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WFMU is an independent freeform radio station broadcasting at 91.1 fm in the New York City area, at 90.1 fm in the Hudson Valley, and live on the web.

http://podcast.wfmu.org/

WFMU has ten separate podcasts:
Audio Kitchen with The Professor [NEW]
Antique Phonograph Music Program
Aerial View with Chris T.
Dave Emory [NEW]
Jonesville Station
Seven Second Delay with Ken and Andy
The Speakeasy with Dorian
Advanced D & D with Donna Summer
Downtown Soulville with Mr. Fine Wine [NEW]
Thomas Edison's Attic

http://podcast.wfmu.org/

They offer two shows of old 78s which are public domain as well as two other amazing shows (Advanced D & D with Donna Summer.... breakcore / random bedroom electronics and Downtown Soulville which is pure funk 45s from the 60s / early 70s and is extremely addictive. Especially of interest if you like stuff like Peanut Butter Wolf's Funky 16 corners comp from a few years back).

As for npr podcasting you can get on media as a podcast at http://onthemedia.org

http://podcast.wfmu.org/

They offer two shows of old 78s which are public domain as well as two other amazing shows (Advanced D & D with Donna Summer.... breakcore / random bedroom electronics and Downtown Soulville which is pure funk 45s from the 60s / early 70s and is extremely addictive. Especially of interest if you like stuff like Peanut Butter Wolf's Funky 16 corners comp from a few years back).

As for npr podcasting you can get on media as a podcast at http://onthemedia.org

Is a chicken(tastes like) playing the piano, dancing, or fighting art?

What about the basketball playing coon? If Shaq's play is art then Larry Bird must qualify as well.

Then we have technology as art. Sorry nyud.net says 'over quota'!

The list goes on.

Photog Dolphins(not the fish or Miami sports team).
Painting horse(holds brush in mouth).
Poetic Orangutang(time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
...

A lot of radio sucks, yes. But not all. Check out WMFU. I am lucky enough to live within broadcasting range. And I want to listen to it on my MP3 player dammit! So screw Apple, I'll get a different player. But I really was hoping they would get it right this time.

Geez.

You mean something like WCBN,WFMU, or WLUW? (OK, so FMU is in New York and LUW is in Chicago, but you get the point - college/indie stations can and do stream worldwide).

Let's say the government took back the airwaves and disbanded the FCC, and gave those airwaves to ISPs to provide wireless service (which is harder than it sounds, it's not like spectrum is unavailable for such things, and the spectrum for AM is totally unsuited to it anyway, while FM spectrum is non-optimal for the purpose, being relatively low-bandwidth). Let's say I then, being pissed off my FM radio no longer dragged anything in, built a 50,000W FM transmitter and started blasting punk rock out over those ISPs piddly point-to-point transmitters. Who would prevent me from doing that? The FCC... oh, wait, the FCC was disbanded!

The FCC still serves a purpose; regulating access to spectrum. Whether they're doing a good job of it is arguable, but getting rid of them entirely won't solve a damn thing. I'm sick of open spectrum zealots who don't know shit about RF and refuse to acknowledge the very real, very *math-based* problems with their proposals (like, for example, the capacity theorem saying AM bandwidth won't carry enough information to make it worth as much as your shriveled dick without using absurd signal-noise power ratios for mobile point to point stations). Learn some RF and info theory math, then come back and say "Let's open up the spectrum and everything will be dandy!" Look at how much 'free market' principles have fucked over the use of spectrum, and tell me an unregulated spectrum would be an improvement.

I'm a fan of non-commercial radio myself.

The assertion that I disagree with is the claim that in true democracies, dissent during wartime is regarded as patriotic.

My point is that many purely verbal forms of dissent are indeed treasonous, and always have been.

Yes, some kinds of dissent are okay. But some are not. How to regard Kerry's dissent was up to the individual voters.

"Damn Roosevelt! Damn Churchill!" "Damn all Jews who made this war possible. I love America, but I do not love Roosevelt and all his kike boyfriends."

