Easy Action Tuesday, November 16th, 2010, Noon - 3pm
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Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine
Detroit's Easy Action! Featuring Negative Approach/Laughing Hyenas vocalist John Brannon, Easy Action is down and dirty rock n roll with the feel of being in a ghetto ghost town! Brannon's still as frightening in his vocal assault as he ever was in his previous 2 bands, but more focused and truly more powerful. That shotgun blast is no longer all over the place, he burns the audience with a taser, up close. The band's swagger is overall highlighted by the angular and mesmerizing guitar sound of Harold Richardson (ex-Gravitar), and a powerful rhythm section of Tony Romeo (bass) and Matt Becker (drums).
Check out their Myspace page. They are playing at the Acheron in Brooklyn on Monday the 15th, and at Asbury Lanes on Thursday the 18th. Prepare your radio speakers for shredding!!! Set is scheduled to air around 12:30 pm, set your life to this event!!
Jim Kweskin and Geoff Muldaur Monday, November 15th, 2010, Noon - 3pm
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Irene Trudel's show
When he founded the seminal Kweskin Jug Band, the group's Old-Timey stance was rooted in Jim Kweskin's encyclopedic knowledge of traditional folk song and guitar-work, music he still plays today. Geoff Muldaur, one of the founding members of the Jug Band, has enjoyed a healthy solo career which encompasses writing, producing and performances with multiple instruments and his beautiful, clear tenor. Kweskin and Muldaur join Irene in the WFMU studio mid-tour for some song and chat.
Things We Heard at WOMEX: New Directions in World Music
Saturday, November 13th, 2010, 6pm - 9pm
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Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
WOMEX is the annual worldwide world music industry expo, something like a SXSW or CMJ for world music moguls, musicians, pundits and enthusiasts. If you want to learn about new artists, new trends, new happenings in the worlds of world music, WOMEX is the place to be.
This week Rob and three fellow travelers post-mortem WOMEX 2010, held October 27-31 in Copenhagen, playing the music and sharing the scuttlebutt: Gerald Seligman, whose impressive CV includes stints as WOMEX General Director, label honcho (he launched the EMI Hemispheres imprint), music journalist and even FMU DJ; journalist Tom Pryor, editor of the National Geographic World Music website and one of North America's leading authorities on world musics; and Olivier Conan, proprietor of the esteemed Park Slope music spot Barbes and record label of the same name, and bandleader of acclaimed Amazonian surf-cumbia revivalists Chicha Libre - who played a prestigious WOMEX showcase last month.
Box Elders Saturday, November 13th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on
The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
Terre T is stoked to welcome the Box Elders to the Cherry Blossom Clinic on Nov 13. This Nebraska trio's brand of fuzzy guitar pop has been unstoppable for the last few years, and their Goner Records debut album "Alice and Friends" got a ton of play from Terre T and others. So tune in to the Cherry Blossom Clinic and find out what the excitement is all about!
Chip Taylor
Saturday, November 13th, 2010, 11am - 1pm
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Michael Shelley's show
Michael welcomes the return of Chip Taylor to the show. Chip will
fill us in on his new release "The New Bye and Bye," which
compiles the best of his work with Carrie Rodriguez, and tell us the secret behind writing hits like "Angel of the Morning," "Wild Thing," "I Can't Let Go," "Any Way That You Want Me" and "Try (Just a Little Bit Harder)."
Schoolly D, Erk Tha Jerk, and DJ Shadow
Friday, November 12th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on
Put The Needle On The Record with Billy Jam
In the mid eighties, even before it was dubbed 'gangsta rap,' Philadelphia rapper Schoolly D was making hardcore gangster hip-hop. His landmark 1985 recording "P.S.K. What Does It Mean," a no-holds-barred graphic sex, drugs, & violence rap that referenced the Philly gang, Park Side Killas, that he was closely affiliated with, is widely recognized as the original true hardcore gangsta rap song. Ever active in the years since his recent projects include making music for Cartoon Network's Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Meanwhile unique West Coast newcomer, rapper/producer Erk Tha Jerk, who releases his official debut album "Nerd's Eye View" on November 9th, has been gaining accolades all over these days including in XXL Magazine who feature him in their latest Show & Prove section. Also from Northern California is longtime turntablist/producer DJ Shadow whose current "Live From The Shadowsphere" tour is previewing music from his forthcoming still untitled 2011 album. DJ Shadow, Erk Tha Jerk, and Schoolly D will each talk with Billy Jam about their respective takes on hip-hop music on Put The Needle On The Record on Friday November 12th 3-6pm.
