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Poet, cartoonist, music blogger, host of Bodega Pop on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio
Asha (1933-2026) | 7-10 PM EDT
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TONIGHT on
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: A career-spanning tribute to Indian playback singer Asha Bhosle, one of the greatest voices of the 20th Century. Join us!
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Tunisia on Vinyl | 7-10 PM EDT
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TONIGHT on
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our North Africa on Vinyl series returns with a night ... in Tunisia! Let's hang out
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It's not every day that someone in the neighborhood sells me a small cache of Tunisian 45s. Today, however, I am happy to report that that is indeed what happened. Ali Riahi, Cherref Ya Fennane b/w Zina Ya Bent El Hennchir (Pacific, date u/k).
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SOUND ON: Lunchtime postal surprise: 14 deadstock Yemeni singles to add to the growing collection. Ahmed Al-Adiyyin, Billah Ridak (The Ahazeeg & Aghareed of Sanaa Company, ca. 1967)
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about 1 month ago
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Melody Life | 7-10 PM EDT
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@keeptru.bsky.social
joins me in Studio A tonight for an epic dustup between pop songs vs. their reggae counterparts. Also, we're raising money for
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about 1 month ago
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For this year's
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fundraising marathon, I put together 10 Certified Bangers (TM) from the Tlemcen, Algeria studio of Rachid & Fethi and produced by Rachid. Snag it for a pledge of $75 or more and keep commercial-free freeform radio alive and kicking
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about 1 month ago
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Weeping at the brilliance of this LP+45. Funkadelic, One Nation Under a Groove (Warner Bros., 1978 OG promo copy). And then the live version of Maggot Brain on the 7"! God Tier record.
about 1 month ago
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Harpist's Bazaar | 7-10 PM EST
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TONIGHT on
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Jeff "D:O Radio" Golick challenges me for Supreme Harp Lord. It’s glitter, it’s fury, it’s cascading strings of destiny as we go blow-for-blow in a no-holds-barred harp-off. DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!!
about 1 month ago
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Black Star: A century of music from Ghana
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7-10 PM EDT tonight on
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we'll be listening to head-spinning music from Ghana. See you in two hours!
about 2 months ago
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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"
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about 2 months ago
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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. (EstĂşdio, Portugal, 1967)
about 2 months ago
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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).
about 2 months ago
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My Country Overflows with Song: A North Korean Episode
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7-10 PM EST TONIGHT on
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: 1950s & 60s shellac records, field recordings, DPRK-pop, electronic folk, Juchewave, disco, collage, covers & more from (and in response to) the Hermit Kingdom
about 2 months ago
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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."
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about 2 months ago
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MUJERES | 7-10 PM EST
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TONIGHT on
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@gtdradio.bsky.social
we're spinning canciĂłn criolla, chicha, electronic, folk, guaguanco, merengue, metal, pop, punk, salsa, synthpop, and more by women on wax. Come on in!
2 months ago
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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
2 months ago
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Hit the North! 7-10 PM EST
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TONIGHT on
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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!
2 months ago
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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.
3 months ago
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Brasil em Movimento | 7-10 PM EST
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TONIGHT on
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: Brazilian music's past, present, and future as imagined by 21st Century compilers. Come hang out with us!
3 months ago
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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!
3 months ago
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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
3 months ago
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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:
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3 months ago
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Algeria on Vinyl | 7-10 PM EST
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TONIGHT on
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@gtdradio.bsky.social
we're spinning folk, traditional, raĂŻ, experimental, rock, and more by Algerian artists on 45s and LPs from our personal collection. Hang out, it's gonna be good
3 months ago
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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.)
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3 months ago
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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
3 months ago
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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?...
3 months ago
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God Tier 45 RPM record: Rachid et Fethi, Ana-Ghrib b/w Habit-En ĂŹch (Editions Rallye, 1976). Ripping now for this coming week's show
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3 months ago
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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
3 months ago
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Egypt on Vinyl w/special guest Cima Cairo | 7-10 PM EST
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TONIGHT on
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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!
3 months ago
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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).
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3 months ago
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Damon K
3 months ago
This isn’t a moment that requires a lot of analysis is it
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Brian Tyler Cohen
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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.
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Morocco on Vinyl | 7-10 PM EST
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TONIGHT on
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@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!
3 months ago
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2025 Vinyl Shortlist (Part 2 of 2)
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7-10 PM EST TONIGHT on
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we continue our roundup of international vinyl released in 2025. New releases, reissues, comps, & more
4 months ago
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Vinyl Shortlist 2025 (Part 1 of 2)
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TONIGHT 7-10 PM EST on
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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
4 months ago
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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!
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4 months ago
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Noisy compared to 2020 RE, but the sound & cover images on this OG are crisper, punchier. Racionais MC's, Raio X Brasil - Liberdade De ExpressĂŁo (Zimbabwe, 1993). Sometimes love for faves fades; I've been listening to these guys for over a decade & it just grows with every listen
4 months ago
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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
4 months ago
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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
4 months ago
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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
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4 months ago
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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!
4 months ago
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Observations of Deviance
4 months ago
Peter lives here in
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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!
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add a skeleton here at some point
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The King of Luk Thung! 7-10 PM EST
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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
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4 months ago
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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
4 months ago
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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)
4 months ago
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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
4 months ago
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Kuelekea Kusini: Musics from the Southern Hemisphere
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7-10 PM EST tonight on
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we're spinning gobsmacking tracks from Angola, Bolivia, Papua New Guinea, and beyond. Join us!
4 months ago
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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
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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)
4 months ago
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Thank you, guitar. 7-10 PM EST
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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.
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4 months ago
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