We Are Bitch, Or Not | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @GTDRadio we're spinning tracks from the first decade of all-girl & female-fronted Japanese punk & adjacent on vinyl, 1977-86. Join us!

I have NOT listened to this exhilarating historic LP nearly enough. Aunt Sally, s/t (2022 Mesh-Key RE + 7" of 1978 concert; OG 1977 Vanity Records). Ripping this and records by several other artists for an all J-women punk-related episode for this coming Wednesday. Totally great!

I headline ChurchofSatireComedyClub.com 12/12 Come and get me. I could use the career boost.

I have love love LOVED this album for years but finally got it on vinyl. Early all-women Japanese post-punk band Mizutama Shobodan's The Maiden's Prayer Is Dada-Da-Da! (Spittle 2025 RE of Kinniku-Bijo 1981 OG). Ripping it now for an upcoming show

The Kiosk of Orpheus | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social: Memories. Repartures. Materia Verbal. Communion of Saints. Digital Office. Kiosque d'Orphée. Join us!

Nagat, Baligh Hamdi, Omar Khorshid, Samir Srour and dozens of others are calling you out to Pancakes Records today where we'll be spinning some 30 Arabic 45s from the 60s & 70s from 2-4 PM EDT -- let's hang out! 20-77 Steinway St, Queens, NY 11105

The first listen to MIA, Kala (XL 2021 RE of 2007 OG), I was a bit disappointed. Pulled it out tonight prompted by a Twitter mutual's enthusiasm & am loving it. A reminder that "best music" takes may be not really so much right or wrong but a potential gift if they nudge you to listen again

Wowza. Finally getting around to this notoriousness. The Beach Boys, The Smile Sessions (Capitol, 2025 RE of 2011 OG). Almost bought a bootleg CD attempt to create the album in the late 90s on the street near Columbia University but was flat broke those days & maybe knew I'd eventually get 2 hear it

Majnoun | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning tracks released in 2025 by artists from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, and the North African/Middle Eastern diaspora. Join us!

SOUND ON: Another grail, Yao Su Rong's Love Is Forever (Crown Records, 1971). Granted, she released a dozen other LPs in 1971 alone (and a whopping 40 LPs in 1970), but, yes, this is the one I've always wanted.

SOUND ON: One of my favorite compilations of all time just got updated and reissued. Ryukyu Rare Groove REVISITED | Okinawa Pops 1957-1978 (Nipponophone 2025). Love love love this music so much. Tears!

Made a poster for Sunday's event. Come see & hear me sling a few dozen Arabic bangers & novelty 45s at my local record store this coming Sunday maybe we can share a beverage or something

I wonder if Shiloh likes this LP? First listen to this gorgeous, dramatic Japanese private press folk album. Gekidan Buraiha, The Modern Bible (First & Last 2025 RE of 1975 self-released OG). The OG released in an edition of 100; this version doubles their impact at 200.

SOUND ON: I'll be DJing a 2-hour set of Arabic bangers & novelty 45s at my local record store next Sunday, September 14. "Arabic Singles Going Steady," 2-4:00 PM EDT, Pancakes Records, 20-77 Steinway St, Astoria, Queens. Would love to hang out with some of you kids!

Ripping a track from Nadah El Shazly's Laini Tani (2025, One Little Independent Records) for a 3-hour special show this Wednesday focusing on music released this year from the Arabic-speaking world & diaspora wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Kids! Adults! Seniors! I'll be spinning rare Arabic bangers & novelty 45s at Pancakes Records on Steinway Street in Astoria, Queens a week from Sunday (9.14.2025). More info to come, but carve out some time 2-4 PM-ish to hear incredible sounds & peep some truly unique sleeve art! (20-77 Steinway St)

Sonic Bazaar | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social : Recent-ish experimental releases, hot takes on Zambian rock, Guru Guru Brain, outsiders from the US and USSR, Libyan Tuareg music

