Upcoming Special Programs on WFMU
Last updated: July 9th at 10:28 PM

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Put The Needle On Equipto of Bored Stiff
Friday, July 11th, 7pm - 8pm
on Put The Needle On The Record with Billy Jam

Political activist / long time West Coast hip-hop artist Equipto will chop it up with Billy Jam discussing such topics as the new documentary on his San Francisco hip-hop crew "Sounds Like My Life: The Story of Bored Stiff" this Friday July 11 at 7pm on Put The Needle On The Record on WFMU


John Schnall’s Midnight Matinee presents The Matrix Has Been Drinking
Saturday, July 12th, Midnight - 3am
on Inflatable Squirrel Carcass with Rich Hazelton

It’s been one of *those* nights… Morpheus is passed out on the bar. Agent Smith’s singing karaoke by the jukebox. Neo and Trinity are making out in the corner. Cyber’s lying on the floor trying to keep the room from spinning. Apoc and Switch are playing quarters. The whole place reeks of digital booze. And the Matrix has been drinking.
Join John Schnall’s Midnight Matinee on July 12 from midnight to 1 am for The Matrix Has Been Drinking, with music by Tom Waits. On Rich Hazelton’s Inflatable Squirrel Carcass.
Go home Matrix, you’re drunk.


Journalist Constance Malleret
Saturday, July 12th, 6am - 9am
on Currents with Brian D

Rio-based freelance journalist Constance Malleret joins Currents on Saturday, July 12th to discuss her recent reporting on political and environmental issues in Brazil. Constance's work appears in the Guardian and the Christian Science Monitor, among other publications. Specifically, she'll be discussing her article on a newspaper produced and distributed by the unhoused population in Porto Allegre, Brazil as well as other topics.


Tonight's guest: Writer / Director Christian Swegal (SOVEREIGN)
Saturday, July 12th, 5pm - 9pm
on Bob Barth's One Night Stand
(on Sheena's Jungle Room Stream)
LIVE from Los Angeles: We're thrilled to welcome Christian Swegal, writer-director of the powerful new thriller SOVEREIGN. Based on the West Memphis police shootings, this gripping film stars Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay as a father and son caught up in the sovereign citizen movement. After its Tribeca premiere, critics are calling Offerman's performance career-defining. Don't miss this exclusive conversation about this timely true crime thriller! All that & more! July 12th at 2pm-6pm PT, 5pm - 9pm ET.


Special Guest: Ketch Secor
Saturday, July 12th, 5pm - 7pm
on Someday Matinee with Gina Bacon
(on Give the Drummer Radio stream)
Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Ketch Secor has been the ringleader of Old Crow Medicine Show since 1998. We’ll talk about all of that and his brand new solo album, Story the Crow Told Me, and share some favorite tracks from the album.


Drop In Presents The Return of the Rock n Roll Psychosis with Larry from the Hudson Valley
Saturday, July 12th, 6pm - 7pm
on Drop-In
(on Rock'n'Soul Radio stream)
Another hour of crazed Rock n Roll/ Rockabilly, Rockin' Blues, and Punk to warp your mind...


Made Through Ritual: James “Plunky” Branch Interview
Saturday, July 12th, 7pm - 10pm
on Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman
(on Give the Drummer Radio stream)
Jazz sax player James “Plunky" Branch has created Avant-Garde Afro-Centric Jazz for over 50 years. His group Ju Ju recorded several albums for legendary independent Jazz recored labels such as Strata-East and Black Fire. Host David Mittleman interviewed Plunky about his lengthy musical career and his latest album (Plunky & Oneness of Juju Made Through Ritual) for a three-hour special devoted to his music.


Outta Sight at the BBC: Part 5
Saturday, July 12th, 7pm - 9pm
on We're Outta Sight!!! with Stu
(on Rock'n'Soul Radio stream)
It's time for another semi-annual trip through the BBC vaults. Join DJ Stu Rutherford for another 2 hours of music recorded live for BBC airplay.


