Past Special Programs on WFMU

Past Special Programs on WFMU
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The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Friday, October 24th, 2003, 8pm - 11pm
on Pseu Braun
It's been about six years since Dr. Anton Alfred Newcombe and the BJM have graced the studios of WFMU. A band that simultaneously incites hippy dancing and knife fights at their live shows. Watch them prove the trendoids wrong and fall in love all over again!

Fingathing
Friday, October 24th, 2003, 3pm - 6pm
on Nickel and Dime Radio with $mall ¢hange
Manchester's best kept secret will preview tracks from their forthcoming record, drop a few recent vinyl scores, and talk shop this Friday, 3-6pm with $mall �hange. A trio comprised of UK DMC turntablist mofo Peter Parker, Double Bass maestro Sneaky, and twisto graphic designer Chris Drury on visuals, these folks represent real skills to pay the bills... they've been on tour for over two years solid. Great funky ass left field improvisational illness.

Backstabbers Inc.
Thursday, October 23rd, 2003, 11pm - 2am
on Pat Duncan's show
Coming from New Hampshire, Backstabbers Inc. fuses grind, hardcore, metal, and thrash.�For fans of His Hero is Gone, Tragedy, Napalm Death and Deadguy.�New full length release due January 2004.

"Gold Warriors"
Thursday, October 23rd, 2003, 6pm - 7pm
on Dave Emory's show
Part 428 in Dave Emory's "For the Record" series

Victor Bockris
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003, 3pm - 6pm
on Kenny G's Hour of Pain
In conjunction with the Andy Warhol film retrospective currently running at the Brooklyn Academy, Victor Bockris will share his insights as Warhol's right-hand man back in the 70s. He'll also be discussing and airing Velevet Underground rarities as his biogrphy of the band, Uptight: The Story of the Velvet Underground is set for reissue this month.

Optiganally Yours
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003, Noon - 3pm
on Irwin Chusid
Optiganally Yours performs on Irwin's program, Weds. Oct. 22 from noon to 2 PM. This duo showcases the unique sounds of the Optigan, a long-obsolete parlor organ made by Mattel in the early 1970s. It generated sounds from celluloid discs encoded with a variety of real-instrument locked-grooves, covering an amazing array of musical styles. It sounded like crap, but in a GOOD way! Pea Hicks is the resident Optiganist, accompanying the vocal and guitar stylings of Rob Crow. Due to the size, weight, and unreliable nature of the Optigan, Hicks will be using a laptop-based simulation (or Laptoptigan) for this performance, but over the radio you can't tell the diff. Also, Pea and Rob will guest DJ for part of the program, spinning some of their favorite artists.

Bettie Serveert
Monday, October 20th, 2003, 8pm - 11pm
on Scott Williams's show
To celebrate National Wear a Clown Nose to Work Day, we welcome back Bettie Serveert for their 3rd appearance on the show. This is the band that provided the soundtrack to your early 90s dorm life, so you owe it to yourself and the band to check out this show! Thank you.

Andrew W.K., live from the Museum of Television and Radio
Monday, October 20th, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on Jonesville Station
Andrew W.K. joins Jonesey live for an hour of conversation and ranting.�Jonesville will broadcast from the studios of the Museum of Television & Radio, 25 West 52nd Street in N.Y.C. as a part of their 2003 Radio Festival.�There will be a live studio audience for this show and listeners are welcome to attend.�

Alasdair Roberts
Monday, October 20th, 2003, 3pm - 6pm
on Irene Trudel's show
Stepping away from his chamber-folk ensemble, Appendix Out, Alasdair released a fine solo on Drag City recently. He brings his beautifully intricate and delicate songs over from Scotland, with a band, to play a live set.

Guest DJ Rory Phillips
Monday, October 20th, 2003, Midnight - 3am
on Choking On Cufflinks with Michael Goodstein
A DJ at London's much loved Monday Night Trash party and Friday's "And did we Mention our Disco?" will be stopping by WFMU as part of his New York City Fall 2003 invasion, and bringing along a crate full of obscure, new, and old New Wave/PostPunk/party jams designed to get the listener both perplexed and grooving even if accompanied only by his/her kitchen or bedroom furniture.

