Saturday
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2-5pm |
![]() ![]() Charles Mingus said jazz was a word invented to separate musicians from their money. Music for a Free World brings us together, drawing listeners to the healing power of smooth free jazz. Each week, surprise guests bring their own sides to spin and their instruments of choice to spontaneously jam. ![]() ![]() Since the mid-seventies, Ellen Christi has steadily gained ground as an important contributor to American improvised music and contemporary jazz. As a composer/vocalist, Ms. Christi has worked in varying performance venues ranging from multimedia theatrical productions to solo vocal concerts. |
5-7pm |
![]() ![]() Live from Nashville! Hear performances and interviews with local and visiting bands, musicians and characters. Grade A Americana and beyond—music deserving wider attention—mostly made and recorded on small labels and in home studios. NYC native turned Nashvillian Gina Bacon hosts! (You can also hear Gina co-hosting Big Planet Noise with Bob Irwin on Mondays at 9pm/8c.) ![]() ![]() Jason Ringenberg came to Nashville in 1981 the with the idea of infusing country music with the energy of punk, and took the town (and the country) by storm as the fearless leader of The Nashville Scorchers. His new album Rhinestoned is an amalgamation of all of his influences and experiences over the years since. We’ll play some songs and talk about all of that! |
7-10pm |
![]() ![]() An emotional trainwreck in fluffy bunny slippers. Special: Dark Night of the Soul fills in for Five Miles to Midnight on the Drummer Stream! |
Sunday
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9am-12pm |
![]() ![]() Three hours of adventurous jazz drawing on the Destination: Out archives and other planes of there. |
12-4pm |
![]() ![]() With billows and blasts from choirs and orchesters Buskers and talkers Big bands and squawkers, the Stork Club has retained its qualities of decaying elegance and dwindling significance since the late 1950s. |
4-7pm |
![]() ![]() A Sunday afternoon sermon of psychedelia, funk, soul, spoken word, hard rock, soft rock, medium rock, and all manner of ritual purity & pollution. |
Monday
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12-3pm |
![]() ![]() Music to laze around with, just like slipping into a warm, comfortable bath; bubbling with many stringed instruments and occasional live performances. |
3-5pm |
![]() ![]() A live, improvised sound collage experiment, going back 27 years, weaving mesmerizing new soundscapes from found and collected materials right in the present moment. Pop music, speeches, live phone calls and spontaneous monologues become ambient loopy layered threads riding the liminal spaces between waking and dreaming. |
7-9pm |
![]() ![]() An other-wordly collection of beats, sounds & grooves |
9pm-12am |
![]() ![]() The core of Big Planet Noise was formed when Bob Irwin was just 5 years old. The day he picked up his first 45, the whole thing set to spinning – and records and music have been pretty much all he’s thought about ever since. Avocation eventually became vocation, leading to Sundazed Music and Modern Harmonic, all drawing inspiration from Bob’s legendary collection. But, what good is having so many records if no-one else can hear them with you? Big Planet Noise is Bob’s way of inviting everyone over to hang out in the music room while he and co-host Gina Bacon flip through the stacks and play great records. And – the BPN chat room is where the action is… they yak about what’s on the turntable, tell stories, backstories, and share what was had for dinner, friends ’n family style. Gina keeps the celestial orbit steady-as-it-goes; making sure the stylus stays in the groove, the stacks don’t teeter and the drinks don’t spill all over the console. NB: Gina can also be heard on Saturday afternoons as the host of Someday Matinee (also on WFMU's Give The Drummer Radio stream), a show filled with live musical performances and artist interviews, direct from Music City. There’s a reason it’s called Big Planet Noise… the show covers a lot of musical ground; familiar, forgotten, unheralded, unheard… The sonic menu is ever-changing; you’ll hear oddball teens, psychedelic wizards, mod lads, sitar savants, space-cadets, groovy soundtracks, and maybe even some bossa nova, when it feels right. |
Tuesday
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12-3pm |
![]() ![]() I play rhinoceros and psychedelic fork. |
