In June 1964, the Beatles flew into Australia for a tour that turned the island continent Down Under upside down (which means they managed to flip it right side up, i suppose -- oh, never mind). If in the preceding February the Fab Four hit America like a hurricane, now they struck like a monsoon in the Antipodes. Not long after John, Paul, George and Jimmy (Jimmy?! Yes, that's right, Jimmy -...
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Philly's "Constant Hitmaker" Kurt Vile brought a couple guitars, a banjo, a delay pedal, and a trusted microphone to the WFMU studios earlier this month. He played a few new tunes and a few from this year's Constant Hitmaker (Gulcher), which has been one of my favorite albums of the year. I'm not alone -- Mike Lupica picked these "immediately appealing bedroom recordings" in Dusted's Mid-Year ...
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--- - |- Friday was 8/8/8, a day I and many other slaves to the freakish rhythm had been waiting for for a year and a month - the sequel to Boredoms' 77BOADRUM, 88BOADRUM. 88 drummers performing in a spiral around a psychedelic center stage: this year, Boredoms held court at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles while Brooklyn's Gang Gang Dance did their own version on the Williamsburg waterf...
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If you missed any part of WFMU Radio Greats Weekend, the archives are all up and awaiting your listening pleasure!The weekend of August 9th, legendary WFMU DJs from years past drop by to help celebrate 50 years on the air. Special guests included Steinski, Danny Fields, Vin Scelsa, Hova & Belinda, R. Stevie Moore, The Hound, Wildgirl, Meredith, David Newgarden, Nicholas Hill, William Berger, N...
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Today's post is a shot in the dark, a hope that somehow, someone who reads this blog had this record as a child, has this record and/or knows who the performer(s) is or are. This track may not be for everyone, but I suspect there are some for whom it will resonate as it does for me.In 1964, when I was four, my mother spent a few days putting over three hours of her children's (and her own) favo...
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Altered States are a Japanese power trio formed in 1989, consisting of Kazuhisa Uchihashi on guitar, Mitsuru Natsuno on bass, and Yasuhiro Yoshigaki on drums. Starting as a jazz trio, they soon left the conventions of the genre behind and ventured out into avant-rock territory. In 1993 they played some gigs with turntablist Otomo Yoshihide in Lithuania and Estonia, resulting in the album Lithu...
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Our operators are standing by to take your calls for DJ Steinski. Dial 1-201-209-9368 or post a comment on our comment line by clicking on see the playlist.Voice Mail - (Sugar Hill Suite) Mp3~~
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Dear Coens, here is my pitch for your next film:A young cheerleader from North Carolina moves to Wyoming where she wins the state beauty pageant. Then she enrolls in graduate school at Brigham Young University where she becomes obsessed with Wayne Osmond (the second oldest Osmond). Wayne rejects her, but happiness is around the corner because she meets and falls in love with a 19-year-old Mormo...
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Seems there's definitely a bug at the WFMU lunch table, but even before Ryan Seacrest's self-inflicted shark wound, I'd been worried about the increasing regularity with which the beasts have been attacking the celebs. Musicians, mostly. I mean that's who I'm worried about. It started in April, when I learned of Richard Thompson's run-in with a scorpion in Mexico. Here's 5 amazing true-lif...
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A few months ago, I upset some people with my totally scientific and unbiased report about the thorough and utter heinousness of Saint Bono and his his ongoing campaign to make everyone suffer until global suffering ends. To them I apologize, in a "truth hurts" kinda way.But while I'm just a bunch of talk, I am pleased to see there are some people working to end the global epidemic which is Pau...
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Last time I put the most absurd first and most talented last, so this time I'll put the clips I actually like first before we descend into the laughable. Top left are the super catchy French duo, Deux. I'd definitely recommend checking out more from this band, whether it be the recently issued discog, Agglomerate , or the recent BIPPP comp of obscure French synth wave. At the very least, che...
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A selection of photos courtesy of Metal Inquisition.~~
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Many WFMU Listeners are already aware of the news of our next big public event, but here's another nudge: Lincoln Center's Out of Doors series in collaboration with WFMU's Free Music Series are giving you all the chance to see a rare and amazing international music event for free at Lincoln Center/Damrosch Park Bandshell on West 62nd Street at Amsterdam in Manhattan, Wednesday, August 20th from...
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Don't let Age happen to you, greying WFMU DJ population, lest you have your rickety ass splashed across the U.K.'s Daily Mail.Norman Cook, a.k.a. Fatboy Slim a.k.a."hit 45" is apparently incapable of hauling shit around the airport anymore due to the years of wear and tear on his aged and slowly decomposing frame. He's been employing his wetnurse wife to help a funk soul brudda out. Maybe now...
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--- - |- Due to familial obligations over the weekend, hence the late publication of this post, you need to get over to WFMU's eBay page now if you want in on these choice items. And you will. Oh yes, you will.Fela Kuti Promo PhotoAfrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Ransome Kuti has been in the news lately, especially the Arts & Culture section of many a New York City rag. There's a new Off-Br...
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--- - |- (Photo: Adam Scott) To usher in the end of WFMU's 50th Anniversary year (and two years of free NYC shows we've been involved with), we're happy to announce the latest upcoming WFMU Free Concert Series event, and one we're producing fully: Wire will be playing at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza in Manhattan on October 9th, and we'll be broadcasting it live over WFMU's radio and netwave...
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--- - |- Lou Teicher, one-half of legendary piano duo Ferrante & Teicher, passed away yesterday at 83. His manager, Scott Smith, said that "Lou's death was unexpected -- the result of a heart attack at Lou and [wife] Betty's summer home in North Carolina." F&T were the 1,600-lb. gorillas of snoozemeistering schmaltz—non-intrusive musical wallpaper that was paradoxically ignorable yet sold bi.
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--- - |- Both the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and The National Film Board of Canada were responsible for an impressive array of artsy looking documentaries in the fifties and sixties, exploring various facets of Canadian life from the life of "a Chinese" in modern day Canada to a young pop singer named Paul Anka and his relationship with the mob. Diary of a Musician is a 1967 CBC doc...
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--- - |- As with most other levels of extreme culture, Japan has a lot to offer grind fans. Although hardcore didn't reach blinding speed until the early '90s, one of Japan's most intense hardcore bands came a few years earlier. Confuse started out in 1984 and recorded not too many songs, all of which (to my knowledge) are collected in a 'fan club edition' CD. Since any copy of that CD ...
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