IT'S ALL TOO MUCH

The popular Egyptian singer rumored to have been poisoned, stabbed, and castrated by the Saudi royal family. Strange, super-rare Vietnamese pop emanations. The Nigerian superstar with 27 wives. Emphatic tracks from Italy, Korea, and New Zealand. The forgotten Osaka she-punk pioneers whose limited complete discography dropped this month. The most volatile post-punk band of all time.

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Don't Stop Til You Get Enough Beatles Again

Today is the 50th anniversary of the release of The Beatles' least important LP (The Beatles Again), the rights of which Sony bought from the Michael Jackson estate in 2016.

You can see, perhaps, where we're going with this?

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Wake Up

Three hours of Nigerian disco, funk, rock, psychedelic, and soul

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TEXAS

TONIGHT from 7-10 PM ET on Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, we'll be spinning Afropunk, Lao electronica, southern psychedelic, Lone Star funk, Tejano, chopped & screwed, and more

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Red Tears | 7-10 PM ET Tonight

A soundtrack for an imaginary Zhang Yimou film. A cinematic sound collage of Chinese classical, experimental, folk, noise, opera, and shidaiqu

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SUPERSONIC FUTURE

A deep dive into late 20th & early 21st Century Russian disco, electronic, folk-punk, pop, post-punk, surf-rock & underground

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The Seven Year Itch

Six years ago, on this day in 2014, we aired our first episode of Bodega Pop Live on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio. 

Tonight, from 7-10 PM ET, we're serving up a seven-set suite to christen our seventh season, featuring sex-positive reggae, silver-age Brasilian hip hop, Moroccan superstars Jil Jilala, psychedelic Indonesian, Egyptian chanteuse Nagat al Saghira's sweetest, a small selection of Perestroika rock, plus a handful of favorite tracks from the bodega.

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Let's Meet in the Afterlife

Psychedelic bubblegum, mor lam, folk, luk thung, and rock sounds from Thailand

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SHAKE YOUR MOLECULES

Coldwave, darkwave, Italo-disco, minimal synth, new wave, synthpop & more from the legendary Crispy Nuggets music blog

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Every Time I Thought About It I'd Burst Into Tears: The Arab Decade Part 4

"The Arab Decade," Part 4

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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 

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