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"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:

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Audio engineers built a shield to deflect police sound cannons:

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Enjoy 30GB of 1980s noise music and post-punk cassettes.

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Home Taping Is Killing Music: When the Music Industry Waged War on the Cassette Tape in the 1980s, and Punk Bands Fought Back

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The Car Cassette Adapter: Unsung Hero at the Dawn of the Digital Age

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Iconic punk label Dischord has uploaded its entire archive to Bandcamp:

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RT @joeveix : Sneak peek of tomorrow's New York Times. http://t.co/hHhxMXWzhn

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An interview with 107-year-old jazz drumming legend Viola Smith:

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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: Listen to a rebroadcast here:

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The lost art of cassette design: (h/t @dmandl )

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John Coltrane is honored with a new full-wall mural in the town of Hamlet, NC, where he was born in 1936:

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Velvet Underground Realized as Peanuts Characters Feat. Charlie Brown as Andy Warhol http://t.co/ZOnfB0E5Do

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Here's the legendary Hamish Kilgour of the Clean painting the dome located at the top of WFMU shortly after we moved to Jersey City (late '90s), along with some pictures of what it looks like today. R.I.P.💔

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English synth and electronic music pioneer Janet Beat owned the first synth to be made commercially available in the UK. Now she’s releasing her debut album at age 83:

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The Art Institute of Chicago has placed more than 52,000 high-resolution images from their collection online, available to everyone with no restrictions.

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Stone Age cave symbols found around the world may have a common link: “Paleoanthropologist Genevieve von Petzinger has found evidence of a proto-writing system that perhaps developed in Africa and then spread throughout the world.”

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50 Historic Black Women Guitarists and Bassists You Need To Know (h/t @dmandl )

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Screwed Up Records & Tapes is not a normal business. It’s a brick-and-mortar record store that only sells CDs by a single artist, the late DJ Screw, the inventor of chopped and screwed music, who has been dead almost two decades.

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10 years

Almost Cut my Dumpling: The Face of David Crosby Appears in a Pierogi http://t.co/KcniJwAy29 http://t.co/UgewaBYSNh ht @treelobsters

Jesus in a pierogi

In Michigan, St. Andre Bessette Church Festival attendees were "shocked" to see the face of Jesus in a pierogi! Pareidolicious! According to a UPI report, they're keeping the pierogi in…

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Studio Ghibli makes 1,178 images from many of its animated films free to download:

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Great news just in from Station Manager Ken:

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Massive Archive of 78 RPM Records Digitized an Put Online: Stream 78,000 Early 20th Century Records from Around the World:

Massive Archive of 78RPM Records Now Digitized & Put Online: Stream 78,000 Early 20th Century...

Last summer we checked in with the Internet Archive’s Great 78 Project, a volunteer effort to digitize thousands of 78rpm records—the oldest mass-produced recording medium.

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The Winamp Skin Museum: (h/t: @kneelingbus )

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A Brief History of Words that Mean 'Cool' http://t.co/QxKRiaYZvS ht @weloveallthat

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6 years

Songs by David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads & More Re-Imagined as Pulp Fiction Book Covers:

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'The Shining' Twins, All Growed Up: http://t.co/M1T90LHiEa ht @kubrick_fan

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7 years

7 Women Noise Musicians You Need to Know:

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6 years

Conserve The Sound is an online museum for vanishing and endangered sounds. The sound of a dial telephone, a walkman, a analog typewriter, a pay phone, a 56k modem ... are partially already gone or are about to disappear from our daily life.

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Yo La Tengo plays cover song requests in exchange for pledges live on Daniel Blumin’s show Monday, March 6th (9pm–midnight), with co-host Gaylord Fields! Pledge $100 and have your request ready to go. This show will NOT be archived, so don't miss out!

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“I had boyfriends that played guitar, and I was more interested in the guitar than I was in them. I would trick them into teaching me things.” A previously unpublished 2003 interview with Poison Ivy:

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Hours and hours and hours of MTV VHS Recordings from 1981 to 1989 can now be viewed on the Internet Archive

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Mr. Rogers demonstrates how to cut a record:

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7 years

Artist Jennifer Bolande Replaces Billboards with Photos of the Landscapes They’re Blocking:

Artist Jennifer Bolande Replaces Billboards With Photos Of The Landscapes They’re Blocking

It’s part of a Coachella Valley art exhibition

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8 hours of footage from David Bowie’s 1973 television program “The 1980 Floor Show” (a Bowie-curated episode of The Midnight Special), including “uncut footage… multiple takes, backstage moments, and all of the dance rehearsals.”

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Why this font Is everywhere: How Cooper Black became pop culture’s favorite font.

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The Boston Public Library Owns 200,000 Vinyl Records — And It’s Putting Them All Online:

The Boston Public Library Owns 200,000 Vinyl Records — And It’s Putting Them All Online

Once the records are digitized through the Internet Archive, anyone will be able to hear them -- free.

