I have a poem about the longest day of the longest month. It's called February fool's day, out today in the excellent journal @paratextos.bsky.social at www.paratextos.com/semana-diez

Swans at Brooklyn Steel on 10/7 before Michael asked us to please put our phones away.

Catarina Barbieri is curating the Venice Music Bienniale, bringing in a great variety of music unlike prior years. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/a...

If you see this, QTP w/a gif of a powerful woman

Fryers! @wfmu.bsky.social has arranged for your minds to receive correct & disciplined messages tonight from @jimthepoet.bsky.social while I am re-educated. Remember: Vocal Fry comrades ALWAYS report suspicious or treasonous content that does not glorify our Dear Leader (i.e., me) or our Workers!

Good black metal sounds like the wind; good doom metal sounds like the rain

See ya in the pit! TONIGHT! Sea Monkeys, The Stones, The Gaylord Fields All-Star Revue + DJ Rex! WFMU Benefit! Monty Hall, 43 Montgomery Street, Jersey City doors at 7:30, show at 8 @wfmu.bsky.social

Today in Terrible Tales of Teslas: picking up car at parking. Only exit is blocked by a Tesla - driver left & they can't move it. Why? It won't start w/o a pin code. Honestly no idea how long before I can get my car. At least the Tesla isn't on fire w/people autolocked inside.

Today is National Poetry Day in the UK. Because of the historic connections & ruptures betwixt the USA & UK, celebration of NPD is permitted (for now) in the USA so long as the poems are first & foremost American poems...

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Me and @jimthepoet.bsky.social at @wfmu.bsky.social

Note: This is not me.

Yma!

In these dark times, every now & then light shines forth when you least expect it. This glimmer is scheduled in advance though: tune in a beam of paradise on Tuesday at 8pm ET. wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

CDs I put together for supporters during the 2019 and 2022 @wfmu.bsky.social marathons. I've made about 20 of these mixes over the years, plus a pouch of 5 pins one year.

On the new Vocal Fry episode, Purple Haze & I take a quick trip thru Yma Sumac's records, from early 1940s Argentine sides as "Imma Sumack" to her 1971 rocksploitation comeback. We rounded out the hour w/some sweet yodels & more. Stream upon demand: www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Purple Haze & I about to fry y'all a mess if vocals at @wfmu.bsky.social in 10 minutes!

#WFMU got my attention when I saw their bumper stickers in multiple states & provinces, across two countries. Their #Halloween fund #HellRaiser starts in Oct. @wfmu.bsky.social @thenightowlwfmu.bsky.social @old-sidewalks.bsky.social @vocalfry.bsky.social @wfmumichael.bsky.social wfmu.org

The deep past is next.

Humans have traveled and mixed more than previously believed, DNA shows. “People’s stories about their history are almost always wrong,” Reich said. “I don’t think that’s a bad thing. I think that’s a good thing and a humbling thing to be made aware of.” news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

@jaapblonk.bsky.social, would you be interested in covering the saddest, most surreal cowboy yodel ever yodeled for your pals here at @wfmu.bsky.social? youtu.be/29_WsACNFlQ?...

Vocal Fry is live in 15 minutes at wfmu.org/playlists/sh.... Tonight we'll open w/a brand new Vocal Fry theme song ("Fry me, Vocal Fry!") composed by sound magician and swell guy #WebHamsterHenry and performed by Ol' Blew Eyez hisself!!

Nice to see MAC's face smiling out of today's Times to share some deep knowledge about obscure, silly cultural artifacts! He collects all kinds of weird flexidiscs in addition to the cereal box records...often displaying them at the WFMU Record Fairs.

In 2020, @ghostcitypress.bsky.social published a collection of my poems called INSIDE THE DREAM FLAP as part of their summer microchapbook series. One of the things that happens in the book (no spoilers) is the world ends. It's available for pay-what-you-want: ghostcitypress.com/2020-summer-...

