"Danny Says" Thursday, November 8th, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on
Music To Spazz By with Dave the Spazz
Filmmaker Brendan Toller and author Justin Skrakowski drop by to discuss Toller's upcoming documentary about one of the "godfathers of punk" Danny Fields. Danny's storied career includes stints managing The Stooges and The Ramones, signing the MC5 to Elektra Records and working with The Doors, The Modern Lovers and The Velvet Underground. Danny also hosted a show on WFMU during its early groundbreaking years in the late sixties. Also featured will be the not-to-be-missed radio premiere of Iggy playing Danny Funhouse for the first time over the phone in 1970!
Rescheduled Singles Going Steady with Gregg Leto of Rye Coalition
Thursday, November 8th, 2012, 6am - 9am
on
Underwater Theme Park with Meghan
Even though Sandy kicked our ass last week, we are not going to succumb! In the small strange universe that we all live in, Meghan happened to find out that her old high school friend lived the next town over. Her husband taught guitar to her neighbor. That guitar teacher happens to be one of the brothers of Rye Coalition! He will be sharing his singles record collection with the show, and giving him a good excuse to dust them off! Tune in and hear the influences behind the man.
Singles Going Seventies
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on
The Evan "Funk" Davies Show
(Re-scheduled due to Hurricane Sandy!) Somewhere in an alternate universe - or maybe just in EFD's brain - there's a Top 40 radio station from the '70s where Con Funk Shun and Shaun Cassidy, the Babys and the Bay City Rollers, Charlie and Hot Chocolate, Starz and Silver Convention, Kiss and KC & the Sunshine Band, and their lesser-known contemporaries are all getting regular airplay. Tune in this Halloween night to hear AM tin masquerading as AM gold as Evan "Funk" Davies presents three hours of singles from the '70s as a delayed part of WFMU's Singles Going Steady week!
Seven Second Delay Cares A Little Foundation
Wednesday, November 7th, 2012, 6pm - 7pm
on
Seven Second Delay with Andy and Ken
Seven Second Delay cares a little about their fans. To prove it, they will be making one-time only cash grants to listeners in need. To be eligible you have to 1) Have at least $4 worth of damage from Hurricane Sandy 2) Pose for a photo in front of your damage while sobbing 3) Upload that photo to the World Wide Web 4) Send a link (with your mailing address and phone number!) to ken at wfmu dot org. Since our studio phones are kaputt, but sure to patiently wait by your phone between 6-7pm ET tonight.
Kraus Tuesday, November 6th, 2012, 3pm - 6pm
on
Brian Turner's show
The sounds of psychedelic New Zealand today have been well represented by Kraus, who over the last few years has unleashed an excellent series of tapes, CDRs, singles and most recently The Supreme Commander LP just out on Moniker Records. Today he'll bringing live exclusive sounds to WFMU via an Auckland living room: Kraus on guitar, Stefan Neville of Pumice on drums and synthesizer, and Maryann on bass and percussion.
Singles Going Stag
Monday, October 29th, 2012, 3:01pm - 6pm
on
Scott Williams's show
For Singles Going Steady week, Scott W presents Singles Going Stag! At 5pm on Monday Oct 29, Scott will be joined by fellow DJ-bros Kurt Gottschalk, Joe McGasko and Chris M, all armed with those little kiddy record players with the speaker built in, for an hour's worth of... well, we'll see, won't we? If there's pizza, beer, and pillows, it oughtta turn out alright.
Household Monday, October 29th, 2012, 9am - Noon
on
Liz Berg's show
Brooklyn's Household conjures up sonic memories of the Raincoats and Kleenex/Liliput in the best of ways. This group of ladies released a fantastic album entitled "Items" on the Dull Knife label recently, so don't miss them on Liz's show this week.
The Kinks Konfrontation, Act 2
Sunday, October 28th, 2012, 5pm - 7pm
on
Gaylord Fields's show
During the first week's segment of this two-part show, the koncept was that Gaylord Fields would try to konvince Dark Night of the Soul hostess Julie that the klassic Kinks katalog from the early part of their kareer was the kooler kollection. This week the kontest kontinues, as it's his kolleague's — all right, colleague's turn to throw down selections from the group's post-Sixties output to prove her case for later Kinks primacy.