Sunbeam Colleen
Sunday, July 13th, Midnight - 3am
on Anima Mundi with Chinn

"I don't understand why people are laughing, this song is sad." Sunbeam Colleen hails from Ridgewood, Queens, and has just released her debut album, Goober. She brings her lyrical, DIY anti-folk to Anima Mundi for a live set and conversation about grief, gratitude, and gas station meltdowns.


Daniel Menche
Monday, July 14th, 9pm - Midnight
on Daniel Blumin's show

Hot on the heels of his performance at the Summer Scum festival at TV EYE, Portland, Oregon experimental/noise/drone musician, video artist and photographer Daniel Menche returns to WFMU to spin some of his recordings (unreleased, forthcoming and otherwise) and to chat about not only his vast solo career with releases on labels such as Soleilmoon, Editions Mego and Utech but also his many collaborations with the likes of Kevin Drumm, KK Null & Aaron Turner!


Briana Marela
Wednesday, July 16th, 9pm - Midnight
on Radio Ravioli with Olivia

Following her show at Nightclub 101 on July 15, with Alice Does Computer Music and Pink Must, Briana Marela stops by to play a set of live music at WFMU. Based in Oakland, Briana recently released her album My Inner Rest on AKP Recordings, a collection of 12 electroacoustic songs performed live by Briana Marela in the Mills College concert hall. Singing over lush soundscapes with vocal samples and swirling, skittering synths, Briana's music is a vital document in learning how to love and have compassion for oneself.


Drop In Presents JReganK's Duck & Cover
Saturday, July 19th, 6pm - 7pm
on Drop-In
(on Rock'n'Soul Radio stream)
JReganK is back for another hour of Saturday show stopping songs. Get ready to hear the only covers you'll ever catch him under in July!


Drop-In Presents The OttO Cosmopolis Show
Saturday, July 26th, 6pm - 7pm
on Drop-In
(on Rock'n'Soul Radio stream)
Sitting atop the Holy Mountain, Cosmopolis is your antenna; beaming absolute universal reality directly into your Earth body. No radio required.


Pseu Braun host musical guest, Brooklyn Freak Folkers, “Billygoat". Live at Monty Hall and broadcast on Radio Row
Sunday, July 27th, 5pm - 6pm
on Radio Row

BILLYGOAT is Michelle Segre, Jennifer Sirey and Kathryn Lewis. With plucked strings, slide, keys and percussion, their original songs employ haunting, lyrical harmonies evoking everything from perky despair to transcendent, cosmic optimism. Hailing from New York City, their musical roots are a diverse mix of English Psych Folk, American Old Time, and the dissonant sounds of a Post-Punk generation.


SAVAK
Wednesday, July 30th, Noon - 3pm
on The Evan "Funk" Davies Show

SAVAK returns for their record-setting (not yet verified by Guinness) FIFTH appearance on The Evan “Funk” Davies Show! The Brooklyn band has just released their seventh LP, SQUAWK!, and 2025 also marks the 10th anniversary of the band’s formation. Core members and songwriters Sohrab Habibion and Michael Jaworski continue to raise the bar with every release; early reviews of SQUAWK! have name-checked Wire, the Rolling Stones, and Mission Of Burma. Tune in and see if you agree.


Mass Art Inc.: Philip Orenstein, Terry Riley and the Birth of Minimalism
Saturday, August 2nd, 7pm - 10pm
on Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman
(on Give the Drummer Radio stream)
Philip Orenstein is an 86-year-old artist, academic, entrepreneur and Holocaust survivor. Although not a musician himself, in 1967 Orenstein’s company Mass Art, Inc. released the first record of Minimalist Music—Terry Riley’s Reed Streams. Host David Mittleman interviewed Orenstein about his incredible life, making Mass Art and early Minimalism for this three-hour special.


A live performance from The Rabies
Saturday, August 9th, 11am - 1pm
on Michael Shelley's show

The Rabies formed in 1981 in their suburban New York high school and released a now highly collectable power pop/punk 45 "(My Girl's A) Hologram." This live performance will celebrate the band's newly release lp "Dumb It Down."



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