Every Time I Thought About It I'd Burst Into Tears: The Arab Decade Part 4

"The Arab Decade," Part 4

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Every Wednesday in December, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio is spinning what was arguably the most dynamic, compelling, innovative, and politically and socially significant popular music of the 2010s 

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Every Time I Thought About It I'd Burst Into Tears: The Arab Decade Part 3

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Every Wednesday in December, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio is spinning what was arguably the most dynamic, compelling, innovative, and politically and socially significant popular music of the 2010s 

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Every Time I Thought About It I'd Burst Into Tears: The Arab Decade Part 2

"The Arab Decade" continues!

Every Wednesday in December, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio will spin what was arguably the most dynamic, compelling, innovative, and politically and socially significant popular music of the 2010s 

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Every Time I Thought About It I'd Burst Into Tears: The Arab Decade Part 1

Every Wednesday in December, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio will spin what was arguably the most dynamic, compelling, innovative, and politically and socially significant popular music of the 2010s 

Listen to the first episode now

Outliers 1970s-80s

Now Playing: Moroccan funk, Turkish punk, Rwandan synthpop, Cambodia's first and last rock album, Egyptian disco, and America's most mysterious collective

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Sister

Pop, rock, soul, and traditional sounds from African women

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Burman, Burman & Bhosle

Bollywood classics, deep cuts, and rarities by the industry's most iconic musical family: S.D., R.D., and Asha

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Radiomundo: A Century of Latin Music

Now playing on Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, three hours of incredible, varied Latin music, from early popular recordings on 78 to some of the 21st century's most thrill-inducing tracks

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Sudanese

Soul, funk, hip hop, field recordings and more from the Sudans.

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İstanbul

Sounds found in the world's fourth largest city. Rare cassettes, reissued 78s, buskers, rockers, arabesque

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Unsteady State

Disorienting Kurdish, Puerto Rican, Lebanese, Kenyan, Norwegian, Japanese, Cuban, Togolese, Malian, and American music 

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Music at the Edge of Pop

On Wednesday, September 18, from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins three hours of Ptôse, АукцЫон, Nisennenmondai, أبو الليف, Italian electronica, and fake Kanye

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Can't Stop, Won't Stop

On Wednesday, September 11, from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio celebrates the resilience of New York City with three hours of proto, nascent, classic, and golden age hip hop.

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Turkish Psych!

TONIGHT, from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins some of our favorite Anatolian rock, funk, folk, and arabesque

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Halo of the Moon on Earth

Classical, dabke, field recordings, folk, pop, and traditional sounds from Syria.

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See You in Beirut

Avant-garde, electronic, post-rock, and underground from the world's most resilient city. 

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AFRICOMP

Our favorite tracks from our favorite African compilations. The greatest rock, funk, disco, psychedelic, pop, and punk you'll ever hear, or your money back.

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Around the World in 78 RPM

Shellac from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and islands of all shapes and sizes.

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17,508 Islands: Sonic Indonesia

Avant garde, dangdut, gamelan, indie, harsh noise, kroncong, psychedelic rock, and more from the Republic

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Heads Rolled: Revolutionary French Popular Music

Trail-blazing French popular music, from early hip hop and synth pop to psychedelic rock legends Magma (pictured above).

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Sorry, but ... this is going to be legendary

21st Century psychedelic rock from the Republic of Korea. 

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Through a Glass Darkly

Music from dark places, dark times, dark emotions, dark situations, dark visions. Featuring the 70s blues of Asakawa Maki, European 80s darkwave, visionary Argentinian experimentation of the 90s and aughts, Spanish riot grrrl of the last half-century, a singular voice exiled from Myanmar, and downtempo sounds from the Middle East and North Africa.

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Tell Me the Truth Before One of Us Dies

Underground sounds from the world's most vertical city

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Audible Empire

The global impact of genre and instrumentation, inspired by Ronald Radano & Tejumola Olaniyan's Audible Empire: Music, Global Politics, Critique. Groovy 60s Mando- and Cantopop classics, early African synthpop, Burmese, Arabic, and Ethiopian piano works, and much more.

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Radio Mogadishu

Three hours of heart-stoppingly great balwo, funk, pop, qaraabi, soul and more from Somalia. 