Sunshine at Midnight
Sunday, October 28th, 2012, Midnight - 3am
on
Surface Noise with Joe McGasko
The leaves are falling from the trees, the air is getting chill...what better time to remember the warm breezes and sunny skies of spring and summer past? This special episode of Surface Noise features nothing but 60s and 70s sunshine pop: smooth harmonies, mellow productions, nothing harsh on the ear. Take an aural bubble bath and listen to the audio equivalent of very blond people frolicking in fields of flowers.
Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis: Greekadelia Saturday, October 27th, 2012, 6pm - 9pm
on
Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis create intoxicating electro-folk-rock-psychedelia. Their music is inspired by demotika, the traditional music of rural Greece - the islands and the villages. On Kristi's first four international CDs the couple (with band) performed Kristi's poetic and magical original songs. Their new European-world-music-chart-topping duo cd Greekadelia (Riverboat) is a bit different: It's a covers project, a radical reworking of traditional demotika songs. Today we'll meet Kristi and Stathis for an exclusive intimate unplugged session and interview, recorded with Rob at the studios of Greek National Radio station ERT 3 during the 2012 WOMEX world music conference in Thessaloniki.
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Saturday, October 27th, 2012, 3pm - 6pm
on
The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
Terre T is honored to welcome the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion back to the Cherry Blossom Clinic! The Blues Explosion have been responsible for some of the most awesome grooves over the last two decades and their winning streak continues with the release of "Meat and Bone," their first album in eight years. Tune in to hear Jon, Judah and Russell blow the roof off the WFMU studios on Sat Oct. 27 on the Cherry Blossom Clinic 3-6pm!
Halloween Bash with Lux and Ivy
Saturday, October 27th, 2012, 3am - 6am
on
Zzzzzzero Hour with Bill Mac
More than just a creepy garage punk band, The Cramps drew upon a variety of musical genres and came up with their own sound which in turn influenced many other bands. Hear tunes from The Cramps extensive catalog along with music Lux and Ivy mentioned as their favorites. It’s the perfect soundtrack for your All Hallows Eve social function. Put on them leather pants, fire up those tiki torches and bob for razors to party music you’d expect to permeate the hallowed halls of la Casa Interior.
Sō Percussion
Friday, October 26th, 2012, 3pm - 6pm
on
Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk
Since 1999, Brooklyn's Sō Percussion has been exploring the reaches of percussive music. They have recorded works by Steve Reich and Martin Bresnick and worked with Dan Deacon and Matmos. They've dedicated much of 2012 to their own realization of John Cage's compositions, including a blank LP that came with 10 hours of downloads. There work is, to quote the Boston Globe, for "both kinds of blue hair... elderly matron here, arty punk there." They'll be stopping by the Minotaur's lair to talk and play Cage and more.
MCoQ double-bill #2: Sun Splitter and Yellow Eyes
Friday, October 26th, 2012, Midnight - 3am
on
Wm. Berger presents My Castle of Quiet
Chicago's Sun Splitter are a mighty, intense, metal/doom/rock combo, driven by pummeling drum-machine beats, roaring vocals, and intricate, dense guitar riffage. Their songs also often veer off into primordial, horror-ambient, dungeon codas, and it's these gloomy forays that especially set Sun Splitter apart from the metal pack, and demonstrate the range and emotional capabilities of this extraordinary band. MCoQ catches up with Sun Splitter on tour, with a local show 10/25 at Saint Vitus, supporting their accomplished new LP, III, on Bloodlust!
NYC-based Yellow Eyes are an exceptional, opaque and complex black metal band, the revelry of their melodic and cunningly arranged songs wrapped in melancholic atmosphere, like a killer peeking out from behind a swatch of black lace. Their 2011 full-length, Silence Threads The Evening's Cloth (Sol y Nieve), and their upcoming split with Monument, are both My Castle of Quiet favorites, and are representative touchstones of where the black metal genre is and should be going.
Hall and Oates stay-at-home party
Thursday, October 25th, 2012, Midnight - 3am
on
100% Whatever with Mary Wing
Mary Wing presents the second edition of her “party-where-you-are” series with a tribute to the masters of the rock and soul sound, Hall & Oates! Respected songwriters known for their fusion of rock ‘n’ roll with rhythm ‘n’ blues, the pair has had six Number 1 hits on the Billboard charts, seven platinum-selling albums, and six gold records. Still going strong after 40+ years, Daryl Hall and John Oates are currently performing in cities across the U.S. on a national tour. If they aren’t coming to an arena in your area, don’t despair! Tune in early Thursday morning and listen while Mary spins three hours of Hall & Oates songs, including lots and lots of cover versions!
