Developed in 1962 by the Philips Company, the first cassette tapes were released on August 30, 1963, at the Berlin Radio Show. This episode of Bodega Pop presents a three-hour celebration of the format focused on international cassette-only releases sourced from compilations, music blogs, friends, and Gary’s personal collection. HT to Andrew Simon for alerting us to this anniversary.
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
Comb & Razor Sound | 7-10 PM EDT
TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: Writer, music historian, producer, researcher, blogger, and DJ Uchenna Ikonne's Comb & Razor Sound released just seven long-playing records in as many years. But the vision, the packaging, the whole approach had a significant impact on reissue culture -- and the music is unimpeachable.
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop | 7-10 PM EDT
TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: A deep-cut, idiosyncratic tour through the first three+ decades of hip hop recordings, 1979-2012-ish, one track per year
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
HOT MESS | 7-10 PM EDT
TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: Freeform as freefall. The fucked. The hated. Doomsayers. Out of control and over the top. The despondent. Los Locos. Y mas.
Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Fables of the Reconstruction of the Fables | 7-10 PM EDT
TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: How we reimagine the past in music. The Parisian avant-gardist. An invasion from Mars(eille). The Lebanese conceptual artist. An Iraqi-American archivist. Cambodian-American bootleggers. A Vietnamese-American icon self-publishing her glory days. Mujeres en el underground metalico. All Bagged Up.