Klezmer clarinetist Margot Leverett
Sunday, October 19th, 2003, 8pm - 10pm
on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
On her latest recording for Traditional Crossroads, "Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys", Margot and her all-star band of bluegrass and klezmer players search for the missing musical link between the Shenendoah mountains and the Shtetl. Margot will introduce the CD and also highlight some of her other recordings and personal favorites by other artists. Before forming the Klezmer Mountain Boys, Margot was an original Klezmatic back in 1985 and later a founding member of the all-womens' group Mikveh.

The Paybacks
Saturday, October 18th, 2003, 3pm - 6pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
DetrOctober continues on the Cherry Blossom Clinic (now heard at its new time, Saturdays from 3pm - 6pm) when the Paybacks check in and rock out with host Terre T. Frontwoman Wendy Case belts it out like Rod Stewart post-stomach pump! They'll be doing tunes from the 'Knock Loud' album as well as great new shizzy from their upcoming release. Think early Cheap Trick, Joan Jett, NY Dolls, and early Stones. Don't miss them live at Southpaw on DetrOctober 25th with the Hentchmen (and Shonen Knife and the Gore Gore Girls.)

Dom Mariani
Tuesday, October 14th, 2003, Noon - 3pm
on Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock
Rescheduled from Oct. 2: Mariani, the force behind such great Australian rock bands as the Stems, the Someloves and the DM3, stops by WFMU in a rare US appearance.

Graham Parker
Monday, October 13th, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on Jonesville Station
Singer, performer, and writer Graham Parker joins Jonesey live in the studio for conversation and a live solo performance.�Parker will also read excerpts from his latest novel 'The Other Life of Brian.'

Trad Gras Och Stenar
Monday, October 13th, 2003, Noon - 3pm
on JA in the AM with John Allen
Swedish underground legends TR�D GR�S OCH STENAR have been playing music together for 35 years w/ formal connections to Parson Sound, International Harvester, and Harvester. Their sonic output has been interchangeably described as folk, psych, stoner, trance, and voodoo music and the band delivers some of the finest extended organic psychedelic jams ever created. During their first ever US tour this month they will drop by WFMU to record a very special performance. Hear it Monday 10/13 noon-3pm.

Science Guise, aka MC Paul Barman
Monday, October 13th, 2003, 9am - Noon
on Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie
"No one left for the restrooms when I got onstage/I can rock the mic to 'Silence' by John Cage." He's a wordy, hyperintellectual motormouth with more references than Google. He used to rap hilariously clever smut ("My dandy voice makes the most anti-choice granny's panties moist"); now he rhymes about even dirtier subjects -- like abuse of power on corporate and government levels, and ritual genital mutilation (you know, like, circumcision). Never circumscribed, the rapper who's educated, not adjudicated, will stop by to chat and show off some new rhymes, around 11 am.

Nikitov
Sunday, October 12th, 2003, 8pm - 10pm
on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
Nikitov plays Yiddish songs and Klezmer tunes from Eastern Europe with a Gypsy jazz twist. Nikitov is led by vocalist Niki Jacobs and violinist Jelle van Tongeren and joined by NYC E. Euro music regular Adam Good on guitar and upright bass slapper guru Jason Sypher.

The Hentchmen
Saturday, October 11th, 2003, 3pm - 6pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
It's DetrOctober all month on the Cherry Blossom Clinic, now heard at its new time: Saturdays from 3pm - 6pm! Tune in every Saturday in October for live sets from the bestest Detroit bands! This week Terre T welcomes The Hentchmen, who combine 6Ts garage with Farfisa-fied new-wave (check out the Devo cover!) Hear them performing tracks from their recent album on Norton, 'Three Times Infinity.' And mark your calendar for their show at Southpaw on DetrOctober 25th (with the Paybacks, Shonen Knife and the Gore Gore Girls.)

Terry Manning
Friday, October 10th, 2003, 8pm - 11pm
on Pseu Braun
Pseu welcomes very special guest Terry Manning, who is a legendary figure in music production and engineering, getting his start at Stax records and Ardent studios in the 60's. His name is stamped on a long roster of records from Led Zeppelin, Al Green, The Staple Singers, Alex Chilton, ZZ Top, and Shakira. Although he has repeatedly denied requests for interviews, he has agreed to come on WFMU to discuss his new project, Lucky Seven Records, a label that is releasing lost recordings of Stax/Ardent white rock groups from the early 1970's, including previously unheard material from Chris Bell. Terry will be joined by Max Wisley from the group Cargoe, one of the artists on the Lucky Seven roster.

