Rumors of downsizing Swans to a smaller stage at Primavera

We're in Barcelona, starting broadcasts tomorrow from Primavera 3pm-Midnight ET both Fri and Sat. Here's the rough skedge of who's on WFMU when (subject to change): can't wait to see if they named a sandwich after NWW this year.... www.wfmu.org

FRIDAY
3:00 Hot Snakes
4:00 White Fence
4:40 Woods
5:00 Dinosaur Jr.
6:00 Fuck Buttons
6:45 Four Tet
7:35 Killer Mike
7:55 Kurt Vile and the Violators
8:10 Daniel Johnston
9:00 Om
10:00 Neurosis
11:00 Merchandise
11:30 Josef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch

SATURDAY
3:00 Swans
4:20 Orchestra Poly Rhythmo de Cotonou
4:50 Guardian Alien
5:30 Goat
6:00 King Tuff
6:20 Mt. Eerie
6:45 Death Grips
7:10 Thee Oh Sees
8:00 Meat Puppets
9:00 Jesus and Mary Chain
9:30 Dead Can Dance
10:00 Nurse With Wound
11:00 Omar Souleyman
11:30 Wu-Tang Clan

Happy birthday to the relocated-to-Saturn Sun Ra, and a reminder that the Arkestra's Marshall Allen and Danny Ray Thompson will be performing on the show June 4th! www.wfmu.org/playlists/BT

Old footages of Sun Ra and his Arkestra by the pyramids and in Sardinia (Italy)

Fascinating (to me anyway) 13 minutes looking for a cab with GG in the Lower East Side.

The Gas Station was probably not the smartest place to hold a GG Allin show. A converted service station in the heart of New York's East Village, its small, ...

Nice to see this back on You Tube....

R+M Video, another gem from the vault of R+M... Lead singer of FEAR, Lee Ving Plays Jazz with Tom Scott clip is from the show "Thicke of the Night". This was...

Seems like there was some discrepancy about 'rain or shine' and independent vendors lost tons of money, but the food being thrown away in these photos is a goddamned crime. Good that some shelters got some, but yeesh. Homeless people would like to eat your artisan panda mango empanadas, polished windhog and pork smeared tin whistle cakes too.

The festival was billed as rain or shine, which meant, in reality, shine or shine.

Here goes nothin- New Black Sabbath test pressing listen

Maori 1920's opera

Recorded in New Zealand in 1927 and issued on the Autralian Parlophone label (A 2806). First two verses are in Maori and the last two in English: Po atarau E...

Wow

The case against former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi continues to get weirder. According to sworn testimony from Karima el-Mahroug, an alleged underage prostitute who participated in Berlusconi's sex parties, the politician hired women to perform stripteases dressed as nuns and Barack Ob...

Larry DeMellier

Robert Wyatt joins Stuart Maconie to pay tribute to Kevin Ayers.

Download yourself some Chardonnay: MP3s from this week's Mudhoney session available here:

When WFMU broadcast Mudhoney live from ATP a few years ago, it was fully obvious that their instrumental power and Mark Arm's inimitable yowl were still very much in full force. Even more so at last year's Primavera broadcast (where they followed up after their set by bumrushing and taking over the…

From the wayback machine archives, WOLF EYES (Dilloway/Olson/Connelly lineup) + RICHARD PINHAS (Heldon) stopped by for live jammery and gristle on the show 10/12/10. Stream show: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/37675

Because Kim K being heavy with Kanye pup is infinitely of more interest to Americans

David Dennis: The media seems to forget about New Orleans and any place that the middle class can't easily relate to

Johnny Cash lives. This guy's saga is completely unreal.

Mayor Jerramiah Healy loves to sing, and just because he lost Tuesday's mayoral race, he didn't disappoint his supporters and belted out "Folsom Prison Blues."

GASENETA / HIGH RISE 10cd BOX

10 CDs, each in individual card sleeves, in a small hinged cardboard box with obi. Comes with a 16 page booklet of liner notes in Japanese and English, photographs, reproductions of fliers and posters, a chronology of the group, lyrics, etc.

Headed to this tonight!

The new Ethiopiques 28 is all-Ali, and this is one of my fave tracks of the whole series...

1975 on the Kaifa label