NOW PLAYING:
"Blue Phase"
by
Abdullah
on Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman
Upcoming schedule:
(Give the Drummer Radio time: Saturday 7:06pm EDT)
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Saturday
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| 11am-2pm |
Bob Brainen
Disc jockey has a fondness for sound. |
| 2-5pm |
Music For a Free World with Dave Sewelson
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.
Special:
Special Guest: Théo Girard
Based in Paris, Théo Girard is a bass player and composer with his own record label who loves to travel the world to discover the artists who bring creative music to life. |
| 5-7pm |
Someday Matinee with Gina Bacon
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.)
Special:
Special Guest: Noel McKay
Noel McKay is originally from Lubbock, Texas. His grandfather started a radio station in Pearsall, with call letters KVWG “The Kind Voice of the Winter Garden,” a station that played everything from easy listening to country and western and Mexican musichas. Before landing in Nashville, Noel played worldwide, and spent quality time in Guy Clark’s workshop, building a guitar. We’ll hear about all of that, plus some songs from his new album You Only Live Always. |
| 7-10pm |
Observations of Deviance with David Mittleman
Observations of Deviance is a vinyl focused, free form program that harkens back to early days of underground FM radio. Your host, David Mittleman, hunts down the most exotic, unusual and off-the-beaten-track music from around the world in a number of genres: Spiritual Jazz, Free Improvisation, Experimental Electronics, Ethnographic Oddities and World-Wide Psychedelic Funk. You are guaranteed to hear sounds you’ve never heard before.
Special:
A Strange Celestial Road: Ahmed Abdullah Interview
Host David Mittleman presents an exclusive interview with legendary Jazz trumpeter and author Ahmed Abdullah. Best known for his membership in Sun Ra’s Arkestra, Abdullah played a vital part in the 1970s New York Loft Jazz scene. Abdullah discusses his time with Sun Ra, playing with Jazz legends like Sam Rivers and authoring his memoir, A Strange Celestial Road. [Live playlist & chat] |
| 10pm-1am |
This week only:
Airborne Event
You see a blanket on the ground. It's your favorite color, smooth and soft. You can sit on it, or lie on it. It's a flying blanket, and you are the pilot. You are in control. You can fly anywhere you wish, just by thinking about it. You are the pilot. Special: Airborne Event fills in for The Hotwire Mandate |
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Sunday
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| 9am-12pm |
destination: OUT with Jeff Golick
Three hours of adventurous jazz drawing on the Destination: Out archives and other planes of there. |
| 12-3pm |
The Stork Club with Stork
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. |
| 3-7pm |
Ritual Music with Lady Chanticleer
A Sunday afternoon sermon of psychedelia, funk, soul, spoken word, hard rock, soft rock, medium rock, and all manner of ritual purity & pollution. |
| 7-9pm |
The Laughing Clock with DJ Peter
Obscure musical gems, avant experimentation, and classics worth rehearing. A conurbation of Leslie speakers, timbales, plungers, arch-tops, tablas, and squeaky reeds. Black ties, pork pies, Cuban boots, Nudie suits, bobbysocks, turtlenecks, and high-heeled sneakers. Jazz is the north star but it’s a wide universe, so says The Laughing Clock. |
| 9-11pm |
This week only:
Busy Doing Nothing with Charlie
A virtual supermarket sweep of recorded history, with an emphasis on processed cheese. Special: Busy Doing Nothing fills in for Primal Ice Cream |
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Monday
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| 12-3pm |
Irene Trudel
Music to laze around with, just like slipping into a warm, comfortable bath; bubbling with many stringed instruments and occasional live performances. |
| 3-6pm |
Wreck Your Own Adventure with Wendy del Formaggio
Innnteresting music for innnteresting people. Freeform rambles featuring haphazard segues, disjointed monologues, and self-effacing humor, broadcasting live from the Bellows Falls Yacht Club. Would you like to receive Wreck Your Own Adventure's weekly email newsletter? It's lo-fi, fun, and I don't steal your data. Sign up by contacting me here. |
| 6-9pm |
Global Grease with Kim Sorise
An other-wordly collection of beats, sounds & grooves |
| 9pm-12am |
Big Planet Noise with Bob Irwin and Gina Bacon
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. |
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Tuesday
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| 12-3pm |
