WFMU
- Call Letters: WFMU
- Frequency: 91.1
- http://www.wfmu.org
Description
WFMU-FM is a listener-supported, non-commercial radio station broadcasting at 91.1 Mhz FM in Jersey City, NJ, right across the Hudson from lower Manhattan. It is currently the longest running freeform radio station in the United States.WFMU's programming ranges from flat-out uncategorizable strangeness to rock and roll, experimental music, 78 RPM Records, jazz, psychedelia, hip-hop, electronica, hand-cranked wax cylinders, punk rock, gospel, exotica, R&B, radio improvisation, cooking instructions, classic radio airchecks, found sound, dopey call-in shows, interviews with obscure radio personalities and notable science-world luminaries, spoken word collages, Andrew Lloyd Webber soundtracks in languages other than English as well as Country and western music.
All of the station's programming is controlled by individual DJs and is not beholden to any type of station-wide playlist or rotation schedule. Experimentation, spontaneity and humor are among the station's most frequently noted distinguishing traits. WFMU does not belong to any existing public radio network, and close to 100% of its programming originates at the station.
Pieces
Cartoonist Chester Brown talks about his new book "Paying For it" - a graphic novel about his life as a john. In 1996 Brown, a well known Canadian ...
Bought by KALW
- Added: May 20, 2011
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 1
Music that is always new and always fresh: international exclusives, new bass and beats. Informative and passionate commentary from one of the most...
- Added: May 20, 2011
- Length: 58:59
International exclusives. New bass and beats plus live guests (musicians, DJs, poets) and an ear for the global south. Cumbia. Dubstep. Gangsta syn...
- Added: May 13, 2011
- Length: 59:00
This week McKenzie Funk tells us the story of Guantanamo detainee Muhibullo Abdulkarim Umarov. Also filmmaker Dustinn Craig explains why Geronimo i...
Bought by KALW
- Added: May 13, 2011
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 1
International exclusives. New bass and beats plus live guests (musicians, DJs, poets) and an ear for the global south. Cumbia. Dubstep. Gangsta syn...
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 59:00
Gospel music from the American South. Kevin Nutt is the host and Deacon of the show. Playlist below.
Bought by KFOK-LP
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
Gospel music from the American South. Kevin Nutt is the host and Deacon of the show. Playlist below.
Bought by KFOK-LP
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
Americana and rare gospel music from the South. Kevin Nutt is the host and Deacon of the show. See playlist below.
Bought by KFOK-LP
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
Americana and rare gospel music for the South. Kevin Nutt is the host and Deacon of the show. Complete playlist below. Read the full description.
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Americana and rare gospel music for the South. Kevin Nutt is the host and Deacon of the show. Complete playlist below.
- Added: Apr 22, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
DJ Rupture talked to Daniel Hernandez, author of new book Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century about...
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 59:06
New bass and beats plus live guests (musicians, DJs, poets) and an ear for the global south. Cumbia. Dubstep. Gangsta synthetics. Sound-art. Maghre...
Bought by KFOK-LP
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 1
Your host dreams of "Cthulhu Con." A bunch of Brooklyn Musicians dream of "Brand Aid." Plus: a lecture on the concept of the unreliable narrator.
Bought by KALW, Public Radio Remix, WRIR, and KUOW
- Added: Mar 22, 2011
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 4
Gospel music from the American South. Kevin Nutt is the host and Deacon of the show. Playlist below. Read the full description.
- Added: Mar 18, 2011
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
Andrew Keen says online sharing is endangering our humanity while Nick Van Der Kolk tells us the internet has hooked up his love life. PLUS: Cable...
- Added: Mar 03, 2011
- Length: 54:01
- Purchases: 3
Major status updates from TMi regulars, Tim Wu "Mr. Net Neutrality" tells us about "The Master Switch" and Galen Smith takes us underground to vie...
- Added: Mar 03, 2011
- Length: 53:59
- Purchases: 3
Americana and rare gospel music for the South. Kevin Nutt is the host and Deacon of the show.
- Added: Feb 18, 2011
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
Americana and rare gospel music for the South. Kevin Nutt is the host and Deacon of the show. Complete playlist below.
- Added: Feb 04, 2011
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 2
Americana and rare gospel music for the South. Kevin Nutt is the host and Deacon of the show. Complete playlist below.
- Added: Jan 28, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Americana and rare gospel music for the South. Kevin Nutt is the host and Deacon of the show. Complete playlist below.
- Added: Jan 21, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
Staff of WFMU
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Ken Freedman (Admin)
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Benjamen Walker (Admin)
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Miranda Shafer (Admin)
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Marco Vidal (Admin)
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Lita Martinez (Admin)
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Andrea Silenzi (Admin)
Managing Director, Free Music Archive at WFMU |
