SMITH, ROBACK & SANDOVAL 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social A journey through the world of Kendra Smith, David Roback, & Hope Sandoval, beginning w/Kendra's punk debut & winding through the heart of the Paisley Underground, Opal, Mazzy Star & beyond!

Technically speaking, tho, *every* Omar Khorshid album is the very best of Omar Khorshid. Omar Khorshid, The Very Best Of Omar Khorshid (Belly Dance Delights) (Voix De L'Orient/EMI, 1979).

Mind-blowing sounds on this incredible new release. Himba performers recorded by Ian Brennan, Himba Hymn - Ghosts of Namibia's Skeleton Coast (Sublime Frequencies, 2026).

Finally scored Volume 1, completing the set! Laila Morad Volumes 1, 2 and 3 (Soutelphan, 1975). One of the greatest Egyptian voices of all time. Is it coincidental that Oum had passed just months before these were released, or had Wahab & Hafez been sitting on them, waiting ... ?

Smith/Roback/Sandoval World Domination Update: Critical mass reached w/acquisition of this short but stunning EP: Kendra Smith Presents The Guild Of Temporal Adventurers, s/t (Fiasco, 1992). A 3-hour Smith/Roback show centered around Opal's tempting, or do we need Mazzy/Sandoval?

What Was Vaporwave? 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... Join us TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social for an unorthodox retrospective 2010-2020

Smith Roback Sandoval World Domination Update: Nabbed their elusive bootleg! Opal, Early Recordings Vol. 2 (not on label, 2018). Lo-fi, but far from unlistenable. Looking forward to putting together a show in the very near future ...

LET THE MUSIC EAT YOU | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @GTDRadio An all-vinyl show feat. 21st Century Euro dub, Maghrebi trance, Brooklyn pirate radio, Libyan folk poetry, Texas industrial, distressed pop from Australia, Québécois electronic, J-Punk & more

Super #SmithRobackSandoval nostalgia hit: I first heard this in a railroad apartment in San Francisco's Western Addition ca. 1988. Rainy Day, s/t (Klimt Records 2025 RE of OG 1984 Llama Records). Had no context for it then; love it now, esp. Kendra's vocals on Chilton's Holocaust

Smith Roback Sandoval update: Pre-Opal live recording from the year Rainy Day came out. Clay Allison, Live at the Electric Banana 5-22-1984. Terrific version of David's No Easy Way Down (titled "Cherry Jam" on this boot). What this LP lacks in hi-fi, it makes up for in intensity.

Another addition to the multi-tentacled Smith/Roback/Sandoval World Takeover: Kendra Smith, Stille Im Meine Hamburg (Overzealous Editions), a strange one-off written by Jonah Corey. The two would go on to form The Guild Of Temporal Adventurers w/ Orson, Eergott Liqueure & others

The Smith/Roback/Sandoval World Domination Project slowly inches forward w/ items in the mail today, including this crucial contractual obligation LP: Opal, Early Recordings (Rough Trade, 1989).

Holy crap this is mind-blowing jazz funk fuzz! Shapoval Sextet, Kobzareva Duma (Shukai, 2020), picked up at Record Grouch in Brooklyn earlier today

Death Is Not the End's pirate radio series is mind-blowing; first listen to David Goren's Brooklyn Pirates: Neighbourhoods In The Sky, 2014–2021 (2025), which I had high hopes for & which the LP exceeds. Love love love this

I loved his first record, Songs of Horaman; this new one is every bit as powerful. Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian, Noor-e Vojood (Radio Khiyaban, Cardinal Fuzz, Centripetal Force, 2025).

South Korea on Vinyl 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning soul, funk, folk, psychedelic, DIY, and disco on wax from the Republic of Korea. Join us!

SOUND ON: First listen to one of a dozen new Libyan 45s received in the mail today. Hassan Al-Bousaifi, Lemlaya (Voice of the Desert, date u/k, Benghazi).

Ripping this & over two dozen other South Korean heaters for this coming Wednesday's show. Kim Choo Ja, Deluxe Album (2020 Yejeon Media RE of 1971 Universal OG). Phenomenal track after phenomenal track on this thing, not surprising, given they were all written by Shin Jung Hyeon

Melodiya Madness! 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning strange prog, jazz, electronic, experimental, post-pop, and non-pop on Soviet-era vinyl. Join us!

Unbelievable find: Aquarium, Taboo (Solyd Records, 2013, Russian remastered reissue of 1982 OG self-released reel-to-reel. I've had it (and Triangle) forever on CD and didn't know a vinyl edition even existed. Found today at Ergot Records in Manhattan

Melodiya Madness Molzen made manifest: Picked up half a dozen Soviet-era LPs at Paradise of Replica today, including this absolute mind-bender. Valentina Ponomareva, Temptation (Melodiya, 1989)

SOUND ON: The Libyan 45s collection continues to grow. Salam Kadri/Mohamed Aboukrain, "Oyouni Sahara"/"Bism El Chouk" (Uniart, date u/k).

How awesome is it to have a record store in walking distance from your house that stays open until 8:00 PM? It is SUPER awesome. Speaking of awesome, my goodness, picked this up tonight: Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland, Eternal Life No End (Constellation, 2026)

Azerbaijan | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU 's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning gobsmacking shellac, pop, experimental, jazz, traditional, and guitar sounds from the Land of Fire. Join us!

Lunchtime mail surprise: Victor Choi, Unknown Songs (St. Petersburg Recording Studio, 1992), feat. tracks 1982-84 not on OG Kino albums. Yet, I know most if not all of these songs via CDs found in Brighton Beach. This LP brought tears it's so beautiful. Ends with Leto! Super fire

Roback / Smith / Sandoval World Domination update: Scored this terrific issue 31 of The Bob with Opal feature & flexi including Kendra Smith's German-language version of the VU's All Tomorrow's Parties (Alle Morgens Parties), recorded in 1981, released 1987. A show's in the works

Asha (1933-2026) | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on @wfmu.bsky.social 's @gtdradio.bsky.social : A career-spanning tribute to Indian playback singer Asha Bhosle, one of the greatest voices of the 20th Century. Join us!

Tunisia on Vinyl | 7-10 PM EDT wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social our North Africa on Vinyl series returns with a night ... in Tunisia! Let's hang out

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).

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)

Melody Life | 7-10 PM EDT www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh... @gtdradio.bsky.social 's own @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 @wfmu.bsky.social

For this year's @wfmu.bsky.social 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 pledge.wfmu.org/donate/PG

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.

Harpist's Bazaar | 7-10 PM EST wfmu.org/playlists/sh... TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social 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!!

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...