-- 'Axis Sally'

(Such sentiment sounds quite familiar these days...)

It was actually Major Edwin Howard Armstrong. http://wfmu.org/LCD/GreatDJ/armstrong.html

• Forced Exposure
• Rough Trade
• Post Everything

• Resonance FM <-- HIGHLY RECOMMENDED :-)
• WFMU
• WCSB

Try an independent or college station. Sure, maybe 50 or 60 percent of it is unlistenable crap, but that sure beats the 99.9% crap rate of Clear Channel radio.

Don't know what area you're in, but two of my NJ favorites are WFMU 91.1 (Jersey City) and WBRB 103.3 (Princeton). You can listen to either online:
http://www.wfmu.org/
http://www.wprb.com/

This was pulled off (not on broadcast TV) by Orson Welles, in a radio broadcast of H.G. Wells War of the Worlds" in 1938.

I don't listen to any commercial radio, nor watch TV. Hence, I don't really know any regular schedule. So, if a radio program, such as Joe Frank's, were to do a science-fact-docu-drama, I could just adjust the dial to see if it's for real.

Also, Reagan once announced
that "My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you Ijust signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."

If you live in or visit NYC, there's a venue that sort of specializes in experimental instruments and music, some free jazz and other stuff. It's Tonic, on Norfolk in the Lower East Side, and they've earned a solid reputation for hosting some great musicians of lesser known genres. John Zorn has played there many times.

One night I saw a guy put a cello bow to a tiny wooden contraption with audio pickups attached. He proceeded to produce some eerie and beautiful music. Others followed with homebrew synthesizers. Weird, intriguing night.

Columbia University has a computer music program, and some of the students there host a monthly demo called dorkbot, for people making experimental music, audio, video, robots etc.. It's held in a dozen other cities, check the website.

Two radio stations that carry new and experimental music programs are WFMU and WNYC. FMU has numerous programs which spotlight other music, while WNYC carries a single show, quite good, called New Sounds, hosted by John Schaefer. It's a bit on the pedigreed end of the spectrum, and although John Zorn is a frequent reference point, I haven't heard him as a guest on the show, though I'm not a regular listener. Most definitely worth a listen, it's on each night at 11pm ET.

Both can be heard online, and both stations maintain archives of their shows.

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Most college radio is the same cookie-cutter crap that you hear on clear channel stations, just with that "I don't know how to speak clearly" charm. Want to listen to REAL radio? WFMU.

• Unfortunately, I can't listen to internet radio from work. Sysadmins don't want me to use that bandwidth (or rather, me and the 200 other employees). Can't listen to internet radio from the car either...

WFMU is a favorite. Eclectic and 128K MP3 live streams all the time. Miss a good DJs show? Well, they have 2 weeks of 96K MP3 streams available on-line. Some stuff is even worth listening to (interviews, specials) from their massive Real (Mono) archive going back years, too.

I record other stations, also, but I love the 128K goodness of WFMU.

Kind of off-topic, but if you want to get back to variety on the radio, WFMU is a nice place to start. They have live streams of varying quality, so you don't have to be a local to listen.

and they stream mp3, too! I also spent high school and college listening to WRSU, Rutgers, New Brunswick and WKDU Drexel University. God save college radio!

And for all you NPR fans, check out Current.org. I used it to find a bunch of different streaming NPR stations for my SliMP3 player. Worked like a charm until I brought my streaming server to the office :( I really need to bring my PC home.

You don't have to stop purchasing CDs to stick it to the RIAA; you just have to make sure that the artists/labels that you do buy are not members of the RIAA. You can use the RIAA Radar to see if a purchase would be giving any money to the RIAA or not.

There are hundreds of labels releasing music that is independent of the RIAA. Start listening to college radio stations towards the bottom end of the dial! Many of these stations broadcast online as well - WFMU, KDVS, and KFJC are great stations that focus on independent, non-commercial music.

There's a world of sound out there most people never hear. You don't have to be a slave to the major label marketing executives and the RIAA!

