Dave the Spazz broadcasting live from Ponderosa Stomp at Lincoln Center! Two nights of one of the soulrockinest fests in the world, trekking from New Orleans up to NYC's Damrosch Park! Dave and WFMU will be live on Thursday, July 16th from 8-11PM carrying the outdoor soul spectacular with performances from Stax icon William Bell, Harvey Scales, and the Bobbettes all backed by the legendary Bo-Keys! Then, Dave will be recording the following evening's rockabilly festivities and presenting them on his Thursday, July 30th program with sets from New Orleans wild man Joe Clay, Sun Records legend Carl Mann and the out-of-this-world Collins Kids backed by Deke Dickerson and the Eccofonics. File under: In-freaking-credible! Damrosch Park is located at 62nd Street and Amsterdam in Manhattan.

The Summer 2009 WFMU Program Schedule is now in effect and runs until October 12th. You can see the Summer 2009 schedule in handy-dandy table format here, or as an unwieldy big ass list right here. Fear not if your favorite show is not on the schedule, DJs and shows often rotate in and out in order to keep things fresh and give more people a chance.

On Monday, July 6th from 8-11PM Trent brings Sound and Safe to yet another completely wireless, solar-powered dance party, this time at Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City, Queens, overlooking the Manhattan skyline. Guests: Cousin Cole and Pocketknife, famous as well as balloon-headed, red-carpet rollin' party machine Bad Brilliance. Come out, take your shoes off. Check here for directions, or tune in.

Tuesday, July 7th from 12-3PM: Joe Belock's Three Chord Monte features a live set from the one and only Yo La Tengo, we recorded (but did not broadcast live at the time) May 28th during WFMU's three night stint at Barcelona's Primavera Festival! After all the years of dedicated marathon-covers service this rock institution has given to the station, traveling 3,800 miles to record an amazing set of originals was the least we could do. A perfect pit stop to tide fans over til the September release of their new Matador album Popular Songs.

Beginning July 12th, WFMU's new archives will no longer be available in 20k Real Audio, and this change will affect archive listeners on a dial-up connection. Going forward, all new archives will be available in the higher quality 64k AAC+ format, which sounds fantastic with our new Pop-Up Player. However, the Pop-Up Player and new archives from July 12th onward will NOT work if you have a dial-up connection. If you listen to our 128k MP3 archives, fear not, no changes are being made in that dept. How will the change affect your archive listening? (Read more)

If you have DSL, cable, or a T1 internet connection:
For Pop-Up AAC+ archives to work, Javascript must be enabled (info here) and you need Flash Player plugin 9 or higher. Pop-Up archives can only be played inside your web browser (they load in a pop-up window, try one out here: ). You can still listen to our 128k MP3 archives using external programs like iTunes or Winamp (although these archives expire after 4 weeks, as they have done in the past).

If you have a dial-up connection:
Due to the higher quality and higher bit-rate of our new archive format, your internet connection speed will not be able to accomodate archive listening going forward. After July 12, new archives will no longer work on a dial-up connection. Rest assured that we will continue to offer our live streams in Real Audio and Windows Media, at bit-rates appropriate for dial-up connections. All of WFMU's Real Audio archives prior to July 12, 2009 will remain available on our website for your listening pleasure, but new archives going forward will no longer be offered in Real Audio (and will NOT work if you have dial-up).


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