Waves of Fear

On Halloween, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio took you on a journey to Hell and back via psychedelic, hard rock, and hip hop from Belgium, Chile, and Germany, to Japan, Korea, Thailand ... and beyond

Never fear! Listen to the show now in the archives

"Singles" Going Steady

A special 2018 WFMU Year End Fundraiser show in which the solo careers of artists formerly of iconic groups from Brazil, Germany, Japan, Morocco and the UK are interwoven back into a(n un)se(e)aml(y)ess whole.

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Requiem for a Dream

Three super-downer hours of Tsarist- and Soviet-era sounds plucked from four now-dead or failing Russian media stores in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.

Come wallow with us!

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Some of My Best Friends Are DJs

Every year, the highly-disciplined DJs at WFMU each create a special swag offering for listeners who pledge to keep America's longest running freeform radio station on the air. In addition to T-shirts, stickers, DIY publications, beer cozies, and other surprises, many broadcasters compile thrill-packed limited-edition CDs packed with of all manner of obscure or long-out-of-print tracks--there are even those who go so far as to connive and cajole their favorite musicians to write or cover and record songs just for their one-time, pledge-only release.

We kicked off our October Silent Fundraiser with a special show featuring (mostly) international tracks from the last five years (or so) of these delightful digital optical discs of polycarbonate plastic.

Bookmark the show and see you Weds night!

VELVET

Three thrill-packed hours of Czech + Slovak folk, pop, underground, hip hop, psych, and more

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Last Dance

Some of the hottest -- and raunchiest -- dance and party tracks from Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the Americas

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FANIA

Founded by Dominican-born Johnny Pacheco and Italian-American Jerry Masucci in 1964, Fania Records took its name from a song by Cuban singer Reinaldo Bolaño and made international legends of a mostly pan-Latin roster including Puerto Ricans Cheo Feliciano, Héctor Lavoe, Adalberto Santiago, and Bobby Valentín; Panamanian Rubén Blades; Cuban Celia Cruz; and New Yorkers Ray Barretto, Willie Colón, and Larry Harlow (Lawrence Ira Kahn).

This special show features bomba, boogaloo, latin jazz and rock, plena, salsa, son, soul, and more from Fania CDs plucked from the shelves of Spanish Harlem's Casa Latina Music and El Barro Music Center; Bronx's Casa Amadeo; Brooklyn's San German Records; and the legendary Record Mart in the Times Square / 42nd Street subway station.

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Radio Agadez

Folk, electronica, radio collage, sung poetry, Tuareg blues, and more from the Republic of Niger

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Italo

Classics and deep cuts from Mina, Moroder, and a handful of our favorite psychedelic and progressive tracks from The Boot.

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A Trip to Nouri Brothers

Discs plucked from the shelves of Paterson, New Jersey's greatest self-proclaimed"shopping center": Nouri Brothers, where new stock butts heads with decades-old, dust-covered gems we didn't even know were available on this continent.

This three-hour tribute features Morocco's Grande Voix d'el Aita, Syria's King of the Oud, some long out-of-print Oum Kalsoum, mid-period Nass El Gihwane and Jil Jilala, nascent raï, jaw-droppingly rare Fayza Ahmed, and much, much more.

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