All your favorite Egregious Technical errors
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012, 7pm - 8pm
on
Thunk Tank with Bronwyn C.
This week on Thunk Tank: All your favorite Egregious Technical errors. Yes, take a stroll down memory lane as Bronwyn and Jay reflect on some of their many hilarious on-air demonstrations of their board op-ing incompetence. Don’t miss such hits as “Which DAW are we on?” “I thought I had the guy on the phone but I can’t hear him,” and of course, “Stay Tuned for the Antique Phonograph, uh…Phonograph Show.” Also, they’ll play some music from last year.
Alumnia Tuesday, February 21st, 2012, Noon - 2pm
on
Scones Radio
Catch an eclectic guitar and DJ session courtesy of Livorno-based group Almunia on this week's edition of the Scones Radio podcast. Comprised of multi-instrumentalist Leo Ceccanti and DJ/producer Gianluca Salvadori, the duo released New Moon on the Claremont 56 label last year, a wonderful album of groovy psychededelia bridging the sounds of Fleetwood Mac and Tangerine Dream with house.
USC professor Josh Kun Wednesday, February 15th, 2012, 8pm - 9pm
on
Mudd Up! with DJ/Rupture
This Wednesday at 8pm on WFMU, USC professor Josh Kun will join DJ Rupture on Mudd Up!, to discuss the current wave of hyperviolent Mexican drug ballads (largely produced in L.A., it turns out) and to examine the question ‘why aren’t other songs being sung?’
Mike G Tuesday, February 14th, 2012, Noon - 2pm
on
Scones Radio
On this episode of the Scones podcast, SoCal-based DJ and producer Mike G throws down a swagged-out mix of Bmore/Jersey/bass-influenced wot u call it club tracks. He co-hosts the Seismic Imports radio show on RWD.FM and has a new EP out on the Car Crash Set label. SWAG.
The Loom Monday, February 13th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on
Irene Trudel's show
Brooklyn-based folk-rockers The Loom named their newest album "Teeth" in honor of the physical part of you that outlasts you the longest. It's maybe a statement about legacies, and how people strive to find joy, despite life's setbacks, that will outlast their physicality. The Loom conduct their musical search with intricate percussive moments in psyche-folk infused tunes. The Loom plays live on Irene's show.
Dustin Wong Monday, February 13th, 2012, 9am - Noon
on
Liz Berg's show
Guitar and loop pedal virtuoso Dustin Wong (ex-Ponytail, Ecstatic Sunshine) stops by the studio for another stellar live set of orchestrated, one-man symphonies. Dustin will delight and defy your ears with elegantly layered compositions from his forthcoming album, entitled "Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads" (Thrill Jockey). Catch him live on Jan 21st at 285 Kent Ave, or on Feb 3rd at Glasslands Gallery.
Mutilation Rites Sunday, February 12th, 2012, 3am - 6am
on
Imaginary Radio with Chris M.
Brooklyn-based black metal band Mutilation Rites make their debut on WFMU. Crushing doom riffs, evil crust-punk charges and old-school black metal blasts trade off in the darkness. Mutilation Rites will appeal to fans of Darkthrone and Discharge alike.
The Sway Machinery Saturday, February 11th, 2012, 6pm - 9pm
on
Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
Jeremiah Lockwood grew up with deep Jewish music - his dad was a cantor - but as a teen he also started playing deep American music - country blues guitar. He pulls both streams together with his band the Sway Machinery, an all star outfit whose members also play with Balkan Beat Box (as he does), Antibalas and even Arcade Fire. The group's lyrics are drawn from Jewish religious texts, but the music is wide open. Recently the band added yet another dimension, teaming up with the electrifying Malian Singer Khaira Arby. She joins the Sway Machinery on the band's latest cd The House of Friendly Ghosts (JDub) and on an Electric Cowbell 7". The Sway Machinery joins us live ahead of a big tour of Australia sandwiched between two NY gigs - Feb 15th at the Museum of Jewish Heritage and March 9th at Zebulon.
Sharon Van Etten
Saturday, February 11th, 2012, 6am - 9am
on
Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison
The online buzz about Sharon Van Etten's new album, "Tramp" (release date February 7) has been pretty intense. A recent, electrifying show at Mercury Lounge, where Sharon and band played the record in its entirety proved that the excitement is most warranted. This morning, Sharon and bandmate, singer-songwriter Heather Woods Broderick, treat us to a rare acoustic set.
