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Brian Fauteux
2 days ago
Terrible news about the end of CHUO, The University of Ottawa's campus station. This is the result of the removal of the student fee levy that partially funded the station.
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University of Ottawa's campus radio station to go off the air | CBC News
CHUO 89.1 FM will cease live programming Dec. 15. One host compared hearing the news to getting 'hit by a freight train.'
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/after-50-years-university-of-ottawa-s-campus-radio-station-to-go-silent-9.7009687
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The Guardian
7 days ago
Frank Gehry, legendary Canadian-American architect, dies aged 96
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Frank Gehry, legendary Canadian-American architect, dies aged 96
The architect, whose work included the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, died after a brief illness Frank Gehry, one of the most influential and distinctive talents in American architecture, died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles following a brief respiratory illness, his chief of staff confirmed. He was 96. Gehry, the most recognizable American architect since Frank Lloyd Wright, was one of the first to embrace the potential of computer design, and pioneered a distinctively exuberant style of bravura power, whimsical and arresting collisions of form. His most famous work remains the Guggenheim Museumin Bilbao, a fantastical, titanium-clad composition on the NerviĂłn River which received international acclaim upon its opening in 1997, heralding a new era of emotive architecture. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/dec/05/frank-gehry-dead?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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The final broadcast of Reggae Schoolroom with Jeff Sarge starts in 5 minutes on WFMU--not to be missed!
www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
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13 days ago
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Ann Powers
13 days ago
Oh and of course! Here is Books We Love. I chose books by Neko Case (now THAT'S a memoir) and Ian Leslie (best Beatles book in a long while)
apps.npr.org/best-books/#...
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Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#tags=staff+picks%7Cfor+music+lovers&view=covers&year=2025
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WFMU
15 days ago
WFMU's legendary DJ Jeff Sarge has announced that the last episode of his Reggae Schoolroom radio show on WFMU will be this Sunday, November 30th. Join Jeff to show your appreciation for this outstanding 41-year run!
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Stereogum
16 days ago
Coca-Cola sued for "pirating Johnny Cash's voice"
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Coca-Cola Sued For "Pirating Johnny Cash's Voice"
Johnny Cashâs estate is suing Coca-Cola for allegedly hiring a tribute singer to imitate the country music legendâs voice in a commercial. The ad began airing in August, and the complaint was filed Tu...
https://stereogum.com/2481007/coca-cola-sued-for-pirating-johnny-cashs-voice/news
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The Quietus
24 days ago
'Itâs easy to look on LL Cool J today as something of a side-story to the major figures in hip hopâs evolution, yet back in the golden era, LL was hip hopâs first solo superstar, a teenage colossus of the mic' LL Cool J: Radio Versus Mama Said Knock You Out - Radio turns 40 today!
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Jeff Sarge is a central figure in WFMU history and in the NYC-area reggae history. End of an era.
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26 days ago
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jesse jarnow
26 days ago
utter respect to this
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legend. my sunday mornings will never be the same.
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jesse jarnow
27 days ago
just learned about the delightful 1940s.nyc, which matches tax assessment photos with old maps for maximum street-view time travel. here's the almanac house, where pete seeger & woody guthrie threw basement gigs & partied with dashiell hammett & nicholas ray, among others.
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Burning Ambulance (website/newsletter/record label)
29 days ago
Today's BA newsletter is about some of the most uncanny music I've heard since beginning the Leo Records reissue project: a series of haunted, mind-warping "folk song" albums by Evgeny Masloboev and his daughter, Anastasia Masloboeva:
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Evgeny Masloboev
Russian folk songs transformed into esoteric sound art
https://burningambulance.substack.com/p/evgeny-masloboev
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Vocal Fry on WFMU
about 1 month ago
The Disintegration Loops brought things back around for Billy Basinski and for many of us whose minds were spiraling in Sept 2001 like sheafs of paper gyring in the air currents over downtown.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/a...