Tony Coulter
I play rhinoceros and psychedelic fork. |
| 3-5pm |
This week only:
Dark Night of the Soul with Julie
Familiar & forgotten gems from 50-plus years of music on the darker side, shoegaze, synthpop, goth, psychedelia, darkwave, with unapologetic detours into 70s pop. In a dark night of the soul, it's always 3 o'clock in the morning. |
| 5-7pm |
This week only:
Electric Lazy Susan with DJ Nogood Nick
Fusion Jazz and Modern Sounds. Special: Electric Lazy Susan fills in for the last two hours of Dark Night of the Soul |
| 7-10pm |
Five Miles To Midnight with The Knave
Broadcasting live from Melbourne, Australia, it's a musical rollercoaster of Psychedelic Freak Outs, Funk & Disco Get Downs, Exotic Dances, Rock N Roll Gas Guzzlers, Hispanic Grooves, Indie & New Wave Haircuts, Gin Soaked Jazz, Spooky Guitar Twangers, Jumpin' Blues, Mid-Century Finger Snappers, Beats From the Streets, and Rhythms of the East. Guests are likely to drop by for live music, selections and recipes for good times. So tune in for an eclectic ride, a taste of the music being made in Australia and NZ, and stay connected across the oceans of sound |
| 10pm-12am |
The Long Way Home with Kris Holmes
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. |
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Wednesday
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| 12-3pm |
100% Whatever with Mary Wing
Music without words, words without music, and combinations therein. The freeform soundtrack for working, shirking, or twerking. |
| 3-5pm |
Your Boy Black Helmet Radio with DJ Black Helmet
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 with David Weinstein
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 |
Bodega Pop with Gary Sullivan
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 |
If You Lose Your Horse with Sam Segal
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. |
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Thursday
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| 3-5pm |
Testify! with Larry Grogan
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. |
| 5-7pm |
Discotech Underground with Kip Brown
Discotech Underground is actually two...two...two shows in one! The first half is a "Happy Hour" of sorts (because it's five o'clock somewhere, right?), spinning the kinds of sounds you might have heard at a real, authentic 1960's DISCOTECH as cool cats and swingin' chicks danced the night away in their mod threads and mini skirts to hard-driving sounds under the flashing lights! The only thing missing are the cage dancers...but we're working on it! The second half is for when you head home after a wild night, and ease in with the heady, trippy, mind-expanding sounds of a groovy free-form UNDERGROUND rock radio station that digs deep into their library and blows your mind all over again! |
| 7-10pm |
Explorers Room with Flash Strap
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 |
The Cool Blue Flame with Little Danny
Postwar atmospherica. Jazz modernism, mystical pop, electronic creaks & pulses, Latin rhythms, soundtrack & library moods, cinematic surf, exotica & instrumental curios, soul heartache, hypnotic blues & R&B;, spoken trances, lonesome country & rock 'n' roll, strange scales, drones, haze. Plus experimental and ephemeral moving image flotsam live-screened every week on the Flame-O-Scope™. |
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Friday
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| 9am-12pm |
Give The Drummer Some with Doug Schulkind
The finest in Micronesian doo-wop, Appalachian mambo, Turkish mariachi, pygmy yodeling of Baltimore, Portuguese juju, Cajun gamelan, tuba choirs from Mozambique, Inuit marching bands, Filipino free jazz, Egyptian kabuki theater, and throat singers of the Lower East Side. |
| 12-3pm |
Hinky Dinky Time with Uncle Michael
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. |
| 3-5pm |
The Arbitrarium with Arb
Haute speech for the counter couture. |
| 5-7pm |
Beachcomber's Buffet with Arlo
flotsam & jetsam for moonshiners, tea drinkers, daydreamers & drifters |
| 7-9pm |
Acid Jazz Hands with Bronwyn Bishop
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). |
| 9pm-12am |
The Radio Is Broken with Rich In Washington
The Radio Is Broken is a three-hour spelunk through the canyons and fissures of humanity's collective unconscious. It sounds as if a field recording of the Culture Industry were a sonic juggernaut barreling down a rickety track—except that tunnel ahead is just painted onto a sheer cliff wall. With occasional forays into what might pass for "normal" music. Prerequisite journey: Cratedigger's Lung |
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