WFMU's morning show, featuring new technology that will sonically force caffeine directly into your bloodstream. Hosted by Clay Pigeon.


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A pennant-winning battery of songland. Ongoing feature: Single File, a half-hour of randomly selected small records with big holes.

The Citizen Kane of adult entertainment.

The WFMU prong will monitor love crimes in our egg-shelled studios.

" I can't tell when you're telling me the truth."
- I'm not.
"How do I know anything you've told me is..."
- You don't.

Conversations with creators and thinkers who are charting the way forward in a tech-saturated society. Tech, community, video games, and whatever else is next.

Music with vocals weird & wonderful -- beatboxing, yodels, auction chants, Tuvan throatsinging, & eerie polyphonies.

Artists, DJs and more characters from the music industry join former host of Hello Children, Faye for cutting edge performances and sets curated with signature incisive charm and pop sensibility.

A sonic collage both unpredictable and fluid. Think cosmic synth, heavy acid rock psych, international pop, and the latest in experimental bedroom projects.

Grand pianos in the surf, singing frogs, hyphenated psych, outtakes, live collaging, twangy drone, old folk, and ephemeral pop.

Memories of music. I'll take you back in time into the present sounds of today and yester years.

WFMU's morning show, featuring new technology that will sonically force caffeine directly into your bloodstream. Hosted by Clay Pigeon.


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Somebody send me a tank top.

Riff rock for riff raff, pop fizzle for the frazzled, chord changes of life for the menopausal teenagers, a safari in the jingle-jangle jungle.

It's time to fall out the window with me.

An exploration into the musical output of religious cults, new religious movements, and individuals of a spiritually inspired and divine nature.

Soundtrack music from the first silent forward. If it was written for the moving image, we'll play it. Library music included; popcorn optional.

All the blues all the time. An antidote to the moribund, corny and/or humorless blues programming generally found on the radio.

Music for the revolution in my head: choogling punks; power pop, both skinny-tied and long-haired; soul shouters and girl groups; bubblegum and acid rock; global fuzz; weirdos and outsiders, and the Weirdos and the Outsiders; Archie Shepp and J. Geils. Plus, live bands.

A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and the queer threw up at the sight of that.

Futile expeditions to the edges of good taste, bad morals, and ugly intententions. Late night drives somewhere between Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle and The White Castle of Fear.
Second Hand Pop, MIDI grunge soundalikes, and uncanny Japanese karaoke.

WFMU's morning show, featuring new technology that will sonically force caffeine directly into your bloodstream. Hosted by Clay Pigeon.


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Drawing an endless knot. Improvised, international, American, old, abstract, other.

Everything I do is gonna be funky.

Genre-surfing tokenism.

Ken and Andy further lower WFMU's already abysmal standards as the program enters its death throes. Stunt radio which subjects the radio audience to concepts and topics which mature adults should not have to endure. Find the fatal flaw.

In Real Life is a weekly show hosted by Emily and Kimzilla on WFMU. In each episode, Kim and Emily follow their own curiosity to interview people on about a variety of themes, getting the real scoop and learning about the real people behind each topic. Previous WFMU aired episodes include topics such as circus performers, taxicab drivers, bartender therapy, alien abductions, nudism and so much more.

Twangs of all stripes and stuff that ends in -billy.

Every show starts with the ’70s! We’ll rediscover forgotten rockers, revisit unfairly maligned disco beats and replay power-pop favorites. Next: plenty of new releases, occasional live bands and more. Don’t let the nickname confuse you.

$mall ¢hange returns to freeformland with the late late night space madness shee-it. Oh my beloved ice cream bar... how I love to lick your creamy center! HOOOWWWWWW... (bites soap)... and your oh-so-nutty chocolate covering! You're not like the others... you like the same things I do!
Waxed paper... boiled football leather... dog breath... We're not hitchhiking anymore!

The forgotten flypaper strip entangling the flotsam and detritus of pop culture.

WFMU's morning show, featuring new technology that will sonically force caffeine directly into your bloodstream. Hosted by Clay Pigeon.


