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Reigning Sound

New EP coming November 1st from our very own DA the DJ and the Reigning Sound!  

Reigning Sound - Lyin' Girl (mp3)

DJ, DJ, Quite Contrary: Inside Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban

Every program on WFMU is a unique mixture of loam and silt, manure and peat, each lovingly tended to to bring the finest harvest of ephemera, flotsam and mixed metaphor that can be guaranteed. In this installment Debbie D explains what makes her garden grow.

For years, station manager Ken had been tossing around the idea of an alternative webstream of the more "Rock 'n' Roll" programs here at WFMU.  Dave the Spazz was also a big supporter of the idea.  I read on a blog somewhere that Mick Collins, singer of the Gories/Dirtbombs wanted to do a radio show.  I emailed Ken and asked him if we could make that happen here at WFMU.  He mentioned the alternate Rock stream idea again and I asked why it wasn't already up and running.  "We need someone to oversee it" was the reply.  And that's how the Ichiban Rock 'n' Soul webstream was started.  I liked the idea of short DJ sets from our top 50s & 60s rock 'n' soul jocks mixed in with songs and radio spots from my own record collection.  

Scott Williams rounded up the best volunteers we have to edit DJ sets from Downtown Soulville with Mr. Fine Wine and Fool's Paradise with Rex.  I also asked Dave the Spazz to give me edited sets of Music To Spazz By that would fit in to the 50s & 60s sinkhole that I was creating.  Then, I had to start the process of recording my records to mp3s.  This is the most time consuming part of Ichiban.  Luckily, there are a million compilation CDs in the WFMU record library that I am able to pull from.  I've also pulled obscure records from the blogosphere.

Doron was our tech guru when Ichiban went live.  I gave him the songs and he uploaded them to our server.  Eventually, he trained me on how to do this from home via the magic of VPN.  Now, I have total control of the updates to the stream and can DJ live from my living room.  We have hundreds of DJ sets along with 13,000 songs from my collection mixed with weird movie trailers, old radio jingles and station ids.  Thanks to Masayo and Rex for the Ichiban ids!

Earlier this year, we were voted number 1 "Greatest Hits" station in new platforms by Radio Info.

Most recently, we added Luxuria Music DJ Howie Pyro's Intoxica radio program into the mix.  Tight fit.

Ichiban is available 24 hours a day.  You can even stream us on your fancy phone.  Find out more on the blog.

Union Pool Benefit For Japan

"Nuclear Plant" by Takeshi Tadatsu

Come out to Union Pool this Sunday for a big Rock 'n' Roll benefit for Japan!  Your $10 admission fee goes to Americares and Direct Relief International.  Includes 1 raffle ticket.  You could win a cool prize from the Great Jones Cafe, Harefield Road, The Richardson, Academy Records, Permanent Records, East River Tattoo and more!!!  Additional raffle tickets only $2.

If you have items you'd like to donate to this worthy cause, email Andy japanbenefit2011@gmail.com

There will also be a silent auction and store with these mind-boggling items + more!

Masayo is bringing sweets!

Superstar DJs include Dave the Spazz, Gaylord Fields, John Funke from WMBR's Backwoods, DJ Kongress and DJ Shimmy!

Emcee for the evening: Gaylord Fields!!

Featuring performances by local sensations The A-Bones!  Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens!  The Live Ones!  Mighty Fine!  The Dixons!  The Back CC's and the Underthings!!!

That's this Sunday, April 10th at 4 PM.  Wind Your Clock!

 

WFMU On Network Awesome!

Thanks to Network Awesome for spotlighting WFMU and our Marathon!!  Be sure to check them out every day for all your TV viewing needs!  It's were all your favorite TV shows are available anytime.

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Reigning Sound Live From Maxwell's!!

Tune in next Saturday, February 19th from 3-6 PM to the Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T for a live set from the Reigning Sound!  Or be there Live and in person at Maxwell's in Hoboken, New Jersey!  It's a pre-marathon benefit for WFMU, so there's a suggested donation of $10 at the door.  Don't you dare miss it.

DJ Greg O (mp3)

Live Music Show On Network Awesome!!