The High Dials
Tuesday, October 7th, 2003, Noon - 3pm
on Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock
Three Chord Monte kicks off the new schedule with the psychedelic pop stylings of the High Dials, a great new band from Montreal.

Delbert McClinton
Monday, October 6th, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on Jonesville Station
Delbert McClinton will join Jonesey in the studio for conversation and live performance.�McClinton has been making music for 40 years and has played harp behind blues legends like Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Sonny Boy Williamson, and Bobby Blues Bland.� He gave harp lessons to a young John Lennon and has had a remarkably successful and Grammy award winning solo career.

Uncle The Clean Duck fills in, with special guests The Town Dandies
Saturday, October 4th, 2003, 10am - Noon
on Greasy Kid Stuff with Belinda and Hova
Uncle the Clean Duck fills in for Belinda and Hova this week, joined in the studio by the rootin' tootin' Towne Dandies! Actually it's a cowboy named Geoff, who is going to present a totally live, one-man vignette telling the tale of ranch hands Doug and Tick Avery's aspirations for rodeo glory as they criss-cross the West in search of the mythical Big Buckle.

Look out, it's "Gay Bar" Remix Mania
Friday, October 3rd, 2003, 5pm - 6pm
on Re:Mixology with DJ Jesuspants
Way back in May, we stumbled upon the solo vocal track for the runaway UK hit by the Electric 6 "Gay Bar", and a dream was born. The dream was called "The Great Gay Bar Magnum Dopus", and we envisioned DJs around the world (and WFMU) doing their own, specially commissioned, remix of just one song -- this song. "Gay Bar" Way back in May, we thought this was a great idea. On October 3rd at 5pm, we make good on our promise - a full hour of "Gay Bar" remixes.

Nathaniel Mayer
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003, 8pm - 11pm
on Music To Spazz By with Dave the Spazz
Join Dave the Spazz as he welcomes the legendary Mayor of the Motor City, Fortune Records recording artist Nathaniel Mayer. Back in the sixties, Nay Dog waxed some of the wildest sides this side of Planet Earth. Now after a 40 year hiatus, Mr. "Village of Love" is back to remind us that "the chicken was never like this!"

The Daniel Johnston Hour on WFMU (recast)
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003, 6pm - 7pm
on Aircheck
(Since so many listeners missed this one due to the big Northeast blackout, we're going to reair this Aircheck from August 14th): Thanks to Nick Hill, host of WFMU's Live Music Faucet (which went off the schedule in the mid 1990's), listeners will get a chance to hear a legendary hour of radio often asked about here. This particular program came from Nick's 2nd Anniversary Show in February of 1990, and featured Daniel Johnston via telephone from his home in West Virginia and a whole elaborate cast of characters played by Daniel himself. He's joined for three songs played along in the studio by Yo La Tengo, then the trio of Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley, and Dave Schramm.

Dom Mariani
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003, 3pm - 6pm
on Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock
Mariani, the force behind such great Australian rock bands as the Stems, the Someloves, and the DM3, stops by WFMU in a rare US appearance.

All Request Extravaganza
Wednesday, October 1st, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on The Audio Kitchen with The Professor
Join in on the celebration the Audio Kitchen season finale with an hour of listener requests. The Professor has been begging listeners for weeks to send in requests of their very favorite recordings heard over the course of 100 plus episodes of the Audio Kitchen, and this week he'll reap the results. On the menu so far: Wayne, the desperate whispering teenager-- Cheryl Hough, the self-hypnotized Amway lady-- and the zonked out warblings of Ziggy Bathtub. There may still be time for you to get in your request too-- Just email prof@wfmu.org.

"Bubba Ho-Tep" Director Don Coscarelli
Tuesday, September 30th, 2003, 8pm - 11pm
on The Best Show on WFMU with Tom Scharpling
Tom's Special Guest will be BUBBA HO-TEP writer/director Don Coscarelli will be interviewed live on The Best Show on WFMU. Coscarelli will banter with host Tom and take calls from listeners about his new Bruce Campbell-starring opus (opening in NYC this weekend), the PHANTASM films, THE BEASTMASTER and whatever else comes to mind.

