"The Arab Decade," Part 4
Every Wednesday in December, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio is spinning what was arguably the most dynamic, compelling, innovative, and politically and socially significant popular music of the 2010s
Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Every Time I Thought About It I'd Burst Into Tears: The Arab Decade Part 3
Now Playing: "The Arab Decade," Part 3
Every Wednesday in December, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio is spinning what was arguably the most dynamic, compelling, innovative, and politically and socially significant popular music of the 2010s
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Every Time I Thought About It I'd Burst Into Tears: The Arab Decade Part 2
"The Arab Decade" continues!
Every Wednesday in December, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio will spin what was arguably the most dynamic, compelling, innovative, and politically and socially significant popular music of the 2010s
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Every Time I Thought About It I'd Burst Into Tears: The Arab Decade Part 1
Every Wednesday in December, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio will spin what was arguably the most dynamic, compelling, innovative, and politically and socially significant popular music of the 2010s
Wednesday, November 27, 2019
Outliers 1970s-80s
Now Playing: Moroccan funk, Turkish punk, Rwandan synthpop, Cambodia's first and last rock album, Egyptian disco, and America's most mysterious collective
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Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Friday, November 15, 2019
Burman, Burman & Bhosle
Bollywood classics, deep cuts, and rarities by the industry's most iconic musical family: S.D., R.D., and Asha
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Radiomundo: A Century of Latin Music
Now playing on Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, three hours of incredible, varied Latin music, from early popular recordings on 78 to some of the 21st century's most thrill-inducing tracks
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Sudanese
Soul, funk, hip hop, field recordings and more from the Sudans.
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Wednesday, October 23, 2019
İstanbul
Sounds found in the world's fourth largest city. Rare cassettes, reissued 78s, buskers, rockers, arabesque
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Unsteady State
Disorienting Kurdish, Puerto Rican, Lebanese, Kenyan, Norwegian, Japanese, Cuban, Togolese, Malian, and American music
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Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Music at the Edge of Pop
On Wednesday, September 18, from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins three hours of Ptôse, АукцЫон, Nisennenmondai, أبو الليف, Italian electronica, and fake Kanye
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Sunday, September 8, 2019
Can't Stop, Won't Stop
On Wednesday, September 11, from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio celebrates the resilience of New York City with three hours of proto, nascent, classic, and golden age hip hop.
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Turkish Psych!
TONIGHT, from 7-10 PM EDT, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins some of our favorite Anatolian rock, funk, folk, and arabesque
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Saturday, August 24, 2019
Halo of the Moon on Earth
Classical, dabke, field recordings, folk, pop, and traditional sounds from Syria.
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Friday, August 9, 2019
See You in Beirut
Avant-garde, electronic, post-rock, and underground from the world's most resilient city.
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Friday, August 2, 2019
AFRICOMP
Our favorite tracks from our favorite African compilations. The greatest rock, funk, disco, psychedelic, pop, and punk you'll ever hear, or your money back.
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Around the World in 78 RPM
Shellac from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and islands of all shapes and sizes.
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Sunday, July 21, 2019
17,508 Islands: Sonic Indonesia
Avant garde, dangdut, gamelan, indie, harsh noise, kroncong, psychedelic rock, and more from the Republic
Saturday, July 13, 2019
Heads Rolled: Revolutionary French Popular Music
Trail-blazing French popular music, from early hip hop and synth pop to psychedelic rock legends Magma (pictured above).
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Sunday, July 7, 2019
Wednesday, July 3, 2019
Through a Glass Darkly
Music from dark places, dark times, dark emotions, dark situations, dark visions. Featuring the 70s blues of Asakawa Maki, European 80s darkwave, visionary Argentinian experimentation of the 90s and aughts, Spanish riot grrrl of the last half-century, a singular voice exiled from Myanmar, and downtempo sounds from the Middle East and North Africa.
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Friday, June 21, 2019
Tell Me the Truth Before One of Us Dies
Underground sounds from the world's most vertical city
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Saturday, June 15, 2019
Audible Empire
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Saturday, June 8, 2019
Radio Mogadishu
Three hours of heart-stoppingly great balwo, funk, pop, qaraabi, soul and more from Somalia.
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Friday, May 31, 2019
Mike and Tsoi
Music by Mikhail (Mike) Naumenko and Viktor Tsoi, who led two of Soviet Russia's greatest bands: Zoopark and Kino, respectively.
