 Ah, freeform radio. You’ve got to love those radio stations that give their dj’s complete artistic freedom. The station that has been doing it the longest is East Orange, New Jersey’s WFMU. They’ve been refusing to pigeonhole themselves since 1958. The New York Times has called them “a station whose name has become like a secret handshake among a certain tastemaking cognoscenti.”
You’ve got to open your mind as wide as it will go to enjoy the music on this station. And how could that ever be a bad thing? If you can do it, you are bound to have one of the strangest, most pleasurable music listening experiences in your entire life. Click on the logo to listen to Lou Reed’s favorite radio station:
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The music of Contre Jour
Imagine Cut The Rope meeting Angry Birds Space somewhere in French children's literature, and you're getting close. If you've got a smart phone, you owe yourself a copy of Contre Jour for several reasons,...
free download: Symptomatic EP, by La Machine
In March we met La Machine, concluding, "Sung through a pulse jet and stripped down to the sub-bass." Their dark-as-a-cave, quick-as-a-Zoloft releases continue with the Symptomatic EP. The title track sets paint-can percussion...
video: “Same Old,” by Audioley
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video vault: “Snow,” by Pooma
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profile: John Harrison of Cedar Lines
Sunday, January 29, 2012, 11:45am John Harrison can’t find a kit that he likes. The drum line is already written: a smudged, industrial arrangement that summons Cleveland, not Cincinnati. It would work just fine on its own,...