Here's a take no one will second: My absolute favorite Zambian rock group is Blackfoot. They only released 2 sonically similar LPs, Youth Power (1975, Goodson; 2021 RE via Vinyl Me Please; 1976's Millie is the same LP) & 1978's The Foot Steps. Love the rhythm guitar-forward sound

First listen to Gilberto Gil's 5th or 6th LP, Expresso 2222, a Fontana 1982 RE of the OG 1972 on Philips. I've only heard his 68 LP (w/Os Mutantes) prior. He's maybe the biggest Brazilian artist who I haven't yet heard much of. Doing what I can now to take care of that gap.

SUPERGRAIL! Absolute beast of an album, cut from a 1973-74 Cambodian cassette, 500 LPs printed a decade ago, impossible to find, I've had my tentacles out for a few years, finally nabbed. Drakkar Band, Drakkar '74 (Metal Postcards, 2014 RE of 1973 cassette-only OG)

Gal 1967-73 | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social : A deep dive into Gal Costa's unimpeachable first seven years on wax. Join us!

Ripping all my Gal Costa LPs for this Wednesday's show. Found this one in Lisbon, in rough shape but plays like a dream. They don't make records like they used to. Gal Costa, -Fa-Tal- (Gal A Todo Vapor) (OG Philips 1971 2xLP). This live album's bracingly good esp. the acoustic LP

An all-time personal grail: One of my top 10, maybe top 5 maybe even top 3 LPs of all time. Gal Costa, Gal (1969 Philips OG Mono). Absurdly brilliant mix of psychedelic, MPB, soul, tropicália, complete genius production with La Lupe-level moments of emotiveness. A timeless listen yet totally sixties

Beyond happy this was finally cut into vinyl. Their first release! Cover of Delta 5's "You" followed by field recording?!? Nothing but pure tears-bursting-from-eyes adoration for this. Everyone Is Having Fun with Shonen Knife (2025 P-Vine RE of self- & X Record OG 1982 cassette)

Hazihi Laylati was the first Oum Kalthoum song I ever heard, back in 1996 or 97, from a CD I found at Daff & Raff in Harvard Square. Got this Venezuelan pressing of it for $1 on eBay a few years ago. It's still one of my favorites

Pulse | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on Bodega Pop: Jamaican dancehall, Venezuelan electronic, Italian post-punk, German-Senegalese ambient mbalax, French-Tunisian collage, Scottish hyper bubblegum. Join us? #WFMU @gtdradio.bsky.social

SOUND ON: Scored more shaabi-adjacent 45s, e.g., Omar Gezawy, "Have a Coffee" ("I'm from Upper Egypt, my country's far away, day & night on the railway, when I traveled on Eid they said Here's some coffee, have a coffee.") Shaabi's as daily-life specific & rocktastic as The Fall

Another long-sought personal grail, found today at Academy Annex. Daniel Johnston, 1990 (Shimmy Disc, 1990). First listen, had the impression this was one of many's favorites, and it's quickly apparent why. Well-recorded without being overproduced and just otherworldly gorgeous

Never say no to molam. Yupin Saichai & Twin Flower Group, Better Than Before / Revenge Revenge Revenge (not on label, date u/k) picked up at Stranded Records in Manhattan. Put it on to get a sense of what it sounds like and just sat here, mesmerized for the duration.

Happy End of the World: Shibuya-Kei 1989-2000 wfmu.org/playlists/sh... 7-10 PM EDT TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social : The sound of pop eating itself in a glossy, self-conscious loop of jewel-case nostalgia. Join us?

My 2nd listen to this intensely tender, intimate, questioning LP and it's hitting more directly than the 1st. Passing of a beloved colleague, a family health scare that just tonight turned out okay. The sound is like life sparking against the heaviness & hardness of the world

Back on My Shit* | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... #NowPlaying on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social An all-vinyl show featuring doom folk from Ireland, hard funk from Zimbabawe, Swedish bedroom psychedelic, South African punk, and a few dozen other sonic bon *BoMS. Join us!

