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(mp3s below the page break) FUN —as I've come to know the Philadelphia-based combo, its sounds and membership, I realize how truly appropriate the name is for what they do. FUN are able to apply clever, inventive, fresh ideas to their improvised music-making, minus all the beard-stroking and pretentious, high-minded, music-conservatory-based conceptualization and back-patting that often accompanies similar activities. For their FUN Go! America! tour, a 50-year project that involves one performance a year, each in a different state, on the very date that that state [...]

Join Bronwyn Carlton & Jay Bachhuber of WFMU's Thunk Tank for a Meet-Up celebrating the opening of their first ever photography show at the Dino Eli Gallery (81 Hester St, Manhattan) on Saturday, December 3rd, 6-9pm. The show is titled Thunk Tank: Corpus Absurdum , and runs through December 8th. Details and RSVP for the Meet-Up here . All proceeds from the show benefit WFMU.

Follow your materialistic instincts to the WFMU Store : new items just added! From Radio Bear and Good Ship T-shirts to baseball caps to our shot glass or loaded dice , you're sure to find a great gift for the special weirdo in your life! Orders placed by Dec 16th will arrive in time for Chrimbus. Consume!!!

The Free Music Archive is looking for a freelance eveloper experienc ed with PHP, MySQL, Javascript and HTML/CSS. If you have the serious web dev chops, bring them to our headquarters in the magic factory that is WFMU. It would be great if you're local to NYC, but we will consider remote applicants, too. Please drop a line to dev -at- freemusicarchive -dot- org and give us some idea of your best work with urls, including your github account if you have one. If there are any music sites or apps that you like to use on a regular [...]

Several weeks ago, I was proud to have Gaye Black/Advert as a guest on the Peer Pressure segment of Diane's Kamikaze Fun Machine . Check the archive for the show here; she was a great guest, played strictly black metal, and we talked about her life post-Adverts - a lot of which consists of being an exhibiting collage/construction artist, and some photos of her work are displayed on the playlist. Those of you in the London region are lucky; she's curating a show that opens November 25th at the Signal Gallery that features art from [...]

Mister Matthews is one of those individuals, to be counted on one or two hands, that can truly be called My Castle of Quiet royalty. Having appeared on the show a total of four times, MM first appeared with Telecult Powers , the duo of himself and Witchbeam , the first band to ever play live on The Castle , and a project that helped to shape my notions of what the radio show itself was going to be. Later on, Telecult returned with Lala Ryan of Excepter, performing [...]

WFMU is very excited to announce a new collection of videos we're shooting & posting on our Vimeo page . Live bands by the truckload have long peeled the paint from the walls of our storied Love Room, and fer cryin' out loud it's high time we started visually documenting them! Check out excerpts from Sloan , Angels in America , Ed Schrader's Music Beat , Peaking Lights , live performances from the 2011 Record Fair, [...]

What did you get at the record fair, and how much of your rent money did you spend on it? Hear these questions answered by many WFMU DJs this week, as those of us who attended the annual music-buy-fest engage in a week-long listening party. But also! . . . Diane Kamikaze talks with Bob Bert, the rock drummer who's been with Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Boss Hog, and now Five Dollar Priest (to name [...]

Back in 2010 I posted the video for the Best Party's campaign song here on Beware of the Blog. The Party—which was started as a satire of regular Icelandic politics—actually won a majority in their local election, and their founder and chairman, Jon Gnarr, became mayor of Reykjavik. Now, through the magic of Benjamin Walker, and due to some mistake that no one can explain, I am to meet His Honorableness, Mayor Gnarr, and his chief strategist and campaign manager, Heida K. Helgadottir, when I introduce their keynote address on Saturday at the WFMU Radiovision Festival . [...]

Don't miss out on the best record shopping weekend of the year! Luxuriate in the presence of hundreds of thousands of records and CDs, great films and live music, plus tons of live WFMU broadcasts! WFMU Record Fair Oct 28th - 30th (Fri - Sun) Metropolitan Pavilion 125 W. 18th St, Manhattan Early admission ($25): Fri 4-7pm (includes unlimited re-entry all weekend) [...]

Singles Going Steady Week is NOW as we gear up for the Record Fair and as Shock and Awetober begins to draw to a close. DJs will be playing nothing but 7-inch singles on their shows all week, as they continue to fundraise using the new "silent" method that's been in place all month. We are having a barrel of fun but working very hard -- please make a donation to your favorite DJ or DJs! This way they'll have something pleasant to remember once they finally have time to re-shelve their records and do their laundry. Donate using a [...]

