Mzien! Next Monday November 7th, live radio & a great, rarely-screened film at a special location in South Williamsburg. Join us at Brooklyn’s Spectacle Theater for a live broadcast of my WFMU radio show, “Mudd Up!” from 7:30-9pm, built around a YouTube selection, followed by a screening of the fantastic musical comedy, 100% Arabica. Set … Continue reading MUDD UP RADIO & 100% ARABICA LIVE @ SPECTACLE
The Mudd Up Book Clubb marches to Manhattan with a tender, challenging work by one of the most important authors around: Samuel R. Delany’s Times Square Red, Times Square Blue. The book takes Delany’s 30+ years in the porn theaters and gay bars of Times Sq. on the eve of its mid-1990s Disneyification as a … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: NYC EDITION – SAMUEL DELANY
The clubb marches on! Apologies for the late notice, but the Mudd Up Book Clubb will meet two weeks from today on September 8th, in Tangier Morocco. We’ll be talking about Juan Goytisolo’s Exiled from Almost Everywhere (original title: Exiliado de Aquà y de Allá). Goytisolo is a complicated figure — the Spaniard has lived … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: TANGIER EDITION
[screenshot from the June Mudd Up Book Clubb’s Ustream] The Mudd Up Book Clubb continues! Every six weeks or so we gather (preferably on a rooftop) to talk about a good muddy book, stream the conversation so The Internet can participate, then eat delicious food. The Clubb is meant to be a realtime feast-for-the-senses thing, … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: MADRID EDITION
As I tweeted yesterday: I seek a production assistant for my WFMU radio show. Must live in the NYC area, have monday nights free, & be radiant. #mudd. Radio is all about radiance, at both a technical & spiritual level, right? Waves spreading, modulating… I’m looking for someone with wide open ears. Who believes in … Continue reading MUDD UP RADIO: PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
As announced in this post, the Mudd Up Book Clubb kicks off this month. We have a time and location now: It’s going down on Monday June 27th, at 7pm on the rooftop near rue Jean Jaures in Gauthier, Casablanca. It’s a particularly appropriate place to sit down and discuss Maureen F. McHugh’s Nekropolis, a … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: JUNE 27th CASABLANCA EDITION
Last Monday’s radio show is now streaming. I selected the tunes but hiccuping Casablanca wireless meant that last-minute I couldn’t add my voice — co-pilot Lamin Fofana helped out on that end. you can subscribe to the Mudd Up! podcast for downloadable versions, issued a week after FM broadcast: , Mudd Up! RSS. Also useful: … Continue reading RADIO JUNE MUDD
Radio radio. WFMU’s summer schedule is now in effect, and, Mudd Up! has been moved back an hour, to 8-9pm EST on Monday evenings. Here’s yesterday’s show: tracklist:
The idea is simple: every six weeks or so we gather somewhere for informal talk centered around a good muddy book, then go eat delicious food. We’ll have a live Ustream feed so Cousin Internet and Miss Larry Antitroll can participate. The inaugural edition will convene on a Casablanca rooftop, around late afternoon/sunset, about six … Continue reading MUDD UP BOOK CLUBB: CASABLANCA EDITION
BREAKING NEWS: Paris-born, L.A./Ghana-based Benjamin Lebrave (aka Bbrave), founder of Akwaaba Music is extending his NYC stay to join us on Mudd Up! radio. Monday January 31st, you can tune in to WFMU from 7-8pm to hear Benjamin play music from his fast-growing label dedicated to African music and discuss his approach, which is refreshingly … Continue reading AKWAABA GETS MUDDY