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Many thanks to everybody who pledged and volunteered to WFMU's 24 Hour Marathon! As of 7pm Wednesday Night, we had exceeded our goal! Payment forms will be mailed out next week and swag will start to be mailed out in December. Many thanks for coming to our aid in our time of need! WFMU loves you! If you missed it, you can still pledge and get in on all the swag, just use the pledge box above.

WFMU and The Free Music Archive are holding a remix contest featuring Anti-Pop Consortium! NYC's legendary hip-hop innovators are sharing multitracks from their song "Reflections" via the Free Music Archive. Enter by Dec 20 to get in the running for prizes and eternal fame. Submission guidelines, prize lists, and multitracks are all available here.

Tonight from 6-7pm on Shut Up, Weirdo, Andy & Frangry talk trash: Call in with stories of what you found or put in the trash, couldn't throw away, wish you'd thrown away, got dumped on you, clogged your pipes, or overwhelmed your city's Sanitation Department. Call them on the air (201-209-9368) with your best tales of litter, rubbish, refuse, ash cans, flotsom, discards, debris, Dumpsters, waste baskets, and junkyards. As always, the best call on each episode of Shut Up Weirdo wins a prize.

Christchurch, New Zealand's legendary Axemen coming to Brian Turner's show Tuesday, November 24th from 3-6PM! Formed in 1981, their various live shows and releases displayed a loose but virulent amalgamation of avant-garage, Half Japanese style sax primitivism, confusion, and general air of maladjusted greatness. You can catch them in the NYC area with Times New Viking November 18th at Mercury Lounge, 19th at Union Pool, and 20th at Maxwells in Hoboken!

Wednesday, November 25th from 10:30 am to Noon, Ken welcomes Felix Kubin to play rare tracks and talk about his various projects. Felix Kubin is a Hamburg-based artist, playwright, musician and fake Dada-Socialist Part Leader. He is in New York for his first US performances, on Sunday 11/22 at the Issue Project Room, and Tuesday, 11/24 at Santos Party House.

The day after Thanksgiving will be a hectic one on Billy Jam's Put The Needle on the Record from 3-6PM when guests stopping by will include DJ Spooky, Themselves, and MC Paul Barman. Barman returns after a break from music with the impressive new album "Thought Balloon Mushroom Cloud" featuring such guests as Michel Gondry, Questlove, Prince Paul, DOOM, and Masta Ace. Meantime DJ Spooky (That Subliminal Kid), fresh back from shows in Russia and right before a series of shows at the BAM Opera House for the Next Wave Festival, will discuss his new album "The Secret Song" which tackles the topic of global economics. And Oakland's Themselves' Jel and Doseone return to WFMU when the Anticon duo will talk about their new album "CrownsDown" and also spit some freestyles.

Now that the Cash for Clunkers program is but a distant memory, you can use your old car in the way it was intended - to benefit WFMU! WFMU is now accepting donations of used vehicles from any state in the U.S. and in any state of disrepair. It’s a great way to help your favorite freeform radio station, get a tax write-off for yourself, and most importantly, get that junker off your front lawn. Call 1-877-411-DONATE (1-877-411-3662) to arrange for vehicle pick-up (it’s free).

Playing Today

The WFMU time is now 5:36pm EST on Friday. (Full Schedule.)

Friday
6am to 9am
(Web-only)
HotRod
9am to Noon Give the Drummer Some with Doug Schulkind
Noon to 3pm Bryce
3pm to 6pm Put the Needle On the Record with Billy Jam
Special: Weird NJ contributor Wheeler Antabanez (More info)
[See the playlist]
6pm to 7pm Shut Up, Weirdo with Andy Cohen and Frangry
7pm to 8pm Downtown Soulville with Mr. Fine Wine
8pm to 11pm Pseu Braun
11pm to 2am Inflatable Squirrel Carcass with Rich Hazelton
Saturday
2am to 6am Nat Roe