Bodega Pop
@bodegapop.bsky.social
Poet, cartoonist, music blogger, host of Bodega Pop on WFMU's Give the Drummer Radio
Vinyl Shortlist 2025 (Part 1 of 2)
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TONIGHT 7-10 PM EST on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social A roundup of the year’s listening on vinyl. New LPs, reissues/represses, single & multi-artist compilations, & collections of previously unreleased tracks from Algeria to Zimbabwe
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TONIGHT 7-10 PM EST on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social A roundup of the year’s listening on vinyl. New LPs, reissues/represses, single & multi-artist compilations, & collections of previously unreleased tracks from Algeria to Zimbabwe
December 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Vinyl Shortlist 2025 (Part 1 of 2)
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TONIGHT 7-10 PM EST on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social A roundup of the year’s listening on vinyl. New LPs, reissues/represses, single & multi-artist compilations, & collections of previously unreleased tracks from Algeria to Zimbabwe
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TONIGHT 7-10 PM EST on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social A roundup of the year’s listening on vinyl. New LPs, reissues/represses, single & multi-artist compilations, & collections of previously unreleased tracks from Algeria to Zimbabwe
Ripping a bunch of 2025 heat for tonight's show. Pastor Chris Congregation, West Virginia Snake Handler Revival “They Shall Take Up Serpents” (Sublime Frequencies, 2025). See you kids in 7 hours! wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
December 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Ripping a bunch of 2025 heat for tonight's show. Pastor Chris Congregation, West Virginia Snake Handler Revival “They Shall Take Up Serpents” (Sublime Frequencies, 2025). See you kids in 7 hours! wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Noisy compared to 2020 RE, but the sound & cover images on this OG are crisper, punchier. Racionais MC's, Raio X Brasil - Liberdade De Expressão (Zimbabwe, 1993). Sometimes love for faves fades; I've been listening to these guys for over a decade & it just grows with every listen
December 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Noisy compared to 2020 RE, but the sound & cover images on this OG are crisper, punchier. Racionais MC's, Raio X Brasil - Liberdade De Expressão (Zimbabwe, 1993). Sometimes love for faves fades; I've been listening to these guys for over a decade & it just grows with every listen
First listen to this legendary LP. Sweet baby Jesus in the manger this is good. Caetano Veloso s/t (Philips, 1969). I'm gonna have to go back and read his autobio again. Lanny Gordin's guitar! "Alfomega"! Mind-blowing
December 21, 2025 at 1:59 AM
First listen to this legendary LP. Sweet baby Jesus in the manger this is good. Caetano Veloso s/t (Philips, 1969). I'm gonna have to go back and read his autobio again. Lanny Gordin's guitar! "Alfomega"! Mind-blowing
First listen to this legendary LP. Sweet baby Jesus in the manger this is good. Caetano Veloso s/t (Philips, 1969). I'm gonna have to go back and read his autobio again. Lanny Gordin's guitar! "Alfomega"! Mind-blowing
December 21, 2025 at 1:58 AM
First listen to this legendary LP. Sweet baby Jesus in the manger this is good. Caetano Veloso s/t (Philips, 1969). I'm gonna have to go back and read his autobio again. Lanny Gordin's guitar! "Alfomega"! Mind-blowing
No matter how old we are how much music across how many borders or decades we've heard there're countless gobsmacking albums we'll get to listen to for the first time in tonight's case it's Mikhail Chekalin's Post-pop Non-pop (Melodiya, 1989) take a listen youtu.be/DogBsxDcNQM?...
December 20, 2025 at 2:41 AM
No matter how old we are how much music across how many borders or decades we've heard there're countless gobsmacking albums we'll get to listen to for the first time in tonight's case it's Mikhail Chekalin's Post-pop Non-pop (Melodiya, 1989) take a listen youtu.be/DogBsxDcNQM?...
The work that must have gone into this project is mind-boggling. Tehrangeles Vice: Iranian Diaspora Pop 1983-1993. 2XLP, copious photos & liner notes inside the gatefold & 24-page book, plus lyrics. Congrats to Discotchari & everyone else involved in this timely, necessary, thrill-packed release!