Heavy Medical Friday, November 12th, 2010, Midnight - 3am
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Wm. Berger presents My Castle of Quiet
Philadelphia's Heavy Medical blast through our area on tour, with shows at Death by Audio (11/10) and Party Expo (11/18), paying a visit to the Castle in the same wide swing. Where all of us have seen more than a few bands take the metal/punk-to-noise/experimental route, Heavy Medical have done the opposite, releasing a few enigmatic, high-caliber recordings under the name Nervous Sex, and now arriving at a sound more akin to Melvins by way of prime Lightning Bolt, or to drop an even more obscure reference, mid-80s SoCal legends Blue Daisies, without brakes -- saying what needs to be said in violent, catchy, two-minute bursts. You can download the combo's excellent Threats e.p. for a mere $2 at the group's bandcamp page. Wm. welcomes Heavy Medical live and bloody to this week's My Castle of Quiet broadcast.
Chuck Prophet Thursday, November 11th, 2010, Noon - 3pm
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Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock
Chuck first surfaced as lead guitarist in the legendary Green on Red in the 1980s but over the last 20 years has carved out a distinguished, amazing solo career. His latest album, "Let Freedom Ring," is filled with political songs for non-politcal people. Catch Chuck live on WFMU then later the same night at the Bowery Electric in New York.
Dave Haynes (Soundcloud / Music Hack Day / Open Music Media) Thursday, November 11th, 2010, 9am - Noon
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Talk's Cheap with Jason Sigal
Dave Haynes is VP Business Development for SoundCloud and was recently listed by the British Council as one of the UK's Young Music Entrepreneurs. He is also the founder of Music Hack Day and OpenMusicMedia, which hit NYC this week for a free discussion on "Music Discovery: Humans vs Hackers". The OMM event took place at the Lower East Side bar formerly known as Robots, where -- after a few whiskeys -- Jason caught up with Dave to chat about open source, freemium, Justin Bieber, and the music industry's slow embrace of technological innovation.
Jen Shyu
Wednesday, November 10th, 2010, Noon - 3pm
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Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk
Jen Shyu's enchanting singing has floated through Steve Coleman's jazz group and Anthony Braxton's opera, not to mention her own work which calls her Chinese heritage into an improvised music setting. Gearing up for her appearance at the Vital Vox festival, Shyu will appear on the Miniature Minotaurs program, accompanying herself on piano, er hu and moon guitar.
Irish Traditional meets Irish Hip-Hop
Friday, November 5th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on
Put The Needle On The Record with Billy Jam
For the second time in 2010 WFMU's remote broadcast unit travels to the West of Ireland for a unique live broadcast from Bell, Book, & Candle in Galway where a variety of hip-hop, experimental, and traditional Irish artists will perform live on WFMU. Guests to include The Old Soul Brigade, Pervish, MC Mimmic, Vince Mack Mahon crew, MyNameIsJohn, Chiwawa Studios, Bitwise and Madec, Rumble Digits, Lineage Crew, Mupeid, Sebi C, Longy, and Irish beatboxing champion Mr. L. all on Put The Needle On The Record November 5th 3-6pm (7pm to 10pm local Irish time - open to the public).
Jon Rafman Thursday, November 4th, 2010, 3am - 6am
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Awesome New Place with Bennett4Senate
Artist Jon Rafman talks about his newly completed film Codes of Honor, which mixes documentary footage of New York's pro Street Fighter arcade game scene with a fictional narrative "filmed" in the 3D world of Second Life. Jon plays a set of video game music that inspired the project, and talks about how video games and their soundtracks have subconsciously exposed American youth to the forces of Japan's economy, social codes, and pop culture. (Check out the Arcade Hustla youtube channel for extensive interviews with Chinatown's finest players.)
