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Upcoming schedule:
(Give the Drummer Radio time: Saturday 6:33pm EDT)
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Saturday
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| 11am-2pm |
Bob Brainen
Disc jockey has a fondness for sound. |
| 2-5pm |
Music For a Free World with Dave Sewelson
Charles Mingus said jazz was a word invented to separate musicians from their money. Music for a Free World brings us together, drawing listeners to the healing power of smooth free jazz. Each week, surprise guests bring their own sides to spin and their instruments of choice to spontaneously jam.
Special:
Special Guest: Alex Greene
Keyboardist and composer Alex Greene has four decades of experience in Memphis and New York, having performed and recorded albums, live scores and soundtracks with his Rolling Head Orchestra since 2009. |
| 7-10pm |
Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman
Observations of Deviance is a vinyl focused, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio. Your host, David Mittleman, hunts down the most exotic, unusual and off-the-beaten-track music from around the world in a number of genres: Spiritual Jazz, Free Improvisation, Experimental Electronics, Ethnographic Oddities and World-Wide Psychedelic Funk. You are guaranteed to hear sounds you’ve never heard before. |
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Sunday
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| 9am-12pm |
destination: OUT with Jeff Golick
Three hours of adventurous jazz drawing on the Destination: Out archives and other planes of there. |
| 12-3pm |
The Stork Club with Stork
With billows and blasts from choirs and orchesters Buskers and talkers Big bands and squawkers, the Stork Club has retained its qualities of decaying elegance and dwindling significance since the late 1950s. |
| 6-9pm |
The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter
Obscure musical gems, avant experimentation, and classics worth rehearing. A conurbation of Leslie speakers, timbales, plungers, arch-tops, tablas, and squeaky reeds. Black ties, pork pies, Cuban boots, Nudie suits, bobbysocks, turtlenecks, and high-heeled sneakers. Jazz is the north star but it’s a wide universe, so says The Laughing Clock. |
| 9pm-12am |
Mike Lupica
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. |
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Monday
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| 9am-12pm |
Wreck Your Own Adventure with Wendy del Formaggio
Innnteresting music for innnteresting people. Freeform rambles featuring haphazard segues, disjointed monologues, and self-effacing humor, broadcasting live from the Bellows Falls Yacht Club. Would you like to receive Wreck Your Own Adventure's weekly email newsletter? It's lo-fi, fun, and I don't steal your data. Sign up by contacting me here. |
| 12-3pm |
Irene Trudel
Music to laze around with, just like slipping into a warm, comfortable bath; bubbling with many stringed instruments and occasional live performances. |
| 6-9pm |
Global Grease with Kim Sorise
Intrinsically curated, the music on this program—exclusively vinyl played on Technic 1200 M3D turntables—presents an illuminating collection of other-worldly grooves, beats, and sounds. Host Kim Sorise honors the jazz innovators, beat conductors, soul senders, and mind benders that traverse our musical and auditory landscapes. Grease for all. In music we trust. |
| 9pm-12am |
Big Planet Noise with Bob Irwin and Gina Bacon
The core of Big Planet Noise was formed when Bob Irwin was just 5 years old. The day he picked up his first 45, the whole thing set to spinning – and records and music have been pretty much all he’s thought about ever since. Avocation eventually became vocation, leading to Sundazed Music and Modern Harmonic, all drawing inspiration from Bob’s legendary collection. But, what good is having so many records if no-one else can hear them with you? Big Planet Noise is Bob’s way of inviting everyone over to hang out in the music room while he and co-host Gina Bacon flip through the stacks and play great records. And – the BPN chat room is where the action is… they yak about what’s on the turntable, tell stories, backstories, and share what was had for dinner, friends ’n family style. Gina keeps the celestial orbit steady-as-it-goes; making sure the stylus stays in the groove, the stacks don’t teeter and the drinks don’t spill all over the console. NB: Gina can also be heard on Saturday afternoons as the host of Someday Matinee (also on WFMU's Give The Drummer Radio stream), a show filled with live musical performances and artist interviews, direct from Music City. There’s a reason it’s called Big Planet Noise… the show covers a lot of musical ground; familiar, forgotten, unheralded, unheard… The sonic menu is ever-changing; you’ll hear oddball teens, psychedelic wizards, mod lads, sitar savants, space-cadets, groovy soundtracks, and maybe even some bossa nova, when it feels right. |
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Tuesday
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| 12-3pm |
Tony Coulter
I play rhinoceros and psychedelic fork. |
| 3-7pm |
Dark Night of the Soul with Julie
Familiar & forgotten gems from 50-plus years of music on the darker side, shoegaze, synthpop, goth, psychedelia, darkwave, with unapologetic detours into 70s pop. In a dark night of the soul, it's always 3 o'clock in the morning. |