Check out my workday freakout suppressant, WFMU--listener-sponsored freeform music, talk, and live music streaming 24/7.

Conspir8or

Here's a real one.

In the same light "who invented wireless ?" The most common answer would be Marconi. This is completely incorrect. The first wireless communication was invented by an Indian scientist named Jagadish Chandra Bose in 1899 (recognised now by IEEE). Of course he wasn't savvy enough to get patents and all and as in those times it was easy to suppress a scientific achievement from a thirld world colonial rules state. He is very respected in part of the country who studied science as a gift to mankind.

As all good Southerners know, you and others are wrong. Nathan B. Stubblefield invented radio.

(Being from the south, I just love blind siding people with that one, even if it really was only induction and not radio.)

My favourite station, WFMU, has been archiving virutally all their radio shows since August 2000. The archives are 20.6 kbps RealAudio. According to my calculations that would make around 203 GB worth of archives by now.

Once I get my iPod, that's how I am going to fill it up.

• Using Kazaa, search for a favourite artist. Go and browse the collection of someone with a lot of that artist. Download one track from every artist whose music/name you don't know
• Look up favourites on Amazon, and as well as reading the "other people bought..." section, read the comments, they often mention other bands. I've found a few this way.
• Search on Google Groups. See who is talking about a favourite artist. Who else are they talking about?
• Try and find like minded friends. I find this hard as my tastes are fairly esoteric, but I've got one or two friends who aren't too far off, and I have some good discoveries through them.
• Use Launch. It takes a while but once you've customised it enough it does make pretty good suggestions every now and again. I've discovered at least 2 favourite bands via launch. Also good to listen to at work.
• Find a radio station that plays interesting music. My personal favourite is WFMU - mostly shows are rubbish, but a few real gems in there (your mileage may vary). Browse the playlists. Some of the radio stations have "top 100 most played songs for 200x" lists - these are great.
• Just keep your eyes open. You'll find stuff when you least expect it.

The Antique Phonograph Music Program is pretty neat too. Where else but WFMU can you hear music being played on the radio, directly off of wax cylinders and old gramophones?

WFMU also archives virtually ALL of the radio shows (albeit in icky RealAudio format) in thier entirety. Way cool.

I'm actually a financial supporter of WFMU, even though I live in Honolulu. It (along with KEXP, WBAI, WMBR, KCRW, KTUH) is what keeps me sane at the office, when everyone else is listening to stupid, vapid Top-40 and corporate "alternative" radio stations.

The Antique Phonograph Music Program is pretty neat too. Where else but WFMU can you hear music being played on the radio, directly off of wax cylinders and old gramophones?

WFMU also archives virtually ALL of the radio shows (albeit in icky RealAudio format) in thier entirety. Way cool.

I'm actually a financial supporter of WFMU, even though I live in Honolulu. It (along with KEXP, WBAI, WMBR, KCRW, KTUH) is what keeps me sane at the office, when everyone else is listening to stupid, vapid Top-40 and corporate "alternative" radio stations.

The Antique Phonograph Music Program is pretty neat too. Where else but WFMU can you hear music being played on the radio, directly off of wax cylinders and old gramophones?

WFMU also archives virtually ALL of the radio shows (albeit in icky RealAudio format) in thier entirety. Way cool.

I'm actually a financial supporter of WFMU, even though I live in Honolulu. It (along with KEXP, WBAI, WMBR, KCRW, KTUH) is what keeps me sane at the office, when everyone else is listening to stupid, vapid Top-40 and corporate "alternative" radio stations.

The Antique Phonograph Music Program is pretty neat too. Where else but WFMU can you hear music being played on the radio, directly off of wax cylinders and old gramophones?

WFMU also archives virtually ALL of the radio shows (albeit in icky RealAudio format) in thier entirety. Way cool.

I'm actually a financial supporter of WFMU, even though I live in Honolulu. It (along with KEXP, WBAI, WMBR, KCRW, KTUH) is what keeps me sane at the office, when everyone else is listening to stupid, vapid Top-40 and corporate "alternative" radio stations.

