For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY Get your holiday performance fix at the continuation of these three classics: Nimbus Dance Works’ Jersey City Nutcracker (7 pm, $10-$50); J City Theater’s A [...]
The New Jersey natives that make up Titus Andronicus came up with a very Jersey-proud way to market their new Jersey-centric video for “No Future Part Three: Escape From No Future.” Over the past few weeks, the band’s team has been reaching out to Jersey-based publications, websites and fans to coordinate a web-based statewide video [...]
To plug an unexpected hole in its budget before the year ends, the world-renown Jersey City-based freeform radio station WFMU is taking an unusual pledge appeal to its listeners: if you give us $180,000 we’ll send our station manager aloft in a lawn chair. The nonprofit station, whose pledge drives are the stuff of near-legend [...]
After a successful debut in May, the Jersey City Record/CD Riot is set to return to Parlay Studios this weekend. The “full-blown music collector’s extravaganza” is the brainchild of Iris Records owner Steve Gritzan; it began in Brooklyn and has since expanded to other locales. “I am very psyched for this show,” Gritzan says. “I [...]
At the WFMU studios on Montgomery Street in Downtown Jersey City on Friday, March 5, host Gaylord Fields asked callers not to get too obscure with their requests — or at least to be reasonable. And for the most part listeners cooperated. Yo La Tengo — Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew — fresh from their Australian/New Zealand tour and with their pal Bruce Bennett on guitar, played requests live from 8 pm to after 11 pm.
It’s a time-honored tradition. Jersey City’s renown nonprofit freeform radio station WFMU brings us some of the most eclectic radio programming that exists all year long, and in turn it asks us listeners to pitch in one time each year during a pull-out-all-the-stops two-week fund-raising marathon; this year’s begins today and runs through March 14. [...]
A high-water mark by which open format radio stations around the globe measure themselves, WFMU has been called at one time or another the best radio station in the country by the Village Voice, CMJ and Rolling Stone.
“At WFMU we’ve always prided ourselves on being able to support ourselves on one pledge drive a year, plus whatever we can scrape together by selling roses outside the Holland Tunnel,” station manager Ken Freedman writes. “But that was before the great recession. Before we fell over $100,000 short of our goal during our March [...]
WFMU’s Three Chord Monte program will be broadcasting live from Fatburger in Jersey City Tuesday from 12-3 pm. Joe Belock and Todd-o-phonic Todd will be programming the entire show out of the restaurant’s jukebox, and Todd will be picking up the tab for the first 100 Baby Fat burgers, with a limit of one per [...]
- You might have heard — there was an election yesterday. Read our coverage here, here and here, and look for more coverage and photos later in the day. You can check out the Journal‘s coverage of the results here and here. Meanwhile, the Insider says the low turnout in yesterday’s election is “shocking” (is [...]
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