Black Star: A century of music from Ghana wfmu.org/playlists/sh... 7-10 PM EDT tonight on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we'll be listening to head-spinning music from Ghana. See you in two hours!

Super grail! Greatest Brazilian hop-hop LP of all time? Had it on CD for years, first listen on vinyl. Comes w/ a 50+ page b&w photo & lyrics book. Racionais MC's, Sobrevivendo No Inferno (Cosa Nostra, 2025 RE of 1997 OG). Listen to "Diário De Um Detento" youtu.be/MZzl8qYF_qY?...

If you were ever curious about how Ribeiro might have interpreted Bob Dylan, this is the 7" EP for you! Catherine Ribeiro et Conjunto de Ritmo, Lorseque le bateau viendra, etc. (Estúdio, Portugal, 1967)

Phenomenal noise, heavy psych, and no wave LP featuring Null, Boredoms, Ruins, Hijokaidan, YBO2, High Rise, Zeitlich Vergelter, and A.N.P. Dead Tech Sampler: No Wave from Japan (Dossier, 1986).

My Country Overflows with Song: A North Korean Episode wfmu.org/playlists/sh... 7-10 PM EST TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social : 1950s & 60s shellac records, field recordings, DPRK-pop, electronic folk, Juchewave, disco, collage, covers & more from (and in response to) the Hermit Kingdom

SOUND ON: How they ever tricked France into releasing their records is one thing; this is a US release *with the whole story-to-date written up inside the gatefold*. "... The Earth people think of him as a relentless tyrant and they decide to do away with him, to march against him, to destroy him."

MUJERES | 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning canción criolla, chicha, electronic, folk, guaguanco, merengue, metal, pop, punk, salsa, synthpop, and more by women on wax. Come on in!

Mind-blowing Argentine noise rock LP picked up at my neighborhood record store. Suárez, Hora De No Ver (Calar Music, 2021 RE of 1994 OG on Suárez' own label, Feliz Año Nuevo Discos). Not on Bandcamp, apparently, but there's a full album version on YouTube, I think

Hit the North! 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social Punk, post-punk, art rock, DIY, riot grrrl and more from Alaska, Belarus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Quebec, Norway, Scotland, Sweden, and Yakutsk, 1970s to present. Let's hang out!

Cheap heat: Sandy Denny, Like an Old Fashioned Waltz (Island 1975 repress of Island 1974 OG). My god, I love this woman's voice. First-ever listen, picked up today at my local record store after work. I somehow didn't know until just now she died so young. Dang.

Brasil em Movimento | 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social : Brazilian music's past, present, and future as imagined by 21st Century compilers. Come hang out with us!

An incoming package at lunchtime added 12 raw & rare Libyan singles to the collection bringing the total to over two dozen. Some of these labels are not yet cataloged on Discogs. I've got a lot of work to do this weekend!

Fuck ICE, fuck Israel, fuck every ghoul supporting genocide & murder. When I worked at Tower in San Francisco 1987-89, this was by far my favorite hip hop album. This & Kathy Acker's Great Expectations put me on the path I haven't strayed from since. OG 89 promo copy found in DC

I've always wanted to hear this LP with the super-dramatic cover and look! Here we are! Worth the wait for this no-skip LP. Kim Jiyeon & The Revival Cross, My Heart Is Wavering (Cobrarose Records + Beatball 2018 RE of Asia Record 1974 OG). Sample track: youtu.be/t6gUgtQTMOE?...

Algeria on Vinyl | 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning folk, traditional, raï, experimental, rock, and more by Algerian artists on 45s and LPs from our personal collection. Hang out, it's gonna be good

No getting around playing this CERTIFIED(TM) banger on tomorrow night's show. Cheikha Remitti, Yakhti Yakhti b/w Goudi Maaya Ya Touila (Edition Atlas, date u/k). The cover art gives the impression that the 45 comes with a free dress pattern. (It doesn't.) www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Ripping more records for tomorrow's all-Algerian, all-vinyl show. Les Djinns, Nesthel b/w Nadia (Sudiphone, date u/k). The A & B sides of this were included on Sublime Frequencies's terrific 1970's Algerian Folk and Pop

Found a sealed copy of this mind-blowing legendary TB-303-powered proto-acid house super-grail today: Charanjit Singh, Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat (Bombay Connection, 2010 RE of 1982 HMV OG). I've heard MP3s, but never vinyl and it's outstanding. youtu.be/sB4RYBpwV0A?...

