When the musics align, you can stare a future in the eye.

A virtual supermarket sweep of recorded history, with an emphasis on processed cheese.

Fist-pumping, air-drumming freeform mayhem. Caffeinated rock, experimental pop, oddball beats, and novelties.

A gentle antidote to the rough work week. String-based tunes and live performances to lighten your day.

Guests from the world of the arts, sciences, the media, and other areas. Every couple of weeks the Speakeasy presents "Duck Hunting With Dick", our political hour with co-host Ken Smith.

Scratchy vanity 45s, pilfered field recordings, muddy off-the-radio sounds, homemade congregational tapes and vintage commercial gospel throw-downs; a little preachin', a little salvation, a little audio tomfoolery.

Freeform radio with a predilection for planet shattering beats, rumbling guitars, bit mappy electronics, hash hazy strumming, and other related sonics for cultured and urbane criminal types. Please direct all complaints to the attention of our North Bergen office.

"I listened yesterday. It's no reflection on you but I could'nt see where you were going or what you were going for. This early seventies thing did'nt get noticed the first time and you talk about friends of like Dealney and Bonnie who had records out like we're supposed to remember who they are. Then you play this long winded free jazz stuff that really grates on my nerves. And that noise without a beat and sounds like someones being pinched. Then you play a reggae song, I think you called it Dub, to what, be cool? You seem to really fetishize the whole folk thing too which is obnoxious to us who don't even care. I liked it when you played that punk song though. I like Joe Belock a lot."

A musical journey through the lands of rock, pop, jazz and soul on the spaceship of time.

It's in the mix, without reservations.

I play great music and talk to people about stuff.

The Citizen Kane of adult entertainment.

Order and disorder in a freeform haze of terribly played guitars, shorted-out electronics, found audio detritus, strange sounds from strange lands all around. Psych-punk-junk, collage, even pop. Lots of in-studio live performances to boot.

Anti-fascist researcher Dave Emory (spelled E-M-O-R-Y) goes into all the hidden truths and details about evil men and their trade practices.

The Antique Phonograph Music Program is a collection of pop, standard, and ethnic music acoustically recorded on discs and cylinders and played on period machines circa 1895-1925.

Funny. Rocking. Intriguing. Engaging. Modest. The best talk. The best music. Simply put: The Best.

Every show starts with a cut from the ‘70s: Rediscovering the forgotten rockers, revisiting the once-hated disco beats, replaying the power-pop favorites. Next: copious amounts of new releases and occasional live bands. Also: I’m the biggest Nick Gilder fan on WFMU.

Noise, black metal, drone, psych, neofolk, and Lindsay Lohan fun for everyone.

The WFMU-O-Tron 6000 takes over in a HAL-like way to program this morning's web proceedings.

Freeform radio for the chronically impatient. Avant-garde pop, poppy avant-garde, train whistles, loud guitars and guttural screaming. Playlists and photos posted in real time on the web so you can play along or comment at home or work.

Genre-surfing tokenism.

Music That Melts in Your Ears.

Ken and Andy further lower WFMU's already abysmal standards as the program enters its death throes. Stunt radio which subjects the radio audience to concepts and topics which mature adults should not have to endure. Find the fatal flaw.

Bricolage, ballet, soundtracks, antiquarian humour and vintage curios. Music for the howling and passive aggressive librarian lying dormant in us all.

Way-left-of-center music and chatter. Guaranteed less than 2% rock and roll.

Three hours of the latest hip-hop and beat-oriented music go round and round on the turntable with your host, Noah Zark.

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Four hours of late night sounds for the unemployed and unemployable. Lit windows required!

WFMU's web only morning timeslot features live, freeform programming from Trent (Mondays), Frank O'Toole (Tuesdays), Jason Elbogen (Wednesdays), and Dan Bodah (Fridays). A rotating cast of DJs take the helm on Thursday mornings while JM in the AM is heard on our FM stations.

A viking ship appears on the horizon, a likeness of Loretta Lynn carved into its bow. Rare birds flock together to sing Francoise Hardy as soul hits. A sunset of blips and bleeps fills the air.

