Carrier Belleuse Pierre La Maison De Musique ( Public Domain ) This April, WFMU and the Free Music Archive are challenging artists everywhere to create new recordings and contemporary arrangements of historic compositions available in the public domain. We’re calling this our Revitalize Music Contest . Every song (except for perhaps " Happy Birthday ") will someday fall out of copyright. Archives such as the IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library , Musopen and the Public Domain Information Project chart the vast and ever-expanding troves of public domain music. [...]
<a href="https://www.wfmu.or g/marathon/pledge.php" _mce_href="https://www.wf mu.org/marathon/pledge.php&quo t; target="_blank"& amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;Support WFMU!</ a> This is the second and final week of WFMU's fundraising Marathon and we are still less than halfway to our goal, which must be met by Sunday, March 17th! Make a pledge now! Special highlights this week: TONIGHT - Tuesday, March 12 (9pm-mid) A.C. Newman and John Hodgman join Tom Scharpling on the Best Show on WFMU for 3 [...]
WFMU's 2013 Marathon is approaching! Our annual on-air fundraising party hits your ears March 4th - 17th. Make a pledge now! Check out our new 2013 swag , featuring two new t-shirts ("Alley Cat" design by Gary Panter , and "Radio Zombies" design by Mayuko Fujino ), a truckload of new DJ Premiums , and more! All new and current Swag for Life members are eligible to receive our new messenger bag, and early pledgers [...]
Blissfully unaware of what was to come later in the month, in preparation for WFMU's Web-only, "silent" fundraiser, the plan for My Castle of Quiet was to mount three special programs; The Sonics of Terror , a soundtracks-only special; and two double bills— one improvised / experimental "noise" bill , and one metal bill, the latter showcasing two bands that I'd been "courting" for some months—Chicago's excellent Sun Splitter , passing through on tour, and Brooklyn's relatively unsung black-metal giants, Yellow Eyes . The latter program was to top off a [...]
In a never-ending quest to dig out the subterranean sounds from all corners of the earth, WFMU has hooked in with the first-ever Alchemy At Zahar festival for what's sure to be a most amazing event in the Moroccan desert province of Zagora on April 18-21st. The event, which is being put together as a philanthropic, government-sponsored endeavor to help create forward motion in a wells project in order to bring a dwindling population back into the province, will have support from the Alchemy Association, the Association of Development for People with Specific [...]
Mark your calendars for Sunday, January 13th! WFMU is hosting a Mini-Record Fair and blowout benefit show at The Bell House in Brooklyn! The fair happens 11-5pm (no admission after 3pm due to space constraints), and at 7:30 we'll be kicking off a night of music mayhem with Arrington Di Dionyso of Old Time Relijun, followed by the Dot Wiggin Band (of the Shaggs!), the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and Texas psych/gospel dynamos The Relatives! [...]
A smattering of our sound slab selections for the slid-away '12: SCOTT McDOWELL (The Long Rally, Fridays 9-Noon) C S Yeh - Transitions (De Stijl) Muscles of Joy - Muscles of Joy (Watts of Goodwill) Vanessa Rossetto - Exotic Exit (Kye) The Trypes - Music for Neighbors (Acute) Agali Ag Amoumine - Takamba (Sahel Sounds) Mark Fell - Periodic Orbits of a Dynamic System Related to a Knot (Editions Mego) Jason Lescalleet - Songs About Nothing [...]
It was a night of true magic, back in early October, when some of Brooklyn's finest improvisors gathered at WFMU / My Castle of Quiet , to offer unique, exclusive performances, on a double-bill to support the station's pre-Hurricane-Sandy, Web-only fundraiser for that month. First, Lea Bertucci , a master of spacious atmospheres, and gloomy, contemplative soundscapes, on her trademark combine of physical, open-reel tape and electroacoustic bass clarinet. Lea's two sets from this night evoke The Grand Canyon, and Utah's wide-open [...]
Calling all WFMU fans in the Crescent City and environs! WFMU pals Euclid Records , WWOZ , WTUL , and a bunch of fabulous bands are hosting a benefit event on our behalf at Siberia (2227 Claude St, New Orleans) TONIGHT! Quintron & Miss Pussycat Die Rotzz Guitar Lightnin' Lee and more! Hurricane Sandy caused tons of electrical damage to our [...]