Robedoor
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010, 3am - 6am
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Nat Roe
Long a bass heavy drone duo of Alex and Britt Brown, LA's Robedoor has come out recently as a trio, with Ged Gengrass added on drums. Their new 7", Pacific Drift, is the latest of a small mountain of wonderful releases, many of which are on Britt's own label, the seminal Not Not Fun. This set with some previously unreleased material is a blues based psych-doom reduction sauce on a bed of caramelized beets/beats. Their clout will cloud your vision.
Zombie Expert Nick Robbins
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010, 7pm - 8pm
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Thunk Tank with Bronwyn C.
It's the Dia de los Muertos Especial, with Zombie Expert Nick Robbins. (The guest so nice, we had him on twice, only this time we're actually going to let him talk.) The ostensible topic is how death is viewed in various cultures--especially in regard to zombies. Plus News of the Dead, Salutin' Putin, and a FourLoko review by the Brainiacs.
Legendary Pink Dots Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
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Brian Turner's show
Formed in London in 1980 by mainstays Edward Ka-Spel and Philip Knight and relocated to Amsterdam in 1984, the Legendary Pink Dots have created a massive discography of over 40 LPs, not counting the many Ka-Spel solo outings. On the latest, "Seconds Late For the Brighton Line", they continue their enduring, abstract, psychedelicized vision that has landed them as somewhat spiritual kin to the likes of Nurse With Wound and Current 93: dark, keyboard-inflected pop, Kraut-informed electronics, acidy industrial soundscapes all meld with Ka-Spel's unique lyrical and vocal stamp. They stop by WFMU's studios to play on Brian's show today, and also play live at Le Poisson Rouge in New York on October 29th.
Altar Live at ATP Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010, Noon - 3pm
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Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine
Diane will be airing a large portion of the Altar live set from September 5th's ATP appearance! Altar is SunnO))) and Boris together, along with other contributors. The airing will commence at 12:30 pm on the Fun Machine and is going to be available for a limited period of time, so if you cannot listen live, be sure to check it out quickly, as WFMU will only stream it for three weeks. These songs redefine the words: Crush, Kill, Destroy very subtly, if that is possible. Tune in!
Dustin Wong Monday, November 1st, 2010, 9am - Noon
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Liz Berg's show
Dustin Wong plays guitar in two of Liz's favorite bands, Ponytail and Ecstatic Sunshine, and he's just released a lovely solo album of intricate instrumentals called "Infinite Love." Tune in as Dustin flutters blissfully about the fretboard, weaving and looping in harmonies on parallel sonic planes. It's too pretty to be called mathrock. Be sure to check out Dustin live in Brooklyn: he's playing at Death By Audio on 10/26 and in the Monster Island Basement on 11/2.
Live from Dublin, Ireland
Friday, October 29th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on
Put The Needle On The Record with Billy Jam
WFMU does yet another hip-hop based live remote broadcast from Dublin, Ireland. This year's guests will include Whitenoise, Mayhem, MosChops, Tu Ki, DJ Mek, Exile Eye, Rob Kelly, and many more. If you happen to be in Dublin, Ireland on October 29th stop by the live broadcast at CRU located on Crown Alley in the Temple Bar district of the city centre where the broadcast is 8pm to 11pm local time which 3-6pm Jersey City time on WFMU.
Danny Moore (Family Treasures) Friday, October 29th, 2010, Midnight - 3am
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Wm. Berger presents My Castle of Quiet
Daniel J. Moore creates pulsating, meditative heavy electronics, like Cluster II with the grime factor set on very high. He's released several excellent tapes -- his "Black Totality" cassette (as Family Treasures) for Temple of Pei is four tracks of hovering, churning menace, while his release on Tape Drift from earlier this year, "Altars of Ashes," plays it relatively subtle on the electronics and percussion, allowing sax player Jeffrey Hayden Shurdut to dance La Monte Young-like over Danny's essential atmospheres. Danny now brings it live and in the moment to My Castle of Quiet. Check out these two video clips from the MCoQ vimeo channel --- 13 Thames | INC 2010 @ Silent Barn
Phill Niblock
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010, Noon - 3pm
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Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk
Just prior to his appearance at the Ear to the Earth Festival in NYC, drone pioneer Phill Niblock will pay a visit to the WFMU studios to chat and guest DJ. While his own music is noted for its length and stillness (he does a 6-hour concert at his loft every December), Niblock is a huge fan of early jazz and bebop, and will be bringing some of his favorite high-speed saxophone music to play on the air.
