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East Orange, NJ

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Genre-surfing tokenism.

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@WFMU

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English

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WFMU P.O. Box 2011 Jersey City, NJ 07303-2011 201-200-9368


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More art with less matter. from Apr 30, 2025

4/30/2025
John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette - "Back-Woods Song" - Gateway [0:00:00] Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto - "Count of Four" - Electric War [0:07:20] Sunflower Bean - "Take Out Your Insides" - Mortal Primetime [0:13:22] Sea Lemon - "Stay" - Stay [0:16:50] Father John Misty - "She Cleans Up" - Mahashmashana [0:20:01] Viagra Boys - "Best in Show Pt. IV" - Viagr Aboys [0:24:20] Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Attends a Glittering Gala" - Gus Reports on This Year's DHFUTDAAG, Pt. 1 [0:35:39] The Free Spirits - "Bad News Cat" - Out of Sight and Mind [0:39:43] Luna Li - "That's Life" - When a Thought Grows Wings [0:43:09] Jim Funnell's Word Out - "Crop Circle Crackle" - New Dream [0:46:47] Thelonious Monk - "Bye-Ya" - The Complete Prestige Recordings [0:50:46] Brian Woodbury - "The Day the Music Never Died" - Rhapsody & Filigree [0:53:51] THE YOUNG CODGERS - "With Irwin and Max Hoyt" Disco Doom - "Rice and Bones" - Numerals [1:02:34] Clear Light - "Mr. Blue" - Clear Light [1:11:40] Seu Jorge - "Amiga da Minha Mulher" - Musica para Churrasco Vol. 1 [1:20:40] Shodder Grayson - "Rapture of the Leaf" - Songs in the Key of Z, Vol. 3 [1:27:56] The Catchers - "Shifting" - Mute [1:33:32] Billie Marten - "Feeling" - Leap Year [1:37:13] Pale Blue Eyes - "Seven Years" - New Place [1:41:24] Humble Pie - "What You Will" - As Safe As Yesterday Is [1:43:30] Japanese Breakfast - "Magic Mountain" - For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) [1:47:20] Gus Bodenheim - "The Liner Notes Kerfuffle" - Gus Reports on This Year's DHFUTDAAG, Pt. 2 [1:54:28] Lane Steinberg - "Pleasantville Sunshine" - Mr. Lane [1:59:31] Girl Scout - "Weirdo" - Weirdo [2:01:40] Jason Isbell - "Children of Children" - Something More than Free [2:04:55] Bob Dylan - "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" - The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 [2:10:37] Sonny Stitt Quartet - "For the Fat Man" - Stitt's Bits: The Bebop Recordings, 1949-1952 [2:16:20] Samm Bennett - "Koko the Kop" - New Music for Koko the Clown [2:19:21] Anthony Newley, Ron Rubin & Stubby Kaye - "Oh, What a Son of a Bitch I Am" - Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? [2:24:45] Chanpan - "Lost & Confused" - Lost & Confused [2:28:22] OTE - "Dusty Boots" - California Sunset [2:32:02] Lothar & The Hand People - "Comic Strip" - Presenting ... Lothar & the Hand People [2:39:07] Allen Sherman - "Scott Cups" - My Son, The Box [2:41:25] Joe Bucci Trio - "Topsy" - Big Beat Hammond [2:44:05] Elvin Jones - "Inner Space" - The Prime Element [2:46:38] Linda Penfold and Suzanne Small (The Hoot) - "If I Can't Have You" - NJX@NY$!#2 [2:52:45] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/151422
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Entertain thyself. from Apr 23, 2025