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"Lou Reed, Bob Dylan and Patti Smith all played guitars made from wood salvaged from New York buildings. Now there’s a documentary about the eccentric genius who crafted them." Carmine Street Guitars: tuning up with New York's finest plank-spankers

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An Interactive Map of Every Record Shop in the World:

An Interactive Map of Every Record Shop in the World

Arriving in a new city usually means finding the nearest decent grocery, pharmacy, coffee shop, bookstore, laundry, etc. And before nearly every musical whim could be satisfied with a few clicks, it...

www.openculture.com

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Hundreds of years before Pantone an otherwise unknown Dutch artist documented every color — by hand.

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How Giorgio Moroder & Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” created “the blueprint for all electronic dance music today”:

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"Moondog: the Man on the Street," a 2-hour radio documentary, broadcast in 1971 [MP3]: http://t.co/DNX9OTdSSr http://t.co/DNfh4SveG4

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How Black Flag, Bad Brains, and More Reclaimed Punk from White Supremacists:

How Black Flag, Bad Brains, and More Reclaimed Punk from White Supremacists

An oral history of fighting back against Nazis.

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6 years

We are pleased to introduce you to our new WFMU mascot for 2018-19, Big Mama! She's a five year old South American horned frog. Big Mama's mama is Listener Nicole from Highland Park, NJ. Congratulations Big Mama, and love and best wishes to outgoing mascot MoonDog the goat.

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Heavy hearts at WFMU over the loss of David Berman, and we share our condolences with his family, friends, and fans. You can stream a live set from 2008 that Silver Jews did on Benjamen Walker's Theory Of Everything program here: [link to audio player]

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Charlie Brown as Warhol, Snoopy as Lou Reed, Linus as John Cale: Velvet Underground as Peanuts Characters: http://t.co/ZOnfB0E5Do

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RIP Lemmy Kilmister:

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Peggy Jones was just 16 when she met Bo Diddley while walking by the Apollo Theater. By the next year, Peggy, or Lady Bo as she’d later be known, was a member of Diddley’s band and one of the first female lead guitarists in rock.

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Damo Suzuki Remembered: “Life is so short, so face in front of you, not backside.”

Damo Suzuki Remembered: "Life is short, face in front of you, not backside."

In memory of Can frontman Damo Suzuki, who has passed away aged 74, MOJO revisits our 2018 interview with the krautrockers' shamanic lightening rod.

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Jim O'Rourke talks about composer Roland Kayn.

An interview with Jim O'Rourke

I spent much of the summer this year working on an article for Bandcamp about Roland Kayn and the ongoing project releasing the late composer’s archival works. Ian Fenton, who runs the Finnish label...

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6 years

Listen to Paul McCartney's "Lost" Experimental Christmas Disc for his Fellow Beatles from 1965:

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The story of the special transistor at the heart of the Roland TR-808, arguably the world’s most iconic drum machine:

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Behold Moebius' Many Psychedelic Illustrations of Jimi Hendrix

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Fear on SNL, a short documentary by Jeff Krulik (Heavy Metal Parking Lot) about the LA punk band’s chaotic 1981 appearance on the show:

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2 years

Okuda Hiroko, the woman who programmed the Casiotone preset that became the foundation for the “Sleng Teng” riddim that revolutionized reggae: (h/t: @dmandl )

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6 years

Talking Heads on stage at CBGB in 1975:

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4 years

An update from Station Mgr Ken: "earlier today, WFMU went into 'coronavirus skeleton crew mode,' and this will last for the next two weeks and then some. What this means is that most shows will be either pre-recorded at home by the DJ or will be a re-run of an older show. (1/4)

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In memory of the great Pete Shelley please enjoy the music he composed for Channel 4’s coverage of the Tour de France in the late ‘80s. (video)

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7 years

The Moody Blues in "Nancy"

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10 years

List of Banned Band Names from Christian Radio: http://t.co/rlMV8zCjuX

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Famous Architects Dress Up as Their Buildings, Look Miserable Doing So, ca 1931: http://t.co/WAdYzbEORD | http://t.co/e91ukYNv8e

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Blondie drummer Clem Burke and scientific researchers show that drumming can help kids with autism learn more effectively in school:

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Singer Sewing Machine Transforms into Turntable Console: http://t.co/NlXWkAQZ6v via @ngxgx588 @weloveallthat

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How L.A. Punks of the '80s and '90s Kept Neo-Nazis Out of Their Scene:

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3 years

Watch the new documentary Sisters with Transistors online via WFMU and help support the station! It's the remarkable untold story of electronic music’s female pioneers: composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies. Use this link:

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The inventor of the modern album cover:

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Why the radio is one of history's most important inventions:

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We mourn the loss of Bill Weber, a beloved member of the WFMU family. His sister wrote: "A champion of the oppressed, Bill fought for the rights of all people 'othered' - LGBTQ+, Black, Brown, disabled, imprisoned, asylum seeking. Bill loved his NY Mets, WFMU, SABR, & film." 1/2.

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The sunset of Sonic Youth: An oral history of the band's final U.S. show.

The sunset of Sonic Youth: An oral history of the band's final U.S. show

For the first time, the band members, their crew and their fans tell the story of a landmark moment they didn't realize was happening. Sonic Youth's new album, Live in Brooklyn 2011, is out this week.

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Lee "Scratch" Perry "...continues to be, a spiritual guide and compass for true artistic expression. He is a dub pioneer, the first to turn Rasta culture and beliefs into a popular music art form, first user of samples, and a living work of art."

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1930: The Models for 'American Gothic,' Wearing Civilian Clothes: http://t.co/Sw8wm6HLUI) http://t.co/7AbRSK5Tb2

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A new study suggests memories of music cannot be lost to Alzheimer's and dementia:

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TOMORROW! We are delighted that the wonderful Yo La Tengo will once again bring us their annual all-covers requestathon, live from a secret socially-distanced location! Tune in from 3-6pm EST on Todd-O-Phonic Todd's show! Want to make a request? See next tweet! (1/3)

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Our dear friends Yo La Tengo ( @TheRealYLT ) are back for another year of their legendary all-covers requestathon! It happens THIS SATURDAY (March 7) from 3-6pm EST on Todd-O-Phonic Todd's show! Pledge $100 or more to WFMU and YLT will learn your request and play it on the air! 1/3

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Photos of Silver Apples' Homemade Electronics Rig, 1968: http://t.co/jMRmUjrvEZ | http://t.co/j8sRflsT59

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The History of Distortion:

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A map of the United States of America made up entirely from the titles of over 1,000 songs:

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The Cramps’ concert at a California psychiatric hospital is revisited in We Were There to Be There, a new documentary:

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Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh presents his personal synthesizer collection:

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"...am I really thinking people are going to be okay with sitting and watching me listen to music for such an extended period of time?" Dave Foley takes us behind the scenes of the Doomsday DJ sketch in the new Kids In The Hall run:

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Guitar Face Takes on New Meaning when the Axe is Replaced with a Giant Sea Slug:

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Remembering the original Knitting Factory:

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24 hours of a Star Trek TNG spaceship idling, 12 hours of ambient sounds from Dr. Who's Tardis, 12 hours of the droning sound heard in Rich Deckard's apartment in Blade Runner, and more "ambient geek sleep aids":

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Library of Congress releases 11,700 freely usable photos of "roadside America," taken by John Margolies / Boing Boing

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Gary Lucas reflects on the time he brought Arthur Russell and wannabe rapper Mark Sinclair (who would later change his name to Vin Diesel) into a recording studio to work together:

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MT @GalalAmrG : Here's an unphotoshopped photo of a shirtless Putin riding a weasel riding a woodpecker: http://t.co/fiEsFbGp5z

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So long, Tom Verlaine, a friend and hero to many of us here at FMU.

Tom Verlaine obituary

Visionary frontman of Television whose 1977 debut LP Marquee Moon is considered one of the most influential albums of its era

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The Van Gogh Balloon Is Aloft & Looking for People Who Haven't Pledged to WFMU Yet: http://t.co/DUAtShuXir

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Alan Lomax’s massive music archive features 17,000 historic blues and folk recordings online:

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Switched-On Bach: How a transgender synth pioneer changed music

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Billy Idol's 1993 release 'Cyberpunk' "is built on a dystopian narrative in which 'the future has imploded into the present' and 'mega-corporations are the new governments. Computer-generated info-domains are the new frontiers.'"

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“Untypical Girls”: Early Photographs Of Women In Punk From Between The Late 1970s And Early 1990s

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The time Alice Cooper and the Stooges opened for Jane Fonda (h/t @btrnr ).

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A gallery of record label logos:

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Huge thanks once again to everyone who pledged to our fundraiser! WE MADE OUR GOAL! Because of your support, WFMU will continue to reign free and weird across the globe, as well as pay our bills and stuff. You've once again shown that WFMU listeners are theeeee best! ❤️📻👂

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Liberté, Egalité… Beyoncé? http://t.co/Uw65sveipn ht @UsVsTh3m

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Awesome History of Words that Mean 'Cool,' Except for 'Awesome' http://t.co/QxKRiaYZvS

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“Experimental music is having something of a moment in Indonesia, in no small part thanks to the international success of [experimental duo] Senyawa. But they are far from the only noise artists making some noise in Southeast Asia.”

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Can: The making of landmark album Tago Mago:

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The oral history of the Telecaster

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