Your Supports Defends Free Speech: Our Fall Fund Drive Starts Monday 9/22 • Special Programs You’ll LOVE All Week Long
Starting Monday 9/22, WRFI’s volunteer hosts are pulling out ALL the stops to help raise funds for free speech and free expression here on WRFI. Don’t miss this great special programming and don't forget to give early and often to support your LOCAL nonprofit community radio station.
Civil society and democracy depend on the rights to free expression, free speech, and a free press. But now, our nation’s long tradition of protecting speech and dissent is under attack.
Local, community media like WRFI empowers local people to speak for themselves and their communities. It knits together people and support networks, shares information in the public interest, and creates an important refuge through the healing power of music.
In times like these, your support is essential. Your gift to WRFI today will sustain our unique brand of people-powered radio here in the heart of the Finger Lakes for the coming year.
Every day on WRFI you hear the voices of everyday people sharing their passions, perspectives, and points of view.
By giving to WRFI today, you build PEOPLE POWER. Your support helps build and maintain WRFI’s inclusive platform for local and independent voices.
Whether it's because WRFI has the coolest, most eclectic and original music shows or because of our deep commitment to independent news that values facts, integrity, and the lives of human beings, your support makes it all possible.
9/22 MONDAY
- At noon: DJ Art-V teams up with Big Scoob for a special African Postman to spread the love of African music. Plus Artie is offering a new CD of Masisi Mass Funk’s 1979 masterwork “I Want You Girl” to a lucky winner plus sweet African Postman swag;
- Then at 2pm, Scoob and Art-V trade seats and keep it jazzy for another 2 hours on the Big Scoob Show.
- At 4pm, Ben eschews all guitars for a “Minus Six (strings)” special Attic Inhabitant. Theresa Alt of The Inquiring Socialist cohosts.
- At 5, Gianni is for a special Songbird.mp3 with Rain sitting in as co-host.
- At 7: John’s sweetening the pot with some special Humming Wires tee shirts for donors during his show. Tally of Indie Interlude will be hanging out taking your calls.
- At 9, Sasha E comes in for a special Audio Stew.
9/23 TUESDAY
- At noon: On Jumping in the Sugar Bowl, Keir is hosting an open house featuring drop-ins by notable Ithaca musicians. Cheese Louise of Feel Flows will be riding shotgun.
- At 2, Don’t miss Morpheus on The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Dusty Visions co-hosts.
- At 4: Spicy Bones will be joined by their wife Sofie for a special 2-hour Matter Media. The first hour will be all covers, the second all music they picked up in their travels. Plutonium of No Stairway will be helping out.
- At 6, on the Warm Up, Heather explores the connections between memory and music, drawing on Whitman’s Song of Myself. Five from Who’s On, What’s On co-hosts.
- And then at 7pm: Dom and Angela are hosting a LIVE Gong Show! Dom picks the songs and tries to sell Angela on them. But, "if she gongs, it goes."
- At 9: DJ Law comes in with Digital Binary brings a brand new, never-before-heard mix from the man himself: DJ Rob Haze. Jordan of the Secret Ingredient will join as co-host.
9/24 WEDNESDAY
- At noon, a Special Latin Hour curated by Keir, will be joined by Ute Ritz-Deutch of The Human Rights and Social Justice Program.
- At 2pm Mr Void will be in the area for a special Zone of Avoidance. Sam "The Cool" Fishman from Instrument Spotlight will co-host.
- At 3pm BIG SCOOB IS BACK!
- At 4pm, it’s a Youth Radio Project all-hands on deck confab with any and all current and former Youth Radio youth! Mr Void will co-host.
- At 5pm Plutonium will be in for a special No Stairway digging into the Japanese sub-genre City Pop. Clara from the Mind Meadow will be on hand to chat and take your calls.
- At 6pm: on the Mind Meadow Clara welcomes Ithaca DIY Poetry members Alayna Hernandez and Keegan Young to share their wondrous words and explore the local DIY scene through music. Five from Who’s On What’s On will join as co-host.
- At 7, Goth folk/electric cellist Silver Rein will perform LIVE
on the air on catholic block. John from the Humming Wires will ride shotgun. - And at 9, It’s a Psychobilly Beach Party on The Vicious Pink Show, where leather meets luau, and the wave meets the grave! Gayle and co-host Rocket Morton ride the screaming tidal wave ‘til 11. Special guests lowercase marc (Catholic Block), Amie (Amie's Winehouse), and DJ Spicy Bones (Matter Media) will be joining throughout the show.
