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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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