Your favorite WFMU DJ!

ah, cool

thanks

I just got an email for volunteering, so it sounds like they are starting to send out swag today.

ah yes Friedman, you and yr FMU lackeys think yr funny? then play this, in which Felder repurposed his contributions to "Life in the Fast Lane"…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oIH8bNsRpU

Probably a dumb question: does the station pay for the production of DJ premiums or do the DJs kick in production costs?

I think the answer is both, depending on the dj -- if the dj can pitch in on production (Scharpling had family in the t-shirt biz, for instance), they do -- but Station Manager Ken would probably give you a clear answer.

RIP X-Ray Burns.

This is so awful.

got a hearty handshake from the man at last year's marathon

RIP

Really, really heartbreaking episode of the Glen Jones Radio Program last night.

RIP. Frank's was a gateway show for me about 35 years ago.

We're very sad to share the news that longtime WFMU DJ Frank O'Toole passed away last night. Frank started at WFMU in 1976 when he was at Upsala College, the school that WFMU used to be part of. We will miss his kindness and knowledge.
📷: Frank (on right, w/ @dmandl) by @keeptru pic.twitter.com/VGK8dFe8c9

— WFMU (@WFMU) May 3, 2019

RIP -- I always liked his 6-9 web-only show, which I caught pretty often as an early riser.

Same - an incredible freeform DJ. RIP

Also a genuinely nice guy, easy to talk to. He played for awhile in a Feelies offshoot band called Speed the Plough.

Was really nice to hear the ladies of Shut Up Weirdo again last night. Did not realize the new phone number turns out to be 201-KEN-WFMU

icymi

Join Station Manager Ken and Andy BreckmanMan for a night of comedy and juvenile pranks, this Wednesday, October 30th for Seven Second Delay‘s Standup Comedy Mischief Night at Monty Hall. Ken and Andy welcome a dozen of America’s leading stand-up comedians for a beautiful evening of mirth. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll wipe away a little tear, and you’ll also get a roll of toilet paper so that we can all take part in Mischief Night festivities by TPing a neighboring rival radio station. Monty Hall, Wednesday, October 30th. Admission: $12, includes one (BRAND NEW) roll of toilet paper.

skeleton crew continues on the air

Ira Kaplan in for Duane at noon today

In 20 minutes:

Tonight on 7SD we are focusing ONLY on the positive aspects of the coronavirus pandemic. Just about every disruption in history has good and bad sides, and recent events are no exception. Ken, for one, is grateful that Mission Impossible 5 has been postponed indefinitely, while Andy is thrilled that the WFMU Record Fair has been cancelled.

Listen for details tonight-- we are just now working out the final logistics-- but we will be giving away TP free, with no strings attached, and no plys missing.

Ken is jumping in to Bryce's (prerecorded) show to announce that effective immediately, all shows will be prerecorded or from the archives with a few exceptions (skeleton crew still in building) for the next 2 weeks+.

also some DJs are planning to remote-broadcast, if they figure out how to

Ken going Full Ken today with Traktorized "Don't Stand So Close to Me" for bed music

Dave the Spazz and Duane were on 7SD via phone tonight, and both have some symptoms :/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/arts/music/coronavirus-community-radio.html

WFMU included in this

Endless respect to the skeleton crew, some of whom are sleeping there. Listenership via the streams is at an all time high, I'm told

I'm a big fan of lots of the DJs, but I wanted to throw out a special appreciation for Jeff Conklin's Avant Ghetto. Not sure if he doesn't get the same love since he's a little more jam-band friendly, but his shows are usually a treat. I especially like when he dives into 70's folk obscurities. The run he started his show with this week (the Branford Marsalis assisted "Bird Song" into a '72 King Crimson take on "The Creator Has a Master Plan" into Universal Congress Of) was killer.

Ken was killin' it reading official instructions in Satan Voice today

Interview with Dave the Spazz about his COVID experience. Looks like he's recovering but they're still doing fill-ins (Ira the K again last night).
https://www.psreader.com/pandemic-diary-vii-%e2%80%a8dave-the-spazz-covid-felt-like-blowtorches-behind-each-one-of-my-eyeballs/

title made me wonder how many eyeballs he has

Ira K doing lots of fillins, incl now til noon ET

I appreciate him.