Ben Graves
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012, 9am - Noon
on
This Is The Modern World with Trouble
Ben Graves, the maestro behind the wonderful "Toys and Techniques" blog, ventures down from the snowy mount and warms up the WFMU airwaves. Between the earthly hours of 9am and noon odd cold war soundtrax, space-aged oddities and ethereal educational odes will ooze. This is the Modern World is proud to welcome Ben back for round two of his cosmic smackdown.
Joy Askew Monday, February 6th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on
Irene Trudel's show
With an impressive resume featuring singing stints with the likes of Peter Gabriel, Joe Jackson, Laurie Anderson, and Sufjan Stevens, Joy Askew is still a relative unknown as a songwriter. Joy's fourth album of originals called "Drunk On You," playfully touches on themes dear to the heart of Occupy-Wall-Streeters, of social justice, and she even throws in a few creative love songs. Joy Askew brings her band in for a live set.
Brown Bird
Saturday, February 4th, 2012, 6am - 9am
on
Shrunken Planet with Jeffrey Davison
The Rhode Island folk duo stopped by the WFMU studios on a recent trip to New York when they were in town to play at Le Poisson Rouge. David Lamb and MorganEve Swain are able to tap into that dark strain of the rural American tradition and produce songs of beautiful melancholy, but they also manage to pull off some stomp-worthy old timey tunes that wouldn't have sounded out of place eighty years ago. Tune in and see why an appearance at the 2011 Newport Folk Festival has finally brought them some well-deserved attention.
70,000 Tons of Metal RECAP
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on
Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine
She's at it again! Donning her pirate gear, Diane has risked sinking cruise ships and encounters with Captain Coward to bring the WFMU listeners a report straight from 70,000 Tons of Metal, the heaviest festival on the high seas! With 40 bands aboard such as Venom, Exciter, Candlemass, Pestilence, Therion, God Dethroned and OverKill, Diane promises to aid listeners in re-witnessing what this Caribbean exploration was like, in all it's heaviness and glory- through music and photos!
Fujiya & Miyagi Thursday, February 2nd, 2012, 6am - 9am
on
Underwater Theme Park with Meghan
Fujiya & Miyagi stop by Meghan's show to play a quick set on their short tour across the US and Canada to promote their new album Ventriloquizzing. Fujiya and Miyagi are an English electronic band from Brighton who are influenced by Krautrock bands such as Neu!, Can and Aphex Twin. You won't be able to stop bobbing your head as your mind wanders off into the ether
Afro-Spectacle w/ DJ Rupture & Lamin Fofana Wednesday, February 1st, 2012, 7pm - 9pm
on
Mudd Up! with DJ/Rupture
On Wednesday, Feb 1st, DJ Rupture and Lamin Fofana team up for a special 2-hour live broadcast from Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn. This show will be dedicated to the music & videos of the African diaspora in New York City.
Black Pus Tuesday, January 31st, 2012, 6am - 9am
on
Marty McSorley's show
Black Pus is Brian Chippendale of Lighting Bolt fame's solo drum assault on everything that is good and holy. The sound this man unleashes melts faces faster than whatever that stuff in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" was.
Dennis Diken and Edward Rogers
Monday, January 30th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on
Irene Trudel's show
London, Paris, New York & New Jersey on The Bowery, A Night of New Music and Friends with, Dennis Diken and Edward Rogers - On Friday, February 3, 2012, three distinctive music combos come together to present an evening of original live music, featuring songs from their current and upcoming releases. With varied musical influences, Dennis Diken with Bell Sound, Edward Rogers & The Biba Crowd and Marni Rice & Le Garage Cabaret, promise a night of variety with varied international influences -- from Paris to London to New York and New Jersey. Dennis and Ed drop by to give a preview of the event, and to spin a few records.
Muscles of Joy Friday, January 27th, 2012, 9am - Noon
on
The Long Rally with Scott McDowell
Muscles of Joy are a seven-piece band of women artists and filmmakers from Glasgow, Scotland, stopping by to record a set for WFMU prior to playing at the New Museum on the evening of January 27th. Muscles of Joy play a homespun, primitive and catchy kind of post-punk, using gorgeous overlapping vocalisms, no-wave guitars, oddball lyrics, and homemade instruments. Please see their debut LP on Watts of Goodwill and hear them on today's show!
