BODEGA POP LIVE ON WFMU's GTDR TONIGHT

TONIGHT from 7-10 PM ET, Bodega Pop Live is pulling out all the stops to offer an egregiously thrilling three-hour hip-hop tour through Brazil, Cambodia, Egypt, Hong Kong, Israel, Lebanon, Nigeria, Panama, Senegal, Vietnam ... and beyond. 

LISTEN in and check out the PLAYLIST 

Oh, and by the way ...

This super-awesome CD, Rap Around the World, lovingly hand-compiled by your favorite bodega proprietor, can be yours by pledging $75 or more to support WFMU / Give the Drummer Radio during their annual marathon. 

PLEDGE NOW

READ MORE ABOUT THE CD 

Mayumi Kojima | Love of a 20-Year-Old (1996)

Listen to the first track of this blistering early Mayumi Kojima album

Get it all here.

Long-time visitors of the bodega not only know the special place this singer holds in our heart--they also know why. (Newer visitors need simply listen to the sample above.)

I'm so wiped out that I can't possibly write up a properly thrill-packed intro for this one ... but, just having found it, I couldn't wait to pass it along to you.

RAP AROUND THE WORLD | LIVE WFMU WEDS

This Wednesday from 7-10 PM, Bodega Pop Live is pulling out all the stops to offer y'all three insanely glorious hours of the most awesome international hip hop you've ever heard. 

Bookmark the page! And, while you're there, why not make a pledge to keep WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio on the air?

DJ Poodlecannon vs. Bodega Pop | BATTLE TO THE DEATH!!!!!!!!

DON'T MISS IT!

TONIGHT at 7:00 PM ET North Brooklyn purebred DJ Poodlecannon (Drom, Gemini+Scorpio, Mehanata, Pilsener Haus, PS1) will go needle-to-needle with your scrappy underdog proprietor in a three-hour canine clash of global sublime, culminating in a truly ugly Battle Royale of epic international hip-hop!

Where? Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio

Why? WFMU's Annual Marathon

And check out the awesome Rap Around the World CD I made for good little boys and girls who pledge at certain levels during the marathon. 

And see you at 7:00!

RAP AROUND THE WORLD

This super-awesome CD, lovingly hand-compiled by your favorite bodega proprietor, can be yours by pledging $75 or more to support WFMU / Give the Drummer Radio during their annual marathon. 

PLEDGE NOW

READ MORE ABOUT THE CD 

Dogfight! | DJ Poodlecannon vs. Bodega Pop

DON'T MISS IT!

This Wednesday Feb 26 at 7:00 PM ET North Brooklyn purebred DJ Poodlecannon (Drom, Gemini+Scorpio, Mehanata, Pilsener Haus, PS1) will go needle-to-needle with your scrappy underdog proprietor in a three-hour canine clash of global sublime, culminating in a truly ugly Battle Royale of epic international hip-hop!

Where? Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio

Why? WFMU's Annual Marathon

I'll be posting more about the Annual Marathon, about the awesomeness that is WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio stream, which I'm a very recent but extremely proud participant of, and about the awesome Rap Around the World CD I made for good little boys and girls who pledge at certain levels in the next day or two. Until then, mark your calendars for Wednesday's big event!

Thank You for the Sadness | Alt+Pop Japan

Bodega Pop Live returns to WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio this evening at 7 PM Eastern Time with three thrill-packed hours of Japanese alternative, electronic, enka, funk, hip-hop, jazz-punk, lo-fi, noise, psychedelic, rock ... and pop, pop, pop!

Listen in and join the conversation HERE.

Miss a show? Catch up in the ARCHIVES.

Niemen | Sukces (1968)

You are listening to first track of upsettingly groovy Polish psych album from late sixties

You are grabbing whole thingy here.

Not to make excuses, but I was in the middle of a longish post about this nothing-short-of-thrilling CD I discovered earlier today at a Polish media store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn  (Music Planet, 649 Manhattan Ave), when I hit a button or series of buttons that erased everything but the last two letters of the word "and." 

I can't rewrite it. I just can't. I'm exhausted. I have too many things going on right now. But neither can I wait to share this sublime gem with you for another moment.

Did you see the cover of this album? That's not a bullshit irony retro cover, dear reader. Oh, no. It's the original 1968 cover of Czeslaw Niemen's second album, Sukces (Success). Does the music live up to it? Oh, yes. Niemen (born Czesław Juliusz Wydrzycki in 1939 in what is now Belarus ) was one of Poland's most important rock stars and his voice, the arrangements, everything sounds like some filthier--or perhaps merely moister--chain-smoking East European reprobate version of James Brown. 

Hoo-wah!

Dolphin | Youth

Reupped because I promised I would.

Ever since I stumbled onto this video for Dolphin's "Without Us":

   

I've kept my eye out for the album it came from, imagining it was, at bare minimum, listenable. When I found a copy online late last year, I filed it away, waiting to give it a fair hearing. And promptly forgot about it. 

Maybe it was seeing a copy of Peter Hook's book on Joy Division in a bookstore I popped into on the way home after work this evening, but something nudged this album back into my consciousness. Once at home I searched for it in my computer; when I found it, I popped open a Six Point and spent the next hour letting the Dolphin wash its post-punk waves of tuna-safe Dolphin-y goodness over me. And realizing that you really, really had to hear it.

Youth, or Yunost, is Dolphin's sixth studio album, released in 2007. I realize that you and I don't know each other all that well, but ... I think you're going to like it.

Postscript: I love this album so much that, when I found a physical copy of it in an Astoria thrift shop recently, I shelled out for it so I could while away evening after evening "grooving on the cover" while listening to it. Seriously.

Awesome Contemporary Cambodian CD

Just reupped by special request. Drag the thrills down to your world. 

Yet another awesome find at Thai-Cam Video on Foster Road in Portland, Oregon. (See below for several others.)

I've had a long, busy week at work and now I just want to (a) catch up on Project Runway All Stars and then (b) fall asleep reading more of Sheng Keyi's Northern Girls, so please forgive the lack of rambling on my part this evening. Do you really need me to tell you how great this is when you can listen to the samples above?

I'll be back when I'm rested up. 

Путин Проваливай! | Bodega Pop Live

Bodega Pop Live returns to WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio this evening at 7 PM Eastern Time with an Olympic-sized helping of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet confections from the early 20th century to the present.

Listen in and join the conversation in the comments box.

Pleeeeeeez! Who Are You? | Bodega Pop Live on WFMU

Bodega Pop Live returns to WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio this Wednesday night at 7PM EST with three thrill-packed hours of cover songs, cultural appropriation, genre-bending, remix and sampling.

Listen in, check out the track list and join the conversation here.