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Mike and Tsoi

Music by Mikhail (Mike) Naumenko and Viktor Tsoi, who led two of Soviet Russia's greatest bands: Zoopark and Kino, respectively.

We spun the songs they're best known for, as well as deep cuts, an early house concert (see pic above), acoustic versions, tribute covers, and more. 

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1966

On Wednesday, May 29, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins three hours of boogaloo, pop, surf, bossa nova, psychedelic, folk, field recordings, ska, and more, all recorded in the year the decade exploded

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Revenge of the Japanese She-Punks 1979-89

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By the time Shonen Knife were passing around the 50 copies of their self-released cassette demo, Everybody Happy (1982), Japanese all-girl and female-fronted acts had already left a series of deep and lasting marks on the archipelago’s punk scene. The short list would have to include Aunt Sally’s pioneering Aunt Sally (1979) and lead singer Phew’s bold leap forward Phew (1981), as well as Plastics’ B52’s-inspired Welcome Plastics (1979), Noise’s brilliantly stripped-down Emperor (1980), Tolerance’s darkly futuristic, proto-EDM Divin and Mizutama Shobodan’s sublime Maiden’s Prayer Da Da Da! (both 1981), and probably the greatest Japanese post-punk record of them all, Saboten’s Floor (1982).

Germany fell in love with Phew—her self-titled debut was engineered by Conny Plank; Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit from Can provided the bounce and beat—and she later collaborated with DAF’s Chrislo Haas, Einstürzende Neubauten’s Alexander Hacke, and Rabotti’s Thomas Stern.

America fell for Shonen Knife: the U.S. release of Burning Farm and Pretty Little Baka Guy were on regular rotation at the San Francisco branch of Tower Records the whole year and change I worked there in the late eighties. I left Tower just before the tribute Every Band Has A Shonen Knife Who Loves Them dropped; I’m guessing it was even more popular among the staff.

From our vantage point back then, Shonen Knife was Japanese punk. No doubt there were a handful of savvy music obsessives flying over the Pacific to hunt down the Vanity Records catalog with Friction and the Stalin blasting through their Walkman headphones. But for most of us, it was Shonen Knife. Because, first, that’s who got picked up here. And, yes, their poetically kooky English-language lyrics were charming. And, in their way, very late eighties.

Throughout the 1980s, Japanese punk proliferated, mutating into its inevitable offshoots (hardcore, new and no wave, minimal synth, post-punk, avant-pop), and women spearheaded several of the decade’s era-defining forces: After Dinner, C. Memi, the Comes, Go-Bangs, G-Schmitt, Kadorie, Katra Turana, Nurse, Rap. That’s just a handful of artists, but a good number compared to the previous decade in Japan, where women were mostly absent among the country’s psychedelic-era history makers. 

What caused the shift? Punk’s D.I.Y. ethos certainly had an impact. The Runaways were big enough in Japan to warrant a 1977 visit; they must have inspired some women to pick up a guitar, drumsticks, or a microphone. Some say it was Shonen Knife’s example that led to a surge in female-forward acts—Naoko and Atsuko showed that women could make their own music, their own way, and become popular overseas doing it. 

But, then, so did Phew.

Tune in this Wednesday, May 21, from 7-10 PM EDT, when Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins classic, deep, and rare eighties cuts by some four dozen Japanese she-punks.

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Oum Kalthoum & Her Rivals

A celebration of the enduring legacy of Oum Kalthoum with a three-hour throwdown pitting the Voice of Egypt against her biggest competition: Asmahan (pictured above) and Leila Mourad. 

Featuring super-rare tracks and 2 dozen related photographs from the period. 

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VISIONARIES

WHO: The Dark Wizard. The Sun of Latin Music. The inventive scholar/composer. The late underground innovator. The son of the world's greatest living voice. The arranger who changed everything.

WHAT: Six legends from Cameroon, France, Lebanon, Jamaica, Japan, and the USA

WHEN: Anytime

WHERE: Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio archives

WHY: Listen now to find out!

HIP HOP AFRICA

Pioneering, exploratory, conscious, leftfield, new and old school tracks straight outta Abidjan, Bamako, Cairo, Dakar, Fès, and beyond.

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BORN BAD

An island of infidels, a city so bad the world tore it in two, a reviled industry, an iconoclastic label, the country leading the rest of us in violent crimes, and the borough with the meanest streets.

