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*****Press Release for WFMU live broadcast from Limerick with Billy Jam*****
On Friday 27th of March, the critically acclaimed New York-based radio station WFMU will hold a live remote broadcast from Limerick city. The hiphop show Put The Needle On The Record, hosted by the legendary Billy Jam, will transmit live from Viva Music Studios at 46 O'Connell St between 8pm and 11pm.
Following the success of the first live from Ireland WFMU remote broadcast in December out of Dublin's All City Records, Jersey City's WFMU will again travel across the Atlantic to the Emerald Isle for a second Irish hip-hop-themed live remote broadcast. This time host Billy Jam, with close production assistance from Kerrynini and Cheebah, aims to highlight both the local and national emerging artists and movements in urban music and culture. The show will feature a number of discussions, interviews and performances with such Limerick-based artists as:
Cheebah
The Rubberbandits
Nora Ni Murchu (Tweak Festival)
Code (Subtle Audio)
Size2Shoes
Jay Red
Jimmy Lyons
The show will also feature music from other local musicians, producers and DJs , along with performances from the Galway-based turntablist quartet Vince Mackmahon, Wexford MC Rob Kelly and Kerry's Lineage crew. The show is being broadcast from the technical surroundings of the newly located Viva Music studios at 46 O'Connell St, the local DJ and production school which is headed by Dan Sykes.
The show will be broadcast live across much of the New York state, including Manhattan, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, Lower Catskills and Hudson Valley. It will also be broadcast live online from the station's website so that anyone with a connection can tune into the stream.
WFMU is the longest running freeform radio station in the United States and is generally regarded by most critics as the best radio station in New York.
WFMU is the longest running freeform radio station in the United States and is generally regarded by most critics as the best radio station in New York.
After the transmission, the Wicked Chicken will host a special after-party with an exasperating number of DJs lined up to spin records in keeping with the hiphop theme. Starting proceedings while the show is still airing and continuing on until late will be the following selectors:
...in no particular order...
Deviant,
Jimmy Penguin,
Mikey Fingers,
Tweek,
jOhnny dOObs,
Cheebah DJs,
A2DF,
Broken Funk,
More about WFMU and Billy Jam....
Billy Jam:
"I'm not old. I'm old school," insists Irish immigrant Billy Jam who fell in love with hiphop back in the late seventies when he first got to New York. Since then, he has dedicated himself to supporting the art form of hip hop through various forms of media.
"I look at media, be it print, radio, Internet, television, or whatever as all the same thing: just another way to get your message across," says Jam who started as a radio DJ in 1984 on KALX, Berkeley, CA. In 1987 he added journalism to his media assault, with publications including: The Source, BOMB, Vibe, XXL, CMJ, No Joke, Stealth, Rap Pages, San Francisco Chronicle, SF Weekly, and The SF Bay Guardian.
In 1998, he began producing music with an emphasis on DJ/turntablist music and founded the HiphopSlam label and website. Currently living in New Jersey, the part-time journalist hosts the hugely popular 'Put The Needle On The Record' weekly show on the world-reknowed WFMU radio station and performs and records with the turntablist ensemble Djs of Mass Destruction. He was also featured in Doug Pray's highly acclaimed documentary Scratch (2001).
WFMU:
WFMU is a listener-supported, non-commercial radio station broadcasting at 91.1 Mhz FM in Jersey City, NJ, right across the Hudson from lower Manhattan. It is currently the longest running freeform radio station in the United States.
The station also broadcasts to the Hudson Valley and Lower Catskills in New York, Western New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania via it's 90.1 signal at WXHD in Mount Hope, NY. The station maintains an extensive online presence at WFMU.ORG which includes live audio streaming in several formats, over 8 years of audio archives, podcasts and a popular blog.
The New York Times, Rolling Stone Magazine, The Village Voice, CMJ and the New York Press have all at one time or another called WFMU "the best radio station in the country" and the station has also been the subject of feature stories in and on the BBC. In recent years the station has gained a large international following due it's online operations and counts Simpson's creator Matt Groening, film director Jim Jarmusch and Velvet Underground founder Lou Reed, among others, as devoted fans of the station.
WFMU's programming ranges from flat-out uncategorizable strangeness to rock and roll, experimental music, 78 RPM Records, jazz, psychedelia, hip-hop, electronica, hand-cranked wax cylinders, punk rock, gospel, exotica, R&B, radio improvisation, cooking instructions, classic radio airchecks, found sound, dopey call-in shows, interviews with obscure radio personalities and notable science-world luminaries, spoken word collages, Andrew Lloyd Webber soundtracks in languages other than English as well as Country and western music.
All of the station's programming is controlled by individual DJs and is not beholden to any type of station-wide playlist or rotation schedule. Experimentation, spontaneity and humor are among the station's most frequently noted distinguishing traits. WFMU does not belong to any existing public radio network, and close to 100% of its programming originates at the station.
Quotes:
"Fantastic website, great archives. It is truly eclectic programming, unlike other stations, which claim to be eclectic."
Matt Groening, The Simpsons creator.
"Romping through the history of recorded sound, WFMU's disc jockeys often come up with unbelievable artifacts, revelatory juxtapositions and songs you thought you'd never hear again."
New York Times.
"The crown jewel of New York independent radio"
The Village Voice
"There's nothing better late at night in this town than climbing into the car and turning on and
tuning into WFMU cracklin' across the river with whatever weird shit they're playin' tonight."
Sonic Youth