December 20, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The work that must have gone into this project is mind-boggling. Tehrangeles Vice: Iranian Diaspora Pop 1983-1993. 2XLP, copious photos & liner notes inside the gatefold & 24-page book, plus lyrics. Congrats to Discotchari & everyone else involved in this timely, necessary, thrill-packed release!
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Peter lives here in #Tucson and is a mensch. He loves Thai music so much he taught himself how to read/speak Thai! He knows so much and happily shares his deep knowledge. Don't miss this!
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The King of Luk Thung! 7-10 PM EST
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Special guest Peter Doolan of Monrakplengthai guides us through the world of Suraphon Sombatcharoen, Thailand’s King of Luk Thung. Era-defining classics, song duels with bandmates, moving tributes & more on #WFMU 's @gtdradio.bsky.social
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Special guest Peter Doolan of Monrakplengthai guides us through the world of Suraphon Sombatcharoen, Thailand’s King of Luk Thung. Era-defining classics, song duels with bandmates, moving tributes & more on #WFMU 's @gtdradio.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Peter lives here in #Tucson and is a mensch. He loves Thai music so much he taught himself how to read/speak Thai! He knows so much and happily shares his deep knowledge. Don't miss this!
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The King of Luk Thung! 7-10 PM EST
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Special guest Peter Doolan of Monrakplengthai guides us through the world of Suraphon Sombatcharoen, Thailand’s King of Luk Thung. Era-defining classics, song duels with bandmates, moving tributes & more on #WFMU 's @gtdradio.bsky.social
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Special guest Peter Doolan of Monrakplengthai guides us through the world of Suraphon Sombatcharoen, Thailand’s King of Luk Thung. Era-defining classics, song duels with bandmates, moving tributes & more on #WFMU 's @gtdradio.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The King of Luk Thung! 7-10 PM EST
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Special guest Peter Doolan of Monrakplengthai guides us through the world of Suraphon Sombatcharoen, Thailand’s King of Luk Thung. Era-defining classics, song duels with bandmates, moving tributes & more on #WFMU 's @gtdradio.bsky.social
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Special guest Peter Doolan of Monrakplengthai guides us through the world of Suraphon Sombatcharoen, Thailand’s King of Luk Thung. Era-defining classics, song duels with bandmates, moving tributes & more on #WFMU 's @gtdradio.bsky.social
Mind-blowing 1970s Palestinian field recordings from the mighty Mo’min Swaitat's Majaaz Project (majazzproject.com): Atef Swaitat & Abu Ali, Palestinian Bedouin Psychedelic Dabka Archive (2025). Played a FLAC on my show in Sept, but 1st vinyl listen, picked up today @ Ergot
December 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Mind-blowing 1970s Palestinian field recordings from the mighty Mo’min Swaitat's Majaaz Project (majazzproject.com): Atef Swaitat & Abu Ali, Palestinian Bedouin Psychedelic Dabka Archive (2025). Played a FLAC on my show in Sept, but 1st vinyl listen, picked up today @ Ergot
I might have missed it but really did no one include this brilliant gut-wrenching LP in their AOTYs? This could change, I suppose, but at the moment it's tied for me between this & Marie de la Nuit's Transportees. Nadah El Shazly, Laini Tani (One Little Independent Records, 2025)
December 13, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I might have missed it but really did no one include this brilliant gut-wrenching LP in their AOTYs? This could change, I suppose, but at the moment it's tied for me between this & Marie de la Nuit's Transportees. Nadah El Shazly, Laini Tani (One Little Independent Records, 2025)
My GOD this's a great fucking record. Two side-length live tracks from New Jersey 1975. Free jazz? M80s? Guitars? "Death to the alchemists!" WTF. Bangone Ensemble, Live At The Ledge 1975 (Open Mouth, 2025). Came highly recommended by Brian at Record Grouch & now I'm recommending it to you
December 13, 2025 at 3:22 AM
My GOD this's a great fucking record. Two side-length live tracks from New Jersey 1975. Free jazz? M80s? Guitars? "Death to the alchemists!" WTF. Bangone Ensemble, Live At The Ledge 1975 (Open Mouth, 2025). Came highly recommended by Brian at Record Grouch & now I'm recommending it to you
Kuelekea Kusini: Musics from the Southern Hemisphere
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7-10 PM EST tonight on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning gobsmacking tracks from Angola, Bolivia, Papua New Guinea, and beyond. Join us!
