Your favorite WFMU DJ!

mike lupica, because he's a swell guy all around.

(Just kidding, although I listen almost every day. Charlie, Monica, Fabio, and Kenny G., in no particular order.)

runners-up: douglas wolk. monica lynch.

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does it? i haven't seen a release on NWOS in a while now, so i wasn't sure. last thing i recall hearing was that he was doing a suntanama 7", and that was a year or two back.

-Full disclosure: Yet another WESU-biased opinion ('94-'96).

well i wished we had radio like that in sweden

How did this happen? What happened to all the vinyl in the Clark basement?

I feared something like this when, in the years I was there, no one took the initiative to bring WESU's concerns to the attention of the administration in re. renovating Clark Hall and building a new campus center. I take part of the blame.

I was excited to learn Erase Errata is from Wesleyan. WESU is bringing them back in April, I think.

Sweet crap, there's actually someone else in CT that posts here!

wait, what name does mosurak post under? shouldn't he be molesting the populace on chug?

I loved being a Special Guest Expert on RHUBARB CAKE a few years ago.

tony? metal director? sakes alive!

I would say that Mr. Finewine is the second best.

and nothing on FMU is so compelling that i'd need to listen to it "on the internet" - great that they exist, sure, but entirely overrated.

Do you have a comparison at the very least?
Of course not, because your argument is stupid.
"Great they exist" "entirely overrated" "sad truth is...I can't get the station" "boring"...
You're an ass.

find me someone (or several people) saying something bad about WFMU (other than "they play jewish music every damn morning!") and then i'll say, "ahh, you were right, they're entirely underrated!" but until then i say yeah, great, free-form radio - but that doesn't mean every show is compelling (most of them aren't). but feel free to be a blustering shithead some more if it makes you feel good.

Not every show on the station is meant for everyone, and that's fine. It's not meant to be a Clearchannel sort of thing, where it's the same 24-7. I don't listen to/like a lot of their programming, but my intense love of Tom Scharpling's hilarious Best Show, Dorian Devins' interview show The Speakeasy, Downtown Soulville, Aircheck, and the Audio Kitchen makes WFMU the best radio station in the world enough for me. There's a number of good music programs, but I don't get excited about them the same way - Laura Cantrell's The Radio Thrift Shop, Scott Williams, Douglas Wolk, Mosurock, Donna Summer, Frank O'Toole, and Doug Schulkind all play plenty of good music.

It's about 5 out of 20 on the new schedule, as opposed to 0 out of 10 at Ichiban.

I mean, I am not taking a census and just going by djs I know. Statements are everywhere on the WFMU homepage and a couple of the streams, djs have been talking seriously about the matter for the last couple of weeks, Ichiban has no black djs and plays "funny" racist tunes all the time, but sure, all hail Debbie and cancel WFMU.

I absolutely agree with your hope that this won't cripple the station -- seeing Debbie go scorched earth on Facebook and seeing people suck it up is concerning as hell to me.

I was bummed to see Jeff Sarge wasn't on the new schedule, but it looks like it's more to do with him not being able to DJ from home and he'll be back.

xp FMU also the station that made a bundle off of trump-promoting nachum segal tbf. I love FMU to death but it also shouldnt be that hard to imagine that they might have some work to do behind the scenes re:how to engage with this current cultural moment. All i can say is you gotta trust me that theres plenty of blame to go around on this one, i love FMU and ichiban both, theyve both got some work to do rn, hopefully theyll both be fine.

The reality is is either goes down, I lose a shitload of intelligently curated (and in the case of the main station, often black curated) African American music, and that matters more than the relative sins of two white people. Yes, Irwin and Nachum and X-Ray Burns and a million boring whiteboys playing bad hiphop and extreme metal, but everything else besides and very little listenable alternative. I think I'm saying I didn't want to pick a side until Debbie started insisting that everyone choose a side and that hers is the side of justice, and that just grosses me out in the face of hearing a variety of djs over the last couple of weeks actively engaging the subject and grappling with their personal role on the air on WFMU while Ichiban played old Rex airchecks with the mic breaks cut out. The struggle is totally real and the work has to continue, but I don't think that's what Debbie's about now.

"while Ichiban played old Rex airchecks with the mic breaks cut out"

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methinks some listeners have no idea of the race of some individual hosts (along with their names)

Loving the newly-united Friday ladies block of Sheila B-Shut Up Weirdo-Dance With Me Stanley.