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How âThe Disintegration Loopsâ Saved William Basinskiâs Life
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/arts/music/disintegration-loops-william-basinski.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U8.P2u4.O-bllMEjg4wE&smid=url-share
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The Wire Magazine
about 1 month ago
Tonight on
@resonancefm.bsky.social
& Resonance Extra, Lucy Thraves hosts Adventures In Sound and Music, playing tracks by Ivor Cutler, Meredith Monk (pictured), TAAHLIAH, Kalia Vandever, Marianne Faithfull, and more. Tune in from 9pm GMT:
extra.resonance.fm/schedule
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Dave Mandl
about 1 month ago
New from me in the
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social
: a review of tech critic Cory Doctorow's latest book, "Enshittification," an essential roadmap to why the internet continues to get worse. (Free to read, no paywall.)
lareviewofbooks.org/article/gian...
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Giant Platforms of Shit | Los Angeles Review of Books
Dave Mandl catches a whiff of Cory Doctorowâs anatomy of platform âenshittification.â
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/giant-platforms-of-shit
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Alyx Vesey
about 1 month ago
Check out todayâs Popular Music Books in Process at 530e. Masha Salazkina and Usha Iyer will be talking to
@erazlogo.bsky.social
about their forthcoming book on Boney M's global reach. Contact
@eweisbard.bsky.social
for the Zoom link. Schedule link below.
iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
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Eric Harvey
about 2 months ago
hello friends, loved ones, and haters, I wrote a long piece about the last 25 or so years of "indie," inspired by
@chrisdeville.bsky.social
's fine new book
open.substack.com/pub/ericdhar...
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Radio Survivor
about 2 months ago
Read our report on the shutdown of Cleveland State University's student-run radio station WCSB. Student leaders spoke to a packed crowd at the CBI conference
@askcbi.bsky.social
on Friday and are voicing their desire for FM to be returned for their use.
www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/10/wcsb...
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WCSB Student Leaders and Supporters Fight Against Takeover of Cleveland State University's Student-Run College Radio Station - Radio Survivor
On Friday, October 3, as World College Radio Day was being celebrated across the country and around the globe, students were locked out of their long-time home at college radio station WCSB 89.3 FM at...
https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/10/wcsb-student-leaders-and-supporters-fight-against-takeover-of-cleveland-state-universitys-student-run-college-radio-station/
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Behold the countercultural origins of dating apps: "Gay power has now made available an IBM 360 computer dating service specially designed for gay people for the exclusive use of the homosexual community"/"The first COMPUDATE PARTY. Computer-type date matching, a happening, music, dancing" EVO, 1968
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Ireland is making basic income for artists (including musicians) permanent. It can be done.
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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Ireland is locking down basic income for artists. Could Canada follow suit? | CBC Radio
Ireland has made permanent its three-year pilot program that gave monthly income payments to thousands of artists. Canadian artists are hoping to use that program's success to build momentum for guara...
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/canada-ireland-basic-income-9.6938453
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kendraplex (zsa/zsa)
about 2 months ago
gotta raise $450 more for WFMU and tune in tonight 9pm eastern!!!!!!!! i love our music scene that's why i do this
pledge.wfmu.org/donate?progr...
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jesse jarnow
about 2 months ago
well, yeah, that's precisely why it's pretty fucked up, bro.
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Jennifer Waits
about 2 months ago
College/community radio is alive and well! My new tour report features
@wmpg.org
at University of Southern Maine. WMPG has been in the limelight thanks to a documentary making the festival circuit. The buzz within the station was also palpable during my visit.
www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/10/radi...
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Radio Station Visit #181: WMPG-FM at University of Southern Maine - Radio Survivor
One of the first things that I noticed when I arrived at WMPG-FM in Portland, Maine was a familiar-looking three-dimensional grey cardboard sign perched in the lobby window. Hidden behind a chair and ...
https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2025/10/radio-station-visit-181-wmpg-fm-at-university-of-southern-maine/
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James Fallows Tierney
about 2 months ago
From me in
@lpeblog.bsky.social
today: The lesson of the US investment in Intel is "public capital without accountability. The result is not sovereign wealth but corporate captureâan arrangement that entrenches incumbent power while eroding the stateâs ability to direct economic development."