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7-10 PM EST tonight on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning gobsmacking tracks from Angola, Bolivia, Papua New Guinea, and beyond. Join us!
December 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Kuelekea Kusini: Musics from the Southern Hemisphere
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7-10 PM EST tonight on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning gobsmacking tracks from Angola, Bolivia, Papua New Guinea, and beyond. Join us!
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7-10 PM EST tonight on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning gobsmacking tracks from Angola, Bolivia, Papua New Guinea, and beyond. Join us!
Immersing myself in Spiritual Jazz 18, 4 LPs, tracks from Estonia, Azerbaijan, GDR, etc. Behind the Iron Curtain vols. 1 and 2 (Jazzman, 2025). "The history of jazz in the USSR is inherently complex and contradictory ..." As is listening to it in 2025. I recommend it & the liner notes that come with
December 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Immersing myself in Spiritual Jazz 18, 4 LPs, tracks from Estonia, Azerbaijan, GDR, etc. Behind the Iron Curtain vols. 1 and 2 (Jazzman, 2025). "The history of jazz in the USSR is inherently complex and contradictory ..." As is listening to it in 2025. I recommend it & the liner notes that come with
Ripping LPs for an all-vinyl 2025 new+reissue+compilation show Dec 31, including this brilliant integration of the past to illuminate the present. Marie de la Nuit, Transportées (Permanent Draft, 2025, despite what (c) says on back of LP). Worth reading the notes (see other pics)
December 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Ripping LPs for an all-vinyl 2025 new+reissue+compilation show Dec 31, including this brilliant integration of the past to illuminate the present. Marie de la Nuit, Transportées (Permanent Draft, 2025, despite what (c) says on back of LP). Worth reading the notes (see other pics)
Thank you, guitar. 7-10 PM EST
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An Argentinian punk concert from 1981. A 21st Century Lebanese avant-gardist. A 1968 Brazilian classic. Japanese free jazz from 1975. Gobsmacking tracks from Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, and more. #WFMU @gtdradio.bsky.social
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An Argentinian punk concert from 1981. A 21st Century Lebanese avant-gardist. A 1968 Brazilian classic. Japanese free jazz from 1975. Gobsmacking tracks from Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, and more. #WFMU @gtdradio.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Thank you, guitar. 7-10 PM EST
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An Argentinian punk concert from 1981. A 21st Century Lebanese avant-gardist. A 1968 Brazilian classic. Japanese free jazz from 1975. Gobsmacking tracks from Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, and more. #WFMU @gtdradio.bsky.social
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An Argentinian punk concert from 1981. A 21st Century Lebanese avant-gardist. A 1968 Brazilian classic. Japanese free jazz from 1975. Gobsmacking tracks from Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, and more. #WFMU @gtdradio.bsky.social
Picked this out-of-control EP up from Sublime Frequencies' HM at the 4th Annual Record Hawk Show last October. The Smashchords, s/t (Smashtrade Records, 1981). Ripping some tracks for this week's guitar-forward episode ...
December 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Picked this out-of-control EP up from Sublime Frequencies' HM at the 4th Annual Record Hawk Show last October. The Smashchords, s/t (Smashtrade Records, 1981). Ripping some tracks for this week's guitar-forward episode ...
Ripping this killer live LP by Argentina's Los Violadores for this week's show. LOVE LOVE LOVE this record & grateful for Federico Gómez Levitanas's essay at shit-fi.com/articles/Los..., which includes link to a translation of the band's manifesto of sorts. A @wfmu.bsky.social Record Fair score!
December 2, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Ripping this killer live LP by Argentina's Los Violadores for this week's show. LOVE LOVE LOVE this record & grateful for Federico Gómez Levitanas's essay at shit-fi.com/articles/Los..., which includes link to a translation of the band's manifesto of sorts. A @wfmu.bsky.social Record Fair score!