Jason fuckface, you have a problem if I confront you with a 9mm pistol??? I would like to shoot one bullet through your brains. Perhaps I will do it. Watch out fucker!

Cool! Only here could I have my life threatened by an anonymous person for disagreeing about the impact of the release of source code upon a deceased programmer's legacy.

Hey! I could become the Alan Berg of Slashdot! I might get a "Your Rights Online" story for that!

If you want to be exposed to unknown artists, then you should tune in to WFMU. You will hardly ever hear a song there which you have heard before.

Whitey on the moon

WFMU has a 128kb MP3 stream in addition to real radio waves and is free. How they do it? They rely on donations from their listeners and hold a biannual record fair, where they sell some of their records. They get most of their donations from their annual on-air fund-raising marathon. They have gotten along this way for pretty long. Others should follow them.

WFMU has a 128kb MP3 stream in addition to real radio waves and is free. How they do it? They rely on donations from their listeners and hold a biannual record fair, where they sell some of their records. They get most of their donations from their annual on-air fund-raising marathon. They have gotten along this way for pretty long. Others should follow them.

WFMU has a 128kb MP3 stream in addition to real radio waves and is free. How they do it? They rely on donations from their listeners and hold a biannual record fair, where they sell some of their records. They get most of their donations from their annual on-air fund-raising marathon. They have gotten along this way for pretty long. Others should follow them.

WFMU has a 128kb MP3 stream in addition to real radio waves and is free. How they do it? They rely on donations from their listeners and hold a biannual record fair, where they sell some of their records. They get most of their donations from their annual on-air fund-raising marathon. They have gotten along this way for pretty long. Others should follow them.

WFMU has a 128kb MP3 stream in addition to real radio waves and is free. How they do it? They rely on donations from their listeners and hold a biannual record fair, where they sell some of their records. They get most of their donations from their annual on-air fund-raising marathon. They have gotten along this way for pretty long. Others should follow them.

So I'm listening to WFMU while Station Manager Ken has another of his little tirades about the RIAA and how they're screwing the world over (and they are, unless owing the RIAA $500 a year for webcasting a station with no music on it makes sense to you), and it hits me: what about VoIP? I can't decipher the legalese on the page, but it doesn't strike me as particularly far-fetched that after quashing webcasters, Rosen et al will sic the attack lawyers on businesses who have the audacity to play hold music on their VoIP phone systems.
If not, hello loophole!

If you want to get exposed to all kinds of great music you have never heard before, you should listen to WFMU. If you don't live in NY or NJ, they also streamcast over the web.

d00d,

Not so much into the whole anime thing, myself. But right next to Other Music on 4th Street in the Village is a place called Anime Crash . I haven't been down there in a while, so I'm not sure if they're still there. But they were the last time I was in the neighborhood. Both stores are right across the street from Tower Records (blech!).

Both stores being right next to one another is very convenient. Because, if you're geeky enough to like Anime, you're likely very geeky about the music you listen to as well. And OM is staffed by obsessed music geeks who may consider "Nurse With Wound" a little too mainstream. Think of the music store from High Fidelity, on steroids!

Okay, so that was a little offtopic, but still usefull knowlege IMHO if you're heading down that way.

Anyway, Anime Crash is to obsessive Anime geeks what OM is to music nerds. Check them out.

Also, in NYC you'll find Jim Hanley's Universe useful, which is mostly a comic store but also has a nice supply of Anime. Same thing with Village Comics .

Also, a really good resource (and I'm surprised I didn't think of this first, because I am not entirely convinced that Anime Crash is still open) is Toy Tokyo which is also in the Village but has a location up on 73rd St as well. They are definitely still in the biz, I was just there last Tuesday. They have lots of nice Asian and obscure American toys, as well as a comprehensive collection of Anime. And of course, don't forget your old stand-by in the City, Forbidden Planet .