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Matthew Guariglia
about 2 months ago
In 1975, after decades of illegally surveilling & sabotaging left-wing movements in the US (and assassinating people abroad) the Senate painstaking wrote out the government's playbook for destroying movements. In January, the first commercial and streamlined version of this report hits bookstores.
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The Church Committee Report
After fifty years, this shocking report—released in a single, readable volume for the first time—is still the most accurate account of US government spying on its own citizens., The Church...
https://wwnorton.com/books/the-church-committee-report
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Possibly the first WFMU T-shirt ever, circa 1973-74. Image uses a photograph of an original freeform crew from 1969.
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Jennifer Waits
about 2 months ago
Thanks to WBRS-FM at Brandeis University for the fun tour last week. College radio is alive and well!
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Peretsky
about 2 months ago
newsroom.spotify.com/2025-10-16/a...
There it is yall, the inevitable conclusion of Perfect Fit Content and Leanback Listening. The platform no longer requires you musician peasant. An in-house slop factory for every medical office waiting room and yoga studio catered to your every passive need.
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Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Merlin, and Believe to Partner With Spotify to Develop Artist-First AI Music Products â Spotify
AI technology is advancing quickly, bringing both new creative possibilities and challenges for the music industry. Itâs critical for the music industry to join forces and act together to protect crea...
https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-10-16/artist-first-ai-music-spotify-collaboration/
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kendraplex (zsa/zsa)
about 2 months ago
Please pledge to my radio show FREAKING OUT on wfmu, I can only bear asking this one time. Thank you I really appreciate the opportunity to be effective.
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Pledge your Support to WFMU!
Keep WFMU Weird! Donate to our Year-End Hellraiser Fundraiser. Visit wfmu.org/pledge.
https://pledge.wfmu.org/donate?program=F8&step=landing
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Ann Powers
about 2 months ago
My colleague Sheldon Pearce's obituary for D'Angelo
www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...
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D'Angelo, R&B's reluctant icon, has died at 51
The expressive singer made just three albums, including his 1995 debut, Brown Sugar, but retreated from the public after each. He had been battling cancer, according to a statement from his family.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/14/nx-s1-5574071/dangelo-dead-at-51-obituary
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The Wire Magazine
about 2 months ago
Against The Grain: Whatâs wrong with hauntology? In The Wire 501,
@robinjames.bsky.social
argues that the influential cultural theory of hauntology does not account for developments in Black creative practices and music of the late 20th and early 21st centuries
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/c...
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Against The Grain: Whatâs wrong with hauntology? - The Wire
In The Wire 501, Robin James argues that the influential cultural theory of hauntology does not account for developments in Black creative practices and music of the late 20th and early 21st centuri...
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/collateral-damage/against-the-grain-robin-james-critiques-hauntology
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WFMU
about 2 months ago
WFMU's Hellraiser Fundraiser continues through October. The Hellraiser gets us through the cold winter months, when the funds we raised in our spring Marathon are dwindling. Special programs will happen all month! Help us out with a donation and grab one of two new T-shirts.
pledge.wfmu.org
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Dave Mandl
about 2 months ago
Last night's edition of my radio show is history, which means you can now hear it in the
@wfmu.bsky.social
archives. Listen or ogle the playlist here:
www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
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It's Complicated with Dave Mandl
Audio & playlist from October 13, 2025
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/157136
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"Everything about Jeff Buckleyâs musicâthe way he sang, the gospel hooks and choir-boy falsettos, the swooping leaps in time signatures, the hushed cathedral hymn-like melodies, the ululating scale-climbing and the smoldering, unbridled balladeering..." Now reading: Daphne Brooks, Grace 33 1/3
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Peretsky
2 months ago
in an industry that relies so much on cultural capital, we can actually win this one small battle.
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Alyx Vesey
2 months ago
ICYMI, here's last week's Popular Music Books in Process with David Hesmondhalgh, Raquel Campos Valverde, Shuwen Qu, and Zhongwei Li about music streaming as a global concern.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSqY...