The Ex
Tuesday, September 30th, 2003, 3pm - 6pm
on Brian Turner's show
Since 1979, Holland's greatest musical export has been setting the bar higher and higher. Starting off as political punks active in their country's squat movement, the band has grown into an incredible example of living its message via passionate and prolific output both musical and print-related. Through the years, their world travels have allowed them to grow and absorb many genres of music into their sound, from European folk, to improvisational jazz and African pop; most recently they've been frequent visitors to Ethiopia and have championed largely-unheard and wonderful music from all over the African continent. Live, the current lineup of Terrie, Andy, G.W. Sok, RozeMarie, and Katherina are a veritable tornado of pounding rhythms and dissonant twin guitars, tearing up the stage more each time they return to New York. They've kindly invited Brian to broadcast their 75 minute Knitting Factory show from September 9th.

Frank Stallone
Monday, September 29th, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on Jonesville Station
Actor, musician and singer Frank Stallone joins Glen for a conversation about his career in entertainment and a variety of other matters including his interest in boxing.

This Moment in Black History
Saturday, September 27th, 2003, 5pm - 7pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
This combo from Cleveland brings equal parts of rock-n-roll and art noise, calling to mind bands like the Piranhas or the Lynnfield Pioneers; think Subway Sect meets DNA, if that helps! And you gotta love a band that has a song called "Lipps Inc"! Featuring ex-members of the Bassholes, Chargers Street Gang and Neon King Kong. Check them out live on the show and also new 7" coming on Version City this week.

Matmos
Friday, September 26th, 2003, 5pm - 6pm
on Re:Mixology with DJ Jesuspants
The San Francisco-based duo of MC Schmidt and Drew Daniel have created some of contemporary electronic music's most innovative records. Drawing on classic ideas of music concrete, composition and sampling, as well as out-of-left-field concepts such as building rhythmic collages out of the sounds of plastic surgery, latex clothing, rat cages and more, Matmos produce sounds of the unexpected (even promising an accompanying tap dancer today!). They've just arrived back in the states fresh from a world tour as the backing ensemble for Bjork in time to release their own new disc on Matador, "The Civil War." Tune in for a rare sound experience.

"The Decline of Spangler"
Thursday, September 25th, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on Joe Frank's show

WFMU ID Mania!!!!
Thursday, September 25th, 2003, 6pm - 7pm
on Aircheck
In case you weren't sure, our station ID is WFMU East Orange, WXHD Mount Hope, wfmu.org. Tonight's Aircheck will serve as a suitable reminder of that as we hear WFMU ID's past and present, edited together and preserved in a flowing, audio river that hopefully will not make anyone crash their car on tonight's commute home.

The Gathering Family
Wednesday, September 24th, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on The Audio Kitchen with The Professor
Besides being nearly hairless omnivores, human beings are also pack animals. We like to gather with our own kind during holidays, celebrations, and during the warmer months. There's something special about getting together with people who look, smell, and sound like you do, and this week the Audio Kitchen features some captured sounds from these familial events. Join the Professor for an hour of reunions, sing-a-longs, anniversaries, & arguments with Mom, Dad, and all the kids!

Kenny G and Vicki Bennett of People Like Us do radio bound together and gagged
Wednesday, September 24th, 2003, 3pm - 6pm
on Kenny G's Hour of Pain
On Wednesday afternoon, September 24th, from 3-6, two WFMU DJs will be bound and gagged for 3 hours on air. Inspired by the performances of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Kenny G and Vicki Bennett, will attempt 3 hours of freeform radio programming bound with ropes to each other and gagged. Every fifteen minutes, one fetter will be loosened, freeing each DJs various limbs. Specially-designed image promoting the event at: www.wfmu.org/~kennyg/plu.html

Greta Gertler
Wednesday, September 24th, 2003, Noon - 3pm
on Irwin Chusid
Songstress Greta Gertler will perform live on Irwin's 'Gender Bias' segment on Wednesday, September 24, from 2-3 pm. The Australia-born and Brooklyn-based Gertler's recent album, "The Baby That Brought Bad Weather," has been in heavy rotation on several WFMU programs. Greta will perform songs from that album as well as new material.

"The Past Is Prologue 2: A Memorial to Sept. 11th"
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003, 6pm - 7pm
on Dave Emory's show
Part #424 in Dave Emory's "For the Record" series

Dave Davies
Monday, September 22nd, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on Jonesville Station
Dave Davies, the founding member of The Kinks joins Glen for an hour of conversation regarding his life and music.

