WFMU Benefit Record & CD Fair!
WFMU was named "Best Radio
Station in the Country" by Rolling Stone magazine for four consecutive
years. Some fans of the station include: Velvet
Underground founder Lou Reed, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, filmmaker Jim
Jarmusch and playwright Eric Bogosian, Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum,
Kurt Cobain, Led Zeppelin lead singer Robert Plant, Sonic Youth guitarists Lee
Ranaldo and Thurston Moore, and many more.
The station also helps out the
community and fellow radio stations. WFMU
began voluntarily hosting the webcast of legendary New Orleans jazz music
station, WWOZ, when its studio and transmitter were destroyed in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina. WFMU took donations for the
WWOZ and raised over $70,000.
In the destruction of Hurricane
Sandy WFMU was hit pretty hard. They
lost a lot of equipment and had to cancel their annual record fair. The fair is one of their major sources of
funding. In effort to help out the
station a record swap is being held (organized by our friend, Malcolm Tent of Trash American Style):
Sunday, December 9 at Bar 82. Bar
82 is located at
136 2nd Ave, in Manhattan
The swap starts at 3 PM and goes until "???"
The bar will be opened
accompanied by entertainment from some of the city’s best DJ’s. If anyone would like to be a vendor at the
event they must contact Malcolm Tent Updates on the event
and more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/304000386366133/
Come help support a good cause!
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