I am writing a book on New Jersey independent listener-supported freeform radio station WFMU and the rise of online music. I post my writing and research finds here.
Essays:
“Freeform Radio and the History of Music Streaming,” in The Oxford Handbook of Radio Studies, edited by Michele Hilmes and Andrew Bottomley (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024), 22-40. – Finally published! About WFMU’s early experiments in “streaming” music via telephone, gopher, and the web in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
“Provincializing Spotify: Radio, Algorithms and Conviviality,” Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, 18, no. 1 (2020): 29-42. – About the Free Music Archive.
“The Past and Future of Music Listening: Between Freeform DJs and Recommendation Algorithms,” in Radio’s New Wave, ed. Michele Hilmes and Jason Loviglio (New York: Routledge, 2013), 62-76. – About WFMU’s relationship with music recommendation apps.
Interviews:
Interview on Mack Hagood’s Phantom Power podcast, talking about radio audiences, freeform radio station WFMU, and the plundering of open source software movements by big tech, November 17, 2023
Online:
This map-in-progress chronicles live performances at rock, avant-garde and international music venues such as CBGB’s, Maxwell’s, Lauterbach’s, the Ritz, the Bottom Line, Roulette, PS 122, S.O.B.’s, Wetlands Preserve, ABC No Rio, and others. It lists participating NYC-area and NJ musicians and bands, playing alternative rock, hardcore punk, experimental music, folk, anti-folk & more. It includes links to first-person accounts and/or audio recordings whenever possible.
Joe Biden bails out venture capitalists but leaves independent media to fend for themselves. Keep WFMU on the air!