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Wednesday, June 30th, 7pm – 8pm: RIAA
RIAA, the mashup/sound collage project of Los Angeles DJ/musician Mr. Fab, returns to DO or DIY for another exclusive mix. “The Kitchen of Tomorrow,” an excerpt from the forthcoming epic “USA,” will be featured, drawing on such sources as old industrial films, easy-listening records, and instructional records to humorously depict the changing role of women in American society.
http://www.m-1.us/
We are very pleased to let you know that DO or DIY with People Like Us will return to WFMU from Wednesday June 16th as part of WFMU’s Summer Schedule. We will be on the air and internet every Wednesday until October.
http://www.wfmu.org/table?period=26
DO or DIY will be broadcasting our first 2010 show – to fill in for Ken on WFMU on Wednesday 7th April!
We’ll be doing a three hour show from 9-noon NY time (which is 2-5pm UK time).
You can tune in in many different ways at WFMU – as usual we will be doing a live playlist throughout the show.
Tune in to the archive of the show afterwards at http://www.wfmu.org/peoplelikeus
NEW DO OR DIY STREAM
http://do-or-diy.wfmu.org/listen.pls
It’s the beginning of the WFMU 2010 Fundraising Marathon, and to coincide with this we are very pleased to announce that People Like Us’ radio show DO or DIY is now not only a regular radio show and podcast, but we now have our own 24 HOUR DO or DIY Stream on WFMU! Yes indeed – DO or DIY is available all day, every day. 24 hours of All Things Avant Retard.
You can listen to the stream through iTunes, by clicking here
– it will download a file that you can then click on to play the stream.
You can also find the DO or DIY stream through the front page of the WFMU website, alongside the Ubu and Ichiban streams.
NEW FREE WFMU iPHONE APP!!!
Also, if you have an iPhone or iPod Touch we are also pleased to announce that you can listen to not only the regular WFMU stream on the move at a glorious 128k, but also all of our special streams, recent DJ show archives and DJ podcasts including all of DO or DIY!
You can download the much improved updated free WFMU app right here.
IT’S THE WFMU 2010 MARATHON, TIME TO GIVE!
Have you ever listened to WFMU? Did you know it’s listener sponsored? Did you also know that only 3-5 per cent of regular listeners ever give anything back? Time to change that. We give a lot – if you like it please support us. 15 dollars or more and we’ll go away and get on with it again.
https://www.wfmu.org/marathon/pledge.php
TECHNICAL INFORMATION IF WE ARE CONFUSING YOU
To listen to the stream on your computer all you need to do is open iTunes, and paste this stream address (much like you would any other stream) by going to Advanced/Open Audio stream – paste this:
http://do-or-diy.wfmu.org/listen.pls
Alternatively, if you just click on the link above it will do the same for you anyway by downloading you a small file that you can click on to open up the stream in iTunes.
BACKGROUND ON PEOPLE LIKE US’ RADIO SHOW ON WFMU
All you need to know here!
http://www.peoplelikeus.org/doordiy/
The WFMU marathon 2010 has begun! If you are a fan of WFMU or indeed listen to DO or DIY with People Like Us please consider pledging, since the station runs on listener sponsorship. We’re looking forward to the marathon and hope you are too! Here is the co-host schedule:
http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/schedule.shtml
And here’s some of the marathon goodies you can get if you pledge:
http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/tch.shtml
Take me to the pledge page now!
People Like Us will be interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s show “PM” this afternoon about the resurgence of cassettes and cassette labels in relation to their recent release on the TapeWorm label of “Baudrillard – Le Xerox et l’Infini” as read by Patricia & Ellen.
The show is on between 5pm and 6pm GMT. The feature is also included now at this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2010/01/cassettes_are_back.shtml
Here’s a BBC news feature on the show – it’s on the BBC NEWS front page as we type this. Very surreal! There’s a screenshot lower down this page since it won’t stay there forever. Probably not anyway. Here’s the feature’s permalink:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8441839.stm
We still have a few copies of Le Xerox et l’Infini left in our shop. Hurry though!
It will be archived for one week at BBC iPlayer. Follow the link to BBC Radio 4 and search “PM”.
PM on BBC Radio 4
Listen to more Patricia & Ellen here
BBC news front page
BBC news feature
Please help us continue to broadcast on WFMU!
Our 24-Hour Marathon starts TONIGHT, Tuesday Nov 17th at 7pm and runs until
Wednesday November 18th at 7pm!**
We’re setting aside our pride to interrupt programming this Fall for our
first, and hopefully last, 24-hour
Marathon http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/index.shtml .
Our coffers are empty thanks to the combined evil forces of the recession
and WFMU falling short of our March Marathon goal. Help us raise enough
money in 24 hours to stay on the air through the winter months!
We’ve got an *action-packed 24-hours* planned, including *co-host
madness* http://wfmu.org/marathon/schedule.shtml ,
on-air *prize drawings*, and all of the *fun-loving insanity* and surprises
you’ve come to expect from WFMU Marathons. Check out our new *Radio Bear
t-shirt https://www.wfmu.org/marathon/tch.shtml#pr100 *, as well as a fresh
batch of *DJ Premiums* by *Tom Scharpling, Terre T, Evan “Funk” Davies,
Marty McSorley, Ken, Maria Levitsky, and Seven Second Delay* that are up for
the taking. Visit our pledge page
https://www.wfmu.org/marathon/pledge.php>for details.
*
We hope you can help us out with a year-end
donation https://www.wfmu.org/marathon/pledge.php
!*
Pledge online or by calling 800-989-9368.
WFMU is holding a 24-hour Marathon: Tues Nov 17th, 7pm – Wed Nov 18th, 7pm. We’re setting aside our pride to interrupt our programming for 24 hours this Fall, so we can make it through the winter months. Our coffers are empty thanks to the combined evil forces of the recession, and falling over $100,000 short of our March Marathon goal. We hope you can help us out with a year-end donation! Check out our new fall swag and make a pledge right here or by using the brochure that is soon to arrive in your mailbox.
http://www.wfmu.org/marathon/
We will be doing a little performance of our new live set in the AV Lounge at the Record Fair on the 25 October at 2pm, and so long as you’re already in the building at the fair (see website link above), why not drop by at no extra charge.
People Like Us recently did an interview with Bleek Swinney for the program “Exquisite Corpse”
Listen to the mp3 here. And the interview alone is archived here, in case the other mp3 ever disappears!
Also interviewed on this episode is Mark Hosler from Negativland.
People Like Us were broadcast on “Twenty Minutes” on BBC Radio 3 yesterday – about the Light Music composer named Roger Roger, who we have played a lot of on radio shows. The interview features the usage of it on DO or DIY with People Like Us on WFMU.
It’s the end of the Summer Season on WFMU and so time for DO or DIY to unplug the ethernet cable, give the ol’ modem a bit of a dust and take the next season off. But before we go we haven’t forgotten that it’s somewhat a tradition to make a downloadable collection of the best of all things avant retard for your ears and eye-pods, you lucky people – complete with downloadable artwork. So here it is. I always say there’s nothing like art, and this is nothing like art.
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2009/10/people-like-us-end-of-season-album-download.html
For playlists and archives of DO or DIY going back to 2003, have a look at the WFMU website homepage for the show.
Also at UbuWeb