3-7pm |
![]() ![]() An emotional trainwreck in fluffy bunny slippers. |
7-10pm |
![]() ![]() A weekly adventure in phonography: field recordings, brainwave therapy, rattling noises and other esoteric dance music. |
10pm-12am |
![]() ![]() Twenty years of dusty fingers, frayed cuticles, & upper respiratory infections — from record digging and DJing around the globe — coalesces into a 2-hour journey through Rhythm & Blues, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Blues, Latin, Rock & Roll, and all points in between. Your speakers will be head-nodding, toe-tapping & even two-stepping to this vintage 45rpm party in no time. Hear favorite songs you didn't know were your favorites, aural treats & record-world problems from the vinyl side of life. |
Wednesday
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12-3pm |
![]() ![]() Music without words, words without music, and combinations therein. The freeform soundtrack for working, shirking, or twerking. |
3-5pm |
![]() ![]() Your Boy Black Helmet journeys through genres, sometimes words, different continents and at best time spaces, focusing mostly on jams that are righteous and ready for wave surfing. The crates are bountiful and we all should partake in the eternal harvest. |
5-7pm |
![]() ![]() Ridgewood Radio features concert recordings by adventurous bands and experimental musicians and restored archival tapes from private and institutional collections captured at venues large and small across the five boroughs of New York. It is produced by David Weinstein and Outpost Artists Resources operating out of the Ridgewood section of Queens, NY, where you'll find more yellow bricks than on the road to Oz and the cemetery of your choice is never more than a few blocks from home. |
7-10pm |
![]() ![]() Sounds ripped from cassettes & CDs found in immigrant-run mom & pop stores. Deconstructed icons. Field recordings. Sonic mayhem from the far corners of the internet. |
10pm-12am |
![]() ![]() A true disrupter within the freeform internet-radio market, If You Lose Your Horse creates a space for smart consumers to experience a game-changing digital audio brand. |
Thursday
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12-3pm |
![]() ![]() Tracks across a multilingual world, featuring this, that, and not infrequently the other |
3-5pm |
![]() ![]() A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners. |
7-10pm |
![]() ![]() This is where all of culture and all of time are collapsed into one seductive portal and viewed through the panoramic lens of the exotic. Come and embark on an armchair-travel virtual-voyage to the heart of timeless darkness and beyond; embrace the numinous monolith of the exotic immensity. Let us find that place where hybridization meets its destiny as pure fantasy. Let us become observers observing those others who are ourselves. You wear your mask and I'll wear mine. |
10pm-12am |
![]() ![]() Postwar atmospherica. High bop modernism and Afro-Latin sounds, twilight exotica and soundtrack moods, soul stompers and weepers, hypnotic R&B and blues, mystical '60s pop, lonely country, lonelier rock 'n' roll, instrumental weirdness, electronic creaking. Bringing worlds beyond into the worlds at hand. |
Friday
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7-9am |
![]() ![]() Theme (n) - the subject of talk, a piece of writing, a person's thoughts, or an exhibition; a topic. |
9am-12pm |
![]() ![]() The finest in Micronesian doo-wop, Appalachian mambo, Turkish mariachi, pygmy yodeling of Baltimore, Portuguese juju, Cajun gamelan, tuba choirs form Mozambique, Inuit marching bands, Filipino free jazz, Egyptian kabuki theater, and throat singers of the Lower East Side. |
12-3pm |
![]() ![]() Turning over the toy box and jamming together the gloriously mismatched musical Lincoln Logs, Legos and Tinker Toys from Tin Pan Alley pluggers, pickled egg tavern weepers, lockstep soul ensembles, skinny-tie power poppers, Eurotrash ravers, moontanned art school rockers, drunken soccer anthems and anything else that seems like a good idea at the time. There are no guilty pleasures. |
7-9pm |
![]() ![]() Musical theater from off the beaten path. Obscure and unusual show tunes from within the canon and without, flops, failures, and the newest works from up-and-coming artists—plus tried-and-true hits. Also, occasional appearances from songs that are not show tunes (but only if they go really well with show tunes). |