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"There is no negotiating with investment capital, and once it sinks its teeth into a cultural organization of any kind, the essence of that organization almost inevitably begins to evaporate." Shawn Reynaldo on how Barcelona's SĂłnar festival sold out.
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SĂłnar's Founders Sold Outâand Now They're Out of the Festival Entirely
Adding to an already tumultuous year, the long-running Barcelona event is suddenly getting new leadershipâand highlighting the risks of culture engaging with investment capital.
https://firstfloor.substack.com/p/sonars-founders-sold-outand-now-theyre
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Observations of Deviance
2 months ago
Hear
@melvingibbs.bsky.social
discuss his forthcoming album
@hausumountain.bsky.social
Sonny Sharrock, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Henry Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Wadada Leo Smith, Pete Cosey and more.
bsky.app/profile/obso...
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Observations of Deviance
2 months ago
I'm looking forward to Melvin Gibbs' 2026 book: "How Black Music Took Over the World"
@melvingibbs.bsky.social
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/melvi...
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Jaap Blonk
2 months ago
Ce soir à 19h30 à l'Oeuil De Poisson, Québec!
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Future of Music Coalition
2 months ago
Works out to roughly $19,656 USD per enrolled musician at a cost of about $7.43 per Irish citizen. In contrast, the US Govt spends only about 59 cents per citizen on the entire national endowment for the arts (across all artistic disciplines).
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Brian Fauteux
2 months ago
CJSR FM is launching a monthly newsletter and you can sign up to receive it here:
www.cjsr.com/2025/10/cjsr...
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Coming soon! New CJSR newsletter
Visit the post for more.
https://www.cjsr.com/2025/10/cjsrnewsletter/
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
2 months ago
EFF has been member-supported for three and a half decades. Join today so we can continue to fight for a better digital future for decades to come:
eff.org/35years
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35 Years for Privacy & Free Speech
EFF is on a mission to protect your civil liberties and human rights wherever they meet tech, but itâs only possible with your help.
https://supporters.eff.org/donate/EFF35--SMXX
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Jason Koebler
2 months ago
Some exciting news: 404 Media just won a grant via Muckrock to investigate book bans and educational censorship in the U.S. The plan is to file hundreds of public records requests around the country and to report on and archive all the documents for public use:
www.404media.co/help-us-inve...
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Help Us Investigate Book Bans and Educational Censorship Around America
404 Media has gotten a grant to unearth public records about systematic censorship of books, schools, and libraries in the U.S.
https://www.404media.co/help-us-investigate-book-bans-and-educational-censorship-around-america/
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Robin James
2 months ago
Iâm in this monthâs print issue of
@thewiremagazine.bsky.social
writing about what I take to be the limitations of the concept of hauntology â read online here:
reader.exacteditions.com/issues/14422...
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Ann Powers
2 months ago
This is a story, music writers
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Dave âthe Spazzâ Abramson
2 months ago
Like other public media stations, WFMU has been hit by the dissolution of the CPB. FMU is gonna meet this new wrinkle with an amped-up month of programming known as The Hellraiser. Tune in for a fresh edition of Demos To Spazz By--Tonight at 9 ET
pledge.wfmu.org/donate/MS
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Dave Mandl
2 months ago
For the new issue of The Wire magazine I reviewed two excellent new books: "Why Sound Matters" by Damon Krukowski (
@dadadrummer.bsky.social
) and the memoir by former Gentle Giant frontman Derek Shulman. Subscribe:
@thewiremagazine.bsky.social
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Jennifer Waits
2 months ago
Especially in light of the shutdown of
@wcsb.bsky.social
yesterday, it's important to know that college radio IS thriving and plays a vital role in many students' lives. Thanks to
@emwhitenoise.bsky.social
for this great piece that takes a closer look at why Gen Z is excited about college radio.
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Dan DiPiero
2 months ago
It's publication day! See below for links/events/playlists/all things Big Feelings. With tremendous gratitude to everyone who helped along the way.
dandipiero.substack.com/p/pub-day
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Pub Day
Big Feelings Indeed
https://dandipiero.substack.com/p/pub-day
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