Bill Dees
Thursday, January 26th, 2012, 7pm - 8pm
on
Night People
Legendary singer and songwriter Bill Dees (Oh, Pretty Woman, It's Over, Crawling Back) checks in with Night People to discuss Texas rock & roll in the '50s, his influential work with Roy Orbison, and his most recent release "Castin' My Spell On You."
FreeLoading author Chris Ruen's "Elegy for the Piracy Wars" Thursday, January 26th, 2012, 9am - Noon
on
Talk's Cheap with Jason Sigal
While the internet high-fived itself over last week's successful SOPA/PIPA blackout, Chris Ruen protested against the protest. In An Elegy for the Piracy Wars, the Slate Magazine, NY Times and NY Press contributor lamented how sensationalism trumped informed discussion because these proposed laws might not have inherently evil intentions. So is the author of the forthcoming book FreeLoading in favor of American Censorship? Tune in at 11am to find out as we pour one out for Megaupload!
Space Jam Tuesday, January 24th, 2012, Noon - 2pm
on
Scones Radio
You've yet to file your taxes, but you demand a return. Okay, we can help. In this quick, easy, and secure installment of the Scones Radio podcast, TURRBOTAX® resident DJ Space Jam throws down a splendid mix of '90s house fare from her native Chi-town. The Scones crew will attest to TURRBOTAX® being New York's sprightliest dance party at the moment, where once a month a little part of Brooklyn transforms into a sweaty outpost for the UK club sounds taking the world by storm.
The Siberians Tuesday, January 24th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on
Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock
New Brooklyn supergroup. Their self-penned bio says it all: barbaric Siberian garage punk. Debut 7-inch out NOW on Killer Diller Records, and the release show happens Jan. 27 @ Grand Victory in Brooklyn (245 Grand St).
The Immaculates Tuesday, January 24th, 2012, 6am - 9am
on
Marty McSorley's show
This stripped down white soul group will show you why they are the hardest working DIY band in Brooklyn. Then you will have no choice but to dance.
Ava Luna Sunday, January 22nd, 2012, 6am - 9am
on
Beastin' The Airwaves! with Keili
This is a long planned and long-time coming event, first discussed back in 2008 before Ava Luna's first album, "3rd Avenue Island" was even released. Ava Luna mixes their influences from punk, rock, pop and everything else you can think of, to create a sound like no other. It's bass heavy, sometimes dancey, sometimes, head banging, sometimes WTF? But always awesome and with beautiful harmonies. Look forward to their new album, "Ice Level," coming in February!
Eve Beglarian
Friday, January 20th, 2012, 3pm - 6pm
on
Miniature Minotaurs with Kurt Gottschalk
Composer Eve Beglarian spent four months traveling the length of the Mississippi in the fall of 2009. Along the way, she collected sounds, stories, and songs of the people and places she encountered. She'll be visiting to talk about her journey and play some recordings in anticipation of three nights of music and multi-media presentation at the Abrons Arts Center in New York City.
Death
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012, 7pm - 8pm
on
Thunk Tank with Bronwyn C.
The Brainiacs discuss the business of death, the cost of death, respect for the dead, and those marines in Afghanistan, featuring a live interview with Terry Marotta-Lopriore, founder of Echoes of Love, Inc., a cemetery-visitation service.
Twin Guns Tuesday, January 17th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on
Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock
This two-man sonic assault takes aim at sensory overload, combining influences like the Jesus and Mary Chain, New York No Wave and, yes, the Gun Club, for an all-out blast of rock fury.
Also Sunday, January 15th... On the heals of their, "Animals Tour", where they toured animal shelters and zoos to perform for animals, dark, indie-folk, impossible to describe awesomeness, The Best Thing Ever come in to talk about the kick off of their "Hope At The End of The World 2012" tour.
Barry Adamson Sunday, January 15th, 2012, 3am - 6am
on
Imaginary Radio with Chris M.
The legendary Barry Adamson (The Bad Seeds, Magazine) comes to the WFMU studios to perform material from his upcoming tenth album 'I Will Set You Free'. The outstanding new album has been described as ranging "from the fingertip fire of rock numbers to emotive, yearning noir ballads and new wave inflicted power pop".
Reinhold Friedl (Zeitkratzer)
Saturday, January 14th, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on
Daniel Blumin's show
Whilst on a brief visit to New York City, Reinhold Friedl, the founder and artistic director of Zeitkratzer (Time Scraper) Ensemble, will be dropping by to chat and play some unreleased and forthcoming Zeitkratzer material along with tracks from his inside-piano solo releases. Since its inception in 1999, the 9-piece chamber ensemble has been blurring the lines between the academy and the worlds of noise/experimental/electronix by taking a crack at the works of sound travelers such as Lou Reed, Whitehouse, Keiji Haino, John Cage, Alvin Lucier, and Terre Thaemlitz. Tune in to hear what's new in the Zeitkratzer universe! Who knows? We may even get an earful of Zeitkratzer's versions of Hamburger Lady or Satan's Spawn!