We spun the songs they're best known for, as well as deep cuts, an early house concert (see pic above), acoustic versions, tribute covers, and more.
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Sunday, May 26, 2019
1966
On Wednesday, May 29, Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins three hours of boogaloo, pop, surf, bossa nova, psychedelic, folk, field recordings, ska, and more, all recorded in the year the decade exploded
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Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Revenge of the Japanese She-Punks 1979-89
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By the time Shonen Knife were passing around the 50 copies of their self-released cassette demo, Everybody Happy (1982), Japanese all-girl and female-fronted acts had already left a series of deep and lasting marks on the archipelago’s punk scene. The short list would have to include Aunt Sally’s pioneering Aunt Sally (1979) and lead singer Phew’s bold leap forward Phew (1981), as well as Plastics’ B52’s-inspired Welcome Plastics (1979), Noise’s brilliantly stripped-down Emperor (1980), Tolerance’s darkly futuristic, proto-EDM Divin and Mizutama Shobodan’s sublime Maiden’s Prayer Da Da Da! (both 1981), and probably the greatest Japanese post-punk record of them all, Saboten’s Floor (1982).
Germany fell in love with Phew—her self-titled debut was engineered by Conny Plank; Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit from Can provided the bounce and beat—and she later collaborated with DAF’s Chrislo Haas, Einstürzende Neubauten’s Alexander Hacke, and Rabotti’s Thomas Stern.
America fell for Shonen Knife: the U.S. release of Burning Farm and Pretty Little Baka Guy were on regular rotation at the San Francisco branch of Tower Records the whole year and change I worked there in the late eighties. I left Tower just before the tribute Every Band Has A Shonen Knife Who Loves Them dropped; I’m guessing it was even more popular among the staff.
From our vantage point back then, Shonen Knife was Japanese punk. No doubt there were a handful of savvy music obsessives flying over the Pacific to hunt down the Vanity Records catalog with Friction and the Stalin blasting through their Walkman headphones. But for most of us, it was Shonen Knife. Because, first, that’s who got picked up here. And, yes, their poetically kooky English-language lyrics were charming. And, in their way, very late eighties.
Throughout the 1980s, Japanese punk proliferated, mutating into its inevitable offshoots (hardcore, new and no wave, minimal synth, post-punk, avant-pop), and women spearheaded several of the decade’s era-defining forces: After Dinner, C. Memi, the Comes, Go-Bangs, G-Schmitt, Kadorie, Katra Turana, Nurse, Rap. That’s just a handful of artists, but a good number compared to the previous decade in Japan, where women were mostly absent among the country’s psychedelic-era history makers.
What caused the shift? Punk’s D.I.Y. ethos certainly had an impact. The Runaways were big enough in Japan to warrant a 1977 visit; they must have inspired some women to pick up a guitar, drumsticks, or a microphone. Some say it was Shonen Knife’s example that led to a surge in female-forward acts—Naoko and Atsuko showed that women could make their own music, their own way, and become popular overseas doing it.
But, then, so did Phew.
Tune in this Wednesday, May 21, from 7-10 PM EDT, when Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio spins classic, deep, and rare eighties cuts by some four dozen Japanese she-punks.
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Saturday, May 11, 2019
Oum Kalthoum & Her Rivals
A celebration of the enduring legacy of Oum Kalthoum with a three-hour throwdown pitting the Voice of Egypt against her biggest competition: Asmahan (pictured above) and Leila Mourad.
Featuring super-rare tracks and 2 dozen related photographs from the period.
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Saturday, May 4, 2019
VISIONARIES
WHO: The Dark Wizard. The Sun of Latin Music. The inventive scholar/composer. The late underground innovator. The son of the world's greatest living voice. The arranger who changed everything.
WHAT: Six legends from Cameroon, France, Lebanon, Jamaica, Japan, and the USA
WHEN: Anytime
WHERE: Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio archives
WHY: Listen now to find out!
Sunday, April 28, 2019
HIP HOP AFRICA
Pioneering, exploratory, conscious, leftfield, new and old school tracks straight outta Abidjan, Bamako, Cairo, Dakar, Fès, and beyond.
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019
BORN BAD
An island of infidels, a city so bad the world tore it in two, a reviled industry, an iconoclastic label, the country leading the rest of us in violent crimes, and the borough with the meanest streets.
