Flash Strap

Explorers Room firing up and kicking of NOW::::::::::::::::::JOIN ME

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: extended live workouts from Miles, Herbie, Et Cetera, Association P.C., Can, and Terry Riley. Live wild monsters, wide-open madness, hairy stuff, bring your head and chew on it baby. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Every October WFMU conducts its year-end, mostly off-air fund drive, affectionately know as The Hellraiser. There are loads of special programs all month! Help us out with a donation and get one of our gorgeous new T-shirts or anything from our heap of FMU swag: pledge.wfmu.org

Explorers Room firing up its 500th lantern, starting now! Join me::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

On what would have been his 106th bday, Give the Drummer Some celebrates the nearly 8-decade career of the musician, composer, improviser, educator Yusef Lateef. Hear the show live, 9 to noon (ET) on @wfmu.bsky.social's Drummer Stream. LISTEN: wfmu.org/wfmu_drummer... CHAT: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Explorers Room kicks off N0W with a boiling program of psychedelic sorcery::::::::::::::::::::::::JOIN ME

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: heavy and experimental Latin American psych, with massive, mindbending sounds from Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Chile, and Argentina. (Plus a cavernous dub set to wind things down.) 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Sparromania time, starting now! PAN WITH ME, JAM WITH ME, FETE WITH ME::::::::::::::::::::::::

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: A Sparrow Spectacular to celebrate the extraordinary artistry of one of the greatest Calypsonians of all time, The Mighty Sparrow, who passed away this week. Fete the man with me: 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

The greatest to ever do it. Farewell to a king, a giant www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaOz...

Explorers Room blasting off NOW with a heaping helping of library sounds:::::::::::::::HEAR THE CALL

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: a big bag of library music jams, a set dedicated John Coltrane in his 100th year, and some very spiritual dub & roots music. Join me, 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Explorers Room kicking off now with some beautiful jazz sounds::::::::::::::::::::::JOIN IN, HEAR THE MUSIC

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: exotic jazz breezes, psychedelic ragas and indo-fusions, and some very heavy business with a dub set drawn from Adrian Sherwood's On-U Sounds. Join me, 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Flash Strap's show (Thursdays at 7 p.m. on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio stream) deserves your undivided attention.

Explorers Room kicks off a heavy one RIGHT NOW::::::starting with a brace of glories from the psych end of the New Chilean Song / Nueva canción chilena scene::::::::::::::J0IN ME

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: Chilean psych, a bunch massive avant-jams that sound beamed in from a radical parallel dimension, and a very trippy, very churchical set of dub & nyabinghi devotionals. Join me, 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Explorers Room kicks off now! Starting with the dub stuff, all scorchers:::::::::::::::::::::::JOIN IN

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: an opening dub set that will (in part) explore the great, scorching "Trying to Conquer Me" riddim, followed by some really gnarly jazz fusion and some expansive avant-landscape studies. 7-10pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Explorers Room spinning up now ::::: JOIN ME

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: spiritual funk, bone dancing in an avant-psych mist, heavy dub and some very colorful reggae delights. Join me in my beautiful room as we conjure sounds & visions, 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

In his London studio, surrounded by the tools of his trade, the British reggae innovator shares stories of sound system culture and frequency science. His new compilation, 'Sufferer Sounds,' brings fresh attention to his groundbreaking dub productions. Finding New Frequencies with Dennis Bovell:

Explorers Room kicks off RIGHT NOW:::JOIN ME

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: seaside dreams, hallucinations and mirages, mysterious semblances, the magic of the natural world in abundance. Bring your head & your heaviest lid and join me. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/shows/167689

Explorers Room is back and it starts up N0W:::::::::::::::::::::::::::JOIN ME

Tonight, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: The Explorers Room is back in action, with a program of wild cosmic sounds to paint mythic pictures in the mind & a heavyweight dub set to take you home. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Explorers Room kicks off now with some wild Brazilian winds::::::::::::::::::J0IN ME, EXPL0RE

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: Brazilian avant-ventos, various psychedelic jazz blasters, and deep & deadly dubs for your listening pleasure. Catch the wind and join me, 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Explorers Room is firing up now, should be 100%TNT tonight so why not jump in early & stay late??? JOIN ME::::::::::::::::::::

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: a real summer scorcher of pan-African sounds, heavy jazz grooves and an especially potent dub set that'll carry you high into the zone & give you a deep meditation. Don't miss! 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Explorers Room is back in action & kicking off now:::::::::JOIN ME

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: we return with a righteous dose of dub, a torrid brace of jazz fusion summer storms, and a mysterious dive into musique concrète cosmic-jungles. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

This Thursday I'm filling in for @flashstrap.bsky.social June 25, 7-10pm(ET) @wfmu.bsky.social **Vision Festival 30th Anniversary: Patricia Nicholson Parker Interview** STREAM ▶️ wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Explorers Room firing up now with revolutionary and spiritual sounds from the great Adullah Ibrahim:::::::::::JOIN ME

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: an extended tribute to the great maestro Abdullah Ibrahim (aka Dollar Brand) - we'll hear some of his most soaring and smoldering workouts - and a deep dub set to finish. Join me, 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Explorers Room firing up with a James Blood Ulmer set RIGHT NOW:::::::::::::Come along, join the party, hang out

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: choice cuts from the dearly departed James Blood Ulmer, a wild swimmy set of recent Mike Cooper & Pierre Bastien, and a dry-mouthed, red-eyed bad trip of deranged psych. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Explorers Room blasting off right now, as we speak:::::::::::::JOIN IN

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: tropical electro-psych, further adventures in Swedish progressive jazz, and a massive dub set - should be a real nice one, bring your head, chalice in the palace :::: 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

At Give the Drummer Some, the music is out of this world. Put on your crash helmet and have a listen to today's live broadcast: 9am to noon (ET) on @gtdradio.bsky.social's Drummer Stream. LISTEN: wfmu.org/wfmu_drummer... CHAT: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Explorers Room starts NOW with the dub stuff up front : :::: : JOIN ME

Tonight in the Explorers Room, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: dub & reggae excursions, a jazz workout featuring the dearly departed Mr. Rollins & centennial man Miles, and a pair of extended avant-garde meditations. 7-10:00pm: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Explorers Room is back and kicking it off *right now* with sweet Jamaican soul from Winston Riley / The Techniques / Treasure Isle, to be followed by heavyweight dubs::::::::::J0iN ME in this BEAUTIFUL ROOM::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Tonight, live on @wfmu.bsky.social & @gtdradio.bsky.social: the Explorers Room is back – we'll hear Winston Riley & more dub, a tribute to the great Swedish percussionist Bengt Berger (who passed away last week), and some live Miles as we near his 100th birthday. 7-10:00pm wfmu.org/playlists/sh...