The Failure of Noise
The Failure of Sound
The Failure of Rock
The Failure of the Avant Garde
The Failure of the Space Age
The Failure of Jazz
The Failure of Psychedelia
The Failure of Krautrock
The Failure of Electronic
The Failure of Pop
The Failure of Free-form
The Failure of the 20th Century

Music to slaughter livestock to; 5,000 factory farmers can't all be wrong.

Each week Ed Shepp and his guests explore a theme plucked randomly from the perfume cloud over Macy's. May include (but is not limited to) talking, music, turkey sounds and eargasmic eclectitude.

Professor Dum Dum, scientist of music, performs experiments in music and human behaviour. Living, breathing volunteers subject themselves to his verbal vivisection, helping all to understand what laymen call "absurdity."

A chimpified, sonic soiree of overmodulated, toe-stubbing rock and roll.

Loud Live Acts
He's been playing punk rock since before you were born. Live bands in the studio every week.

Freer, Formless.

Some pop, fumbling musicians, bedroom recordings, vocal harmonies with orchestras, elongated notes, tape hiss, one-chord wonders, analog synths + clicking drum machines, loners, breezy country, and brief cacophonous interruptions.

The finest in Micronesian doo-wop, Appalachian mambo, Turkish mariachi, pygmy yodeling of Baltimore, Portuguese juju, Cajun gamelan, tuba choirs form Mozambique, Inuit marching bands, Filipino free jazz, Egyptian kabuki theater, and throat singers of the Lower East Side.

" I can't tell when you're telling me the truth."
- I'm not.
"How do I know anything you've told me is..."
- You don't.

Hip-hop and rap. Yeah, that's where my heart's at. But any genre will fit as long as it ain't crap!

WFMU's first callerless call-in show. Sixty minutes of news, reviews, interviews, egregious technical errors, and baffling streams of non sequiturs. Violating the false dichotomy between jokes and serious shit since 2010.

One hour; 23 or 24 soul 45's.

That is you can't you know tune in but it's all wrong.

I never miscue a record. I am punctual, well-prepared, and dislike clutter. Outgoing and helpful, I'm always appropriately dressed. I do not behave erratically and have excellent penmanship. My CD's never skip, and I am in good health. I like all the notes, in any order.

A virtual playground for whimsical queasiness.

Folk; old-timey; blues; psych, avant and acid folk old and new; melancholy pop; lots of guitar; detours elsewhere.

Our very own Listener DJ Hour, which puts a different WFMU listener in the driver's seat each week for one hour of Freeform programming any way they choose!

Country classics, scratchy soul, groovy jazz, Jamaican jukebox, gospel goodies, and assorted rocktastic/poptastic #1 hits! All that and interviews with the world's finest music makers. It's just plain good!

The unsung heroes of rock 'n' roll, presented at 45 RPM: 50s/60s bop, slop, & schlock.

Punk/new wave, psych, glam, garage, mod, freakbeat, funk, krautrock, noise, hardcore, indie, DIY, power pop, soul -- any and all good moving music! Live bands frequently, tix @ 4:06 -- why stop? Live life -- it's hectic but short, yo!

Popular and Unpopular Music From Around the World

I play rhinoceros and psychedelic fork.

A yurt for the transgenred.

A stereophonic stethoscope into the murmurs, rubs & gallops of the musical malformations we call freeform radio.

Musical delirium induced by sounds from electronic noise to free jazz, drone rock to a capella African song.

Roots rock, much culture; lovers rock for the soul and mind. Drum and bass rule--light up something!

featuring X-Ray Burns
The real life alternative radio show where a zonked pair of New Jersey fat boys mix Led Zeppelin with Sinatra while ranting about wrestling and the unmentionable.

Garage rock and the big tent that is r-r-real rock & roll.

There are two errors in this this freeform radio program description.

Disc jockey has a fondness for sound.

All the spectacle and clamor you crave...without those pesky crowds.

100-plus years of audio media with an emphasis on the ecstatic, the sorrowful, and hypothetical cosmologies.

This program no longer exists.