(pictured, Glenn Branca Ensemble stoked to exchange secret guitar tunings for WFMU swag at our tent last year). Happy to say for a fourth year, WFMU returns to Barcelona, Spain to bring you the fullest coverage from anyone from the Primavera Sound festival. Tune in Friday, June 1st and Saturday, June 2nd from 3pm to Midnight ET and hear some hefty blocks of programming from some true WFMU musical faves including Ice Age, Mudhoney, Thee Oh Sees, The Pop Group, Demdike Stare, Marianne Faithfull, Michael Gira, The Melvins, Chameleons, Dirty Beaches, Codeine, Off!, Liturgy, and more performing in front of the Mediterranean. FMUers Liz Berg, Jason Sigal, Brian Turner, and Scott Williams will be live and giving play by play between sets and chatting up some of the performers to boot (plus posting pictures live on the playlist page accessible via wfmu.org homepage during the broadcasts.
Broadcast schedule NYC time (subject to change):
Friday, June 1
3:00pm Lee Ranaldo Band
3:45pm Ice Age
4:15pm Mudhoney
5:00pm Archers of Loaf
5:25pm The Chameleons
6:00pm Milk Music
6:30pm Wolves in the Throne Room
6:50pm Spiritualized
7:50pm Wilco
8:30pm Thee Oh Sees
9:00pm Dirty Beaches
10:00pm Marianne Faithfull
10:25pm The Cure
11:20 The Men
11:40pm Harvey Milk
Saturday, June 2
3:00pm Obits
3:30pm The Dirty Three
4:15pm Liturgy
4:45pm Codeine
5:40pm The Field
6:25pm Olivia Tremor Control
7:00pm Afrocubism
7:20pm Michael Gira
7:45pm Chavez
8:05pm Sharon Van Etten
8:25pm James Ferraro
8:50pm Atlas Sound
9:15pm Demdike Stare
9:45pm The Pop Group
10:45pm Off!
11:20pm TBA
Once again, subject to change.
Past WFMU broadcasts have brought you sets from Swans, Glenn Branca, Diplo, No Joy, Oneohtrix Point Never, Pavement, Grinderman, Sunn o))), Ariel Pink, The Clean, Van Dyke Parks, Wire, Mission of Burma and dozens more. You can check out some of the archives streamed from Primavera from 2009-2011 here (not all our sets were archived for extended periods), and download some of the past WFMU Primavera sets by approving artists on the Free Music Archive! Keep an eye on the FMA for some of these 2012 sets being offered for download in the weeks ahead. And keep an eye on WFMU's home page this weekend for news, schedule changes.
Sorry to report Sleep has cancelled due to illness, we had them slated for Friday broadcast.
Posted by: Brian Turner | May 31, 2012 at 07:02 PM
The Melvins, Chameleons, Dirty Beaches, Codeine, Off!, Liturgy.
Posted by: Cecila Hefner | October 06, 2012 at 03:25 AM