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Maori 1920's opera

Recorded in New Zealand in 1927 and issued on the Autralian Parlophone label (A 2806). First two verses are in Maori and the last two in English: Po atarau E...

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The case against former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi continues to get weirder. According to sworn testimony from Karima el-Mahroug, an alleged underage prostitute who participated in Berlusconi's sex parties, the politician hired women to perform stripteases dressed as nuns and Barack Ob...

Larry DeMellier

Robert Wyatt joins Stuart Maconie to pay tribute to Kevin Ayers.

Download yourself some Chardonnay: MP3s from this week's Mudhoney session available here:

When WFMU broadcast Mudhoney live from ATP a few years ago, it was fully obvious that their instrumental power and Mark Arm's inimitable yowl were still very much in full force. Even more so at last year's Primavera broadcast (where they followed up after their set by bumrushing and taking over the…

From the wayback machine archives, WOLF EYES (Dilloway/Olson/Connelly lineup) + RICHARD PINHAS (Heldon) stopped by for live jammery and gristle on the show 10/12/10. Stream show: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/37675

Because Kim K being heavy with Kanye pup is infinitely of more interest to Americans

David Dennis: The media seems to forget about New Orleans and any place that the middle class can't easily relate to

From this week's Time Out/Chaos N Coutour feature

Johnny Cash lives. This guy's saga is completely unreal.

Mayor Jerramiah Healy loves to sing, and just because he lost Tuesday's mayoral race, he didn't disappoint his supporters and belted out "Folsom Prison Blues."

GASENETA / HIGH RISE 10cd BOX

10 CDs, each in individual card sleeves, in a small hinged cardboard box with obi. Comes with a 16 page booklet of liner notes in Japanese and English, photographs, reproductions of fliers and posters, a chronology of the group, lyrics, etc.

Headed to this tonight!

The new Ethiopiques 28 is all-Ali, and this is one of my fave tracks of the whole series...

1975 on the Kaifa label

I think the Motley Crue book is gonna pale to this.

Catman looks back in anger.

Especially when one only goes to SXSW to eat, these days, I guess

Food has become a way to sate cravings for the maximal and visceral in a way that rock-and-roll used to.

Äss live attack this summer at two or three of the finer hellhole drinking establishent/gentlemen's clubs this July. And an LP in the works: F*** PET SOUNDS. Anyone want to throw away perfectly good cash and put this thing out?

Äss came by for a live set - as engineered by Jason 'WallofSound' Engel. Äss are one the most cranking, destructo, distorto rocking sickpuppy bands around! Think Rob Halford meets Red Transister! Featuring WFMU's own Brian Turner.