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WFMU at Beerland Saturday 3/15, broadcasting live

WFMU returns once again to Austin, Texas during the annual SXSW Festival for a daytime party at Beerland! on Saturday, March 15th at 2pm Eastern (1pm Central for those in town) with a dynamite nonstop afternoon of beer-and-BBQ fueled rock! On tap: Protomartyr, Buck Biloxi and The F***s, Spray Paint, Obnox, Guerilla Toss, and Pampers! Liz Berg and Brian Turner will be hosting the broadcast live from the club, which is at 711 Red River in central Austin. It's not an official SXSW event, so no badges, but the best part is that it's FREE to the public, so those in town for the festival should get there early, or tune in to WFMU.

Two videos shot in the magical city of New York

by my friend Katherine Graham. I asked her how long it was between shooting these and she said "one minute". They're arranged like a Brian DePalma scene and you should play both audio simultaneously.

WFMU in the Moroccan Desert: Alchemy At Zahar Festival in April 18-21

In a never-ending quest to dig out the subterranean sounds from all corners of the earth, WFMU has hooked in with the first-ever Alchemy At Zahar festival for what's sure to be a most amazing event in the Moroccan desert province of Zagora on April 18-21st. The event, which is being put together as a philanthropic, government-sponsored endeavor to help create forward motion in a wells project in order to bring a dwindling population back into the province, will have support from the Alchemy Association, the Association of Development for People with Specific Needs (ADPSN) of Tagounite and the Association for Alphabetization of Tagounite. WFMU and our fellow freeform broadcast pals at KFJC in the Bay Area of California will conduct a joint broadcast (and hopeful video simulcast) from quite a bit of this event, which will feature an amazing cross-section of Western and African adventurous sounds:

Ahwach N Tferkine (traditional group from the Souss-Massa Drâa Region, featuring a choir of twelve female singers and four male percussionists), Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (experimental/film noir European combo), Lee Ranaldo (w/Leah Singer, and his band), Pelican (post-rock Chicago metal ensemble), Brothers Unconnected (Alan and Rick Bishop of Sun City Girls, also performing solo sets), Master Musicians of Bukkake (playing the Totem Trilogy), AND the legendary Master Musicians of Jajouka, ethno-prog West Coast stalwarts Secret Chiefs 3, Portuguese psych band Black Bombino, Tinariwin d'Mhamid (young Tinariwen covers band!), Abraxas, and more (full lineup/updates here). A dream lineup for both stations.

The idea of riding six and a half hours from Marrakech to the desert town of M'hamid Al Ghislane, then taking 4x4s on sand tracks an hour away to a tent/stage setup almost at the Algerian border (the Screaming Dune of Zahar) isn't your usual WFMU remote, but with the support of the Festival to bring us out, we're up for the challenge! If all goes well we will be documenting the beautiful sights and sounds along the way, hopeful camel excursions to the well sites to boot. We're extremely excited to work with organizer Basile and Alchemy, and our friends from KFJC at this event. More info to follow, and please keep an eye on Alchemy's site and Facebook. Tickets and packages for the (intrepid) public and concertgoers is also on the site. Should be amazing!

 

WFMU Benefit Concert + Mini-Record Fair Sunday, January 13th

Mark your calendars for Sunday, January 13th! WFMU is hosting a Mini-Record Fair and blowout benefit show at The Bell House in Brooklyn! The fair happens 11-5pm (no admission after 3pm due to space constraints), and at 7:30 we'll be kicking off a night of music mayhem with Arrington Di Dionyso of Old Time Relijun, followed by the Dot Wiggin Band (of the Shaggs!), the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and Texas psych/gospel dynamos The Relatives!Jonathan Toubin spins! Tickets for the Music Benefit at this link here, and more info below.

Tix are $10 for the fair (tickets at the door only) and $20 for the concert, with advance tickets for sale here!! All proceeds benefit WFMU in its post-Hurricane Sandy Recovery.

The fair and concert are both separate events, and the inner hall will be cleared out at 5pm to reopen for the show at 7:30. Set times:

7:30 Arrington Di Dionyso
8:10 Dot Wiggin Band
9:00 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
10:00 The Relatives

WFMU Staff 2012 Year End Lists

A smattering of our sound slab selections for the slid-away '12:

 

SCOTT McDOWELL (The Long Rally, Fridays 9-Noon)
C S Yeh - Transitions (De Stijl)

Muscles of Joy - Muscles of Joy (Watts of Goodwill)

Vanessa Rossetto - Exotic Exit (Kye)

The Trypes - Music for Neighbors (Acute)

Agali Ag Amoumine - Takamba (Sahel Sounds)

Mark Fell - Periodic Orbits of a Dynamic System Related to a Knot (Editions Mego)

Jason Lescalleet - Songs About Nothing (Erstwhile)

Various - Time To Go - The Southern Psychedelic Moment: 1981-86 (Flying Nun)

Rev. Charlie Jackson - Lord You’re So Good (50 Miles of Elbow Room)

Helm - Impossible Symmetry (Pan)

Morton Feldman - Crippled Symmetry (Frozen Reeds)

Eric Lanham - The Sincere Interruption (Spectrum Spools)

Sean McCann & Matthew Sullivan - Jackpot (Ekhein)

Andy Stott - Luxury Problems (Modern Love)

Mary Halvorson Quintet - Bending Bridges (Firehouse 12)

Lewlewal De Podor - Yiilo Jaam (Sahel Sounds)

Various - Fanafody: A Collection of Recordings and Photography from Madagasikara Volume II (Mississippi/Cultural Knot)

David Kilgour - Here Come the Cars (De Stijl)

Various - Laila Je T'aime (Sahel Sounds)

Eli Keszler - Cold Pin (Pan)

TROUBLE (This Is the Modern World, Tuesdays 9-Noon)
Peaking Lights  - Lucifer
Pure Bathing Culture  - s/t
Allah-las  - s/t
Tia Blake and her folk group  - Folksongs and Ballads
Angel Olsen - Halfway Home
Melody's Echo Chamber  - s/t
Personal Space: Electronic Soul 74-84 - v/a
Just Tell Me What You Want -  v/a tribute to Fleetwood Mac
Josephine Foster  - Blood rushing
Brenda Ray - D'Ya hear me: Naffi years 1979-83
Julia Holter - Extasis

FAYE (Hello Children, Thursdays 9-Noon)
Maxine Funke- Felt LP
Pheromoans- Does This Guy Stack Up? LP
Boomgates- Double Natural LP
Swearin'- Swearin' LP
Thee Ahs - Thee AHs AHttack! 7"
V/A - Songs On Conceptual Art Compilation LP
Scott & Charlene's Wedding- Para Vista Social Club LP
Evening Meetings- Evening Meetings LP
Tennis- Young & Old LP
Novella- Novella EP

BRIAN TURNER (WFMU Music Director, Tuesdays 3-6pm)
Divorce s/t (Night School)
Lee Ranaldo - Between the Times and the Tides (Matador)
Tropa Macaca - Ectoplasma (Software)
Solid Attitude - BB Gun Picnic (Rotted Tooth)
Maxine Funke - Felt (Epic Sweep)
Peter Hammill - Consequences (Fie)
Blues Control - Valley Tangents (Drag City)
Frank Rosaly - Centering and Displacement (Utech)
Joshua Abrams - Represencing (Eremite)
Letha Rodman Melchior/Tretetam - Moon Mountain (Robert & Leopold)
BB Jr - How To Fuck All Your Coworkers in One Sitting (Captcha)
Mohel - The Second Temple (Verdura)
Arnaldo Antunes / Edgard Scandurra / Toumani Diabate  - A Curva Da Cintura  (Mais Um Discos)
Crazy Spirit - s/t (Toxic State)
Thomas Koner - Novaya Zemlya (Touch)
Spectre Folk - Ancient Storm (Vampire Blues)
FNU Ronnies - Saddle Up (Load)
Willie Lane - Guitar Army of One (Cord-Art)
Ali Ag Amoumine - Takamba (Mississippi)
Seven That Spells - The Death and Resurrection of Krautrock (Beta-Lactam Ring)

7"
Hot Lunch, Satanic Rockers, Circle X, Secret Museum of Kind Men, IV Eyes/Schiller Killer split, Manateees, Orgone Toilet label stuff

Old But New:
Sedition Ensemble - Regeneration Report (S-S)
Wicked Lady - The Axeman Cometh (Guersen)
Noh Mercy - Noh Mercy (Superior Viaduct)
Null and Void - Possibilities (Bunker Pop)
Coven - Worship New Gods (Shadow Kingdom)
Francis Bebey - African Electronic Music (Born Bad)
Metz - Metz (Ossining)
Rev. Charlie Jackson - Lord You're So Good: Live Recordings Vol. 2 (50 Miles of Elbow Room)
The Max Block - Air Ache In the Belly of the Leech (Siltbreeze)
Northern Haze - Sinnaktuq (Supreme Echo)
Sonic Youth - Smart Bar Chicago 1985 (Goofin)
Can - The Lost Tapes (Mute/Spoon)
Jim Shaw &  Mike Kelley - Duets 1975-76 (Compound Annex)
Various - Time To Go: The Southern Psychedelic Movement 1981-86 (Flying Nun)

