Wednesday, October 5, 2016

PLEDGE to WFMU's SILENT FUNDRAISER!



Pledge here to support WFMU during our silent fundraiser!

This month I’ll broadcast my 150th 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 BennettLiz BergKen FreedmanGaylord FieldsDoug Schulkind, and Brian Turner, to newer voices like GTDR stream-mates Mayuko FujinoJeff GolickJesse 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!!!

Friday, September 30, 2016

Aleppo to Benghazi


On Wednesday, October 5, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio will take a three-hour road-trip from Syria to Libya, with stops in Aleppo, Damascus, Amman, Cairo, and Benghazi. On the way we'll hear some of the region's most gripping avant-garde, black metal, collage, hip-hop, punk, synth-pop, and more. 

Bookmark the page and see you Wednesday night!



Sunday, September 25, 2016

WTF?!?


On Wednesday, September 28, from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins three hours of our favorite strange, peculiar, weird, queer, funny, bizarre, abnormal, eccentric, unusual, unconventional, and outlandish pop tracks from Acid Elf to Zoogz Rift.


Friday, September 16, 2016

Tim Abdellah Fuson | Moroccan Tape Stash


On Wednesday, September 21st, from 7 to 10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio welcomes ethnomusicologist, bass player, guinbri thumper, groove researcher, Gnawa muhibb and Moroccan cassette collector extraordinaire Tim Abdellah Fuson, who'll talk about and play his favorite Moroccan tracks – some of it never shared on
his legendary blog

Bookmark the page and see you Wednesday night!

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Bloc Rockin' Beats


Coming up at 7 PM EDT tonight on Bodega Pop Live, extended cuts from rare albums by Brygada Kryzys, Grazhdanskaya Oborona, Indust-Bag, Pekinška Patka, Phoenix, Plastic People of the Universe, The Rock & Jokes Extempore Band, Sfinx, and (pictured above) Trabant.


Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Bodega Pop Comes Alive!


On Wednesday, September 14, in addition to our regularly scheduled program, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio fills in for our neighbors to the south, Ridgewood Radio, with a 2 hour special broadcast focusing on live performances from Australia, Japan, Lebanon, Poland, Syria, and the United States.

Show begins at 2:00 PM EDT.


Monday, September 12, 2016

Eastern Roc


This Wednesday, September 14, from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio will spin three hours of music from half a dozen seminal Eastern Bloc rock groups: Brygada Kryzys, Grazhdanskaya Oborona, Indust-Bag, Pekinška Patka, Phoenix, Plastic People of the Universe, The Rock and Jokes Extempore Band, Sfinx, and Trabant. 



Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Don't Make Us Cry, Daw Mar Mar Aye



TONIGHT, from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins three mind-altering hours of music from Myanmar (Burma), much of it from Burmese cassettes -- ranging from traditional vocal and instrumental tracks, to covers that, despite their feigned loyalty to the originals, sound as though they were recorded via funhouse mirror -- none of it previously aired on western radio.




Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Gỗ Lim | Gái Làng


Before her death from lupus in 2012, Nga Nhí fronted popular Vietnamese riot grrrl band Gỗ Lim.

Though they were together for only a year, they recorded one of the greatest albums of the genre, Gái Làng, an angular but sprawling sonic assault with nods to Gang of Four, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fugazi, Bikini Kill, and the more experimental end of Vietnamese hard rock and metal, but ultimately unlike anything before it.

I'm going to open tonight's Bodega Pop Live show with half a dozen tracks from this astonishing, bar-raising, ear-altering album, and I'd love for you to be there to hear it with me.

Bookmark the page and see you at 7:00 PM EDT tonight!

Friday, August 26, 2016

GIRLS TO THE FRONT



On Wednesday, August 31, from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins three super-rawkin hours of anarcho-feminists, voodoo queens, bad-mouthed bitches, punk priestesses and riot grrrls from Asunción, Beijing, Cebu, Hà Nội, São Paulo, Singapore and beyond.