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. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Frank Gehry, legendary Canadian-American architect, dies aged 96

The final broadcast of Reggae Schoolroom with Jeff Sarge starts in 5 minutes on WFMU--not to be missed! www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

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/#...

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!

Coca-Cola sued for "pirating Johnny Cash's voice"

'It’s easy to look on LL Cool J today as something of a side-story to the major figures in hip hop’s evolution, yet back in the golden era, LL was hip hop’s first solo superstar, a teenage colossus of the mic' LL Cool J: Radio Versus Mama Said Knock You Out - Radio turns 40 today! buff.ly/LYHslbO

Jeff Sarge is a central figure in WFMU history and in the NYC-area reggae history. End of an era.

utter respect to this @wfmu.bsky.social legend. my sunday mornings will never be the same.

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.

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: burningambulance.substack.com/p/evgeny-mas...

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...

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 📷 by Amber Mahoney

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...

Check out today’s 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...

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...

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...

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

Ireland is making basic income for artists (including musicians) permanent. It can be done. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

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...

well, yeah, that's precisely why it's pretty fucked up, bro.

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...

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 capture—an arrangement that entrenches incumbent power while eroding the state’s ability to direct economic development."

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.

Possibly the first WFMU T-shirt ever, circa 1973-74. Image uses a photograph of an original freeform crew from 1969.

Thanks to WBRS-FM at Brandeis University for the fun tour last week. College radio is alive and well!

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.

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. pledge.wfmu.org/donate?progr...

My colleague Sheldon Pearce's obituary for D'Angelo www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...

Against The Grain: What’s 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...

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

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...

"Everything about Jeff Buckley’s music—the 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

in an industry that relies so much on cultural capital, we can actually win this one small battle.

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...

"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 Sónar festival sold out. firstfloor.substack.com/p/sonars-fou...

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...

I'm looking forward to Melvin Gibbs' 2026 book: "How Black Music Took Over the World" @melvingibbs.bsky.social www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/melvi...

Ce soir à 19h30 à l'Oeuil De Poisson, Québec! oeildepoisson.com/le-bal-orphi...

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).

CJSR FM is launching a monthly newsletter and you can sign up to receive it here: www.cjsr.com/2025/10/cjsr...

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

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...

I’m in this month’s print issue of @thewiremagazine.bsky.social writing about what I take to be the limitations of the concept of hauntology — read online here: reader.exacteditions.com/issues/14422...

This is a story, music writers

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 @wfmu.bsky.social

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

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.

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