WFMU Recent Airplay + News, April 2026

Tonight’s Guests: Director Bobby Farrelly (Driver’s Ed), Showrunner David J. Rosen & Director David Gordon Green (Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed), and Claude McKnight of Take 6
Saturday, May 16th, 5pm - 9pm
on Bob Barth's One Night Stand (on Sheena's Jungle Room Stream)
LIVE from Los Angeles — This week, Bob hits the road with director Bobby Farrelly to talk Driver’s Ed, his new coming-of-age comedy packed with teenage chaos, stolen cars, and the kind of heartfelt hilarity that made Farrelly a comedy mainstay. Then, Bob dives into Apple TV’s darkly funny new thriller Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed with creator/showrunner David J. Rosen and director David Gordon Green, unpacking Tatiana Maslany's wild ride through blackmail, murder, and suburban youth soccer madness.
Plus… founding Take 6 member Claude McKnight joins the show for a conversation about the legendary vocal group’s extraordinary career, enduring harmonies, life on the road, and what continues to inspire one of the most celebrated a cappella acts in modern music.
Sharp conversations, great stories, comedy, television, and world-class music — all that & more.

Teentara
Saturday, May 16th, 6pm - 9pm
on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg
Teentara is a New York based trio that plays music from the classic Bengali repertoire - from songs of the Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore to regional folk forms such as Bhatiali and Baul. They're led by vocalist Niha, who grew up in Bangladesh and trained in both Bengali and Hindustani music. Teentara turns us on to Bengali music with a live session tonight!

Drop In Presents The Mr. Ferocious Radio Hour: DJ Freerange and DJ Laminda
Saturday, May 16th, 6pm - 7pm
on Drop-In (on Rock'n'Soul Radio stream)
Prepare for an eclectic mix of crunchy garage and Eurotrash! We're pulling out obscure Dutch gems, rocking girl groups, soulful singles, and other hits from the grimiest depths of record bins on both sides of the Atlantic. All killer, no filler!

John Cozz
Monday, May 18th, Noon - 3pm
on Three Chord Monte with Joe Belock
In the face of an omnipresent corporate hand squeezing everything out of everything, there are still those that can laugh in the absurdity of it all. New Jersey fast food enthusiast and rock and roller John Cozz explores that premise and more on his new album "Metamodernism or Something," and comes to WFMU for a live set seeking that last laugh.

Charmaine Lee
Tuesday, May 19th, 8pm - 9pm
on Vocal Fry with Dan Bodah
New York based vocalist Charmaine Lee creates experimental music using her voice and electronics. Her flexible vocal improvisations span the gamut of what the voice can do, incorporating everything from whispers to screams, melody to noise, never shying away from humor or the profound. On April 21st, Charmaine will make a second visit to Vocal Fry to perform, talk about her music, and discuss her recently established Kou Records label.

Live Session by Dominican-Cuban artist Charlie Chimi
Wednesday, May 20th, Midnight - 3am
on Radio Futura with Pedro Futura
Disco Chimi is the debut album from Dominican-Cuban artist Charlie Chimi — and the inaugural release on DJ and tastemaker Coco María's new label, Club Coco. The record blends merengue, dembow, Afro-disco, rock, and Caribbean folklore into a raw, garage-tinged sound that sits happily outside any easy category. True to Chimi's spirit, the album trades formula for wit, leaning into playful experimentation and a cheerful refusal to take itself too seriously. Catch the live energy firsthand when Radio Futura airs a studio session with Charlie Chimi from Studio B in downtown Jersey City on May 19th.

World Goth Day special
Friday, May 22nd, 3pm - 6pm
on Mona's show
Mona celebrates World Goth Day by spinning her favorite dark tunes. She also welcomes Penelope Trappes for an interview about her latest album Requiem and subsequent remixes in advance of her North American tour. Penelope will also choose her top 5 spookiest tracks for the special occasion.