IBJ Holiday Party
Sunday, January 8th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on
The Glen Jones Radio Programme
The Glen Jones Radio Programme featuring X. Ray Burns will broadcast live at Maxwell's in Hoboken this Sunday January 8th, noon to 3PM for their yearly live holiday party. Reno's Men and Holmes will perform live. Join Glen Jones & X. Ray Burns for music, mayhem and live radio the way it ought to be done.
John Swenson and Idgy Dean
Sunday, January 8th, 2012, 6am - 9am
on
Beastin' The Airwaves! with Keili
John Swenson has been writing about popular music since 1967. He has been a journalist and Editor with Rolling Stone, Crawdaddy, Circus, Rock World, OffBeat, United Press International, Reuters and the Associated Press, is the editor of the Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide and a sports writer, covering hockey and horseracing. John joins Keili to discuss his latest, critically acclaimed book, "New Atlantis", which is a rich and beautiful account of how musicians rebuilt the culture and life of New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Idgy Dean will visit the WFMU studio to talk about her 2012 release, "Heart & Lung" and play a few songs. Idgy Dean is the solo music project of New Yorker Lindsay Sanwald. Experimenting with accumulative sound, percussion and choral arrangement, Idgy Dean builds haunted rhythm-driven songs, recorded and produced alone at home and looped live on stage.
VLR Sunday, January 8th, 2012, 3am - 6am
on
Imaginary Radio with Chris M.
Notorious for his affiliation with the award-winning Remerge Records catalog and praised worldwide for his Computermadness mix series, Norway's finest underground DJ spins his favorite dance music of 2011 in an exclusive Imaginary Radio session. Forget about '92 and discover '11!
Jett Brando
Friday, January 6th, 2012, 9pm - Midnight
on
Pseu's Thing With A Hook
Jett Brando is the musical pseudonym of Jeremy Winter, member of the ‘90s shoegaze/dream pop outfit, All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors. Having grown up on a steady diet of The Beatles and classics from The Great American Songbook, Winter started writing original songs while still in his early teens.
Jett will be sitting in on Pseu's Thing With A Hook this Friday evening, acoustic guitar in hand, playing his entrancing pop songs with nods to influences as diverse as Jobim, The Monkees and The Pixies.
Stephen O'Malley
Thursday, January 5th, 2012, Noon - 3pm
on
Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine
known for being a working force in the doom and experimental music scene, will Guest DJ on the Peer Pressure segment of Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine. A member of Sunn O))), Burning Witch, Khanate and more, O'Malley has collaborated with dozens of artists whether in the capacity of player, producer, and cover artist and will have much to bring to the table as far as what the listeners will get to hear. Although he will be in Europe at time of the program, he will be live and listeners will be able to ask him questions via the live playlist! Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine airs from Noon-3pm, Stephen will be on from 1-2:30. Tune in!
Void Vision Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012, 3am - 6am
on
Dark Night of the Soul with Julie
Shari Vari, one-woman music machine, uses analog keys and
sequencers to create coldwave-reminiscent synthpop for your dark night dancing pleasure. Don't forget to turn on your strobe light.
L. M. Bogad
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011, 7pm - 8pm
on
Thunk Tank with Bronwyn C.
L. M. Bogad is an author, performer, and the founding Director of the Center for Artistic Activism/West Coast. He writes, performs, and strategizes with mischievous artists such as the Yes Men, Agit-Pop, and La Pocha Nostra. He is a veteran of the Lincoln Center Theatre Director's Laboratory, and a co-founder of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army.
Mike Viola
Friday, December 23rd, 2011, 9pm - Midnight
on
Pseu's Thing With A Hook
Mike Viola is, simply put, the sun in the solar system of indie melodic pop right now. From The Candy Butchers, The Nines, L.E.O., The Major Labels, Rachel Yamagata, and Best Coast to his Oscar nominated work composing music for the films "That Thing You Do!," "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," and last year’s "Get Him To The Greek," Mike Viola is making thoughtful expressive pop music for our generation. Pseu's Thing With A Hook is honored to welcome Mike and his band on the Eve before Christmas Eve in the midst of his wildly received tour for his new album "Electro de Perfecto". Expect to melt and swoon - this guy is the best in the genre!