The Embrooks
Saturday, September 20th, 2003, 5pm - 7pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
The Cherry Blossom Clinic is thrilled to host a session with these modern masters of the Freakbeat sound! This UK 3-piece includes a drummer who's been described as "the female Keith Moon" plus former members of the Mystreated and Head and the Hares. Don't miss it! Then see them live at Maxwells that night with the Real Kids and the Reigning Sound!

The Blab Fab edition of Greasy Kid Stuff with Auntie Monica and Auntie Pseu
Saturday, September 20th, 2003, 10am - Noon
on Greasy Kid Stuff with Belinda and Hova
Auntie Monica and Auntie Pseu slip your kids their leftover 'scrips and slur their speech while regaling you with tales of lush lives and lost looks.

Special Guest DJ: Jamison Duffield (of Toulouse/Jet Sound/Pengo)
Saturday, September 20th, 2003, 2am - 6am
on Janitor From Mars with R. Lim
Ten years ago, Jamison Duffield formed Toulouse to express his take on the poppy post-punk sounds which have recently come back into vogue. At the same time, he was presenting the best of his contemporaries and inspirations on Jet Sound, a weekly radio program at WHPK in Chicago. Please join me in welcoming him back to the airwaves, as he stops by the WFMU studios with some records and unreleased Toulouse recordings. As a special bonus, we will be joined by his former radio co-host and bandmate: the enigmatic Zippopolous G Ungermoose.

Sh**mat
Friday, September 19th, 2003, 5pm - 6pm
on Re:Mixology with DJ Jesuspants
Brighton, England's finest purveyor of mad scientist breakcore lands on WFMU today; 60 minutes of ragga/gabber/hardcore/garage mayhem for those with minimal attention spans, and liking their electronic music sprinkled with liberal doses of ROCK.

The Plungers
Thursday, September 18th, 2003, 8pm - 11pm
on Music To Spazz By with Dave the Spazz
After a lengthy absence, punk rock legends The Plungers return to Music To Spazz By for some fueled-up, knock-yer-socks-off rock & roll!

"Arena"
Thursday, September 18th, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on Joe Frank's show

Sex Pistols on KSAN / GG is Dead / Paul Is Dead / Rosco Resigns from WOR
Thursday, September 18th, 2003, 6pm - 7pm
on Aircheck
Aircheck starts to near its season finale so we're going to pile on some surreal moments both previously heard and unheard on the show tonight. Up first: The Sex Pistols, on eve of their 1978 self-destruction in San Francisco, take to the airwaves of KSAN and go head to head with callers. Then, a previously-aired-here snapshot of the Sheik on WKDU in Philadelphia having a rather emotional (try INSANE) elegy to punk icon GG Allin who died the previous evening. Next, a reprise of the famous "Paul McCartney Is Dead" speculation on air at WABC with Roby Yonge in October, 1969, up to and including the point he's taken off the air. And, on a similar note, the legendary Rosco (aka Bill Mercer) unceremoniously departs his microphone on WOR, lamenting the end of the age of the spontaneous, personality driven radio that was happening around him.

Holmes
Thursday, September 18th, 2003, 3pm - 6pm
on Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock
Get a groove on with the Garden State's grooviest.

R. Stevie Moore - "Hobbies Galore -The 2004 Floor Show"
Wednesday, September 17th, 2003, 3pm - 6pm
on Kenny G's Hour of Pain
R. Stevie Moore will present all new acoustic material composed especially for this recital.

"I've got a Secret: Update on 9/11 and related subjects"
Tuesday, September 16th, 2003, 6pm - 7pm
on Dave Emory's show
Part 423 in Dave Emory's "For the Record" series

Sunroof! plus The Vibracathedral Orchestra
Tuesday, September 16th, 2003, 3pm - 6pm
on Brian Turner's show
A joyful noise live in the studio today with the United Kingdom's finest purveyors of psychedelic noise. Matthew Bower has been part of such great institutions as Skullflower, Total, Ax, Ascension and others, and in his latest project Sunroof! he explores a dreamier (yet still brain-frying) mode of drone bliss. As if that weren't enough, we also get a rare stateside visit as Leeds-based Vibracathedral Orchestra, another continually-productive and amazing troupe of sonic explorers. A past avalanche of recordings (many self-released) have revealed the VCO to be among the northern hemisphere's true torch-bearers of the free-rock aesthetic that say, the Dead C have held the fort down on in New Zealand. Drones, bells, acoustic instruments, cheap casio, reeds, drum circles, and sounds totally alien and unidentified have all found their way into their records. Live in the WFMU studios today, with Sunroof! in tow, no one can tell what exactly is going to happen, or who will be involved. But it will be a definite headphone experience.