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SXSE | 21st Century Sounds from South and Southeast Asia

Psychedelic bedroom recordings, dark ambient electronic, experimental conscious hip hop, riot grrrl lo-fi noise, and other 21st Century sounds from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam

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Zambia | Zanzibar | Zimbabwe

Three thrill-packed hours of field recordings, fuzzed-out garage & psychedelic rock, mbira, taraab, and more

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Golden Era: Australia

Aboriginal hip hop, Aussie postpunk, Avalanches rarities & remixes, indigenous country & blues, and electronica, experimental, prog, psych, and fuzz from down under.

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Divas vs. Queens

The diva of disco-funk laika; NYC's downtown music queen; Myanmar hip-hop's No. 1 diva; the Punjab's queen of classical; Lebanon's Diva of Music; Belgium's 80s electro-pop queen

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Arab Spring

Celebrate the Vernal Equinox with three hours of our hardest-rocking tracks from North Africa and the Middle East. 

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HEAD TO HEAD HIPPIES! w/Uncle Michael

Bodega proprietor Gary goes Hippie Head-to-Head with Hinky Dinky Time's Uncle Michael in a battle of "whoa, epic" proportions for WEEK TWO of WFMU's 2019 FUNDRAISING MARATHON!

We'll be giving away 9 thrilling CD and LP prizes, including some mind-expanding Latin psychedlic, African space music, and southeast Asian scorchers!

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Everyone who pledges $75 can choose to receive a copy of Bodega Pop Live Presents: BACK IN THE USSR: Soviet Rock + Underground, 1971-1990, a collection of 20 hand-picked tracks by state-approved rock groups and scofflaw miscreants from my massive personal super-posse of action-packed thrills from everybody's favorite 20th century empire!

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The Voice | WFMU Marathon Week 1 w/Dan Bodah

Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio welcomes co-host Dan Bodah for WEEK ONE of WFMU's 2019 FUNDRAISING MARATHON! 

We'll be giving away 9 thrilling CD and LP prizes, including some ear-searing Thai morlam & pop, mind-altering Egyptian electronica, trippy Tibetan field recordings, and some guitar-forward north African rock. Oh, and a brilliant soundtrack by Serge Gainsbourg, too.

Pledge in support of Bodega Pop Live

Everyone who pledges $75 can choose to receive a copy of Bodega Pop Live Presents: BACK IN THE USSR: Soviet Rock + Underground, 1971-1990, a collection of 20 hand-picked tracks by state-approved rock groups and scofflaw miscreants from my massive personal super-posse of action-packed thrills from everybody's favorite 20th century empire!

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The Only Language We Shared Were the Names of Our Favorite Artists

Music found in Amsterdam, Bangkok, Geneva, Luang Prabang, Kyoto, Marrakesh, Montréal, Paris, Quebec City, Tokyo, and Vientiane.

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You walk into a bodega, talk with a guy maybe 20-30 minutes, walk out with a bag of grime-encrusted CDs or cassettes, one or two of which may change your life

Some of our favorite music found in bodegas and immigrant-run media stores in New York City, Washington DC, Paterson, Berkeley, Portland, Seattle, Fort Worth, Montreal, Paris, Dallas, London, and beyond

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Woman Is the Future of Man

Tracks by half a dozen 21st Century artists: Midori, Aicha Maya, Wunmi, Juana Molina, Peaches, and M.I.A.

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Venezuela

Venezualan psychedelic, folk, hip-hop, joropo, electronic, pop, experimental, field recordings, post-rock, twee & more

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Before Partition | South Asian Recordings 1902-1947

Thrilling, rare, early 20th Century tracks from the subcontinent

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Araby

Three hours of scorchers from Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Iraq, Lebanon, and beyond

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Solid Foudation

This special show celebrates our dear friend and neighbor Melissa's milestone birthday. Melissa has delighted us with so many insanely beautiful and delicious baked goods over the years, we figured the least we could do was to provide her with a mix to mix her dough & batter by. A long-time lover of reggae, we hope she finds this special birthday program focused on Jamaican sounds inspiring

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MOTHERLAND

Field recordings and traditional sounds from Africa, from the early/mid-20th century to the 21st

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