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The freeform station of the nation! Independent, creative, rocking radio. Xer behind the curtain: @jimbehrle. Submit music via wfmu.org/sendmusic.html
- "In 1983, the Seattle band Bam Bam, fronted by a talented, elegant Black woman named Tina Bell, created a sound and lyrical foundation for a genre that white men with knit hats and plaid shirts would... make famous as 'grunge.'" Tina Bell's hidden legacy: pleasekillme.com/bam-bam-tina-b…
- Enjoy 30GB of 1980s noise music and post-punk cassettes. boingboing.net/2019/06/20/enj…
- Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the Music Industry Waged War on the Cassette Tape in the 1980s, and Punk Bands Fought Back openculture.com/2019/04/home-t…
- Iconic punk label Dischord has uploaded its entire archive to Bandcamp: i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/…
- Crushed hearts again at WFMU over the news of Daniel Johnston's passing. In this 2006 post from our defunct blog Nick Hill tells the story of Daniel's now-famous phone performance with Yo La Tengo: blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/… Listen to a rebroadcast here: wfmu.org/flashplayer.ph…
- John Coltrane is honored with a new full-wall mural in the town of Hamlet, NC, where he was born in 1936: richmondobserver.com/national-news/…
- Velvet Underground Realized as Peanuts Characters Feat. Charlie Brown as Andy Warhol
- WFMU's incomparable archives are now more accessible than ever! Download the new, free "WFMU Archive Bunker" app (sorry, iPhone only) and search for and listen to ANY show in our entire archive, even shows/DJs that have been off the air for many years.