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It feels like we are livin' a dream. Unfortunately, it's not a very good one here in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Our thoughts go out to everyone who was affected by the disaster, and we are seeking your input as we compile a list of ways to help ( map for NYC | Nonsense List Resources | OccupySandy ). The super storm hit WFMU at full force, knocking out both of our transmitters (91.1 is still down), taking out our phones lines and kocking out electricity at our studios, including our live stream. [...]
October is getting really scary for us here at WFMU... The month is nearly over and we have yet to hit the 50% mark for our silent fundraising goal! Help save the station from insolvency with your pledge . Snag our new turntable t-shirt (designed by Nick Dewar) for a pledge of $50 or more. Better yet, grab the shirt AND our incredible holiday music compilation, "WFMU's War on Christmas" for a pledge of $100. The holiday comp has an exclusive, unreleased version of "Jesus Christ" [...]
This week, WFMU launched into silent fundraiser mode with our 31 Days of October campaign, and it is going strong! In an effort to pay our bills without resorting to a second pledge drive, we decided it was better to come up with a month of incredible on-air specials , listener meet-ups , and events (while taking pledges online and through the mail). Pledge right here! Support WFMU! [...]
Showcase the creative possibilities of open digital archives! WFMU and the Free Music Archive proudly introduces a video remix contest called " Sound for the Moving Image: The Past Re-imagined As The Future ." The contest invites artists everywhere to mix video from the incredible Prelinger Archives Collection with audio from the Free Music Archive to create new masterpieces for the commons. The point of this contest is to showcase the creative possibilities of open digital archives like these. VIDEO: HOW TO GET [...]
Punk / hardcore, much like its absentee father rock, will never die, and goes on, as new generations of bands are formed and blossom. Particularly since the mid-2000s, there are some excellent, exciting new bands emerging, and Shaved Women are high on the list of artists not only keeping the genre alive, but also re-shaping and redefining it for our times. In Shaved Women's songs, I hear great bands of yore, like The Fiendz, The Freeze, early Circle Jerks and Black Flag. Real punks are brutally sincere and earnest in their work—no [...]
I had the pleasure of speaking with Jayne County on my program on Thursday; she hit the stage at Bowery Electric on Thursday for the Max's Kansas City Alumni Reunion shows (which goes on through Sunday). Check the archive for the interview. I heard that Jayne might be at La Mama before her much anticipated Max's reunion performance, so it was off to the Ellen Stewart Theatre first! The La Mama show was- Jukebox Jackie: Snatches of Jackie Curtis -an exhilarating collage performance containing elements of the Warhol star's life; [...]
Positive feedback continues to filter in for this live set, presented on the air a few weeks ago. The Spiritual Switchboard, a collaboration between two of Brooklyn's synth heavyweights, is without question a summit to be reckoned with. Jesse DeRosa (of Baked Tapes , Grasshopper , The Hex Breaker Quintet / Quartet, Shingles, etc.) and Joshua Slusher ( OPPONENTS , Creeplings , The Grand Selector , et al.) are busy young men, overflowing with talent and a vibrant urgency to express themselves, and put it all out there, as much and as often as [...]
What is metal, or rock for that matter? While others scramble for last-minute sub-subgenrefication, I am happy just to watch those umbrellas widen, and the envelope swell and burst. Occultation are such a band, one that tastefully mines not-immediately-recognizable influences, and much like that pre-job interview adage, "just be themselves, they'll be fine." Fine they did do, having grown leaps and bounds since the impressive Somber Dawn demo, to a sound that defines itself throughout their debut full-length, Three and Seven , on Profound Lore. That first demo, and [...]
Thanks to a generous donation from glitch-pop superstar Max Tundra , WFMU has the original album artwork for his fantastic 2002 release "Mastered by Guy at the Exchange" ... and we're auctioning it off on eBay ! The painting is by Dando Moore, and measures a little bit larger than 12" square. We're also selling off a few rare records: The Wozard of Iz LP- 1968 hippie parody of the Wizard of Oz, by Mort Garson & Jacques Wilson. [...]
Monster Mash by J.R. Williams WFMU's 24 hour Ichiban webstream now features live shows!! Tune in every Wednesday night from 8 - 10 PM for Boogie Woogie Flu with Ted Barron ; Thursdays 1 - 3 PM for Matt Fiveash ; Fridays 3 - 5 PM for Debbie Does WFMU and Saturday nights 11 PM - 2 AM for a dance party with Dr. Filth and Greg Cartwright , live from the Admiral in Asheville, NC!!
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