FUN's Go! America! Performance Series Friday, December 23rd, 2011, Midnight - 3am
on
Wm. Berger presents My Castle of Quiet
FUN, a name so simple, and yet so indicative of the project's inventive and whimsical approach to experimental, improvised music. And why shouldn't experimental music be FUN? Out of the conservatory and into the street, please! The Philadelphia-based ensemble's first, very enjoyable session from My Castle of Quiet, almost exactly a year old, was then followed by an engaging selection of remixes that following February, which, in addition to being one of the MCoQ live sets with the most hits on Google, also speaks to the band's seemingly irresistible proclivity to mess around with stuff, their sound creations being an endlessly malleable piece of clay that's constantly under attack. As part of their FUN's Go! America! Performance Series, the band returns to WFMU's My Castle of Quiet, for a session recorded on the very day that the great state of New Jersey entered the Union, December 18. This is the third year and performance in this series. For NJ's 224th anniversary, FUN pays sonic tribute to the Garden State on the 18th, and the session will be subsequently broadcast on the My Castle of Quiet show, Dec. 22/23, at approximately 12:30 a.m.
Ben Weinman of the Dillinger Escape Plan
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011, Noon - 3pm
on
Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine
Ben Weinman, guitarist and founding member of the Dillinger Escape Plan will be Diane's guest DJ this week! He's been influencing the music world for years, tune in to hear what influences him! Ben has been named one of the top 25 cult guitar players on the planet by Guitar World and was recently presented with a Spirit of Independence Award by Kerrang Magazine. He won't be jumping off stacks of amps, but may make you want to!!
Marc Franklin
Monday, December 19th, 2011, 3am - 6am
on
The Frow Show with Jesse Jarnow
Marc Franklin is a psychedelic photographer who has devoted his sometimes housing-challenged life to what he has called "transpersonal portraiture," including a stunning series documenting lysergic luminaries including Albert Hoffman, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Garcia, and many others. He served in the CIA in Japan in the '60s and fled for the Bay Area after working on Madison Avenue, eventually serving as an art director for proto-Mondo 2000 zine High Frontiers in the '80s. His first ever show--solo or otherwise--is up until the end of the year at the SPF:a gallery in Los Angeles. He is also Frow Show host Jesse's cousin. They'll rap about his career and all those wacky times he came to visit the family.
Love Butchers Sunday, December 18th, 2011, 6am - 9am
on
Beastin' The Airwaves! with Keili
Fresh off a Union Pool gig with the K-Holes, Keili welcomes Love Butchers. Remember when rock felt a little dangerous and you weren't really sure what was going to happen - like when Iggy would rip his shirt off and roll around in broken glass? That's how these guys make me feel, a little on edge, but turned on. Pounding drums, droning guitars, deep, sexy, sometimes guttural, drawn out vocals. These "nice guys" are the ones your mom told you to keep away from. So you didn't.
Reigning Sound
Saturday, December 17th, 2011, 3pm - 6pm
on
The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
It’s the most wonderful time of the year with Reigning Sound back to the WFMU airwaves for the Cherry Blossom Clinic Christmas show! The Reigning Sound return with a newly configured band - now featuring members of the amazing Jay Vons! Reigning Sound will be tearing through their latest amazing release "Abdication For Your Love" (available for free DL here on Scion Records.) The new record features some of Greg Cartwright's greatest songs yet, so be sure to tune in to the Cherry Blossom Clinic on Sat 3-6pm ET Dec 17 to hear Reigning Sound live!
Down In the Basement With Sugar Pie!
Saturday, December 17th, 2011, 1pm - 3pm
on
Fool's Paradise with Rex
Soulful spitfire Umpeleya Marsema Balinton, better known as Sugar Pie DeSanto, checks in with Rex this Saturday to talk about her incredible career and her upcoming appearance at The Bell House. Get the scoop behind all her great hits like “I Want To Know”, “Slip In Mules”, and “Soulful Dress.” Plus hear about her time on the road with the Johnny Otis, her back-flipping role as “Lady James Brown” with the James Brown Revue and about her days as a JD in a girl gang known as the Lucky 20’s. Tune in to Fool’s Paradise with Rex this Saturday from 1-3PM and find out how saucy Sugar Pie can make even Millie Jackson blush!
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