The Bellrays
Tuesday, September 16th, 2003, 9am - Noon
on Mike L.'s show
Unless you want it blown through the wall directly in front of your speakers, you'd better nail it down before this paint-peeling left-coast combo makes its second visit to WFMU. In these tiring times of shaggy-haired false rockers with image on their minds and pablum on their plates, it's downright life-affirming to watch the Bellrays slay all the competition before it even gets out of the starting gate. Vocalist Lisa Kekaula's stage presence is more effectively likened to a caged animal than any mere singer, and the band that makes it all happen shoots to kill and obliterates the mark every time. Don't miss this.

Richard Butler of The Psychedelic Furs
Monday, September 15th, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on Jonesville Station
Richard Butler of The Psychedelic Furs joins Jonesey for a conversation regarding his life and music.

Author Jeff Tamarkin
Saturday, September 13th, 2003, 7pm - 9pm
on Bob Brainen's show
The whole show will be dedicated to the music of Jefferson Airplane, w/ special guest Jeff Tamarkin, who just wrote a great bio of the band, called "Got a Revolution!" We'll be talking about the Airplane and their times, and playing lots of music, including many rarities.

Runner & the Thermodynamics
Saturday, September 13th, 2003, 5pm - 7pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
This Boston trio brings together all the best elements of 70s power-pop and rock calling to mind the Pezband, the Records, Thin Lizzy, and Todd Rundgren. They sound great but really have to be seen as well, so check them out during their residency at Pianos on Sept 17, Sept 25, and Oct 1.

Xper.Xr
Friday, September 12th, 2003, 5pm - 6pm
on Re:Mixology with DJ Jesuspants
Known for travelling the same sound-manipulator performing circuits as the likes of Stock, Hausen, & Walkman, V/VM, People Like Us, etc., tonight's WFMU special is a little, well, unusual. In their own words: "In a totally confused and mixed up sonic world, five gifted London based Broadcasters comes to terms with their own spirituality and philosophical discourse, attempt to gain a deeper understanding of the roots of evil in order to develop practical everyday solutions for all mankind. It may not make sense in the beginning but it will all come together so beautifully in the end."

Dufus
Thursday, September 11th, 2003, 11pm - 2am
on 40 Ozs. and a Turntable with the Cosmic Cowboy
Longtime Cowboy faves Dufus return to the FMU studios. They're the only band with an open invitation to 40 Ozs & a Turntable. Every time they play is a unique and amazing event. Their folky art rock is 100% exciting.

"Redneck Rounder"
Thursday, September 11th, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on Joe Frank's show

Radio Melange, Tapes provided by Chris T.
Thursday, September 11th, 2003, 6pm - 7pm
on Aircheck
Let's GO-GO with the lost WABC tapes! In the late 80's, Chris T. was working at a company owned by a former WABC-AM engineer and pulled several unmarked reels of quarter-inch tape out of the garbage. On those tapes were board (NOT over-the-air) recordings of circa 1967 Go-Go-era WABC content, including jingles, news, classic Stan Freberg, local battle-of-the-bands contest, and more. As Joe Buck said in Midnight Cowboy , motoring within range of Manhattan on a Greyhound bus and listening to WABC-AM on a transistor radio: "You hear that ma'am?! That's NEW YORK!!!" Now the quintessential New York radio station comes crackling out of your speaker in glorious MONORUAL HI-FI sound!

Pamela Z
Wednesday, September 10th, 2003, 3pm - 6pm
on Kenny G's Hour of Pain
Kenny G welcomes Pamela Z, who will be creating a live, in-studio piece here at WFMU. Pamela Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, and sampling technology and is best known to WFMU listeners as the composers of the techno-nerd WFMU classic "Geek Speak."

Irving Peskin on Thomas Edison's Attic
Tuesday, September 9th, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on Centennial Songs / The Antique Phonograph Music Program with MAC
During the late 1920s, Irving Peskin was among the most in-demand trumpeters in New York City. Today, at age 95, he is possibly the sole surviving Edison recording artist. Peskin talks via telephone about his early music career and revisits his jazz-flavored dance band records of the roaring '20s.