Ripping this gobsmacking collection for Wednesday's show. Can't heap enough praise on this 2xLP: just heavy funk banger after banger. Various, Roots Rocking Zimbabwe - The Modern Sound of Harare Townships 1975-1980 (Analog Africa, 2025). Just sitting here mouthing "fuuuuuuhh ..."

Picked up my 4th version of Oum Kalthoum's Enta Omri at Record Grouch today. By far the best cover (Cinara-Phone, 181 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, USA); this version includes bonus track "Paradise Song," which I'm about to listen to & try to figure out what it is wish me luck

JAZZ 3 | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... Our third and final international jazz show of July on #WFMU 's @gtdradio.bsky.social

The cheapest find from Seattle yet one of the most satisfying. A bit of Googling and I see Narduwar gifted this to Kendrick back in 2012. See from approx. 4:20: youtu.be/6s5vlQdQp4s?...

Clark Coolidge wrote my all-time favorite book of American poetry. He also played drums on this LP, which I found cheap in Corvallis, OR. The Serpent Power, s/t (Vanguard, 1967). First listen to this long-sought-after grail

Painfully aware I'm in the minority here, but my second fave music, after Egyptian 60s-70s, is Brazilian 80s-90s hip hop, difficult-to-impossible to find in the USA. Imagine my thrill finding this OG at Little Axe in Portland last Friday. RZO, Todos São Manos (Cosa Nostra, 1999)

3rd listen to this wonderful Venezuelan electronic LP (Miguel A. Noya, Gran Sabana, 1984, no label). HM at Sublime Frequencies urged me to take an hour-1/2 bus ride from Ballard down to Georgetown Records in Seattle where owner Martin urged me to listen to this. Moral: Listen to others!

Second listen today to this wildly brilliant, stylistically diverse anti-apartheid post-punk LP from 1980s South Africa, unfortunately evergreen relevancy. Best reissue of the year so far. Kalahari Surfers, "Own Affairs" (2025 Via Parigi RE of 1984 Gross National Products OG).

MOM REACTS -- TO JAZZ | 7-10 EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... Mom has had a very rough week. We're about to make it worse. TONIGHT on #WFMU 's @gtdradio.bsky.social

JAZZ! 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... For the month of July, Bodega Pop on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social will focus on jazz, fusion, and jazz-adjacent tracks from around the world. Join us for Week One tonight!

For months I was convinced I had sold this incredible 4-LP I'd found sealed at my local thrift shop for $1. This evening, I found a bag of records in the back of my closet, including this one. The Music Of Gurdjieff / De Hartmann (Triangle Records, 1985)

Tonight, I'm going to head down to Bier Wax in Brooklyn to see Stuart Ellis (Radiodiffusion Internasionaal blogger + producer of a couple of great Sublime Frequencies comps) spin from his golden collection of international 45s. Starts at 7 PM, 556 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn. Join us!

TONIGHT! 7 PM EDT at Record Grouch 986 Manhattan Ave #Greenpoint #Brooklyn come see @simongandrew.bsky.social . Andrew will be presenting on Egyptian cassettes and Cheikh Imam. Alia Haju & Mohamed Salah will be playing Imam's music live. Free event, can't wait, stop on by!

My first talk at a record shop! This Saturday, in Brooklyn, I’ll introduce an Egyptian dissident whose songs are experiencing a revival. A live performance of their music will follow 🎶

THIS SATURDAY 7 PM EDT going to see @simongandrew.bsky.social present on #Egyptian cassettes & political dissent at Record Grouch 986 Manhattan Ave #Greenpoint #Brooklyn w/special musical guests Alia Haju and Mohamed Salah. Free event, let's hang out, everyone!

Another Side of Bodega Pop | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning sides of mostly obscure industrial, D.I.Y., electronic, samizdat, and home recording LPs. Join us!

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