TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio we spin deeply felt, left-of-the-dial tracks from Burmese CDRs, Egyptian cassettes, and Italian vinyl
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
Unholy Grails | 7-10 PM EDT
TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, I'll spin tracks from Cassettes, CDs, and vinyl records I can't believe I own -- and you may not, either (albeit for different reasons). Music from Algeria, Cambodia, Lebanon, Morocco, UK, USA, and former USSR.
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
Imagine Having Been Rita Lee | 7-10 PM EDT
TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: Famously kicked out of the pioneering psychedelic rock band she co-founded, Rita Lee moved on to a wildly successful solo career that ultimately earned her the title of Brazil’s Queen of Rock. This tribute draws from a half-century of her output, from her sixties and seventies work in and with Os Mutantes to her final official album in 2012.
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Cosmic Vibration: Otherworldly sounds from the world we're living out | 7-10 PM EDT
TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, we spin experimental and traditional music from Algeria, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Egypt, France, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Paraguay, Rwanda, Turkey, and the USA
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
Memory Tracks: A Lao Family's Story through Music | 7-10 PM EDT
On tonight's show: Special guest Rattana Bounsouaysana shares a family’s migration story through interview sound clips, music, and commentary, as they make their way from Laos to the United States in the 1970s. Rattana Bounsouaysana is a student in the Master of Arts in Oral History program at Columbia University. Her work explores the Lao diaspora and the intersection of memory, identity, and history.