9/25 THURSDAY
- At noon: On the Scenic Route with Felix, steve here now (aka Steven Donahue of Young Legs) will perform live and explore the infinite present with some deep synth sounds. Emily from Hello Earthlings and Dija from The Strangest Feeling will be hanging out as co-hosts.
- At 2pm: Max Moses of the Cast Iron Cowboys will perform live on Instrument Spotlight with Sam "The Cool" Fishman. Plutonium co-hosts.
- At 3pm: Max Disaster will host a 2-hour “Shadows of the Night” Are You Out There special—a nod to the upcoming “Goth-tober.” Dr. B of Bartlemania co-hosts.
- At 5pm: Executive Director Ben Coakley and Program Director Felix Teitelbaum will host a State of the Station “ask-us-anything.” Call in with your questions, comments, and kudos.
- At 6, endure the obscure on George’s Sparkletone Hour. George will try to stump co-host Kid Catharsis of Bombast with postpunk deep cuts.
- At 7, Rich Recchia celebrates Alice Cooper on Night Toast. Kid Catharsis and George co-host.
- At 9, trains W, R, F, and I head Downtown to OUTER SPACE with the Batgirl. Niko from Call to the Universe co-hosts and takes your calls FROM the universe. Stand clear of the closing doors.
9/26 FRIDAY
- At 10am, on the Inquiring Socialist, Theresa interviews meteorologist Mark Wysocki about flooding in Ithaca.
- At noon: Roger Smith will play excerpts from his forthcoming interview with media scholar Victor Pickard on Crazy Words, Crazy Tune. Jay Leeming of the Mythic Landscape Radio Hour and Theresa from the Inquiring Socialist co-host.
- At 2pm, Daniel Bass switches up his usual format to host Singles Going Steady, an hour of music from 7" singles from the 1970s, 80s & 90s from the US, UK & USSR.
- At 3pm: Sarah Hennies is back with a special Bendy Bus. Dr. Billy from Kampung Jams rides shotgun.
- At 5, it’s “That (Southeast Asian) 70s Show” on Kampung Jams with Dr. Billy. Roger Smith co-hosts.
- At 6pm: on Radio Waves Christina will team up with Nina from Discography Dive for an all Aimee Mann hour. Dijon of the Mustard Hour co-hosts.
- At 7pm Rocket Morton will bring more than his usual dose of mayhem on his show. Emily of Hello Earthlings and Amie of Amie’s Winehouse co-host.
- And at 9, Stephen Cope flies in with the Conference of the Birds and CD prizes every hour. Spicy Bones from Matter Media co-hosts.
9/27 SATURDAY
- At 10am, storyteller Jay Leeming returns to Ithaca with stories from the Odyssey on the Mythic Landscape Radio Hour.
- At 11, Dijon’s got the spicy stuff on The Mustard Hour. Call in for prizes including novelty 45s, a cassette mixtape, and other mystery booty. Eric Clay from the Made of Clay Report co-hosts.
- At 1pm, Cristina lands on Spinster’s Rock in her old time slot. Rich and Josh co-host.
- At 3, DJ Rain and co-host Gianni glide through on Hovercraft.
- At 5: on a special Thrift Shop Radio, Kevin opens up shop with a selection of rock n’ roll memorabilia from the store’s own collection, your donation of $20 or more makes you eligible. Gayle from Vicious Pink joins as co-host.
- At 7, Dija’s got the Strangest Feeling and journeys through Stevie Wonder’s classic period with Rob from the Lake Snake Radio Show as cohost.
- At 9 it’s a cathartic evening of 4AD bangers, deep cuts, semi-informed commentary on BOMBAST with Kid Catharsis. lower case marc of catholic block joins as co-host.
9/28 SUNDAY
- At noon, on Will Spring Astrology, Tim checks WRFI’s “birth” chart and offers a reading to two donors who start $10/month (or more) during the drive. Jay from Mythic Landscape co-hosts.
- At 1, on The Joe Show, Joe teams up with Peter B of Burning Airlines for a show dedicated to death and those who precede us in it.
- At 3, on Burning Airlines, Peter B locks DJ horns with the Batgirl for a 1979 US vs UK funky punky dance battle.
- At 7, Solid Gould does a Studio One showcase on Fresh Roots Radio. Jacob of Jamaican Clash skanks it slow in the co-host seat.
- At 9, Rob will close out the week, on the Lake Snake Radio Hour. Rob is offering custom ambient mixtapes on CD-R for new monthly donors. Solid Gould co-hosts.
