My Big Fat Greek Neighborhood | 7-10 PM EST

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, we spin electronic, éntekhno, garage, laïkó, pop, and rebetiko sounds from the '60s to '80s, mostly found within walking distance of our apartment here in Astoria, Queens

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Playing Favorites | 7-10 PM EST

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, we'll be spinning tracks from around the world we love, but haven't, for a whole host of reasons, played before

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Female Killer Movie Songs | 7-10 PM EST

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: An all-vinyl focus on pop cinema and cinematic pop featuring women from Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, France, India, Korea, Lebanon, Pakistan, Poland, and the USA

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Yukihiro Takahashi (1952-2023)

 

TONIGHT from 7-10 PM EST on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: Yukihiro Takahashi was best known in the United States for his work in Yellow Magic Orchestra and his subsequent solo career. But the prolific drummer and vocalist was involved in some two dozen outfits over the years, including sixties group sounds unit The Fingers and older brother Nobuyuki’s early seventies soft-rock band Buzz. This show will sample from all five-and-a-half decades of the late, great artist’s career.

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Downtown Japan | 7-10 PM EST

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio: Launched in 1995 with titles by Ikue Mori, the Ruins, and other avant-garde artists, Tzadik’s “New Japan” series highlighted and expanded upon an ongoing conversation between downtown New York City and the archipelago. Releases ranged from amped-up bubblegum and eccentric acapella to electronic noise and distressed digital information. This show will feature favorite tracks spanning the full 17 years of the series’ output.

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1973 | 7-10 PM EST

 

NOW PLAYING: Recordings from around the world that turn 50 this year. Join us?

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Looking Back on 2022 | 7-10 PM EST

 

TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, we spin some favorite tracks from new, reissued, rediscovered, and archival compilation 2022 releases

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Looking Back on Looking Back in the Bodega | 7-10 PM EST

 

Tonight, we ready ourselves to start our 10th year on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, revisiting nine years of Bodega Pop compilations

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Manuel Göttsching (1952-2022)

 

Tonight, from 7-10 PM EST on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, we mark the passing of influential musician and composer Manuel Göttsching with a tribute focused on his work with Ash Ra Tempel and The Cosmic Jokers in the 1970s and his solo work and Ashra output in the 1980s

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THE ARAB AVANT-GARDE | 2020s

 

7-10 PM EST TONIGHT on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio, we spin pandemic-era experimental music from the Arabic-speaking world

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