Best New Releases (listen = real audio)
Dan Friel - Ghost Town (listen) - ecstatic electronic blitz
Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual (listen) - best spastic screeching lady of the year
Times New Viking - Rip It Off (listen) - irresistibly damaged 2 min pop songs
Monotonix - Body Language (listen) - that's spelled r-a-w-k
Sic Alps - US EZ (listen) - lo-fi catchy tunes
Teeth Mountain - Self Titled (listen) - pounding drums electronic fun
Various - Museum of Future Sound Vol. 2 (listen) - party music for robots
Gary War - New Raytheonport (listen) - mellow experimental songs for the future
Golden Triangle - Self Titled (listen) - if the B-52s were fronted by Mark E. Smith...
El-G - Tout Ploie (listen) - woozy strangeness from France
Hospitals - Hairdryer Peace (listen) - rock deconstructed
Dead Western - Soften Your Screams Into Sings (listen) - creepy, warped pop ballads
Growing - All the Way (listen) - bent electronics soaking in the sun
Best Reissues from Artists I'd Never Heard of Before
Ersen - Self Titled (listen) - Turkish psych jams from the '70s
Jean-Pierre Massiera - Psychoses Freakoid (listen) - French disco/rock/prog/soul mastermind
Peanut Butter Wolf presents Ladies First (listen) - rap and hip-hop from hot mamas
Best Ways WFMU Celebrated its 50th Birthday
SXSW
Harvey Milk, The Homosexuals, Hank IV, Evangelista, Half Japanese, Citay, The Bad Trips, Los Llamarada, Lexie Mountain Boys, Gary Higgins, Paul Metzger, Kelley Stoltz, Cheveu, and Psychedelic Horseshit. Our first time hosting a showcase went so well, we'll be back in 2009!
Archives of sets from the main stage | Videos from the main stage | Videos from the second stage
Free Music Series Concerts
Sonic Youth and The Feelies @ Battery Park on the 4th of July (archive of SY's set | photos)
The Ex & Getachew Mekurya, Mahmoud Ahmed, Alemayehu Eshete, Either/Orchestra, and Extra Golden @ Lincoln Center on August 20th (photos | more photos)
Wire and Times New Viking @ Fillmore NYC on October 9th (photos 1 | 2)
Personal Bests
Ben Walker and I did a holiday radio special from Jersey City's Newport Centre Mall! Archived here: part 1 | part 2 (pics here and here)
The NY Times finally took notice of my backside
Made it to Peru! Thanks to listener Jorge for all the great tips! Archive of my post-trip radio show featuring tons of great South American tunes.
Best Mystery of 2008
(the following was in an e-mail to WFMU staff):
I found a weird-ass pile of disturbing stuff in the WFMU parking lot Thursday night:
* A set of womens workout clothes, top and bottom
* A beret
* A plastic Air France pill container filled with flight aids and medicine with Russian labels
* A portfolio of what appear to be legal documents in Russian with a Russian business card.
* A Russian business card
Is this the aftermath of a robbery of a Russian stewardess? A Russian mob hit? Gogol Bordello's van robbed?
Any info appreciated.. reporting it to the police.
Many more WFMU DJ Top Ten lists here.
"Best Reissues from Artists I'd Never Heard of Before"
Damn straight!!! Thanks Liz!
Posted by: Kay | February 25, 2009 at 07:08 PM