Here's a Live Music Show I put together for Network Awesome featuring rockers on sit-coms!!   The Beau Brummelstones, Sacred Cows, The Gories, The Honeybees, Standells, etc!!  Be sure to look for a cameo of  Phil Spector on I Dream Of Jeannie w/ Boyce & Hart!  And Leslie Gore on Batman!

Also showing today, Twilight Show, Talk Show, Spiderman, You Bet Your Life and The Naked Kiss!!

Don't miss the archive section for more  TV greatness!!

Ichiban!

Thanks to everyone for voting us # 1 in the Radio-Info listener poll!!  We won for best Greatest Hits station in new platforms.  Check out all the winners Here.

"In most of our categories, voters went with stations that play the hits--albeit a wider mix of them.  WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban, on the other hand, promises and delivers "obscuro hits from the '50s and '60's."  Think of the records that director John Waters used to invoke both the danger and kitsch of rock 'n' roll's first decade or so.  Then go several times deeper.  It's the radio extension of the eclectic New York-area non-comm's annual Record Fair where, no matter how many records you have, there's always somebody raving about a $300 record you haven't heard of and will never own.  It's heavy on rockabilly, tough '60's soul, instrumentals, and jaw-dropping oddities."

Here's Ichiban around 10 p.m. on Jan. 6:

• Lou Rawls, “A Natural Man”
• O.V. Wright, “Drowning On Dry Land”
• T-Birds, “Full House”
• Rockin’ Rs, “Crazy Baby”
• Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs, “How Do You Catch A Girl?”
• Riptides, “The Last Wave”
• Wanda Jackson, “Let’s Have A Party”
• Jerry & Reggie, “Shoo Shoo”
• Jerms, “Bald-Headed Woman”
• Lucky Carmichael, “Baby You Can Get Your Gun”
• Keith Loren, “Born To Ramble”

New Platforms Runners-Up: 2 – Sirius XM ’60s On 6; 3 – Great Big Radio

Germani Country

  Here's one I picked up at the WFMU record fair last weekend.  If you're wondering where Mama is, head on over to Ichiban.

Connie Hall - Daddy Doesn't Live Here Anymore (mp3)

Memphis Creep

Tune in to the Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T this Saturday from 3-6 PM for a live set from Greg, Eric and Jack Oblivian.

Detroit Breakdown

Tune in tomorrow from 1-6 PM for a Live broadcast of the Ponderosa Stomp's Detroit Breakdown!  Join your favorite Ichiban DJ's for an extended Fool's Paradise with Rex - Live from Lincoln Center.  Line up includes:

Motor City Soul Revue featuring:

Eddie Kirkland, Spyder Turner, Dennis Coffey, Melvin Davis, The Velvelettes backed by the Party Stompers.

Afternoon acts to possibly be broadcast at a later date include The Gories, Death, ? & The Mysterians and Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels!

Do The Hawg!

Ichiban!

 

Be sure to check out the Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban blog for J.R. Williams' weekly compilation downloads of Monsterous tracks!  And stay tuned for Kogar's weekly Jungle 45 download!!  While you're there, be sure to check out the 24 hour webstream of obscure hits from the 50s and 60s, DJ sets from Mr. Fine Wine, Dave the Spazz and Rex, as well as vintage movie trailers, radio jingles and promos!

  

 

Rock 'n' Soul Shakers

You could be in the running to win this entire collection by making a pledge of $75 or more during Fool's Paradise today!  1-3 PM on the Fun 91.

Long time WFMU pal, J.R. Williams sent us his collection of Rock 'N' Roll-Soul-R&B-Funk-Sleaze & Tease Instrumental mp3s to add to our Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban   webstream!!   Including some of our favorite One-Liner Instrumentals.  Plus! 2 Boss Covers (NSFW!).  Tune in to hear the other 745!

Bo Diddley - Bo's Bounce
Big Moose & The Jams - Bright Sounds
Pancho Villa - Baby Cakes
Takeshi Terauchi - Caravan
The Turbo Jets - Far East Cha Cha Cha
Ken Jones - Chicken Pie
Jayne  Mansfield - Suey
The Teen Queens - You Good Boy, You Get Cookie
The Pagents - Big Daddy
Gene Walker & His Combo - Empire City

Fool's Paradise With Rex

Rex is an honorary Southerner! 