Barbara Henry
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010, 7pm - 8pm
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Thunk Tank with Bronwyn C.
Barbara Henry, American poet of the news, will be Bronwyn and Jay's guest on this week's Thunk Tank. Ms. Henry is the author of extremely fine poems that are *ripped from today's headlines* -- literally. She also is an internationally renowned letterpress printer and print-maker. (Plus, she lives in Jersey City, so we've got our New Jersey-content quotient covered.) Tune in for a lot of talk about words, plus some very fine poetry, this week on Thunk Tank.
Hugh Cornwell Tuesday, October 26th, 2010, Noon - 3pm
on
Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine
Diane is ecstatic to welcome the legendary Hugh Cornwell to the Fun Machine. Front man for the Stranglers for years, he's currently touring with his all star band featuring Clem Burke (Blondie, Romantics) and Steve Fishman (Contortions). They'll be playing a few live numbers in the studio and then Diane will speak about music with the punk icon! His latest release is a double CD called "New Songs for King Kong," on the Invisible Hands Music label. Catch his shows at the Record Collector in Bordentown NJ on Oct 22, The Brighton in Long Branch on Oct 23rd, or right after the WFMU special in town at the Mercury Lounge on October 26th. On this tour, Hugh is playing 2 sets -- a mix of his solo work and Stranglers songs, followed by a performance of "Rattus Norvegicus IV", the Stranglers first album in its entirety. Not to be missed! Tune in, show up, or BOTH!
Chico Mann + Jimmy McMillan
Tuesday, October 26th, 2010, 6am - 9am
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Marty McSorley's show
Chico Mann alter ego and lazer infused, future funkafied, groovy Afro-Cuban soul jams of Antibalas' guitarist, Marquitos Garcia. Marcos and the band will be stopping by the WFMU studios for a live set fresh off the road from an Australian tour and right be before their record release show Santo's Party House on the 27th to support their new album "Analog Drift," dropping Wax Poetics.
You may know Jimmy McMillan as the most amazingly bearded Karate expert running for Governor of New York, but Marty will introduce you to the man behind some of the sweetest DIY, synth-funk, pop jams you will ever hear. Seriously check out this track.
Singles Going Steady in Dublin - Simulcast with Power FM
Friday, October 22nd, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on
Put The Needle On The Record with Billy Jam
For this year's Singles Going Steady week on WFMU, Billy Jam will cross the pond to Ireland for an all seven inch records show (hip-hop, funk, soul, and other) with sets by Irish crate-digging DJs Laz-E, Tu-Ki, Cool C, Gerry Beatfinder, Baz Hickey, and Tall Paul Lowe. The show, which will also feature OG Irish party rocker (Dublin circa 1950's/60's) DJ Brennie, will be a simulcast radio broadcast with Dublin radio station Power FM and will simulcast from its downtown Dublin studios in real time on both the Irish and New Jersey stations, plus a webcam feed via PowerFm.org. Put The Needle On The Record, October 22nd 3-6pm (8pm to 11pm local Irish time).
Alphabet City in the '80s -- Live from the Record Fair
Friday, October 22nd, 2010, 8pm - 9pm
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Aerial View with Chris T.
Chris T. welcomes retired NYPD Detective Michael Codella and writer Bruce Bennett, authors of the new book "Alphaville: 1988, Crime, Punishment, and the Battle for New York City's Lower East Side." A plainclothes narcotics cop in one of Manhattan's most notorious neighborhood dodges death while trying to free a captive community from rival drug dealers. Signed copies of the book will be given away at the show!
Katherine Young Solo Friday, October 22nd, 2010, 9am - Noon
on
The Long Rally with Scott McDowell
Improviser, Anthony Braxton acolyte, and "bassoon colossus" Katherine Young produces unfathomable textures and timbres from an instrument more commonly associated with staid classical ensembles. Expect drones, percussive rhythms, multiphonics and more as heard on her 2009 Porter Records release, "Further Secret Origins." Before heading out on a two-pronged solo tour in November (with trumpeter Jacob Wick) she brings her bassoon and a bag of effects pedals by the Love Room for this live session.