Gap Dream Wednesday, October 24th, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on
The Evan "Funk" Davies Show
Gap Dream started out as a bedroom psych project by Cleveland's Gabe Fulvimar, and after sending some of his homemade recordings to Burger Records they released a cassette-only album, as they are wont to do, at the beginning of this year. Fans of airy psych-pop that sounds something like Brian Jonestown Massacre meets The Byrds, with elements of Spacemen 3 and Sweden's Dungen thrown in, will absolutely not want to miss this live set! Gap Dream's album is now available on LP (Burger) and CD (Suicide Squeeze), and they're playing in Brooklyn at Public Assembly on Oct. 19 and Big Snow on Oct 20 as part of their east coast/midwest tour. Don't miss this live set on The Evan "Funk" Davies show Wednesday night, Oct 24, at 9pm!
Karriem Higgins
Wednesday, October 24th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on
Duane's show
Diana Krall, Common, Slum Village,J Dilla, Madlib, Oscar Peterson and Erykah Badu. Those are just a few of the artists this talented Detroit native has collaborated with. This jazz drummer, hip hop producer/DJ, and sometime rapper is a former member of the Ray Brown Trio and Mulgrew Miller trio and currently appears in the Diana Krall quartet. His album of Instrumental hip hop "Alone/Together" is out now on Stones Throw. He will be stopping by Duane's show to throw down a DJ set and an interview.
Blues Control Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012, 3pm - 6pm
on
Brian Turner's show
The duo of Russ Waterhouse and Lea Cho make their way out of their current digs in rural Pennsylvania for a return visit to BT's program this afternoon. Hot on the heels of some firstime Australian dates as well as a Drag City label release "Valley Tangents", Blues Control visit the studio to no doubt showcase recent sounds live. Piano, drum machines, guitars, tapes and effects all meld into a hazy blur of arena rock, prog, dub, and what an astute observer proclaimed to be ""mellow drug-mospheres around a crisp keyboard centre." Vince Guaraldi, '80s Groundhogs, and Cluster seem to have found a common ground.
Blasting out of Southern California with a love for all things dramatic and loud, Vicky and the Vengents throw girl-groups, guitars, grease and garage into the blender to come up with their own amazing sound! On tour this fall all over the US, including Oct 24 at Grand Victory in Brooklyn.
Phillip Stearns Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012, Midnight - 3am
on
Nat Roe
Homebrew electronics builder Phillip Stearns is as good at building sound and light synthesizers as he is at glitching and destroying them. Deconstruction, dissection, and reconfiguration are methods he commonly employs in his hands-on approach to creating works using electronics. Stearns recently whipped through a Kickstarter to produce a series of textiles with designs influenced by glitched electronic patterns. On Nat's show, Phillip will be discussing his recent trip to Taiwan and performing sound live sound work. To learn more, visit Phillip's site.
Brent Arnold & Jessica Pavone on Airborne Event Live from The Castello Plan
Monday, October 22nd, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on
Airborne Event with Dan Bodah
Join WFMU's Airborne Event at The Castello Plan, 1213 Cortelyou Road in Brooklyn, for another on-site broadcast of great live music on October 22nd. Cellist and composer Brent Arnold incorporates Arabic, Persian, and African influences as well as amplification, fingerpicking, and electronics into his playing. He'll play solo at The Castello Plan for us, but he also works in several bands, composed music for films and Louis C.K.'s TV show, and studied cello with Walter Gray of the Kronos Quartet and legendary jazz violinist Michael White. Avant garde violinist and composer Jessica Pavone will also perform solo. Her second album, "Hope Dawson Is Missing," just came out on Tzadik. She's also staying busy with her band Normal Love and an ongoing duo with Mary Halvorson that has released a bunch of spooky good releases over the years. Join us in Flatbush for a night of amazing music. If you can't make it out, tune in!
Greta Gertler's Universal Thump Monday, October 22nd, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on
Irene Trudel's show
Creating a concept album of orchestral pop is Greta Gertler's latest musical venture. Greta and percussionist Adam Gold formed The Universal Thump, combining the work of over 60 exceptional musicians. As they describe it, "the catalytic inspiration for this record (and later its unifying tale) was a whale-watching expedition for two, that took the co-producers (Adam and Greta) to Maritime Canada in mid 2008 (elaborated in the impressionistic “To The Border”)." The Unversal Thump band sails across the Hudson from Brooklyn to play live in WFMU's Love Room.