Make a pledge here or call us at 800-989-9368

Songs The A-Bones Taught Us Pt. 2

Photo by Jacob Blickenstaff

Part 1 is on WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban blog

1-Sentinals - The Bee (45s) 
2-The American Four - Luci Baines
3-MC5 - One Of The Guys
4-Rochell & The Candles - Squat With Me Baby
5-Clovers - He Sure Could Hypnotize
6-Blues Image - Ride Captain Ride
7-Roky Erickson - Starry Eyes
8-Sir Douglas Quintet - She's Gotta Be Boss
9-Donovan - Sunshine Superman
10-Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
11-Neil Young & The Squires - I Wonder
12-Troggs - You Can't Beat It
13-Paul Revere And The Raiders - Just Like Me
14-Screamin' Jay Hawkins - All Night
15-Swingin' Medallions - Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)
16-Beach Boys - Then I Kissed Her
17-Menster Phip & The Phipsters - Daddy Wants A Cold Beer
18-Rolling Stones - The Spider And The Fly
19-DMZ - When I Get Off 

Thanks to Billy Miller & Bruce Bennett for helping me with this list.  Stay tuned for Pt. 3! 

Turn It Down!

Movin' With Nancy

In 1967, Nancy Sinatra had her own one hour television spectacular unlike any of the other variety shows of the time.  It was basically a series of music videos where she lip-synced along to her hits, wearing mod outfits and go-go boots.  We approve.  Special guests included Dean Martin, Frankie, Lee Hazelwood and Sammy Davis Jr.  You can catch more '60s inspired madness over at the WFMU Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban blog and webstream.

R.I.P. Bingo Gazingo

Our pal, Bingo Gazingo passed away on New Year's Day.  Here's a short video I took of him at the WFMU record fair singing his hit song, J-Lo.

Georgia Slop

Get ready for round three of Whacked Out Hillbilly Night on Music To Spazz By.  Listener Greg G will be stopping by our Jersey City studios this Thursday to bring you more of the hillbilly hangovers, rubber room wig outs, hippies from Mississippi, fuzzed out instros, and head scratching cover versions and answer songs that you silly Citybillies (Jefferson County) have been missing.  As if that wasn't enough, see Greg live and in person at the Lakeside Lounge this Saturday, December 5th at the Ichiban Launch Party !  Here are a handful of GG approved 45s to get you in the mood.

WPLO - Atlanta My Home Town

Tomahawk - Tom Brown & The Tom Toms

James Brown   -  James Brown's Boo-Ga-Loo

Delmore Brothers - Peach Tree Street Boogie

Big Al Downing - Georgia Slop

WFMU's Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban Launch Party

Come out to the scenic Lakeside Lounge on Saturday, December 5th to help us celebrate the launch of the WFMU Rock 'n' Soul Ichiban webstream and blog.  We will be broadcasting live during Fool's Paradise and the Cherry Blossom Clinic.  Thanks to Rex and Terre T for giving up their time slots for the blast off .  And thanks to the Hound for hosting us.  DJ sets by Gaylord Fields, Dave the Spazz, Rex, Debbie D and listener Greg G .  Special surprises and swag.  1-6 PM.  Free, Adults Only.  Don't miss it! 

Ichiban (Promo mp3)

Barney Kessel - Honey Rock

Bobby Patterson - Soul Is Our Music  

Nick & The Jaguars - Ichiban 

DJ Steinski Presents: Southern Preachers On The Radio

Head on over to the WFMU Ichiban blog for a guest DJ set from Steinski entitled: Not A Cloud Upon The Name Of The Lord.  It's an hour's worth of "old-fashioned, holy spirit anointed preaching from the word of God".  Perfect for Sunday morning coming down.

Praise The Lord! (mp3)

WFMU Launches 2 New Webstreams

WFMU now has two brand new webstreams for your listening pleasure.   WFMU's Rock & Soul Ichiban (listen here ) and Ubu Audio (listen here ).  Ichiban features the best in obscure hits from the 50's and 60's mixed with vintage commercials, jingles and monster movie trailers; all selected by Debbie D.  Plus, you get short radio sets from Mr. Finewine, Rex and Dave the Spazz with all of the tracking and none of the yakking.  Visit the Ichiban blog for more information.  The Ubu audio stream consists of sound poetry culled from Kenny G's amazing ubu.com site. Stream on!