM
Joe McGasko's Soul of a Woman
It's not a man's man's man's world on this compilation of deep soul sung by strong women of the '60s & '70s.
Joe McGasko's Cowpunk Deluxe
In the early '80s, ex-punks discovered country music. The result? Cowpunk! This CD guarantees fast and furious two-stepping.

3 AM - 6 AM
Chris M.'s Imaginary Radio - Mixtapes, Vol. 2
A data DVD loaded with exclusive freeform MP3 mixes for your next road trip, stationary bike or sensory deprivation chamber!

Sunday   TOP

6 AM - 9 AM
Dangerous for the Brain presents Don't Hide Your Hate
Dutch DIY! A collection of punk/post-punk obscurities from The Netherlands 1977 - 1985.

9 AM - Noon
Reggae Schoolroom's Reggae Rockin' Tonite
A sweet reggae mix with tonite the high-lite.

Noon - 3 PM
The Glen Jones Radio Programme Shot Glass
The Glen Jones Radio Program featuring X Ray Burns presents the official IBJ Shot Glass.

3 PM - 5 PM
Bill Kelly's Music of Anti-Social Significance (R-r-real Rock & Roll, Vol. 13)
You can revel without a pause to this punk, pop, garage and rockabilly alternative to random moments of intelligence and senseless acts of self-control.

5 PM - 7 PM
Gaylord Fields' Nicked Names
Don't be frightened away by the seeming familiarity of the names of the groups listed on this collection: Each one just happens to share its exact moniker with another, much more famous (and, truth be told, in some instances much worse) band.

7 PM - 9 PM
Monica's Sunday Kind Of Love
A 2-CD selection of chansons d'amour. Old and new. Sweet and blue. Delirious and doomed.

9 PM - Midnight
Dave Mandl's Ebony & Ivory Revisited
A (tone) cluster of tracks featuring unusual keyboard instruments.

Midnight - 3 AM
Therese's We (Don't) Regret the Error
Sure, the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry. But sometimes that works out fine.

3 AM - 6 AM
amEdeo's Come FLUKE With Me
Darin Morgan be praised! amEdeo & Therese have recorded commentary for their favorite episodes of "The X-Files" on CD just for you! Includes such classics as "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", "The Host", "Humbug", & "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'". PLUS: Special surprise friends stop by with their own X-Files tributes (songs, poems, spoken word pieces, oh my!)! Over three hours of entertainment!! Can you believe it?!

more   TOP

Destination:Out presents Made in Japan
D:O Radio looks to the East for this collection of improvised skronk noize, fab fusion, and deep "import-only" cuts from this most jazz-crazed of nations.

Tony Coulter's Out Demos Out! - A Collection of Great Unreleased Tracks
Fab gems in a range of styles that will leave you asking, "Why wasn't this stuff released?"

Doug Schulkind's Hey Mr. Deejay!
A head-spinning collection of honkytonking, boogalooing, boogie woogie-ing trax about disc jockeys, jukeboxes and their flippin' records. Groovy, baby!

Kaminsky Kamoutsky presents Neighbor's Noise
How do you learn about new music? Forget the internet, the best way is through your cool friends. They're cooler than you, you know, just listen to them once in a while. I've been listening to mine, and collecting their best songs. Here's a compilation of some of the most captivating tunes played by my guests over the past year.

Amanda's Players' Worktime
A collection of songs about jobs, addressing that big question: How do musicians pay the rent?

Charlie (Busy Doing Nothing) presents Do Your Own Thing
Another collection of improbably chipper tunes that reaffirm your right to keep on doing whatever the heck it is that you're doing.

Matt Fiveash's Them's The (Guitar) Breaks
Matt's highly subjective 20 best guitar breaks of all time. Guitar solos for people who hate guitar solos, with a bias towards one-note solos, succinctness, nastiness, and in some cases ineptness. Featuring few, if any, of Rolling Stone's "100 Best Guitar Players".

Ichiban One-Liners, Vol. 4
Debbie D. brings you more rock 'n' soul one-liners about beach girls, tigers and cole slaw. BYOB.

Cake & Polka Parade's Chicago Grotesque
Thirty years of the bizarre side of Chicago avant/art/experimental rock ranging from atonal no-wave skronk, deconstructed pop, post-Beefheart entanglements and unlikely musical hybrids. Features a cover by Chicago comic artist Grant Reynolds.