Worried about Dave the Spazz -- whatever his health issue is, I hope it's treatable and he'll be back in the fall.

(He said on his May 4th show that he was having some medical thing done, and there have been fill-ins the past three weeks. This week is the last of the current schedule and he's not on the summer schedule. No fill-in host listed for tomorrow so I'm hoping for a fun season finale and some good news on his health.)

Spazz is back on the fall schedule, hooray! Also, he's going to be the improbable guest-host for the prog show "It's Complicated" in 50 minutes. I'm hoping for Sammy, Dean, Frank, Jerry Lee et al covers of "Lucky Man" and other prog-adjacent stuff.

“The WFMU ARCHIVE BUNKER APP, is now available for your exploration! Browse all archived WFMU shows going back to the year 2000! Now the vast WFMU audio archives are available on your iPhone and iPad. Not just the most recent archives of shows currently on the schedule; but, ALL of them.”

Very cool

Great resource, but needs a search bar. I couldn't remember the name of DJ Donna Summer's show and it doesn't start with a D.

it looks like it is being updated a bunch by a listener so maybe that is a-coming

Advanced D&D w/ Donna Summer

I like The Cool Blue Fame w/ Little Danny a lot; digging into those archives.

Cool Blue Flame is one of my top faves, incredible show. New app is a big improvement over the other one imo, simpler and more stable.

Radio BLT: Get in and Drive
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/100467

This is my favorite show, love every single track, sample, trainwreck. Aired on Biden’s inauguration day, when hope was on the horizon.

Current favorite DJs are Trouble, Clay, and that polka lady.

i love friday mornings after clay's show where he stays and annoys the jazz dj. i look forward to it every week.

I hate-listen to it, but I listen. Clay plays the world's worst boyfriend, interrupting and talking over, belittling etc. It's an amazing and uncomfortable performance. I'm pretty sure it's a performance. He does it whenever he's on with Fabio too.

Faves: Tony Coulter, Fabio, Jesse Jarnow, Spazz and Rex, Hearty White, Sinner's Crossroads
Hates: Matt Warwick and Daniel Blumin, because I generally like the music they play but they love the sound of their own voices and go way too long with the mic breaks. Scott Williams does that too.
Irritant: Dave Mandl for speaking everywhere except into the microphone during his mic breaks.

Love Nate the K and Marty McSorley's shows too. Marty has a cool Art Leboe type thing where people call in and leave messages and requests.

Amazing this is being brought up. I rarely listen to WFMU (or radio at all) but Fridays at 9am - 10:30 is my alternate side parking routine so I always listen to Clay and the jazz dude (John Allen) bicker and I agree its endlessly entertaining. They get into some serious territory sometimes (teenage fights with JA's Dad and Clay's notable but ultimately abandoned rock musician career) and its certainly combative more often than not lol.

Really weird to have a schedule without The Frow Show (he'll be back!), but Kendraplex is a good substitute.

I am deeply sad not to have the Frow Show for the next 9 months.

On the WFMU homepage:

"The old WFMU blog, Beware of the Blog, has not been updated since 2015, but we've continued to keep all the pages accessible to the public. Our host Typepad is now going out of business (let this be a lesson as to how unsafe "the cloud" is), and all blog pages will disappear on September 30th. These pages will not be available to the public after that date, so get 'em while you can! There is a lot of great audio and written material on the blog, so if you want to grab any of it, please do it now: https://blog.wfmu.org";

Similar to Alex in NYC's blog :(

https://i.postimg.cc/QNksRVCJ/Clipboard-11-28-2025-01.jpg

Thought I read somewhere that someone else will be spinning reggae in his place, but sad he will be gone.

I usually listen to Destination: OUT on Sunday mornings but listened to Jeff Sarge's finale and liked that it seemed like a cheerful signoff. I note that he wasn't on continuously for 41 years — I remember when he was left off the schedule once a few years ago and it was clear that it wasn't his idea. He was back on at the next schedule changeover.

Hell, maybe I just imagined that. I don't see the gap in his playlists, just the one in the early days of covid.

Very sad to see Hearty White is wrapping it up, four more Miracle Nutritions to go.

I love his skits, honestly if he just did those and called it a podcast it would be a great continuation