| 7-10pm |
Five Miles To Midnight with The Knave
Broadcasting live from Melbourne, Australia, it's a musical rollercoaster of Psychedelic Freak Outs, Funk & Disco Get Downs, Exotic Dances, Rock N Roll Gas Guzzlers, Hispanic Grooves, Indie & New Wave Haircuts, Gin Soaked Jazz, Spooky Guitar Twangers, Jumpin' Blues, Mid-Century Finger Snappers, Beats From the Streets, and Rhythms of the East. Guests are likely to drop by for live music, selections and recipes for good times. So tune in for an eclectic ride, a taste of the music being made in Australia and NZ, and stay connected across the oceans of sound |
| 10pm-12am |
The Long Way Home with Kris Holmes
Twenty years of dusty fingers, frayed cuticles, & upper respiratory infections — from record digging and DJing around the globe — coalesces into a 2-hour journey through Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Blues, Latin, Rock & Roll, and all points in between. Your speakers will be head-nodding, toe-tapping & even two-stepping to this vintage 45rpm party in no time. Hear favorite songs you didn't know were your favorites, aural treats & record-world problems from the vinyl side of life. |
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Wednesday
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| 12-3pm |
100% Whatever with Mary Wing
Music without words, words without music, and combinations therein. The freeform soundtrack for working, shirking, or twerking. |
| 3-7pm |
This week only:
Your Boy Black Helmet Radio with DJ Black Helmet
Your Boy Black Helmet journeys through genres, sometimes words, different continents and at best time spaces, focusing mostly on jams that are righteous and ready for wave surfing. The crates are bountiful and we all should partake in the eternal harvest. Special: It's a special 4-hour Black Helmet show! |
| 7-10pm |
Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan
Sounds ripped from cassettes & CDs found in immigrant-run mom & pop stores. Deconstructed icons. Field recordings. Sonic mayhem from the far corners of the internet. |
| 10pm-12am |
This week only:
Beachcomber's Buffet with Arlo
flotsam & jetsam for moonshiners, tea drinkers, daydreamers & drifters Special: Beachcomber's Buffet fills in for If You Lose Your Horse |
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Thursday
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| 12-3pm |
Continental Subway with David Dichelle
Tracks across a multilingual world, featuring this, that, and not infrequently the other |
| 3-5pm |
Testify! with Larry Grogan
A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners. |
| 5-7pm |
Discotech Underground with Kip Brown
Discotech Underground is actually two...two...two shows in one! The first half is a "Happy Hour" of sorts (because it's five o'clock somewhere, right?), spinning the kinds of sounds you might have heard at a real, authentic 1960's DISCOTECH as cool cats and swingin' chicks danced the night away in their mod threads and mini skirts to hard-driving sounds under the flashing lights! The only thing missing are the cage dancers...but we're working on it! The second half is for when you head home after a wild night, and ease in with the heady, trippy, mind-expanding sounds of a groovy free-form UNDERGROUND rock radio station that digs deep into their library and blows your mind all over again! |
| 7-10pm |
Explorers Room with Flash Strap
This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine. |
| 10pm-12am |
This week only:
The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter
Obscure musical gems, avant experimentation, and classics worth rehearing. A conurbation of Leslie speakers, timbales, plungers, arch-tops, tablas, and squeaky reeds. Black ties, pork pies, Cuban boots, Nudie suits, bobbysocks, turtlenecks, and high-heeled sneakers. Jazz is the north star but it’s a wide universe, so says The Laughing Clock. Special: The Laughing Clock fills in for The Cook Blue Flame |
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Friday
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| 9am-12pm |
Give The Drummer Some with Doug Schulkind
The finest in Micronesian doo-wop, Appalachian mambo, Turkish mariachi, pygmy yodeling of Baltimore, Portuguese juju, Cajun gamelan, tuba choirs from Mozambique, Inuit marching bands, Filipino free jazz, Egyptian kabuki theater, and throat singers of the Lower East Side. |
| 3-5pm |
The Arbitrarium with Arb
Haute speech for the counter couture. |
| 5-7pm |
Beachcomber's Buffet with Arlo
flotsam & jetsam for moonshiners, tea drinkers, daydreamers & drifters |
| 7-9pm |
This week only:
Dark Night of the Soul with Julie
Familiar & forgotten gems from 50-plus years of music on the darker side, shoegaze, synthpop, goth, psychedelia, darkwave, with unapologetic detours into 70s pop. In a dark night of the soul, it's always 3 o'clock in the morning. Special: Dark Night of the Soul fills in for Acid Jazz Hands |
| 9pm-12am |
The Radio Is Broken with Rich In Washington
The Radio Is Broken is a three-hour spelunk through the canyons and fissures of humanity's collective unconscious. It sounds as if a field recording of the Culture Industry were a sonic juggernaut barreling down a rickety track—except that tunnel ahead is just painted onto a sheer cliff wall. With occasional forays into what might pass for "normal" music. Prerequisite journey: Cratedigger's Lung |
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