BEST OF 2015

This Wednesday night, December 30, from 7-10 PM ET, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio will lay down three hours of 2015 tracks that rocked our world, from Latina post-punk bands pounding out the jams in Buffalo, New York, to Syrian superstars ululating in exile in Cairo. 

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LOOKING BACK ON LOOKING BACK IN 2015

This Wednesday, from 7-10 PM ET, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio will feature extended listens to the year's top dozen reissues and historical compilations, including the HOLY GRAIL OF ARABIC PUNK FUNK, which just dropped last week.

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FARID AL ATRASH | ABDEL HALIM HAFEZ | WARDA

This coming Wednesday, December 9, from 7-10 PM, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio will spin three of the greatest live performances ever recorded: 

Farid Al Atrash's soulful "Awaal Hamsah," which opens with some 10 minutes of the most jaw-droppingly amazing oud playing you've ever heard, to say nothing of the superstar's deeply passionate vocal rendering

Abdel Halim Hafez's heart-breaking "Mawood," which includes not only Hafez's hands-down most gut-wrenching vocal turn ever, but some bonus funky fretwork laid down by Arabic music's greatest guitarist, Omar Khorshid

Warda's super-fierce "Ahdounu al-Ayam," one of the Algerian legend's slowest burn live performances, recorded at the height of The Singer of Her Generation's powers.

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RADIO FREEFORM VIETNAM

Join Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio tonight from 7-10 PM ET for three hours of ethnic minority folk, blues, southern theater music, hip hop, soul and jazz from Hà Giang to Ho Chi Minh City.

Listen to the show (starts at 7:00 PM)