Irish Pop Face-Off: So Cow & Squarehead
Monday, October 22nd, 2012, 9am - Noon
on
Liz Berg's show
Irish popsters So Cow make a return visit to WFMU to entertain the listeners with fun-loving songs about laundry, girls, space, and people named Helen. This time they've brought their fellow countrymen Squarehead along for a radio duel. The two groups are releasing a split 12" record next month on the Inflated label, and will be frantically swapping instruments and facing-off, Dublin vs. Galway, live on the radio.
The Kinks Konfrontation, Act 1
Sunday, October 21st, 2012, 5pm - 7pm
on
Gaylord Fields's show
Gaylord Fields and Dark Night of the Soul's Julie both agree that they love the Kinks. Where they differ is on which is their favorite era of the band, with Gaylord preferring their Sixties output, from "You Really Got Me" up to Arthur, and Julie holding preference for the group's later material. To settle their difference of musical opinion, this week Gaylord will play nothing but early Kinks songs for Julie in order to sway her to his side. On the follow-up program a week later, it will be Julie's turn, as she selects from the group's post-Sixties discography in order to persuade Gaylord of the band's later superiority.
Mountain Cult Sunday, October 21st, 2012, 6am - 9am
on
Dangerous For The Brain with Thomas Storck
In the wake of their new LP on Little Big Chief Records, Brooklyn's Mountain Cult visit the WFMU studios to perform a set of all new, unreleased songs. Late night Stooges-influenced stoner jams that stumble along with just the right amount of sloppiness, delivered with a striking authenticity that shines through the reverb and the murk. Like if Mad Nanna turned everything up and started playing downer psych!
The Black Twig Pickers
Saturday, October 20th, 2012, 6am - 9am
on
Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison
Old-timey trio The Black Twig Pickers, on tour celebrating twenty years of Thrill Jockey Records (along with other acts from the label), will be in the New York area for two shows (Friday, September 14th at Death by Audio, Brooklyn. Saturday. September 15th at Webster Hall). While here, the trio, consisting of Isak Howell, Nathan Bowles, and Mike Gangloff, assisted by fiddler Sally Morgan, will record a session to be aired on this October date. Though now doing mostly traditionally-based material, recording with the likes of Charlie Parr, member Mike Gangloff is a member of the great drone outfit Pelt, a band that once included the great Jack Rose. They are also members of The Spiral Joy Band, and experimental rock group.
The Sonics of Terror
Friday, October 19th, 2012, Midnight - 3am
on
Wm. Berger presents My Castle of Quiet
Most of us get to feeling a bit "spooky" as October rolls around; we let our darker, mischievous side rise to the surface and play for a bit, as the Halloween holiday approaches. At My Castle of Quiet, it's pretty much "Halloween all year 'round"—that's the program's stock in trade—but we thought it was high time that the horror- and thriller-film soundtracks, so often peppered into the show, were paid homage to and given special attention with a full, three-hour program. Cinelogues ripped straight from VHS and DVD, soundtrack excepts culled and modified by various sound artists, and the familiar themes we all love (Carpenter, Morricone, Goblin, Fabio Frizzi and others) will all be represented, as well as contemporary artists whose music is well-steeped in the genre, like Zombi, Enslaved By Owls and Spettro Family. Tune in for three hours of creepy envelopment.
Jeff Wagner
Thursday, October 18th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on
Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine
Jeff Wagner, author of "Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal," will be Diane's Peer Pressure guest on Thursday October 18th at 1pm! Jeff served as the Editor of Metal Maniacs from 1997 to 2001 as well; you never know what this guy will serve up on his playlist; tune in to find out! Listeners will be able to ask Jeff questions via the LIVE interactive playlist.
The Brought Low Wednesday, October 17th, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on
The Evan "Funk" Davies Show
When you hear The Brought Low you might think that they're from Detroit by way of Atlanta, or Flint by way of Houston. You'd be wrong, but it's understandable: this Brooklyn power trio mixes together classic Southern and Midwest Rock styles to create their own brew of '70s classic rock with a bit of a punk twist. Their most recent album, Third Record (Small Stone) drew comparisons to Humble Pie, the Stooges, The Saints, Grand Funk Railroad and yes, I'll say it, Lynyrd Skynyrd. Draw your own comparison when The Brought Low play live on the Evan "Funk" Davies show Wednesday night, Oct 17, at 9pm.