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Sunday, April 14, 2019
SXSE | 21st Century Sounds from South and Southeast Asia
Psychedelic bedroom recordings, dark ambient electronic, experimental conscious hip hop, riot grrrl lo-fi noise, and other 21st Century sounds from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam
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Saturday, April 6, 2019
Zambia | Zanzibar | Zimbabwe
Three thrill-packed hours of field recordings, fuzzed-out garage & psychedelic rock, mbira, taraab, and more
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Golden Era: Australia
Aboriginal hip hop, Aussie postpunk, Avalanches rarities & remixes, indigenous country & blues, and electronica, experimental, prog, psych, and fuzz from down under.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Divas vs. Queens
The diva of disco-funk laika; NYC's downtown music queen; Myanmar hip-hop's No. 1 diva; the Punjab's queen of classical; Lebanon's Diva of Music; Belgium's 80s electro-pop queen
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Friday, March 15, 2019
Arab Spring
Celebrate the Vernal Equinox with three hours of our hardest-rocking tracks from North Africa and the Middle East.
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
HEAD TO HEAD HIPPIES! w/Uncle Michael
Bodega proprietor Gary goes Hippie Head-to-Head with Hinky Dinky Time's Uncle Michael in a battle of "whoa, epic" proportions for WEEK TWO of WFMU's 2019 FUNDRAISING MARATHON!
We'll be giving away 9 thrilling CD and LP prizes, including some mind-expanding Latin psychedlic, African space music, and southeast Asian scorchers!
Everyone who pledges $75 can choose to receive a copy of Bodega Pop Live Presents: BACK IN THE USSR: Soviet Rock + Underground, 1971-1990, a collection of 20 hand-picked tracks by state-approved rock groups and scofflaw miscreants from my massive personal super-posse of action-packed thrills from everybody's favorite 20th century empire!
Monday, March 4, 2019
The Voice | WFMU Marathon Week 1 w/Dan Bodah
Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio welcomes co-host Dan Bodah for WEEK ONE of WFMU's 2019 FUNDRAISING MARATHON!
We'll be giving away 9 thrilling CD and LP prizes, including some ear-searing Thai morlam & pop, mind-altering Egyptian electronica, trippy Tibetan field recordings, and some guitar-forward north African rock. Oh, and a brilliant soundtrack by Serge Gainsbourg, too.
Everyone who pledges $75 can choose to receive a copy of Bodega Pop Live Presents: BACK IN THE USSR: Soviet Rock + Underground, 1971-1990, a collection of 20 hand-picked tracks by state-approved rock groups and scofflaw miscreants from my massive personal super-posse of action-packed thrills from everybody's favorite 20th century empire!
Thursday, February 21, 2019
The Only Language We Shared Were the Names of Our Favorite Artists
Music found in Amsterdam, Bangkok, Geneva, Luang Prabang, Kyoto, Marrakesh, Montréal, Paris, Quebec City, Tokyo, and Vientiane.
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Friday, February 8, 2019
You walk into a bodega, talk with a guy maybe 20-30 minutes, walk out with a bag of grime-encrusted CDs or cassettes, one or two of which may change your life
Some of our favorite music found in bodegas and immigrant-run media stores in New York City, Washington DC, Paterson, Berkeley, Portland, Seattle, Fort Worth, Montreal, Paris, Dallas, London, and beyond
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Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Woman Is the Future of Man
Tracks by half a dozen 21st Century artists: Midori, Aicha Maya, Wunmi, Juana Molina, Peaches, and M.I.A.
Monday, January 28, 2019
Venezuela
Venezualan psychedelic, folk, hip-hop, joropo, electronic, pop, experimental, field recordings, post-rock, twee & more
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Saturday, January 19, 2019
Saturday, January 12, 2019
Araby
Three hours of scorchers from Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Iraq, Lebanon, and beyond
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Sunday, January 6, 2019
Solid Foudation
This special show celebrates our dear friend and neighbor Melissa's milestone birthday. Melissa has delighted us with so many insanely beautiful and delicious baked goods over the years, we figured the least we could do was to provide her with a mix to mix her dough & batter by. A long-time lover of reggae, we hope she finds this special birthday program focused on Jamaican sounds inspiring
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
MOTHERLAND
Field recordings and traditional sounds from Africa, from the early/mid-20th century to the 21st
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