NO YORK | No Wave, Mutant Disco, Nascent Hip-Hop

On Wednesday, December 7, from 7-10 PM ET, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio celebrates New York City at its noisiest, with a three-hour tour of seventies and eighties scenes from the Lower East Side to the South Bronx.

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Epiphanies

The Epiphanies column has been running in the U.K. music magazine The Wire for nearly 20 years. Each month a different writer, musician and/or academic describes a life-changing encounter with music. Last year, The Wire released a collection of 52 Epiphanies, ranging from Geeta Dayal's discovery of extremely repetitious music as a bridge between herself and her classical Indian music enthusiast parents to Matthew Collin's remembrance of Belgrade independent radio station B92 as a beacon of resistance in 1990s Serbia. 

TONIGHT, from 7-10 PM ET, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins a few dozen life-changing tracks discovered over the last 20 years in bodegas and mom-and-pop run media stores from Flushing, Queens, and Oakland, California, to the Medina of Marrakesh and the banlieues of Paris.

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Sub-Saharan 70s | Rock, Funk, Psych

On Wednesday, Novemer 23, from 7-10 PM ET, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins seventies rock, funk and psych from Benin and Burkina Faso to Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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FUCK YOU, DONALD TRUMP

What does protest music sound like in 2016? 

In the weeks leading up to the election, and in the days that have followed, hundreds of American, Asian, bi, black, Canadian, European, female, gay, Jewish, Latin, lesbian, male, Muslim, queer, straight, trans and white artists have written, produced, and disseminated anti-ignorance, anti-racist, anti-misogynist, anti-homophobic, anti-Trump tracks ranging from punk, folk and metal, to hip-hop, glitch, and sound collage.

Join us tonight from 7-10 PM ET for a three-hour sonic middle finger to the world's most dangerous jackass.

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Bedroom Stars

"Bedroom Stories" by Yang Fan

On Wednesday, November 9, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio focuses on home recording artists from around the world, from legendary Nashville artist R. Stevie Moore to Beijing rocker-turned-recluse composer (former Hang on the Box guitarist) Yang Fan. 

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Rock around the ROK

On Wednesday, November 2, from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins three hours of Korean rock, acid folk, progressive rock and psychedelia. 

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A CENTURY+ OF SINGLES

It's Singles Going Steady Week on listener-supported WFMU!

On Wednesday, October 26, Bodega Pop Live spun some of our favorite cylinders, 78s, 45s, Cassette and CD singles, one-off MP3 tracks and YouTube hits from the 1900s to today.

Listen to the show now in the archives

There is only a week or two left of WFMU's 2016 Silent Fundraiser, and now is the time to get up, stand up, find your ATM or credit card, sit back down again, and donate any amount to keep this incredible cultural resource alive. 

SYNTHESIZE ME

On Wednesday, October 19, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spun three hours of synth pop, minimal synth, techno, house, and related synth-y goodness.

Listen to the show now in the archives

WFMU's 2016 Silent Fundraiser runs through the month of October. If great music you'll likely hear nowhere else is something you care about, if you're a listener of my show or any of the nearly 100 other programs the station offers up every week, please make a tax-deductible donation. Every amount helps!

LIKE A ROLLING STONE

On Wednesday, October 12, on Bodega Pop Live, the world responded to the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band with feminist revisions, politically savvy samples, cuckoo covers, pharmaceutically fueled tributes, and more!

Listen to the show now in the archives

WFMU's 2016 Silent Fundraiser runs through the month of October. If great music you'll likely hear nowhere else is something you care about, if you're a listener of my show or any of the nearly 100 other programs the station offers up every week, please make a tax-deductible donation. Every amount helps!

PLEDGE to WFMU's SILENT FUNDRAISER!

Pledge here to support WFMU during our silent fundraiser!

This month I’ll broadcast my 150^th show on WFMU’s Give the Drummer Radio – 450 hours of action-packed tracks by artists you’ve rarely (if ever) heard anywhere else, much of it found in immigrant-run bodegas in New York, Montreal, Chicago, Paris, Dallas, Seattle, and beyond.

Tonight’s show is no different: 3 hours of sizzling tracks from Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Libya, focusing mostly on music produced over the last several years in Aleppo, Damascus, Amman, Cairo, and Benghazi.

I’m just one of nearly 100 DJs at listener-supported WFMU – from legends like Vicki Bennett, Liz Berg, Ken Freedman, Gaylord Fields, Doug Schulkind, and Brian Turner, to newer voices like GTDR stream-mates Mayuko Fujino, Jeff Golick, Jesse Kaminsky, and Amanda Nazario – who serve up audio delights you may never hear, even on the most adventurous stations, let alone Clear Channel, Spotify, etc.

If the shared cultural experience of mind-warping music radio curated by people with awe-inspiring collections and zero obligation to advertisers, corporations, or government agencies is something you care about, then show your love by pledging here, and ensure its continued existence on this planet – which, I hardly need to remind you, is your planet, too.

Pledge here to support WFMU!!!