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Dave the Spazz broadcasting live from Ponderosa Stomp at Lincoln Center! Two nights of one of the soulrockinest fests in the world, trekking from New Orleans up to NYC's Damrosch Park! Dave and WFMU will be live on Thursday, July 16th from 8-11PM carrying the outdoor soul spectacular with performances from Stax icon William Bell, Harvey Scales, and the Bobbettes all backed by the legendary Bo-Keys! Then, Dave will be recording the following evening's rockabilly festivities and presenting them on his Thursday, July 30th program with sets from New Orleans wild man Joe Clay, Sun Records legend Carl Mann and the out-of-this-world Collins Kids backed by Deke Dickerson and the Eccofonics. File under: In-freaking-credible! Damrosch Park is located at 62nd Street and Amsterdam in Manhattan.

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!

The Summer 2009 WFMU Program Schedule is now in effect and runs until October 12th. You can see the Summer 2009 schedule in handy-dandy table format here, or as an unwieldy big ass list right here. Fear not if your favorite show is not on the schedule, DJs and shows often rotate in and out in order to keep things fresh and give more people a chance.

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.

On Monday, July 6th from 8-11PM Trent brings Sound and Safe to yet another completely wireless, solar-powered dance party, this time at Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City, Queens, overlooking the Manhattan skyline. Guests: Cousin Cole and Pocketknife, famous as well as balloon-headed, red-carpet rollin' party machine Bad Brilliance. Come out, take your shoes off. Check here for directions, or tune in.

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.

Coming up on the Antique Phonograph Music Program on Tuesday July 7 from 7-8PM: Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor (aka Climax Golden Twins) discussing their musical output and Dust to Digital label releases Victrola Favorites and current release, Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890-1950. Playing records and talking about the dogged pursuit of 78s. Tune in, turn on and listen to us drop steel needles.

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)

Playing Today

The WFMU time is now 9:47pm EDT on Saturday. (Full Schedule.)

Saturday
6am to 9am Surface Noise with Joe McGasko
9am to 11am Bob Brainen
11am to 1pm Michael Shelley
Special: The Collins Kids and Soul music legend William Bell (More info)
1pm to 3pm This week only: Debbie Does WFMU with Debbie D.
Special: Debbie D fills in for Rex today.
3pm to 6pm The Cherry Blossom Clinic with Terre T
6pm to 9pm Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
Special: Pan-Planetary Patriotism: World Music of the U S of A with Scott Kettner of Nation Beat (More info)
9pm to Midnight Choking on Cufflinks with Michael Goodstein
[See the playlist]
Sunday
Midnight to 3am Daniel Blumin
3am to 6am 100% Whatever with Mary Wing