Sam Brylawski is the co-author of The State of Recorded Sound Preservation in the United States. It's a new congressionally-mandated study, and it's subtitled "A National Legacy at Risk in the Digital Age"...But wait, wasn't the digital revolution supposed to solve this problem? The former executive director of the National Recording Preservation Board will outline some of the hurdles that stand in the way of our utopian digital archive.
Chiller Theatre Expo Preview
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010, Noon - 3pm
on
Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine
Diane's guest will be Kevin Clement, creator of the Chiller Theatre Expo; held at the Parsippany Hilton October 29-31. They'll be featuring new tracks from the Dead Elvi, the house band at Chiller, and other musical guests that will be playing the costume party on Saturday night. This year's musical guests include Mark Lindsay, Lita Ford and the Human Beinz, along with some surprises. Some of the celebrities who will be at the Expo during the weekend are: John Astin (Gomez Addams), Barbara Eden (Jeannie, "I Dream of Jeannie"), Debbie Reynolds, Richard Roundtree (Shaft), Linda Blair (the Exorcist) and Patricia Quinn (Magenta from the Rocky Horror Picture Show). There will be ticket giveaways during the program and plenty of good stories from conventions past!
Onra Tuesday, October 19th, 2010, 6am - 9am
on
Marty McSorley's show
The French-born Vietnamese beatmaker and producer comes though the WFMU studios for a live set. Onra's music runs the gambit from chilled out '80s west coast electro-funk to hip hop records constructed entirely from Chinese and Vietnamese records. Tune in and get down.
Beyond the Fruited Plain
Monday, October 18th, 2010, 6pm - 7pm
on
Too Much Information with Benjamen Walker
Part one of a three part series on America and the Tea Party. Journalist Will Bunch talks about the two years he spent researching his book "Backlash;" Historian Zoe Trodd explains how the idea of protest gets appropriated by groups like the KKK, the White Citizens councils of the 1950s, and the Tea Party of today; Photographer Richard Misrach photographs the voice of the people; your host recalls the first right wing person he ever met (his college roommate); and the TMI Washington D.C. correspondent starts a twisted journey into the secret depths of a conspiracy.
Pure Hell Saturday, October 16th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
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The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
The Cherry Blossom Clinic is honored to welcome punk legends Pure Hell to the WFMU airwaves. Back in the '70s this foursome moved from Philly to join the NYC punk scene and were heralded as the first all-black punk band in a white-dominated scene. But they weren't some novelty act -- their sound is ferocious and dense, like a manic Stooges/New York Dolls hybrid and they would've gotten their due if their debut album "Noise Addiction" wasn't shelved for the last few decades. But with the album finally available the world can revel in the greatness that is Pure Hell. So get your first taste by tuning into the Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T on Oct 16! Here's a chance to see them live -- they're playing Oct 15 at The Blockley Pourhouse in Philadelphia, and Oct 16 at Europa Brooklyn, New York.
Female Hip-Hop Special
Friday, October 15th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on
Put The Needle On The Record with Billy Jam
Why is that? While equality for the sexes seems to be on a positive progressive path in most areas, for women in hip-hop it seems to be regressing. The ratio of female to male rappers remains dismally uneven while the image of women in hip-hop (especially mainstream) has taken two steps backwards with females generally being portrayed as one dimensional objects. The WFMU Female Hip-Hop Special will examine the reasons behind these and other realities for women in hip-hop in 2010, plus play a mix of some of the best female rap from the history of hip-hop with guests including Rah Digga, Melissa Czarnik, Jean Grae, and Ayana Soyini.
Former National Lampoon Illustrator Rick Meyerowitz Wednesday, October 13th, 2010, 3pm - 6pm
on
Irwin's show
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
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Brian Turner's show
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!
Lo'Jo 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
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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
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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
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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.
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.
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
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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
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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
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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.
Justin Aguinaldo
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010, 6pm - 7pm
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Thunk Tank 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
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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.
All times listed are Jersey City time, EDT.
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