Nuclear Santa Claust
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012, 3am - 6am
on
Distort Jersey City with Deed Runlea
This week on Distort Jersey City we have a live session with Nuclear Santa Claust, hailing from Brooklyn by way of New Brunswick. Nuclear Santa Claust sounds just like The Spits. The Spits sound just like The Ramones. They are really sick, that's all you really need to know. Guitarist/vocalist Zach G is also one half of Don Giovanni Records. Please for the love of everything holy do not sleep on Nuclear Santa Claust. Up the punks in 2012.
Studs Jerkel Tuesday, October 16th, 2012, 7pm - 9pm
on
Kaminsky Kamoutsky with Jesse
(on Give the Drummer Radio stream)
As one half of the Midnight Mongo Soundsystem, Studs Jerkel has been DJing a fragrant blend of tropical bass, dancehall classics, punk, funk and freestyle at shows, parties, clubs or wherever else the "smart set" are found. He lives in Providence with his 14 year old cat Thelma.
Straight from the Crate - Country Style
Sunday, October 14th, 2012, Midnight - 3am
on
Surface Noise with Joe McGasko
Attention, honky tonk angels and lovesick blues boys: Joe recently acquired a big crate of country 78s from the 40s and 50s. Tonight on Surface Noise he will play them for you. You will cry into your beer and take a turn around the sawdust floor. Mothers will be honored; hearts and promises will be broken. There will be cheating; there will be dying. But don't worry: a concluding barrage of good ol' country hymns will make sure that Jesus stays in your corner.
A.C. Newman
Saturday, October 13th, 2012, 3pm - 6pm
on
The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
Terre T is thrilled to welcome the amazing A.C. Newman back to the Cherry Blossom Clinic on Oct 13, Sat 3-6pm ET. In addition to being the main songwriter and singer for pop-rock legends the New Pornographers, Newman has also released three amazing solo albums that expand the emotion and range of his craft. His latest is "Shut Down the Streets" on Matador Records and it is a masterfully moody record that documents the birth of his first child and the passing of his mother and is guaranteed to top endless 2012 Best Of lists. So tune in to the Cherry Blossom Clinic to hear AC Newman this Saturday on the Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T!
Ember Schrag
Saturday, October 13th, 2012, 6am - 9am
on
Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison
Nebraska-born singer-songwriter Ember Schrag will be rising early to do a live-in-studio solo session in the 8-9am hour. Now based in Brooklyn, Ember has been releasing music on her own for awhile now, and her latest, "The Sewing Room" (put out by Single Girl/Married Girl and Edible Onion) raises her profile another notch. Her songs are poetic, complex and deep, and may have you wondering why you hadn't heard of her sooner. Some of us at FMU have the same question! She has toured with Kath Bloom, Susan Alcorn, P.G. Six, and The Black Twig Pickers, among others.
Repeat from the future
Friday, October 12th, 2012, 3pm - 6pm
on
Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk
Last week, while clearing out a server shed in a secret location which has been plagued by nesting possums, WFMU’s crack IT team found an unusual parcel. Right now it exists as information, believed to be audio, encoded in a beam of light at a 1:12,000 ratio. While in the process of trying to convert it so it would be playable using in-use technology, WFMU was contacted by NASA and the light parcel was seized. The only information we were able to cull from it was a still image with the text ARLL+KRT±GUDTST20221012. It’s believed that this is an episode of “Ariella and Kurt’s Good Taste” that was broadcast, or will be broadcast, in the year 2022. NASA has ensured us that the information will be decoded, converted to WAV files and returned to us for broadcast. If all goes as planned, that show will air during the Miniature Minotaurs time slot on Oct. 12 of the current year.
The duo of Jason Meagher, and Pat Murano (Decimus, Malkuth, Key of Shame, et al.) have been creating mystery-laden soundworks since the middle '90s. Both members of the No-Neck Blues Band, K Salvatore present similar vibes to the parent group, but as a duo, their sonic creations are even more intimate and idiosyncratic—murky, horror-chamber basement happenings of the highest order. Their latest LP on Kelippah, Tsar Ova Elk, references classic 20th-century improv (everything from Sperm to M. Kagel) and Krautrock giants like Faust and Kluster. MCoQ is proud to welcome K Salvatore in their first-ever live WFMU appearance.
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