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Restless GenXer and community radio lifer. Program host at WFMU. Station advisor for WPRB. Former engineer at WNYC. Quick spells at East Village Radio and WRSU back in the […]

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i got a bit obsessed with the modern lovers this year & attempted to assemble a complete-as-possible 1970-1974 live chronology. it's far from complete, but found lots of fun stuff, including a setlist for what might be the 1st gig & ads for their shows in […]

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flyer for the Modern Lovers at Stone Phoenix Coffeehouse with caricatures of band what might be a handwritten setlist for the first Modern Lovers show newspaper ad for the Modern over soppening for the Famous Esso Steel Band The Winter Ball Boston's Jam'n Jelly Boogie A Very Social Night with the Velvet Underground's MOE TUCKER with The Modern Lovers Jonathan Richman 'n George Thorogood
December 26, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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bourgwick.heads.social.ap.brid.gy
love to see @WFMU's late great wm. berger cited repeatedly in this fascinating scholarly piece about the evolution of the term "lo-fi." rise william rise! https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03007766.2025.2490447#inline_frontnotes #lofi
flyer for show Lo-Fi live! hosted by Bill Berger
December 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
My old buddy Cookie does a wonderful cover of Half Man, Half Biscuit’s “It’s Cliché to be Cynical at Christmas” which you should listen to right now. https://halfmanhalfcookie.bandcamp.com/track/its-cliched-to-be-cynical-at-christmas

Tagging in fellow HMHB fan @TwoClownsEating
December 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
My Pal Jon Solomon is in the midst of his annual 25-hour holiday show on WPRB, which is of course the greatest way on Earth to experience the best Christmas songs you've never heard.

Listen || Live Playlist || Webcam || Chat: https://wprb.com/chat

#wprb #communityradio
A graphic for Jon Solomon's 25 hour Christmas show on WPRB. It is fashioned like a family crest, but with a polar bear and Nien Nunb from Star Wars flanking a robot.
December 25, 2025 at 10:29 AM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
All I want for Christmas is an end to oppression and for everyone to feel safe, loved, and to find satisfaction in their work (while also knowing there is a safety net to catch you if things go south.)

But since that seems unlikely right now, I will settle for PEOPLE JUST TAKING THE FUCKING […]
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December 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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If anyone in my life was reincarnated as Frosty the Snowman while Fleetwood Mac's 1975 classic Landslide played my first instinct would also be to get the hairdryer but ultimately I would maybe be more weirded out if Henry Rollins was my hockey coach.
December 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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bourgwick.heads.social.ap.brid.gy
the complete yo la tengo hanukkah setlists, back to 2005. https://jessejarnow.com/category/ylt/
Ira Kaplan plays guitar, wearing Mets hat Yo La Tengo with Marilyn Kaplan
December 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Here’s one in memory of Joe Strummer, on the anniversary of his passing.

Back in 2001, a colleague at WFMU named Hova Najarian managed to arrange for Joe Strummer of the Clash to come to the station for an interview and guest DJ set on his show. I was a full time FMU […]

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Joe Strummer of the Clash stands poses for a photo in the WFMU studio. He is flanked by DJs Hova and Belinda. A vial of dark amber beer stands in front of a copy of the Clash's "Sandinista!" 3xLP. All four members of the band are visible standing in a wet alley in front of a brick wall.
December 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
I'll be sitting out the regular WFMU rotation after tonight's show -- I'm a big believer in the periodic, self-imposed hiatus, and it's definitely time to let the creative batteries re-charge while I tend to various work and life matters. But I've been doing this for 35 […]

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A haphazardly organized and decorated home broadcasting studio. Computers, turntables, microphones, tape decks and various other broadcast components are arranged in an 'L' formation, with various gig posters, flyers, Black Lives Matter banners, and a large American flag decorating the walls. Fairly lights and religious candles adorn the scene.
December 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Still waiting for the followup: "The Rammellzee Saves Christmas"

#HipHop #books
The cover of a children's book called "When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc & the Creation of Hip-Hop". A hand-drawn DJ wearing headphones and scratching a vinyl record is depicted.
December 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Grocery shopping list on my phone autocorrected “Hollandaise Sauce”to “Holiday Sex Sauce” and now I’m totally rethinking Christmas.
December 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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New from me: 2025 offered lots of reasons to get off Big Tech... dangerous robots, dumb ideas of data centers in space, and more -
https://buttondown.com/creativegood/archive/2025-showed-why-to-get-off-big-tech/
December 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
I think a more truthful analyses of current events would emerge if there was a browser plug-in that automatically replaced the word "bully" with "dickless clown".
December 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Aiming to make everybody happy on my penultimate show (for now) on WFMU tonight. 9 PM - midnight on the Drummerstream. Listen || Playlist || Chat: https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/159123

#wfmu #freeformradio #communityradio
December 15, 2025 at 1:17 AM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Cat knocked over the nativity, looks like the Playskool Jonestown set now.
A Playskool nativity scene with all of the figures knocked over.
December 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Holy shit, Carsie Blanton just dropped the **perfect** protest folk song for our dark times.

https://carsieblanton.bandcamp.com/track/little-flame-digital-single
December 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Great moments in branding. #starwars
A totally horrific looking tape dispenser designed to look like C3PO from Star Wars. He is seated, and straddling the spool of tape -- sort of like how one would sit on one of those sit-down exercise bikes. To get a piece of tape, you pull it from between his legs.
December 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/collateral-damage/against-the-grain-archiving-anarcho-punk

“The anarcho-punk archive offers a working hypothesis: when music detaches from commodity logic and reattaches to social purpose, it becomes infrastructure, the connective tissue through which […]
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December 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
This might be one of my best stories and I've never told it here, so here comes a slightly re-worked version adopted from a post that originally appeared on my old blog 20+ years ago:

This time of year always reminds me of the night a squad car carrying John Lennon's […]

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A black and white closeup photo of John Lennon's bespectacled face.
December 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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“Sadie Sink, try these spicy chicken wings!”, “Finn Wolfhard, listen to this song from the 80s!”, “Joseph Quinn, meet the guys from Metallica!”, “Caleb McLaughlin, try using this rotary phone!”

Love the show, love the actors, but hard pass on the ten zillion promotional stunt/reaction videos […]
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December 9, 2025 at 12:26 AM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
I've got three radio shows left before I hang up the weekly broadcast commitment, so I'm irrationally running towards ideas that have been percolating for a while, but were never teased out to completion. Case in point: tonight around 10 PM, I'll be airing a cassette […]

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December 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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bourgwick.bsky.social
i don't want any relationship with a ticketing company ever. i don't even want to know their name.
December 7, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Sure. #whamageddon
A screenshot still from the “Last Christmas” video by Wham. Beneath it is a tag declaring it “Christian music”.
December 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Behold the boombox I owned in the mid 1980s -- the physical manifestation of my twin obsessions with Video Music Box (local access NYC TV show that specialized in early hip-hop) and Mr. Magic's Rap Attack on WBLS. Blank tapes were holy objects back then, and I […]

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A Magnavox boombox from the 1980s. Visible features include an AM/FM radio band, cassette deck, volume slider and other tone/bass/treble controls, and detachable speakers.
December 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
mlupica.c.im.ap.brid.gy
My niece is an ESL teacher in Trenton and has had this poster hanging in her classroom for years.

#bookstodon #books
A poster of a woman laying across the hood of a red car with a book open in front of her. On the ground, in front of the car sits a man in jeans, a white undershirt, workboots, and a red bandana around his head. The text below them says: "READ TO YOUR BABY"
December 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM