Just realized that @versobooks.bsky.social includes a link to an epub version of the book with each paperback order (no DRM!). Amazing, thank you! This brings us one step closer to a Bandcamp for books. Are any other publishers doing that?
Screenshot of our April 1 class: Crate Digging: Music Discovery; image: a historical NYC map overlain with a WFMU seven-inch record and a 60s-era QSL "verification of receipt" card from WNYC
Next week in Search & Discovery we discuss music discovery. Liz Pelly joins us for a trip to WFMU, and we document our own musical discovery memoirs — how we cultivated our tastes across phases of our lives :)
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This is tomorrow, and I am super-psyched 🤗
The cover of Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music by Al Shipley shows a DJ's hands operating a turntable and fader.
Maren Hancock, Lecturer in Popular Music at the University of Wolverhampton who researches and writes about DJ culture, seen here holding headphones to one ear.
Dr. Charity Marsh, director of the Humanities Research Institute, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, poses in front of shelves of books.
Tomorrow (Wed Apr 1, no fooling) it's the CLUBLANDS edition of the Popular Music Books online series, w/ Maren Hancock & Charity Marsh on Canadian DJ culture and Al Shipley on Baltimore club music. Get out on the floor w/ us at 5:30 pm! Here's how: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Popular-Musi...
Mary Lattimore with Julianna Barwick are playing tonight at Le Gesù in Montreal--the opener is Myriam Gendron! So looking forward to the show.
Tomorrow, Thu, Somerville MA!
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what a charming bunch of jim-jims.
BTW, also at the same gallery is a show of paintings by Jean Dubuffet and John Fahey, paired up for some reason.
A judge threw out Columbia's expulsion orders last week, and this week, a court has ruled that students can sue the shitty little organisation that defamed them. hellgatenyc.com/group-that-c...
WFMU's 2026 Fundraising Marathon, which ends Sunday, is now in its semi-final stretch! Pledge now, win prizes, and support amazing listener-sponsored radio! See our beautiful new swag (wfmu.org/swag) and all the DJ premiums we're offering (wfmu.org/dj-premiums). Pledge here: pledge.wfmu.org/donate
Gaylord Fields drops by Music To Spazz By for week two of WFMU’s Fundraising Marathon. Expect prizes and shenanigans with a double dose of stupid. In other words, appointment radio. Tonight at 9 ET on 91.1 FM WFMU (photo by Jean Schwarzwalder) @wfmu.bsky.social pledge.wfmu.org/donate/MS
Tonight's special fundraising edition of my show, "It's Complicated," with guest co-host Matt Fiveash, hits the airwaves at 7 p.m. Listen at wfmu.org, and make a pledge to support listener-funded @wfmu.bsky.social and my show here: pledge.wfmu.org/donate/GX
Tonight (7 p.m. ET), tune in as Matt Fiveash joins me for my second of two shows in WFMU's 2026 Fundraising Marathon. If you appreciate the amazing radio that everyone at freeform, listener-supported @wfmu.bsky.social does, support us and pledge whatever you can here: pledge.wfmu.org/donate/GX
A bearded man wearing headphones smiles at the camera whole holding up two fingers.
"fistish pumpish": A bearded man behind a microphone, wearing headphones, sort of holds up a fist.
"Phone Room for Fabio and The Pidge": Multiple people are arranged in a decorated fundraising phone room.
"Clay Pigeon smiles over the mic": A bearded man wearing headphones smiles into a microphone.
@wfmu.bsky.social Fundraising Marathon, Day 4
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I helped organize this memorial zine to my beloved doctoral advisor @jonathansterne.bsky.social. Thanks to all the contributors for their beautiful offerings. Sound ON for silly, apropos page turning sound effects.
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on the air raising righteous greenbacks for @wfmu.bsky.social with the legend @creamocoyl.bsky.social from now 'til 6pm! tune in, pledge, win swag, then drop back out! wfmu.org
Hi Robby, amazing! I‘d love to interview you for my book on WFMU. Would you be up for that?
Back in 2014 I made a radio app using the Echo Nest's API that indexes all of the Free Music Archive. I just found out that on 2020 @erazlogo.bsky.social wrote about this in an article published in Radio Journal (sick). However, EN sold to Spotify and killed the API (shocking).
The goal here was..
Realized today that I'm working on the last and final project of the now-defunct Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Which is the official history of US public media, with Allison Perlman (Irvine), and Mike Janssen (Current).
Some context to the current situation in Iran. On 19 August 1953 Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a coup led by MI6 and the CIA under the name Operation Boot/Ajax. The aim was to protect British oil interests in Iran after Mosaddegh nationalised the country’s oil industry.
U.S. Strikes in Middle East Use Anthropic, reportedly for "intelligence assessments, including target identification and simulation of combat scenarios" even after the supposed ban
Seriously exciting news. This, from eight years ago, gets at the scope of the book. Honored to have talked with him for it.
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Congratulations!! Can't wait to read it
microphones at Grateful Dead show
concertgoers hold boomboxes at Polish music festival
tapers sidestage at bluegrass festival
man in t shirt that reads Tape Master
snow day news drop: last week, i turned in a draft of the book i've been working on for the past 6 years! right now, it's called "the invisible hit parade: a taper's history of music" & will be out in 2027 from da capo/hachette. much more to come, obviously!
Among other useful bits - the connection between the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the decline of R&B groups
Listening to a fascinating conversation about R&B history with Amani Roberts, @brandontensley.bsky.social & Emily Lordi & just realized that Whitney Houston grew up in East Orange, NJ, also home to Queen Latifah & WFMU. Part of Popular Music Books in Process Series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=htEX...
