WFMU art benefit
WFMU, the only radio station that matters, is holding an art exhibition to raise much needed funds for a new booster antenna in Manhattan.
There will be a lots of reasonably priced work from a really wide range of artists from the well known (Cindy Sherman, Mike Kelley & Richard Prince) to up and comers like Dan Funderburgh and Matthieu Gafsou. Much of the work is brand new and has been created especially for our show and is priced to sell.WFMU art exhibitionWe also have a website up where people can buy editions including very reasonably priced work by Chris Johanson and James Siena among others.
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I'm in. Thanks for posting this.
WFMU actually emailed me after I posted here about wanting to try out radio as a platform for some of the happy mutant memes I was promoting - and I'll be doing my first try-out show with them on December 26.
Like Mark implies, WFMU is a radio station like almost no other. The shows aren't just non-profit but unfunded, broadcast for the love of the medium and chance to connect with audiences in new ways. They've got a killer record sale they do once a year, but that's a live event in NY. This looks like a way for the extended streaming audience to get involved and support the future of a pretty established yet still very promising institution.
"WFMU, the only radio station that matters,"
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actually WMUC matters. /more/. ;)
and their tea-snorting bastard sibling www.resonancefm.com in lil' ol' London UK...
WFMU is good. But in NYC/NJ we have very polarized public radio options. WNYC is so NPR it's whitebread even when talking about NYC topics. WBAI has some excellent shows, but has a nearly equal amount of unlistenable shows plus management problems. I used to support WFMU back in my indie rock days of the early 1990s, but their mix is too damned odd at times; the atonal noise at night is particularly odd.
The point being: Looks like the art sale was picked over tonight and I'd love to support WFMU by getting some art I'd like. Get more stuff and sell more stuff! Please!
WFMU is getting an antenna in MANHATTAN?
I have definitely been living in London too long.
A great, anarchic radio station.
(I twice guest-DJ'd at the old Building surrounded by a closed college campus.)
WFMU is fabulous - and available by most means of internet streaming you can think of. They even have incredible radical kids' programming, ffs (greasy kid stuff - http://greasykidstuff.vox.com/profile/). Resonance fm is likewise available streamed, and well worth a listen. When WFMU and resonance are both broadcasting something a little too left field for me, I tend to listen to KCRW, but KCRW is really like Disney in comparison.