Hermeto Pascoal has died. His music is deep and broad and came from a place we all know when we hear it. Gift link to Times obit. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/a...

Bill & Ted are back together on Broadway where they will be Waiting for Godot (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

fascinating important read on Sacajawea - gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...

Best American Poetry 2025 Cartoons!!!!!!

it's the *700th* episode of the frow show on @wfmu.bsky.social & the last in a regular slot for a bit! taking a (slight) break after being weekly for 10+ years, hopefully back doing fill-ins soon. (hit me up, DJs!) tune in for 3 hours of new music & jammy intrigues. wfmu.org/playlists/JJ...

Glad you caught it @robcruickshank.bsky.social! Paul Dutton was a poet & performer who innovated sound poetry on his own & w/The Four Horsemen." He called himself a "soundsinger" which seems about right! Paul died in May. Check out recordings of his soundsinging - writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/...

Vocal Fry has been sharing vocals w/something extra for 10 years - the anniversary is next week. We'll dig back into favorite artists, songs & styles. Who's your fave VF artist? Check the Vocal Fry List for a refresher.

Lol keep dreaming

My best tweet ever was “Let’s put the cialis in socialism” and I’m still mad it didn’t go wildly viral

Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim on the mystery of musicians and composers creating music through a score. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/a...

Fry me to the moon and let me yoik among the stars Let me hear the yodels, konnakols, and kargyraas! In other words, bleed my ears! In other words, katajjaq me, Jack!

I use "vocal fry" to mean *all* of weird, wondrous, spooky, profound, goofy & mystifying things people can get their voices to do. Come Vocal Fry with us in an hour at www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh..., or stick that tater on yr antenna & tune in 91.1 on yr FM dial.

this album/book/atlas realigned my third ear. not coincidentally, irwin is also the person single most responsible for reinventing/reinvigorating freeform weirdness at @wfmu.bsky.social in the late '70s (& tune in every wednesday 3-6pm for his still-adventurous show).

The impact this book had on me, both as a music listener and as a writer, is incalculable. Beyond essential.

Pitchfork's Sunday review this week revisits Songs in the Key of Z, a seminal book & record set that began to define outsider music. Kudos to my @wfmu.bsky.social colleague Irwin Chusid. pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Brought my newsboy license and my new beach towel down to the shore of the Delaware to spend the afternoon on a tiny island with no name I've been able to find.

Increase a band: Google Crosby

Increase a band: the 5, 6, 11, 17, 28s

Shayne Stacy has been taping metal & punk & other underground shows since 1988. He's also gathered a ton of other folks' recordings. Now he turned his digitizing project into a nonprofit, the Sacramento Music Archive, w/some 20,000 recordings. www.kqed.org/arts/1397951...

IT TURNS OUT our 429th weekly report has been pushed back by a week and will come out on 8/20 instead. Tomorrow, @jimthepoet.bsky.social will do something fabulous and risque with the WFMU airwaves in my stead. Please listen gently and I will be back with you next week!

Anna-Maria Hefele, German overtone singer extraordinaire, has a duo with harpist Adriano Sangineto called (you won't believe this) -- The Voice and The Harp. They have a video up from a live performance together that is 👨‍🍳🤌😗 youtu.be/_FFwjI-2jeg?...

Vocal Fry's 429th weekly report on its search for the most extraordinary sound the human voice can make will be delivered live Tues at 8pm via FM waves or via wfmu.org simulcast. Parliament, Liabach, Maja Ratkje @majaskratkje.bsky.social, Meredith Monk @meredithmonk.bsky.social, & more

Today! The Monty Hall Record & CD Sale! At WFMU's Monty Hall (43 Montgomery St., Jersey City), 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Details here:

Genoa Keawe was a revered Hawaiian hula singer & cultural force. Her voice is really something. Here is a song where she proves her powers by focusing them on a single note. ukulelemagazine.com/stories/news...