Rob Weisberg's got a special live broadcast from Lincoln Center's Midsummer Night Swing Series, on Transpacific Sound Paradise, Friday, July 10th from 7-11PM! On tap: the Occidental Brothers Dance Band International, a Chicago-based collaboration building a following playing shimmering old-school West African and Congolese electric dance music. Then at 9 pm we'll be treated to a performance by one of the all-time great singers of Congolese style electric dance music, Samba Mapangala with Orchestra Virunga. Tune in!

Cumbia Night at The Bell House in Brooklyn! On Sunday July 5th, WFMU and Barbés Records are joining forces to present two pre-eminent cumbia bands. L.A.'s Very Be Careful (Colombian Vallenato), and Brooklynites Chicha Libre (psychedelic Peruvian chicha). There will also be DJs representing both old school and digital cumbia. The Bell House is located at 149 7th Street in Brooklyn. More event info on WFMU's blog.

Tuesday, July 7th from 12-3PM: Joe Belock's Three Chord Monte features a live set from the one and only Yo La Tengo, we recorded (but did not broadcast live at the time) May 28th during WFMU's three night stint at Barcelona's Primavera Festival! After all the years of dedicated marathon-covers service this rock institution has given to the station, traveling 3,800 miles to record an amazing set of originals was the least we could do. A perfect pit stop to tide fans over til the September release of their new Matador album Popular Songs.

Beginning July 12th, WFMU's new archives will no longer be available in 20k Real Audio, and this change will affect archive listeners on a dial-up connection. Going forward, all new archives will be available in the higher quality 64k AAC+ format, which sounds fantastic with our new Pop-Up Player. However, the Pop-Up Player and new archives from July 12th onward will NOT work if you have a dial-up connection. If you listen to our 128k MP3 archives, fear not, no changes are being made in that dept. How will the change affect your archive listening? (Read more)

If you have DSL, cable, or a T1 internet connection:
For Pop-Up AAC+ archives to work, Javascript must be enabled (info here) and you need Flash Player plugin 9 or higher. Pop-Up archives can only be played inside your web browser (they load in a pop-up window, try one out here: ). You can still listen to our 128k MP3 archives using external programs like iTunes or Winamp (although these archives expire after 4 weeks, as they have done in the past).

If you have a dial-up connection:
Due to the higher quality and higher bit-rate of our new archive format, your internet connection speed will not be able to accomodate archive listening going forward. After July 12, new archives will no longer work on a dial-up connection. Rest assured that we will continue to offer our live streams in Real Audio and Windows Media, at bit-rates appropriate for dial-up connections. All of WFMU's Real Audio archives prior to July 12, 2009 will remain available on our website for your listening pleasure, but new archives going forward will no longer be offered in Real Audio (and will NOT work if you have dial-up).


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