JULISSA VALE

Brooklyn-bred drummer and percussionist Julissa Vale studied with Johnny “Mr. Boogaloo Blues” Colon and Jimmy Delgado, a journey that led her to perform with numerous artists, including Victor Jones, Mino Cinelu, and Tato Torres y Yerbabeuna. She has been artist in residence for several New York City colleges and hosts “On the Rocks with Jules” Mondays from 7 PM – 9 PM on KPISS.FM. Julissa visits the bodega on Wednesday, February 24, from 7 PM – 10 PM to share some of her grooviest tracks from Latin America.

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ALGERIANS

On Wednesday, February 15, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spun three hours of Algerian psych and progressive, Berber metal, Meghrebi rap, O.G. chioukhs and cheikhates, dark Kabylie folk, raw raï, Muslim oudists, and Jewish pianists.

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CRAZY EIGHTIES

Three hours from a dozen albums by born-again Nigerian pop stars, queer Spanish filmmakers, American art world turntablists, Japanese punk poets, trans Turkish divas, and other krazy kids who helped make the decade worth revisiting. 

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DRINKING ELECTRICITY

Three hours of forgotten American and European post-punk, hidden Iranian hip hop, exquisite Lebanese pop, and just enough Japanoise to set your teeth on edge.

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NIEMEN

A celebration of the life and work of Czesław Niemen, from his early 60s James Brown-influenced soul recordings, through his 70s synthesizer experiments, to his inexplicably bizarre but brilliant final album of 2001 before succumbing to cancer in 2004.  

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FRESH DRESSED | American Hip Hop 1979 - 1989

TONIGHT, from 7-10 PM ET, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio will spin three hours of classic and rare hip hop from the year it went on record to the hottest day of the last summer of the eighties. 

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RIDICULOUS SUBLIME

TONIGHT, from 7-10 PM ET, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio goes from the sublime to the ridiculous ... and back again. But not necessarily in that order.

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Панк Революция!

TONIGHT, from 7 to 10 PM ET, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio celebrates A three-hour celebration of mostly Soviet-era Russian punk rock, punk folk, and post-punk featuring classic and obscure tracks from pioneers like Viktor Tsoi, Egor Letov and Yanka Diagileva to contemporaries Dolphin, Kirpichi, Knife for Frau Müller--and much more.

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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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