My Jamaican Gal

On Wednesday, November 1, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spun our favorite mento, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, dancehall, and disco by Jamaican-born women, mostly from our personal collection, plucked over the years from the shelves of VP Records in Jamaica, Queens. 

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Radio Ethiopia | 5 Hour Special Show

On Wednesday, October 25, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio celebrated one of the greatest music cultures on the planet. We spun a few early 20th century sides, several field recordings, a bit of Amharic rap, and a few 21st century tracks recorded in Amsterdam and Washington, DC, as well as a generous selection of cuts from the golden age popularized by Francis Falceto's legendary Éthiopiques series.

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Bodega Pop's Jukebox 45s

On Wednesday, October 18, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio took a cue from Peanut Butter Wolf and filled a jukebox with some of our favorite 45s from around the world. 

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The Waves

On Wednesday, October 11, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spun three hours of Avant-Pop, Balearic, Coldwave, Darkwave, Electronic, No Wave, Synthwave, Tecno Brega, UK Garage, Vaporwave, and more.

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Puerto Rico

On Wednesday, October 4, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spun three hours of bomba, boogalo, danza, hip-hop, jíbaro, plena, post-punk, psychedelic, reggaeton, salsa, and more from one of the richest musical cultures on the planet.

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War / Machine

Three hours of leftfield and conscious hip-hop, Italian industrial music from the 80s, selected tracks from the most gripping Indonesian album of the last 20 years, and more

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Cambodian Bodega

On Wednesday, September 20, from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins three hours of Chaiyam, film song, Khmer classical, psychedelic, synth-pop, and more from CDs found in Cambodian bodegas in the Bronx, Portland, and Seattle.

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Typical (Atypical)

Three hours of mostly recent discoveries plucked from bodegas in Astoria, Corona, Elmhurst, Forest Hills, Greenpoint, Harlem, Jackson Heights, and LeFrak City.

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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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