"Were We Controlled?" (from 9/01)
Tuesday, September 9th, 2003, 6pm - 7pm
on Dave Emory's show
Part #327 in Dave Emory's "For the Record" series

Flaming Fire
Monday, September 8th, 2003, 8pm - 11pm
on Scott Williams's show
Flaming Fire are Brooklyn's own purveyors of electric brimstone revivalism! If the Good Lord's gotta secret backroom speakeasy, Flaming Fire's the houseband! Flaming Fire is all about the noisy pagan folk-goth - sorta like a young urban person's guide to Current 93, Jackie-O M-F-er, and Throbbing Gristle. This show will be 100% LIVE!

Record Producer Jack Douglas
Monday, September 8th, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on Jonesville Station
Record Producer Jack Douglas joins Jonesey for an hour of conversation and music. Among others, Douglas has produced Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Alice Cooper, The Knack, The New York Dolls, Patti Smith, as well as John Lennon's "Imagine" and "Double Fantasy" LPs.

Oh Susanna
Monday, September 8th, 2003, 3pm - 6pm
on Trash, Twang and Thunder with Meredith Ochs
Suzy Ungerleider,�the Canadian singer/songwriter who performs under the name Oh Susanna, stops by Trash, Twang and Thunder for a live performance and chat about her third, self-titled record and gig that night at Joe's Pub.�Ungerleider won critical praise for her 1998 album Johnstown, which chronicled�a 19th century�flood that wiped out a town of the same name.

Consonant
Saturday, September 6th, 2003, 5pm - 7pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
This 4-piece from Boston makes great new music that is refined, thoughtful, well-crafted, and evocative. The band includes Clint Conley from Mission of Burma along with Chris Brokaw (Come, Pullman, Evan Dando), Matt Kadane (Bedhead, The New Year), and Winston Braman (Fuzzy). Their second album, "Love and Affliction", came out in August on Fenway Recordings. Hear them live on the Cherry Blossom Clinic, then go see them live at Northsix the very same night!

Atom Heart, a.k.a. Senor Coconut
Friday, September 5th, 2003, 5pm - 6pm
on Re:Mixology with DJ Jesuspants
Now having relocated from Germany to Chile, Atom Heart is a man of many disguises: LB, Datacide, Geeez N' Gosh, Los Samplers, The Disk Orchestra, and most recently Senor Coconut, whose output seems informed by a most appealing combination of Perez Prado and Kraftwerk. Atom's love for electronic music traverses lines from the abstract to lounge, and today's Re:Mixology show features a special-for-WFMU nonstop blend of his roots and faves, from Martin Denny to Haruomo Hosono and Hajime Tachibana all melded into a fuzzy bubblebath of sound to accompany the first Friday afternoon post-work cocktail.

"El Cholo"
Thursday, September 4th, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on Joe Frank's show

Zappa visits Freeform KSAN
Thursday, September 4th, 2003, 6pm - 7pm
on Aircheck
In 1968, Frank Zappa was one freaky Mother, and San Francisco station KSAN was pioneering some serious freeform radio. Tonight, Aircheck presents a full hour of their meeting, as Zappa sits in with the Freeform granddaddy of us all, KSAN Poobah Tom Donahue. Dynamic to say the least, their conversation gets wily & contentious at times, and always iconoclastic. Listen as Zappa spins Ewan MacColl sea chanteys and greasy doo wop faves, and Donahue continually corrects him on his knowledge. A relic from the days when the DJ was every bit as lofty and mythic as the Rock Star, tonight's Aircheck is a rare Clash of the Titans.

F.M. Einheit, Tristan, & Electro-Atomu
Thursday, September 4th, 2003, Noon - 3pm
on Strength Through Failure with Fabio
F.M. Einheit (former founding member of Einsturzende Neubauten, etc.)/Tristan (formerly Flux Information Sciences)/and Electro-Atomu (Sauna Kings & producer from Cologne) will bring their new collaboration to WFMU. They will play some new music in the studio, spin some records, talk about Mars, raise hell, and generally endear themselves to you, the listener...