Live:
Pussy Galore, Maxwells, Hoboken
Van Halen, Cafe Wha? (David Lee Roth's uncle's place!) NYC
ZZ Top - Beacon Theater, NYC
Watery Love, Cake Shop NYC
Bone Awl - St Vitus, Brooklyn
Leonard Cohen, Barclays, Brooklyn
The Pop Group - Primavera, Barcelona
Les Morts Vont Bien - La Cantine de Belleville, Paris
Michael Chapman - The Captain's, Glasgow
Sightings/Gnaw - Littlefield, Brooklyn
Supreme Dicks - Beerland, Austin
Gay Witch Abortion/Hammerhead/Melvins/Seawhore - Lit Lounge NYC
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Barclays, Brooklyn
Alvarius B - Union Pool, Brooklyn
Peter Brotzmann/Jason Adasiewicz & Joshua Abrams - Le Poisson Rouge

Live radio sessions on the show w/feedtime, Lee Ranaldo Band, Suzuki Junzo, Blues Control, Black Dice, Michael Chapman, +DOG+, Jandek, Twerps, Gay Witch Abortion.

DAN BODAH (Airborne Event, Mondays 9PM-Midnight)
Swans -- The Seer (Young God)
Colin L. Orchestra -- Col (Northern-Spy)
Lonnie Holley -- Just Before Music (Dust-to-Digital)
Om -- Advaitic Songs (Drag City)
Pauline Oliveros -- Reverberations: Tape & Electronic Music 1961-1970 12xCD (Important)
Jim Coleman -- Trees (Wax & Wane)
Blues Control -- Valley Tangents (Drag City)
Sabbath Assembly -- Ye Are Gods (Ajna Offensive)
Date Palms / Expo 70 / Pulse Emitter / Faceplant -- untitled split 2xLP (Immune)
Hildur Guðnadóttir -- Leyfdu Ljosinu (Touch)
William Basinski -- The Disintegration Loops 9xLP + 5xCD + DVD + book (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Samara Lubelski -- Wavelength (De Stijl)

BILLY JAM (Put the Needle on the Record, Fridays 7-8pm)
1) El-P "Cancer 4 Cure" (Fat Possum)
2) Kid Koala "12 Bit Blues" (Ninja Tune)
3) Aesop Rock "Skelethon" (Rhymesayers Ent)
4) Homeboy Sandman "First of A Living Breed" (Stones Throw)
5) JJ Doom "Key To The Kuffs" (Lex Records)
6) Casual & J-Rawls "Respect Game Or Expect Flames" (Nature Sounds)
7) Lushlife "Plateau Vision" (Western Vinyl)
8) Killer Mike "R.A.P. Music" (Williams Street)
9) Serengeti "C.A.R." (Anticon)
10) E-40 & Too $hort "History: Mob Music" (Heavy On the Grind)

(more lists after the jump)

 

GROUP IMAGE 1969

This is a cooker. Thank you Eddie Flowers for passing along.

Scott Walker album preview

Machetes out December 3rd!

Great Reel of Enormously Cool Post-Punk Ladies

Thanks to my pal Jonathan Herweg for this great video compendium, some of which is completely new to me:

 

 

Occult Chemistry -- Fire (UK, 1980) Vidéo réalisée par le London College of Printing
The Dykes -- 2 Fingers Wide (USA, 1980) Scène extraite du documentaire 'Debt Begins at 20' de Stephanie Beroes
Mother's Ruin - Dreamy Teeny (Suisse, 1981)
Barchen und die Milchbubis -- Muskeln (Allemagne, 1981) Morceau extrait de l'album 'Dann Macht Es Bumm'
Nini Raviolette - Suis-je Normale? (France, 1980) Vidéo réalisée par Stéphane Teichner, extraite du DVD 'RVB~TRANSFERT : Images de la scène indépendante Française (1978-1991)'
Q4U -- Creep (Islande, 1982) Vidéo extraite du documentaire 'Rokk í Reykjavík' de Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (1982)
Young Marble Giants -- Colossal Youth (UK, 1980)
The Waitresses - I Know What Boys Like (UK, 1982)
Sort Sol feat. Lydia Lunch -- Boy-Girl (Danemark/USA, 1986)

Hijo Kaidan / C.C.C.C. on Italian TV 1997

Love how Jojo and company win over the crowd in round 2. Can we get Masonna on the View now? Via Erikursich's YT.

