Announcing a short-notice edition of the Mudd Up Book Clubb. We are meeting this Sunday, March 24rd, to discuss Augusto Monterroso’s short story “Mister Taylor.†Those unfamiliar with the Guatemalan writer who lived most of his life in Mexico City are in for a treat! Monterroso’s agile and darkly comic meditations on “resource extraction,” colonial … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: AUGUSTO MONTERROSO MARCH EDITION
Great email in my inbox today: if “piracy is the new radio” then your show is the new SH*T! the EMPIRE!! This Wednesday, Mudd Up! was a two-hour special. It’s always nice to stretch out on WFMU’s airwaves. Streaming below. Podcastable (iTunes | XML). FM realtime every week. And be sure to check out next … Continue reading NOW PLAYING: TWO HOURS OF MUDD
[UPDATE: Daniel Oneohtrix will join us on Wednesday March 21st (not the 14th as originally announced)] [Daniel Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never] I’m pleased to announce that Oneohtrix Point Never (aka musician Daniel Lopatin) will be my special guest on the Wednesday March 21st edition of Mudd Up! on WFMU. Oneohtrix Point Never’s 2011 album, … Continue reading MUDD UP RADIO GUEST: ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER
This Wednesday at 8pm on WFMU, USC professor Josh Kun will join me on Mudd Up!, to discuss the current wave of hyperviolent Mexican drug ballads (largely produced in L.A., it turns out) and to examine the question ‘why aren’t other songs being sung?’ Kun is a rare academic who manages to do inspirational work … Continue reading MUDD UP RADIO: special guest JOSH KUN
This Wednesday, Gang Gang Dance’s Brian DeGraw stopped by my WFMU show to drop a deep hourlong DJ set. Brian does electronics in GGD and is deadly on the decks, too. Open ears will be rewarded. Now only that, but during the interview we learn that lately Brian has been feeling the tribal guarachero from … Continue reading BRIAN DEGRAW – DJ SET ON MUDD UP
I started the Mudd Up Book Clubb as a celebration of books, readers, libraries, IRL meetups, and all the hot people who love slow media. But the biggest thanks of all goes to the writers themselves. Keep us burning! We see you and salute your work. Furthering that end, here is a gift straight from … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: KINDLE SCREENSAVERS
A trio of visionary DJ/producers from Chicago graced Mudd Up radio on WFMU last night: we had DJ Rashad, DJ Manny, and OG Traxman. They did back-to-back mixing, everyone playing unreleased original productions — a true glimpse of what’s to come! Footwork spread in 2011, speeding up and weirding out dancefloors in NYC and beyond, … Continue reading MUDDY FOOTWORK FROM CHICAGO
For the January edition of Mudd Up Book Clubb, we will be reading an epic and incandescent piece of contemporary Russian fiction: Vladimir Sorokin’s Ice Trilogy. It’s ambitious, totally nuts, capable of generating new emotions, perhaps the first “21st Ct” novel I’ve read. Ice Trilogy is like a joke without the relief of a punchline. … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: VLADIMIR SOROKIN – ICE TRILOGY
several plates spinning * Tomorrow, I’ll be in Durham, North Carolina, performing at the Duke Coffeehouse. * Friday Nettle will make our D.C. debut at a special edition of Africa Is Not A Country hosted by DJs Bent and Mothersheister! We have new songs to play, a new album to sell, and hope to see … Continue reading MUDD UP RADIO & NASS EL GHIWANE FILM TRANSES LIVE @ SPECTACLE
On Sunday December 11, the Mudd Up Book Clubb returns to Manhattan, to discuss Lauren Beukes’ 2010 novel Zoo City. If you wanted to throw genre signifiers at it, you could say that it’s new African urban fantasy sci-fi noir with a strong musical component. There is even an accompanying soundtrack , released on African … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: DECEMBER 11th NYC EDITION