4/23/2025
Love - "Love is More Than Words or Better Late Than Never" - Out Here [0:00:00] Amir Bresler - "House of Arches" - House of Arches [0:10:30] Tony Ortega - "Cinderella's Curfew" - Jazz for Young Moderns [0:16:24] Say Sue Me (ft. Kim Hanjoo) - "Vacation" - Vacation [0:22:27] Gus Bodenheim - "The Mystery of Cave Formation" - Drawing Inferences from Innuendo [0:31:46] Slimdan (ft. Medium Build) - "Problem Solver" - Problem Solver [0:37:26] Curtis Hasselbring - "History of Vistas" - The Curhachestra [0:39:56] Goon - "Closer To" - Closer To [0:43:43] Love Spells - "How?" - How? [0:47:32] Gerald Clayton - "Shout and Cry" - Bond: The Paris Sessions [0:50:38] Balthvs & Bay Ledges - "Sun Colored Eyes (Remix)" - A Remix Collection [0:53:51] Opossums - "Circle Sky" - Circle Sky [0:56:54] MAX HOYT joins Irwin in-studio Ging - "Do What You Want to Do With Your Life" - Do What You Want to Do With Your Life [1:04:58] Hank Mobley - "Wham and They're Off" - Quintet [1:09:37] The Monkees - "Porpoise Song" - Head (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [1:22:51] Asher White - "Dream Design House" - Home Constellation Study [1:32:37] Frankie Trumbauer & His Orchestra ft. Bix Beiderbecke - "I'm Coming Virginia" - Bix & Tram [1:41:17] Kolumbo - "The Key Club, 1976" - Gung Ho [1:47:26] Eddie Harris - "1974 Blues" - Silver Cycles [1:49:56] Scary Pockets (ft. Stan Taylor) - "Feel It Still" - Life [1:54:21] Swimming Tapes - "Tides" - Souvenirs [1:57:43] Lunar Vacation - "You Shouldn't Be" - Everything Matters, Everything's Fire [2:01:30] Matt Berninger & Hand Habits - "Breaking into Acting" - Breaking into Acting [2:04:49] Donny Osmond - "Would I Lie to You?" - Somewhere in Time [2:08:53] Richie Beirach Trio - "Milestones" - Summer Night [2:12:40] Bobby Hutcherson - "Mirrors" - The Kicker [2:23:27] Gus Bodenheim - "Egrets and Earworms" - Gus Helps His Neighbors [2:29:55] Rex Harrison - "Hymn to Him" - My Fair Lady [2:35:32] Lord Nelson - "Back a Yard" - Pepper [2:39:18] Mulatu Astatke & His Ethiopian Quintet - "Konjit" - Afro-Latin Soul [2:45:31] Bodies of Water & Brian Walsh - "Footprints" - The Journey is Our Home [2:48:43] Boyd Raeburn & His Orchestra - "Hep's Boyd" - Boyd Meets Stravinsky [2:53:09] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/151266
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"He marveled at the fact that cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were." – Lichtenberg (The Waste Books) from Apr 16, 2025

4/16/2025
Hiromi - "Rainmaker" - Move Tony Ortega - "Patting" - Jazz for Young Moderns [0:06:53] Lord Huron - "Nothing I Need" - Nothing I Need [0:12:42] Lina Tullgren - "Glow Emits" - Decide Which Way the Eyes Are Looking [0:16:19] White Magic for Lovers - "Your Time Hasn't Come Yet, Baby" - Your Time Hasn't Come Yet, Baby [0:19:39] Gus Bodenheim - "A Child's Garden of Botanical Rebranding" - Gus Dips into His Sack of Lies [0:31:57] Abderraouf B Grissa & Dan Drohan - "Lake Poe" - Lake Poe [0:38:12] The Marias - "Back To Me" - Back To Me [0:42:20] Dewey Lester and the 6:03 - "Her Name Could Be Anybody" - Summer '72 [0:45:42] Rank and File - "Rank and File" - Rank and File [0:49:53] Balthvs - "Mood Swing" - Mood Swing (Principles of Rhythm) [0:54:41] Honeyblood - "Justine, Misery Queen" - Babes Never Die [0:57:27] Rory Gallagher - "Laundromat" - Rory Gallagher [1:07:28] Esbjörn Svensson Trio - "Criss Cross" - Plays Monk [1:12:00] The Titan Studio Orchestra - "Gonks Go Beat" - Gonks Go Beat (Soundtrack) [1:17:44] Vulfpeck - "Animal Spirits" - The Beautiful Game [1:20:53] Bauer - "Libitz in a Car" - Baueresque [1:23:47] Steve Miller Band - "Space Cowboy" - Brave New World [1:26:48] Mary Halvorson - "Carved From" - About Ghosts [1:31:30] Quintetto lo Greco - "Star Games" - More Than We Know [1:44:50] Charles Mingus - "Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Silk Blues" - Mingus Plays Piano [1:50:19] Nat & Alex Wolff - "San Francisco" - Table for Two [1:54:32] Austin Lounge Lizards - "Leonard Cohen's Day Job" - Employee of the Month [1:58:46] Arborist - "Alabaster Skin" - An Endless Sequence of Dead Zeros [2:03:40] Liz Phair - "Supernova" - Whip Smart [2:11:32] OTE - "Racing Butterfly" - Racing Butterfly - Single [2:13:57] Queens of the Stone Age - "Go With the Flow" - Songs for the Deaf [2:17:52] Irving Caesar - "Tommy Tax" - Songs for Bright Children - Sing a Song of Friendship [2:20:43] Lol Coxhill - "I Am the Walrus" - Ear of Beholder [2:22:28] Buffalo Daughter - "Socks, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll" - New Rock [2:26:35] [2:29:19] Gus Bodenheim - "The Jazz Police Conundrum" - A Child's Garden of Gus [2:33:40] Thelonious Monk - "Honeysuckle Rose" - The Unique Thelonious Monk [2:38:54] Artie Shaw - "Frenesi" - Begin the Beguine [2:44:33] Jenny Lin - "The Firebird Suite: II. Dance infernal du roi Kastchei (Arr. G. Agosti)" - Stravinsky (Solo Piano Works) [2:47:44] Amir Bresler - "Wéwé" - Tide & Time [2:52:46] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/151050
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The brain can absorb only what the seat can endure. from Apr 9, 2025