God Tier 45 RPM record: Rachid et Fethi, Ana-Ghrib b/w Habit-En Ïch (Editions Rallye, 1976). Ripping now for this coming week's show www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Ripping some supremely rare evil-ass funked up shit for this coming week's all-Algerian vinyl show. Rachid & Fethi, Ayami Kassira b/w Gualetli-Adji Choufni (Editions Rally, date unknown). This is the back cover

Egypt on Vinyl w/special guest Cima Cairo | 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social Cima Cairo joins us in the studio to play some of his favorite artists and tracks from our personal library of Egyptian 45s & LPs, 1950s-1970s. Come hang out!

Looking forward to tomorrow night when Cima Cairo joins me to listen to some of his favorite Egyptian artists & tracks on vinyl. Mohamed Taha, My Lover's Garden (mis-sleeved; Sono Cairo, 1966). www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

This isn’t a moment that requires a lot of analysis is it

This is Renee Good. She was a mother of a six-year-old child. She was an American citizen. She described herself as a “poet and writer and wife and mom and shitty guitar strummer from Colorado.” And she was gunned down in cold blood and broad daylight by Trump’s ICE agents.

Morocco on Vinyl | 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning mind-blowing tracks, from Amazigh folk to ecstatic electroacoustic, from our personal library of Moroccan LPs. Let's hang out!

2025 Vinyl Shortlist (Part 2 of 2) wfmu.org/playlists/sh... 7-10 PM EST TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we continue our roundup of international vinyl released in 2025. New releases, reissues, comps, & more

Vinyl Shortlist 2025 (Part 1 of 2) wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT 7-10 PM EST on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social A roundup of the year’s listening on vinyl. New LPs, reissues/represses, single & multi-artist compilations, & collections of previously unreleased tracks from Algeria to Zimbabwe

Ripping a bunch of 2025 heat for tonight's show. Pastor Chris Congregation, West Virginia Snake Handler Revival “They Shall Take Up Serpents” (Sublime Frequencies, 2025). See you kids in 7 hours! wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Noisy compared to 2020 RE, but the sound & cover images on this OG are crisper, punchier. Racionais MC's, Raio X Brasil - Liberdade De Expressão (Zimbabwe, 1993). Sometimes love for faves fades; I've been listening to these guys for over a decade & it just grows with every listen

First listen to this legendary LP. Sweet baby Jesus in the manger this is good. Caetano Veloso s/t (Philips, 1969). I'm gonna have to go back and read his autobio again. Lanny Gordin's guitar! "Alfomega"! Mind-blowing

First listen to this legendary LP. Sweet baby Jesus in the manger this is good. Caetano Veloso s/t (Philips, 1969). I'm gonna have to go back and read his autobio again. Lanny Gordin's guitar! "Alfomega"! Mind-blowing

No matter how old we are how much music across how many borders or decades we've heard there're countless gobsmacking albums we'll get to listen to for the first time in tonight's case it's Mikhail Chekalin's Post-pop Non-pop (Melodiya, 1989) take a listen youtu.be/DogBsxDcNQM?...

The work that must have gone into this project is mind-boggling. Tehrangeles Vice: Iranian Diaspora Pop 1983-1993. 2XLP, copious photos & liner notes inside the gatefold & 24-page book, plus lyrics. Congrats to Discotchari & everyone else involved in this timely, necessary, thrill-packed release!

Peter lives here in #Tucson and is a mensch. He loves Thai music so much he taught himself how to read/speak Thai! He knows so much and happily shares his deep knowledge. Don't miss this! bsky.app/profile/bode...