Added Dimensions
Friday, May 22nd, 9pm - Midnight
on Burn It Down! with Nate K.
Essentially the sonic brainchild of Richmond-based Sarah Everton, Added Dimensions is equal parts jittery post-punk, minimalist garage, and exquisitely formed pop. Lyrically, Everton investigates just what it takes to keep one’s head in times like these. A tight power trio on stage, Added Dimensions dropped by WFMU for a live session. Catch them at Mama Tried on May 16 and on Burn It Down! May 22.

Doug Gillard
Sunday, May 24th, 3pm - 5pm
on Paul Bruno's show
Indie rock royalty graces the WFMU airwaves as Doug Gillard performs a live set to promote his fourth solo album, Parallel Stride, out now on Dromedary Records. As a member of Guided By Voices, Cobra Verde, Death of Samantha, Children's Crusade, Gem and many others, Gillard has had a major impact on underground music for the past forty years as both player and songwriter. Check him out live at Mama Tried in Brooklyn on Saturday, May 23rd and the following afternoon on Paul's show.

Marisa Tornello
Tuesday, May 26th, 8pm - 9pm
on Vocal Fry with Dan Bodah
Marisa Tornello is a composer, vocalist and performance artist. The New York Times has called their voice “crystalline.” Tornello builds music using live looping of extended vocal techniques, often following graphic scores they have created or found in living objects. In their work, Tornello explores the art and observation of decay and ways to communicate mental health states. Tornello has been an artist resident at La MaMa and performed commissions at Roulette Intermedium, among other places. Tune in to Vocal Fry on Tuesday, May 26th at 8pm to hear Tornello perform live in their first visit to WFMU.

LIVE at RADIOFUTURA WFMU Camilo Lara (Mexican Institute Of Sound) and Éblis Álvarez (Meridian Brothers)
Wednesday, May 27th, Midnight - 3am
on Radio Futura with Pedro Futura
Pedro Futura welcomes a live set and a bit of a chat with two of the most innovative Latin music producers/creators/innovators on the planet!… What a way to celebrate 200 programs of Radio Futura… MIS's genre-bending electronic tropicalism meets Meridian Brothers' avant-garde eccentricity, resulting in a sound that is both reverent and playfully distorted. Together, Camilo Lara and Eblis Álvarez pay tribute to decades of musical exchange while pushing tropical music into the FUTURO. They will be presenting "Ruido Tovar", a cross-border collaboration that reimagines the tropical traditions linking Mexico and Colombia. Drawing inspiration from icons like Rigo Tovar and the psychedelic Mexican cumbia era, the project blends danzón, son, cha-cha-cha, and experimental electronics into a vibrant new language.

Sydney's Dad
Wednesday, May 27th, 9pm - Midnight
on Sydney's show
It's Sydney's Dad's birthday, and for his gift this year, he's picking out all of the music on his favorite radio show! She might end up regretting this. Tune in to celebrate another year of Mike and find out why his kid turned out this way.

Maggie's Birthday Bash!
Friday, May 29th, 3am - 6am
on Cat Bomb! Radio with Maggie Hertz!
Someone somewhere out there is turning another year older, so Cat Bomb! Radio is throwin' you an epic birthday bash with all the pizza, balloons and live music you can handle!! That's right, it's a double decker LIVE perfomance from Brooklyn-based art punk babes, Tea Eater and San Fran's psychedelic cabaret dreampunk dream team, Grooblen! Friday, May 29th at 3am!

Major Stars
Friday, May 29th, 9pm - Midnight
on Burn It Down! with Nate K.
There’s guitar rock and then there are Major Stars. The long-running Boston band formed by Wayne Rogers and Kate Biggar (Magic Hour, Crystalized Movements, Twisted Village records) delivers such a massive six-string onslaught that even the drummer sounds like he’s shredding. But make no mistake, beneath the maelstrom one finds classic songs and indelible melodies, delivered, in part, by current vocalist Noell Dorsey. Nate the K. is excited to welcome these genuine legends to WFMU for a live session.