4/9/2025
Avishai Darash - "The Old Days" - Between Hope and Despair [0:00:00] Deerhunter - "Tarnung" - Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? [0:03:29] Nat & Alex Wolff - "Mainline" - Table for Two [0:06:31] Bren Berry - "Turn on Your Radio" - In Hope Our Stars Align [0:10:32] King L - "Don't Believe in Hollywood" - Great Day For Gravity [0:13:58] Blondshell - "23's a Baby" - 23's a Baby [0:18:01] Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "Heaven 7" - IC-02 Bogotá [0:21:54] Wishy - "Honey" - Triple Seven [0:25:06] Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Bemoans His Gig" - The Exploitation Chronicles [0:34:25] Tony Ortega - "No Fi" - Jazz for Young Moderns [0:38:20] The Bug Club - "Have U Ever Been 2 Wales" - Have U Ever Been 2 Wales [0:41:56] Babe Rainbow - "What is Ashwagandha" - Slipper Imp and the Shakearator [0:45:21] Wray Downes - "Jaidyn" - For You ..."E" [0:49:34] Vulfpeck - "In Real Life" - Clarity of Cal [0:53:58] The Afro Blues Quintet Plus 1 - "Some Velvet Morning" - New Directions in Sound [0:56:44] Pale Blue Eyes - "Our Lost Words" - New Place [0:59:37] MAX HOYT joins Irwin in-studio Buffalo Daughter - "Great Five Lakes" - New Rock [1:10:37] The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Third Stone from the Sun" - Are You Experienced [1:21:38] Salon Music - "Who Just Can't Be Happy?" - MASH [1:30:20] Van Morrison - "Ring Worm / You Say France and I Whistle" - Van Morrison Contractual Obligation Album [1:38:46] Heather Trost - "Bloodmoon" - Agistri [1:46:22] White Magic for Lovers - "The Boy from the Bookshop" - The Boy from the Bookshop [1:49:13] Oracle Sisters - "Blue Left Hand" - Divinations [1:52:07] Three Dog Night - "Shambala" - Cyan [1:55:47] Lee Morgan - "Ceora" - Cornbread [2:00:10] Eric Burdon & the Animals - "The Madman (Running Through the Fields)" - Love Is [2:06:28] Chip Wickham - "Space Walk" - Love & Life [2:12:31] Ichiko Aoba - "Coloratura" - Luminescent Creatures [2:18:19] Bill and Taffy Danoff - "Janet from Another Planet" - Aces [2:22:31] Gus Bodenheim - "Gus Goes North" - CanCon Requirement [2:30:53] Phillip Scarborough and Mango Jam - "Asera Everywhere" - Asera Theme [2:36:24] Randy Weston - "Hi-Fly" - African Rhythms [2:40:13] Bud Powell - "Bud on Bach" - Bud! [2:44:30] The Free Spirits - "Ibod" - Out of Sight and Sound [2:47:02] Haysi Fantayzee - "John Wayne is Big Leggy (Groovy Long version)" - Battle Hymns for Children Singing [2:49:44] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/150489