BEST OF 2015

This Wednesday night, December 30, from 7-10 PM ET, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio will lay down three hours of 2015 tracks that rocked our world, from Latina post-punk bands pounding out the jams in Buffalo, New York, to Syrian superstars ululating in exile in Cairo. 

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LOOKING BACK ON LOOKING BACK IN 2015

This Wednesday, from 7-10 PM ET, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio will feature extended listens to the year's top dozen reissues and historical compilations, including the HOLY GRAIL OF ARABIC PUNK FUNK, which just dropped last week.

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FARID AL ATRASH | ABDEL HALIM HAFEZ | WARDA

This coming Wednesday, December 9, from 7-10 PM, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio will spin three of the greatest live performances ever recorded: 

Farid Al Atrash's soulful "Awaal Hamsah," which opens with some 10 minutes of the most jaw-droppingly amazing oud playing you've ever heard, to say nothing of the superstar's deeply passionate vocal rendering

Abdel Halim Hafez's heart-breaking "Mawood," which includes not only Hafez's hands-down most gut-wrenching vocal turn ever, but some bonus funky fretwork laid down by Arabic music's greatest guitarist, Omar Khorshid

Warda's super-fierce "Ahdounu al-Ayam," one of the Algerian legend's slowest burn live performances, recorded at the height of The Singer of Her Generation's powers.

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RADIO FREEFORM VIETNAM

Join Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio tonight from 7-10 PM ET for three hours of ethnic minority folk, blues, southern theater music, hip hop, soul and jazz from Hà Giang to Ho Chi Minh City.

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UNTHANKSGIVING

This Wednesday, November 25, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio will spin three hours of indigenous artists and the music of cultural and religious minorities from the Americas to Asia, featuring Inuit electronica, Samoan hip hop, Kurdish protest music, Ainu love songs, field recordings from the South American and African rain forests, and more.

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THREE TEXANS: ROKY ERICKSON, JANDEK, DANIEL JOHNSTON

On Wednesday, November 18, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio saluted three of the Lone Star State's most beloved artists: Roky Erickson, Jandek, and Daniel Johnston. We heard seminal tracks, rare outtakes, inspired cover versions, collaborations, and live performances all guaranteed to make you feel, to paraphrase Emily Dickinson, as if the top of your head were taken off.

Listen to the show now in the archives

UP TO, AND INCLUDING, ASAKAWA MAKI

One of the greatest Japanese singers of the 20th century, Asakawa Maki -- or, simply, Maki  -- got her start singing at U.S. military bases and cabarets in the 1960s. (Honest Jon's has just released a survey of her recordings from the 1970s, with liner notes by Alan Cummings.)

We don't have the Honest Jon's CD yet, but we do have just shy of 20 of Maki's albums. On Wednesday, November 11, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spun a handful of great Maki tracks from our collection in the context of Japanese popular music from the twenties to the sixties, when she began her career. 

Listen to the show now in the archives

DISCO! DISCO! DISCO! DISCO!

A special show dedicated to my sister, Kelley, featuring extended tracks, remixes, mutant disco, and all manner of funktastic, dance-oriented music from around the world.

Listen to the show now in the archives!

FELA, RELOADED

Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio salutes one of the 20th century's greatest artists, Fela Anikulapo Kuti.

For three ear-searing hours, we spun rediscovered early recordings, remastered classics, remixes, samples, collaborations, and tracks by long-time associates and progeny.

Listen to the show now in the archives

IMPORTANT NOTE!

October is Crunch Time at WFMU and we need your support! Make a pledge of any amount to WFMU this October and not only will you be a radio hero, but you can also enter your pet into our mascot contest (check out last year's contestants here)! Don't miss out on the new swag, including our Bird Beak T-shirt and Shredding Chipmunk T-shirt!

SINGLES GOING STEADY

From Monday October 19th to Sunday October 25th, most WFMU DJs will be paying tribute to the little records with the (mostly) big holes. Tune in for seven days of seven inch records, as we celebrate our silent fundraiser and mascot contest this October.

Next Wednesday, October 21, from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio will jump on the Singles Going Steady bandwagon to spin three hours of rare 45s from Accra to Tel Aviv. Special sets devoted to impossible-to-find Japanese flexidiscs from the 1980s, Algerian garage & psych on 7", and postpunk singles from Bangkok to Sydney.

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