Stopped in to Academy Records Annex to pick up some home-taped Arabic cassettes Cory alerted me to, and wound up also finding this personal grail: Original Wings, Change This World (EMI, 1979), feat. all-timer Igba Alusi youtu.be/2hC1HI0deuw?...
November 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Stopped in to Academy Records Annex to pick up some home-taped Arabic cassettes Cory alerted me to, and wound up also finding this personal grail: Original Wings, Change This World (EMI, 1979), feat. all-timer Igba Alusi youtu.be/2hC1HI0deuw?...
THE ACADEMY | 7-10 PM EST
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TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning Studio One earworms & bangers from ska to dancehall. Join us!
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TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning Studio One earworms & bangers from ska to dancehall. Join us!
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
THE ACADEMY | 7-10 PM EST
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TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning Studio One earworms & bangers from ska to dancehall. Join us!
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TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social we're spinning Studio One earworms & bangers from ska to dancehall. Join us!
The Higher the Hair, the Closer to God | 7-10 PM EST
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Beirut-born Sabah boasted an alleged 3,500-song repertoire. On tonight's three-hour tribute, we'll be covering some 1.14285714% of her total output. Join us tonight on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social
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Beirut-born Sabah boasted an alleged 3,500-song repertoire. On tonight's three-hour tribute, we'll be covering some 1.14285714% of her total output. Join us tonight on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The Higher the Hair, the Closer to God | 7-10 PM EST
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Beirut-born Sabah boasted an alleged 3,500-song repertoire. On tonight's three-hour tribute, we'll be covering some 1.14285714% of her total output. Join us tonight on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social
wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Beirut-born Sabah boasted an alleged 3,500-song repertoire. On tonight's three-hour tribute, we'll be covering some 1.14285714% of her total output. Join us tonight on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social
Ripping some of my favorite & rarest Sabah tracks for next week's show. This is the soundtrack for Lahn Hobbi (El Ahram, date unknown). Sabah's range never ceases to amaze me. Killer tracks from her on this and the soundtrack for Afrah El-Chabab, which I'll be ripping in a moment
November 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Ripping some of my favorite & rarest Sabah tracks for next week's show. This is the soundtrack for Lahn Hobbi (El Ahram, date unknown). Sabah's range never ceases to amaze me. Killer tracks from her on this and the soundtrack for Afrah El-Chabab, which I'll be ripping in a moment
New National Anthem | 7-10 PM EST
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TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social, we're spinning avant-garde, folk, pop, and traditional music from Algeria, Brazil, Congo, Iran, Nepal, and beyond. Join us!
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TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social, we're spinning avant-garde, folk, pop, and traditional music from Algeria, Brazil, Congo, Iran, Nepal, and beyond. Join us!
November 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
New National Anthem | 7-10 PM EST
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TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social, we're spinning avant-garde, folk, pop, and traditional music from Algeria, Brazil, Congo, Iran, Nepal, and beyond. Join us!
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TONIGHT on #WFMU's @gtdradio.bsky.social, we're spinning avant-garde, folk, pop, and traditional music from Algeria, Brazil, Congo, Iran, Nepal, and beyond. Join us!
First time hearing this Moroccan powerhouse. Aziza Galal, Ila Awel Mattabeuna (Sout El Hob, 1976), her debut LP. Holy crap, it's amazing. Discogs only lists 13 records, she retired at 26 in the mid-1980s. Ripping the whole damn record for you kids who'll be listening in Wednesday
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
First time hearing this Moroccan powerhouse. Aziza Galal, Ila Awel Mattabeuna (Sout El Hob, 1976), her debut LP. Holy crap, it's amazing. Discogs only lists 13 records, she retired at 26 in the mid-1980s. Ripping the whole damn record for you kids who'll be listening in Wednesday
Ripping a track from this personal grail for next week's show. Les Frères Mégri, Mahmoud Hassan Younès (OG Philips, 1973). A terrific Moroccan LP that doesn't really quite sound like any other
November 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Ripping a track from this personal grail for next week's show. Les Frères Mégri, Mahmoud Hassan Younès (OG Philips, 1973). A terrific Moroccan LP that doesn't really quite sound like any other