"Eyewitness News" on the Audio Kitchen
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on The Audio Kitchen with The Professor
In this week's edition of the Kitchen will hear some descriptive updates on some lost moments in the lives of ordinary youngsters. Armed with portable cassette recorders, young amateur reporters will give you the lowdown on what's going on at that very moment in time- at home, at school, in the car, and along the side of the road.

"True Lies, More About Conan the Republican"
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2003, 6pm - 7pm
on Dave Emory's show
Part 422 in Dave Emory's "For the Record" series

Ted Nugent
Monday, September 1st, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on Jonesville Station
The Motor City Madman Ted Nugent returns to Jonesville. Nugent checks in with Jonesey live to rant, rave & rock.

Josh Silverman of Shirk Circus
Monday, September 1st, 2003, 3pm - 6pm
on Trash, Twang and Thunder with Meredith Ochs
Josh Silverman, drug free in 2003, showcases his lovely songs and guitar stylings acoustically on Trash, Twang & Thunder, playing his own brand of hock rock, straight outta the pawn shop and right to your radio. People who autographed his guitar include Ron Asheton, Sylvain Sylvain, and Keith Morris.

Greg Ginn
Monday, September 1st, 2003, Noon - 3pm
on JA in the AM with John Allen
The Black Flag guitarist and founder Greg Ginn will phone in to discuss The Black Flag Benefit for Cats September 12 and 13th at the Hollywood Palladium.

Guest DJ Evan "Funk" Davies
Saturday, August 30th, 2003, 5pm - 7pm
on The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
In the early 80s, WNYU's "New Afternoon Show" was one of the very few radio shows playing the crazy punk & new wave records. As goes the old saying regarding the Velvet Underground -- that only a few people bought their albums, but everyone who did started a band -- everyone who heard the New Afternoon Show got involved in the burgeoning punk scene by forming bands, starting labels, putting on shows, or becoming DJs themselves. Evan "Funk" Davies was the best of the "New Afternoon Show" DJs, and he'll be on the CBC spinning hits and obscurities alike. Plus you'll hear original "New Afternoon Show" airchecks from 1981! This is gonna be a BLAST!!!

Bronwyn and Kelly fill in for Chris T.
Friday, August 29th, 2003, 6pm - 7pm
on Sportsy Talk with Bronwyn C. and Jim the Poet

Dsico: That No-Talent Hack
Friday, August 29th, 2003, 5pm - 6pm
on Re:Mixology with DJ Jesuspants
Dsico is Luke Collison, a citizen of Sydney, Australia and a master of remixology and what he likes to politely call "pop destruction." Tonight he tears up the board for a specially-produced-for-WFMU hour of musical mayhem.

Seymour Stein
Friday, August 29th, 2003, Noon - 3pm
on Monica's show
Tune in next Friday, August 29, from noon - 3 PM for Monica and Mr. C's in-depth interview with record industry legend and musical forerunner Seymour Stein, founder and president of Sire Records. This is a rare opportunity to hear directly from the man who brought us the Ramones, Madonna, Talking Heads, the Deviants, the Pretenders, Ice-T, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Depeche Mode, the Cure, Pink Fairies, Echo & the Bunnymen and MANY more. One of the most astute, entertaining and musically knowledgable men in the biz, Stein started as a chart editor at Billboard in the 50s, went on to an early 60s apprenticeship under King Records mogul Syd Nathan and then did time in the Brill Building under the auspices of George Goldner's Red Bird label, finally forming the musically innovative and wildly successful Sire Records in 1966. Seymour Stein witnessed history and made it, be sure to tune in!

"The 80-Yard Run"
Thursday, August 28th, 2003, 7pm - 8pm
on Joe Frank's show

The Chief Rocker: Frankie Crocker
Thursday, August 28th, 2003, 6pm - 7pm
on Aircheck
Monica presents a full hour of the late NYC radio legend Frankie Crocker, one of the flashiest and most flamboyant radio personalities ever. This September 1969 aircheck from Top 40 powerhouse WMCA, where Frankie held down the 7-11pm slot following Murray the K, is a great example of both the early Frankie Crocker persona and the glory days of Top 40 in NYC. You'll hear lots of Frankie's classic raps, unbridled ego, and get a glimpse of what would soon come when, in the early 70s, he tranformed WBLS into New York's #1 station with his unique blend of R&B, pop, Latin, disco and jazz. This aircheck was originally recorded by WMCA listener Rob Frankel.

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