Looks like I can appreciate him every week for the next year in the midnight Tuesday slot.
https://www.wfmu.org/table?period=45

yeah I saw that! surprised.

Ken really goin for it rn

https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/93678

Looks like the Rock n Soul Ichiban stream has been shitcanned without any announcement.

Debbie D: "Sorry, folks. I was permanently suspended from WFMU today. I had a disagreement with management. Thanks for 10 great years of Ichiban."
https://www.facebook.com/groups/162415257052/

Oof. Wonder what that's all about, can't really get a handle based on those FB comments. Seems like some folks are calling for other DJs to quit WFMU in support, but others saying there's another side to the story? Odd.

Yeah, anyone know why?

i saw longtime best show caller fred from honolulu beefing with ap mike on twitter, and i couldn't figure out what it was about, but fred made remarks about women being creeped out by p@ul brun0 ... is that related?

sorry i shouldn't be spreading rumors i know nothing about

yeah disregard my post it's unrelated

As much as I love the Ichiban stream, there's some sketchy bullshit being spread by folks close to Debbie D and elsewhere online -- the Hound is straight up making things up about Ken Freedman on Instagram. I have a feeling Ken may have called a bluff that's been going on for a while; I think Debbie D said "you have to do it my way, Ken, or I will take Ichiban and that sweet Tom Hanks pledge money with me" once too often.

Ichiban stuff broadly related to huge internal strife at the station regarding WFMU's BLM statement

Saw the Hound also been trolling (now ex)Ichiban DJs in IG - I think he's just happy to see anything related to WFMU go wrong

who is the Hound?

Jim Marshall

https://pleasekillme.com/hound-back-on-the-air/

the Hound has been a gigantic anti-FMU asshole ever since he lost his show (in the '90s?)

1997 it says in that article.

the Hound has been a gigantic anti-FMU asshole ever since he lost his show (in the '90s?)

The Night Owl Show is on the stream right now.

I do suspect that the BLM statement may have something to do with things, but that's one of the points that Debbie D's crowd and the Hound are straight mythmaking about -- that Ken fired her for putting up a pro-BLM statement, when in fact Ichiban was the last stream to put anything up, and their statement was a weirdly-edited, shorter version of the Drummer Stream's statement. Also got a Controversial Mod Edit on the Ichiban Facebook group deleting my (factual, non-shaming) comments about the still-active far right broadcaster who did the gross, racist Queen Bee Barbecue bits they've been playing forever *before* the "KEN FIRED DEBBIE FOR SUPPORTING BLM" bullshit started spreading.

From the Night Owl playlist comments:

Hi OjaibJohn -
Thanks for writing. I am working hard to bring Ichiban back by the end of this month. It had not been my intention to turn the stream off. I suspended the manager of the stream because they said they were going to quit, but they refused to discuss it with me.
I was going to leave the stream up, while I searched for a replacement, but the Ichiban DJs recommended to me that I turn the stream off, at least for a few weeks, while people cooled down.
I hope to be able to provide a date of Ichiban's relaunch next week. When the date is settled, I will post it on the WFMU homepage.
In the meantime, all the Ichiban playlists and archives remain up and working, all on the landing pages for each show. Please let me know if I can help you locate any of the show pages.
-Ken Freedman

oy, such a clusterfuck

It's really gross. Any sympathy I had for Debbie has disappeared as she's started insinuating really shitty things about Ken and the station that just aren't true. She's parroted the "no djs of color on WFMU" thing from the Hound just now, as the Duane Train begins. And she's doing it in my least favorite way: the bad liar's truth, where you insinuate and ask questions and stop just sort of a clear declarative sentence and everyone understands what you are accusing, but you never actually let the untrue words leave your lips. From the look of it on the Ichiban Facebook group, people are buying it. The insanity of her pretending to be the Only Righteous DJ at FMU? As the head of Ichiban? I thought the trash garage crowd had more integrity than the rockabilly crowd, but I guess I was wrong.