Yemeni Bodega

Three hours of disco, folk, funk, hip hop, pop, qasidah, street improvisations, and traditional music from the Republic of Yemen and the Yemeni diaspora.

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Super Japan 5 | Super taboo to super zoo.

Over five Wednesday nights in August, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio took a 15-hour alphabetical tour of extreme examples of genres (tape music, zeuhl), states of being (violent, wounded) and more from everybody’s favorite stratovolcanic archipelago. 

On tonight's show (7-10 PM EDT): Super taboo, super take, super tape music, super thanks, super theme, super thunder, super town, super underground, super Uoredoms, super utsuroi, super venom, super violent, super vitamins, super want, super weeping, super wet, super wild, super wind, super witch, super wounded, super eX-girls, yesterday, super yé-yé, super youth, super zany, super zebra, super zeuhl, super zipper, super zoo.

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Super Japan 4 | Super pastiche to super syzygy.

Over five Wednesday nights in August, join Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio on a 15-hour alphabetical tour of extreme examples of genres (psychedelic, ryukoka), states of being (peaceful, raw) and more from everybody’s favorite stratovolcanic archipelago. 

On tonight's show (7-10 PM EDT): Super pastiche, super peace, super pop, super prelude, super prog, super psychedelic, super pulse, super pussycat, super Q, super question, super radio, super raw, super resonance, super reverie, super rock 'n' roll, super ruins, ryukoka, super super shamisen, super Shibuya-kei, super shima-uta, super silence, super single, super space, super stoicism, super subterranean, super syzygy.

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Super Japan 3 | Super kabuki to super onkyokei.

Over five Wednesday nights in August, join Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio on a 15-hour alphabetical tour of extreme examples of genres (mashup, noise), states of being (lugubrious, nuts) and more from everybody’s favorite stratovolcanic archipelago. 

On this coming Wednesday, August 16 (7-10 PM EDT): Super kabuki, super kamakazi, super Kanye, super kawaii, super kiss, super live, super lolita, super loud, super love, super lugubrious, super machine, super math rock, super mashup, super medley, super metal, super micro, super movie, super new wave, super noh, super noise, super nuclear, super nuts, super opera, super onkyokei.

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Super Japan 2 | Super eighties to Super Junky Monkey.

Over five Wednesday nights in August, join Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio on a 15-hour alphabetical tour of extreme examples of genres (enka, onkyokei), states of being (abject, euphoric) and more from everybody’s favorite stratovolcanic archipelago. 

On this coming Wednesday, August 9 (7-10 PM EDT): Super eighties, super electronic, super enka, super era, super exotic, super fail, super fantasy, super folk, super funky, super fusion, super gagaku, super ghost, super glitch, super group, super hair, super harsh, super heavy, super high, super I, super ice, super imagination, super J-pop, super J-rock, super jelly, super jet, Super Junky Monkey.

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Super Japan 1 | Super abject to super dusk.

Over five Wednesday nights in August, join Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio on a 15-hour alphabetical tour of extreme examples of genres (enka, onkyokei), states of being (abject, euphoric) and more from everybody’s favorite stratovolcanic archipelago. 

On tonight’s show (7-10 PM EDT): Super abject, super acid, super Ainu, super ASMR, super avant-garde, super bad, super bass, super beatbox, super b-girl, super big, super bored, super brothers, super bubblegum, super cha cha, super child star, super chiptune, super city, super cosmic, super cult, super cute, super dancin’, super dark, super desire, super dirty, super disco, super DIY, super DJ, super dream, super drums, super dusk. Super Japan!

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STARS FROM ANOTHER SKY | Parts 1 and 2

Since 1997 I've been collecting Arabic music from bodegas and mom & pop media shops in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Boston, Montreal, Paris, and Marrakesh.

This week I'll be playing some of my favorite tracks from the Arab world over two 3-hour shows on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio. :

Part 1: TONIGHT, Wednesday July 26, 7-10 PM EDT

Part 2: Friday July 28, 9 AM-noon EDT

Hope to see you at one or the other ... or both!

Stars from Another Sky

On Wednesday, July 26, from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins three soul-searing hours of divas, forgotten greats, icons, living legends, and one-hit wonders from the Arab world.

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Mock Doug

This Friday, July 21, from 9AM-noon, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio takes the wheel for stream master and uber-DJ Doug Schulkind, who is on vacation. Tastes like Doug, but ... 100% fill-in!

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Pop and Its Discontents

On Wednesday, July 19, from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins three hours of extreme 21st century pop and anti-pop from Awkwafina (USA), Big Freedia (USA), Die Antwoord (South Africa), GFOTY (UK), Yasmine Hamdan (Lebanon), Omodaka (Japan), Shere Thu Thuy (Vietnam), and Wunmi (Nigeria).

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