Northern Haze: Badass Inuit Heavies

Igloolik, way up in the Canadian arctic some 1,800 miles north of Ottawa, seems to be an unlikely place for a heavy rock band to flourish, but Northern Haze have played a proud, uncompromised Sabbath-tinged catalogue of songs since 1978. In their native Inuit tongue. As the story goes, the four friends took up instruments provided by a local community center, most songs written by singer/guitarist Kolitalik Inukshuk. With cofounder Naisana Qamaniq they started up weekends gigs channeling faves like Pink Floyd, Hendrix, and Zep, but a clear vision started to develop quickly and the CBC took notice and ushered them into studios for demos and recording. Travel grants and growing notoriety allowed the band (at first called Northern Lights) to travel around Canada, and throughout they remained true to their wish to deliver their music to Northern communities with occasional festival shows in larger cities. CBC serviced limited edition LPs to stations and libraries and broadcast their music nationwide. Their activity slowed down in 1987 with a restart in 1999, then Elijah passed away from cancer in 2007, and Kolitalik was murdered only days later. The group revamped with a few new members, and in 2009 Jason Flower of Supreme Echo Records discovered their music while researching Canadian Inuit recordings. Flower trekked out to the Arctic with a documentary filmmaker in tow, three weeks of rekindled rock, nature treks and raw meat consumption ensued and now an amazing LP Sinnaktuq comprised of 1985-2010 recordings is out. Thanks to Jason for letting us share an MP3: "Qaina". Killer! Copies are fleeting, but we're told Numero and Fusetron have some.

WFMU Live at Primavera Sound Friday and Saturday June 1,2

(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.

Keiji Haino / Bela

A while ago my brother's awesome dog was near death's door, internal bleeding, a week on the floor, not looking good, vet unable to figure out what was going on with her. Poor girl. Then, amazingly, they found her in the parlour, 100% recovered and getting ready for the Fushitsusha tour. Dogs are amazing.

 

France's Fadades

Merci, Gaspare Balducci.

WFMU Live From Beerland, Austin TX Sat 3/17: Wedding Present, The Men, Xray Eyeballs, Electric Jellyfish, Death of Samantha, Supreme Dicks

WFMU returns to Austin Saturday night for it's showcase, this time an event independent of the SXSW Festival at the great Beerland, 711 Red River. It's a 6-band blowout starting 8pm central/9 PM Eastern, and Liz Berg, Jason Sigal, Brian Turner will be broadcasting the sets live over WFMU-FM and wfmu.org. $10 door entry, no SXSW badges or wristbands accepted. All proceeds to the bands. Special commemorative posters designed by Nevada Hill will available at the show!

Lineup (Times Central):

8PM: Electric Jellyfish: Straight outta Melbourne: "Electric Jellyfish carry the torch along with Eddy Current Suppression Ring lighting the way to a legendary story of distinctive rock 'n roll beginning with bands such as Radio Birdman, The Saints, X, the Birthday Party, feedtime, etc. Their sound is on par with The Wipers in their heyday...such daring emotional vulnerability, yet it's psych/punk that's sonically full-fledged, solid, walloping, and (to quote Monoshock) 'philosophically Stoogely'".(Rick Ele)

 9PM: The Wedding Present: The first band to play a WFMU show to have had 18 top 40 singles in the UK!

ASMR's Greatest Video Hits

Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) is a physical sensation characterized by a pleasurable tingling that typically begins in the head and scalp, and often moves down the spine and through the limbs.

Most ASMR episodes begin by an external or internal trigger, and are so divided for classification. Type A episodes are elicited by the experiencer using no external stimuli, and are typically achieved by specific thought patterns unique to the individual. Type B episodes are triggered involuntarily by an external trigger, via one or more senses, and may also involve specific thought patterns associated with the triggering event. Both types of triggers vary between individuals, but many are common to a large portion of ASMR enjoyers.

Insanely Rocking Qawaali Video Clip

Aziz Mian! (thank you Katherine Graham):

 

R.I.P. Siege singer Kevin Mahoney

Live 1984 video from one of Boston's killinest.

Stooges at Farmington High School Gym, Michigan, 1970

Via the Retronaut blog, insane! More pix via the link.

Kids covering My Bloody Valentine at home

Psychic Paramount live at WFMU (MP3)

Hard to believe Psychic Paramount have been around for ten years already, coming up out of the ashes of the late great Laddio Bolocko. Both on record and live, PP swerve between brutality and bliss: layers of textural distorto guitar action and color, throttling, mathy percussive pummel recalling great moments of This Heat gone into total in-the-red Japanese psych mode. Add Robert Fripp-like loops building and dismantling the songs themselves in bulldozer style, and you've got the makings of one killer progressive rock unit. This month's session on my radio show blasted into orbit at the moment of start-up; guitarist Drew St. Ivany matched the propulsive intensity of bassist Ben Armstrong and drummer Jeff Conaway with figures reminiscent of Achim Reichel, heavy repetition segueing into burnt intermission of collapsing rhythms, eerie space and then finally climbing upwards into another frenetic movement to close off the 30 minute set. St. Ivany tweaked the post-session mix, it's a scorcher! Thanks to the band, Mike from No Quarter and Ernie Indridat and Ruaraidh Sanachan for the engineering.