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A viking ship appears on the horizon, a likeness of Loretta Lynn carved into its bow. Rare birds flock together to sing Francoise Hardy as soul hits. A sunset of blips and bleeps fills the air.

Intimate electronics, bad poetry, tender murk, and tired humans making the best of it. Features live sound collaging, too.

The Failure of Noise
The Failure of Sound
The Failure of Rock
The Failure of the Avant Garde
The Failure of the Space Age
The Failure of Jazz
The Failure of Psychedelia
The Failure of Krautrock
The Failure of Electronic
The Failure of Pop
The Failure of Free-form
The Failure of the 20th Century

Signals from near and far colliding with languages known and unknown. Around the world with music, mutterings, radio and other bits. It's a travel show.

Southern inspirational dada.

Scratchy vanity 45s, pilfered field recordings, muddy off-the-radio sounds, homemade congregational tapes and vintage commercial gospel throw-downs; a little preachin', a little salvation, a little audio tomfoolery.

A chimpified, sonic soiree of overmodulated, toe-stubbing rock and roll.

A genre-less playlist of music old and new, plus selections from the WFMU vinyl new bin and the Free Music Archive.

A musical journey through the lands of rock, pop, jazz and soul on the spaceship of time.

(A complete playlist will be added after the show is posted to the archives; please check back here in a few days.)

WFMU's morning show, featuring new technology that will sonically force caffeine directly into your bloodstream. Hosted by Clay Pigeon.


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"I listened yesterday. It's no reflection on you but I could'nt see where you were going or what you were going for. This early seventies thing did'nt get noticed the first time and you talk about friends of like Dealney and Bonnie who had records out like we're supposed to remember who they are. Then you play this long winded free jazz stuff that really grates on my nerves. And that noise without a beat and sounds like someones being pinched. Then you play a reggae song, I think you called it Dub, to what, be cool? You seem to really fetishize the whole folk thing too which is obnoxious to us who don't even care. I liked it when you played that punk song though. I like Joe Belock a lot."

I never miscue a record. I am punctual, well-prepared, and dislike clutter. Outgoing and helpful, I'm always appropriately dressed. I do not behave erratically and have excellent penmanship. My CD's never skip, and I am in good health. I like all the notes, in any order.

Female-fronted pop from the past, present, and future; from all over the globe. And the occasional man.

Polkatively Yours...

Hip-hop and rap, that's where my heart's at. But I'll play anything so long as it ain't crap!

One hour; 23 or 24 soul 45s.

The run-around drill sergeant of love meets the freeform radio nurse in an international popularity crisis. Twang, dub, noise, rockers, aliens, drum machines, foreigners, imported goods, songs, rumbles, hollers, blips and squiggles, along with an occasional musical number.

A yurt for the transgenred.

Fake punk, rap for listeners, and the sound of a car rolling gracefully into a tree.

Folk; old-timey; blues; psych, avant and acid folk old and new; ambient and electronic; lots of guitar; detours elsewhere.

Music for big kids and little kids and also medium-sized kids.

A showcase for the widest-possible definition of pop music, plus interviews with the world's finest music makers.

The unsung heroes of rock 'n' roll, presented at 45 RPM: 50s/60s bop, slop, & schlock.

This isn't a radio show, it's a party. And everyone's invited!

Popular and Unpopular Music From Around the World

Dishin' out the hits!

High and low energy music.

Adventures in maximalism.

Music powered by the moon, the stars, and a bit of ecstatic electricity.

Reggae music is for everyone--you love it, say Irie!

featuring X-Ray Burns
The real life alternative radio show where a zonked pair of New Jersey fat boys mix Led Zeppelin with Sinatra while ranting about wrestling and the unmentionable.

R-R-Real Rock & Roll. Bad music that bad people want to hear, badly.

A freeform blend to work your core.

A small-c catholic preaching to the unevensong choir.

Tangents, parenthetical asides, and digressions.

Unstuck in time, The Avant Ghetto wanders through heavy folk, pastoral noise, spiritual rock, harsh jazz and other dimly lit corners of the universe.

Beats mismatched. New mystic moods. The International Style. Pressed and dressed. Queasy listening. New ways to fail. More is more. Backroom room tones.