The King of Luk Thung! 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... Special guest Peter Doolan of Monrakplengthai guides us through the world of Suraphon Sombatcharoen, Thailand’s King of Luk Thung. Era-defining classics, song duels with bandmates, moving tributes & more on #WFMU 's @gtdradio.bsky.social

Mind-blowing 1970s Palestinian field recordings from the mighty Mo’min Swaitat's Majaaz Project (majazzproject.com): Atef Swaitat & Abu Ali, Palestinian Bedouin Psychedelic Dabka Archive (2025). Played a FLAC on my show in Sept, but 1st vinyl listen, picked up today @ Ergot

I might have missed it but really did no one include this brilliant gut-wrenching LP in their AOTYs? This could change, I suppose, but at the moment it's tied for me between this & Marie de la Nuit's Transportees. Nadah El Shazly, Laini Tani (One Little Independent Records, 2025)

My GOD this's a great fucking record. Two side-length live tracks from New Jersey 1975. Free jazz? M80s? Guitars? "Death to the alchemists!" WTF. Bangone Ensemble, Live At The Ledge 1975 (Open Mouth, 2025). Came highly recommended by Brian at Record Grouch & now I'm recommending it to you

Kuelekea Kusini: Musics from the Southern Hemisphere wfmu.org/playlists/sh... 7-10 PM EST tonight on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning gobsmacking tracks from Angola, Bolivia, Papua New Guinea, and beyond. Join us!

Immersing myself in Spiritual Jazz 18, 4 LPs, tracks from Estonia, Azerbaijan, GDR, etc. Behind the Iron Curtain vols. 1 and 2 (Jazzman, 2025). "The history of jazz in the USSR is inherently complex and contradictory ..." As is listening to it in 2025. I recommend it & the liner notes that come with

Ripping LPs for an all-vinyl 2025 new+reissue+compilation show Dec 31, including this brilliant integration of the past to illuminate the present. Marie de la Nuit, Transportées (Permanent Draft, 2025, despite what (c) says on back of LP). Worth reading the notes (see other pics)

Thank you, guitar. 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... An Argentinian punk concert from 1981. A 21st Century Lebanese avant-gardist. A 1968 Brazilian classic. Japanese free jazz from 1975. Gobsmacking tracks from Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, and more. #WFMU @gtdradio.bsky.social

Picked this out-of-control EP up from Sublime Frequencies' HM at the 4th Annual Record Hawk Show last October. The Smashchords, s/t (Smashtrade Records, 1981). Ripping some tracks for this week's guitar-forward episode ...

Ripping this killer live LP by Argentina's Los Violadores for this week's show. LOVE LOVE LOVE this record & grateful for Federico Gómez Levitanas's essay at shit-fi.com/articles/Los..., which includes link to a translation of the band's manifesto of sorts. A @wfmu.bsky.social Record Fair score!

Stopped in to Academy Records Annex to pick up some home-taped Arabic cassettes Cory alerted me to, and wound up also finding this personal grail: Original Wings, Change This World (EMI, 1979), feat. all-timer Igba Alusi youtu.be/2hC1HI0deuw?...

THE ACADEMY | 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning Studio One earworms & bangers from ska to dancehall. Join us!

The Higher the Hair, the Closer to God | 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... Beirut-born Sabah boasted an alleged 3,500-song repertoire. On tonight's three-hour tribute, we'll be covering some 1.14285714% of her total output. Join us tonight on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social

Ripping some of my favorite & rarest Sabah tracks for next week's show. This is the soundtrack for Lahn Hobbi (El Ahram, date unknown). Sabah's range never ceases to amaze me. Killer tracks from her on this and the soundtrack for Afrah El-Chabab, which I'll be ripping in a moment

New National Anthem | 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social, we're spinning avant-garde, folk, pop, and traditional music from Algeria, Brazil, Congo, Iran, Nepal, and beyond. Join us!

First time hearing this Moroccan powerhouse. Aziza Galal, Ila Awel Mattabeuna (Sout El Hob, 1976), her debut LP. Holy crap, it's amazing. Discogs only lists 13 records, she retired at 26 in the mid-1980s. Ripping the whole damn record for you kids who'll be listening in Wednesday