Congrats to WFMU's Mr. Fine Wine , whose Downtown Soulville radio show made it to the Village Voice's Best of 2011 list! Read all about it here . You can catch Downtown Soulville every Friday, 8-9pm on WFMU, or subscribe to the podcast here . Mr. Fine Wine also DJs at Botanica in Manhattan every Wednesday night. In other good press news, Tom Scharpling , host of the Best Show on WFMU , was profiled by Spin magazine [...]

On Oct 30th -- Day Three of WFMU's RadioVision Festival -- digital storytellers, creative developers and freeform thinkers will come together for a day of hacking and coding called Re-Inventing Radio . This isn't a typical hack day, because there are no pre-requisites for participation; you don't even need to know how to code (though if you do, you'll have plenty to tinker with between workshops from the Free Music Archive and Echo Nest ). Re-Inventing Radio is a forum for creative people of all stripes to collaborate with each [...]

Black metal has been, for years now, my power food—visceral nutrition for the body and spirit. For three hours on October 7, the heartiest of metal meals was served up on WFMU by the Southern-California collective known as The Black Twilight Circle . A grouping of ~than a dozen projects, the BTC releases most of their work on their own Crepusculo Negro label , and styles run the gamut from high-powered, tuneful hardcore (Mata Mata) to raw, darkly atmospheric gut-punch black (The Haunting Presence), to the most esoteric of psych-informed, highly creative bm (Shataan, Kuxan Suum.) Many, but [...]

As much as the word "monetize" makes me reach for my revolver - artists, musicians, writers, and radio stations are now competing for fewer and fewer dollars, as dinosaurs like the music industry and the publishing industry shuffle off the world stage. There is plenty of great work being made right now, but until new funding models emerge its difficult to imagine how creative types can sustain the output. On October 28th - 30th, WFMU is holding its first ever Radiovision festival . And on Saturday the 29th ( Symposium Saturday ) we will [...]

What can Internet Communities teach us about the future of Radio audiences? On October 28th - 30th, WFMU is holding its first ever Radiovision festival . And on Saturday the 29th ( Symposium Saturday ) we have a session focusing on three of the fastest growing online eipecenters of community activity: Anonymous, Makers and Meme culture. we've lined up four amazing individuals to help us better understand the values of these communities and to learn how they are driving the [...]

Now available as a podcast : Jonathan Ward of of Excavated Shellac swung by Talk's Cheap / WFMU to share gems from his personal collection of international 78 RPM records. The 90-min guest DJ set features tracks that have never been posted online, and also debuts selections from Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM . Compiled and edited by Jonathan Ward, the 4-disc set of 100+ previously unissued recordings also includes a 112-page softcover book. Opika Pende will be released next [...]

• Jason Sigal and WFMU - Jonathan Ward of Excavated She

The best comic book superheroes all have great origin stories. In fact you could make the case that characters like Batman , Spiderman , and Wolverine are great because they have origin stories that go beyond a lab accident or a secret formula (although this certainly works for Bouncing Boy ). On October 28th - 30th, WFMU is holding its first ever Radiovision festival . And on Saturday the 29th ( Symposium Saturday ) we are kicking things off with a discussion about Origin Stories with three radio superheros: [...]

Black metal continues to be the one genre that demonstrates casual and consistent growth, its definitions and trappings existing seemingly only to be challenged and downright shot down, as what falls under its banner morphs and evolves, until the term "black metal" comes to mean a broader and more diverse array of artists, both solo projects and bands, that are loosely dragged together by a punk / lo-fi / "traditional" bm influence, and where the borders are, no one knows (not even the extremely thorough Encyclopedia Metallum , though arguably they try the hardest and are intensely comprehensive.) [...]

• Seed Stock on MCoQ, 9.12.2011

Shock and Awetober rolls along, and the WFMU listener meet-ups are starting to come fast and furious. Locals can join Bob W. and B.R. this evening, Oct. 11, for conversation, arcade games, and an array of beers at Barcade in Jersey City! Details are here , and you can check out the list of other meet-ups here . They provide a great chance to talk with other listeners about WFMU, meet some of your favorite radio voices in person, and just generally have a decent time. . [...]