And that's just what I can think of off the top of my head. I think this list'll be pretty useful to you in Central Jersey, I'm from there myself. Now I'm living in Union City and commuting into New York. If you're determined to be mall-bound in suburban NJ, SunCoast Video actually has a very surprisingly good selection to choose from in terms of video releases.

New York, however, has EVERYTHING you could possibly wish for, for good or ill. You can get crack cocaine, you can get heroine, you can get prostitutes, Anime, Hentai...everything your little ole heart desires! Except, of course, egg and cheese on a bagel after 10:30 in the morning! ;)

Boo hoo. They fought for deregulation and now they're feeling the bite in a purportedly free market of monopolies. Fuck them all. They made their bed, now sleep in it.
Am I supposed to lose sleep knowing that they've gotta pay their indies $10K/song/station to get an add because the stations are all owned by the same conglomerate when the record labels have joined into a conglomerate and engaged in price fixing?
I don't listen to radio (except for the independent, supersuave WFMU) and I can't wait until inevitability catches up with the RIAA.

kurthanson.com is the homepage for the Radio and Internet Newsletter (RAIN), a fine spot for up-to-date information on what's going on in the world of webcasting.
Found both of these links at WFMU, aka numero uno webcasting radio station in the world.
Gotta love the fact that the RIAA wants to see that webcasters pay fees on top of the ASCAP/BMI fees that "real" radio stations do without getting any of the payola.
At any rate, it'll be interesting to see what the Librarian of Congress does in the next 30 days.

It's also the lack of open standards than has prevented innovations like streaming media from really taking off. To really reach people you have to cobble together a multitude of formats and streaming mechanisms, nearly all of which are proprietary. OTOH, since I can listen to an MP3 stream of WFMU I have enough bread and circus to keep me from rioting.

Only if I can get every college radio station from accross the country that I desire on my presets.

You can't. The station manager at WFMU contacted Sirius and XM, but got turned down.

Yes and this is not offtopic, mod up parent!

For refrence on Walt's anti-semetic, facist past, please see "Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince" out of print, but available used. (see link)

Also, you can hear a Real Audio movie excerpting the book. -Mike

Time to send an email to Dave Emory (listen to WFMU). ;-)

Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.

It's the best radio station I know of, if your tastes don't come from a jar. They are listener supported, and I'm just waiting for their upcoming drive to vote with my wallet.

Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.

Radio stations would use the same or a similar service.

No, they wouldn't. Here's why.

Option A: You are a commercial radio station. You play something on the order of (12 songs per hour * 24 hours * 7 days) 2016 songs per week. Just for fun, we'll assume there are actually that many different songs on your playlist. For most commercial stations, this isn't true. Guess what? You already have every single one of these songs, on CD, for free. Because the record labels send them to you, so you can play them. So, commercial stations will have no interest in this, because their songs are programmed in advance.

Option B: You are a non-commercial station, like (shameless plugging alert) WFMU, WCBN, or WFHB. You probably would want something of this sort. However, these stations tend to have an extensive library of older titles, as well as the new CDs labels send them. The only things they would tend to look for are obscure old releases they don't have, and new releases they haven't received. Speaking as a DJ at WCBN (hence the shameless portion of above plug,) I find 95% of what I want to play in my collection or the station's library. Although I wouldn't mind a similar service's availability, it's not necessary, and likely would not be worth it as a pay service.

Don't release it then; I won't use it. I can frankly do without streaming video and my favorite radio station (WFMU) has MP3 streams.

What these companies keep forgetting is that the multitude of incompatible streams and players will soon eclipse bandwidth as the single greatest reason that streaming on the 'Net is a waste of time. Then, one day, Ogg's video codec or something similar will put that whiny project lead out of a job.

Good for him.

Boss of nothin. Big deal.
Son, go get daddy's hard plastic eyes.

right hErE
use rtsp://206.190.42.136/wfmu.rm if the Yahoo ads interfer w/ the stream. Alan Watts tonight at 6. There's some on the west coast also.