60 Years of the Cassette | 7-10 PM EDT

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: 

Developed in 1962 by the Philips Company, the first cassette tapes were released on August 30, 1963, at the Berlin Radio Show. This episode of Bodega Pop presents a three-hour celebration of the format focused on international cassette-only releases sourced from compilations, music blogs, friends, and Gary’s personal collection. HT to Andrew Simon for alerting us to this anniversary.

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Comb & Razor Sound | 7-10 PM EDT

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: Writer, music historian, producer, researcher, blogger, and DJ Uchenna Ikonne's Comb & Razor Sound released just seven long-playing records in as many years. But the vision, the packaging, the whole approach had a significant impact on reissue culture -- and the music is unimpeachable.

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It's Bigger Than Hip Hop | 7-10 PM EDT

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: A deep-cut, idiosyncratic tour through the first three+ decades of hip hop recordings, 1979-2012-ish, one track per year

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HOT MESS | 7-10 PM EDT

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: Freeform as freefall. The fucked. The hated. Doomsayers. Out of control and over the top. The despondent. Los Locos. Y mas.

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Fables of the Reconstruction of the Fables | 7-10 PM EDT

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: How we reimagine the past in music. The Parisian avant-gardist. An invasion from Mars(eille). The Lebanese conceptual artist. An Iraqi-American archivist. Cambodian-American bootleggers. A Vietnamese-American icon self-publishing her glory days. Mujeres en el underground metalico. All Bagged Up.

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