
Location:
East Orange, NJ
Genres:
Indie Music
Description:
Mona brings you synthpop, disco, darkwave, electronic, new romantic, queer anthems, dance classics, post punk, soul, goth, shoegaze, industrial, britpop, retro r&b, breaks, and more...
Language:
English
Special guest Billy Jam! from May 8, 2026
5/8/2026
Bo Diddley - "Mona (I Need You Baby)"
Too $hort - "Life is…Too $hort" - Life is Too Short [0:03:47]
Mac Dre - "TV News report + Billy Jam phone interview" - KPFA Berkeley,1992 live from Fresno County Jail [0:08:02]
Steve Albini & Santiago Durange - "on Big Black breaking up later that week" [August 3 1987 in studio KALX INTERVIEW - they would play the I-Beam in SF that night and break up permanently by end of the week] [0:10:51]
Big Black - "Kerosene" - Atomizer [0:11:19]
Serious Drinking - "Hangover" - The Revolution Starts At Closing Time [0:16:57]
Ian Dury & the Blockheads - "Billericay Dickie" - V/A - Live Stiffs [0:20:10]
Art Brut - "dc comics and chocolate milkshake" - art brut vs. satan [0:24:16]
Wheelchair Sports Camp - "Dead (feat. Jello Biafra & Olivia Jean)" - Oh Imperfecta! [0:38:17]
Wheelchair Sports Camp - "MAKE it MAKE SENSE (feat Jello Biafra & Radio Pete)" - Oh Imperfecta! [0:40:15]
The Todd Terry Project - "Weekend (club version)" [0:42:36]
Hidden Agenda featuring Kim Payton - "Story Of My Life (Underground Mix)" [0:47:15]
Ken Goffman (R.U. Sirius) - "on Ecstacy special "Talk of The Town" with Billy Jam" [July 1985 on KALX] [1:13:45]
Brian Eno - "By The River" - Before and After Science [1:17:07]
The Uncluded - "Delicate Cycle" [1:18:51]
The Catheads - "Golden Gate Park" - SF Unscene [1:22:43]
Sick Pleasure - "Let's Get the Muni Driver" - Dolls Under Control [1:25:56]
DJ Mek - "Back In My Day" - Put The Needle On Billy Jam's 30 Years In Radio [2014 WFMU Marathon Mix] [1:28:00]
Muipead + Jimmy Penguin - "Muipead Freestyle" - Put The Needle On The 2009 Marathon Mix/Irish Hip-Hop Record [live on WFMU remote from west of Ireland - in Gaelic that preceded by several years Kneecap rappin in the Irish native tongue] [1:29:35]
Ghost N Jay - "what do ya want (feat Scooby+RiRa)" [1:31:52]
Terrii Hooley - "laugh at me" [1:46:11]
Idiots - "Parents" - Battle Of The Bands 2 7" [1:48:28]
Outcasts - "The Cops Are Comin’" [1:52:02]
Rudi - "overcome by fumes" [1:53:22]
The Undertones - "smarter than you" [1:55:54]
The Shapes - "airline disaster" [1:57:55]
Inflatable Boy Clams - "I'm Sorry" [2:08:39]
Flipper - "Life" - Generic Flipper [2:11:09]
Pop-O-Pies - "I Love New York" - The White EP [2:15:22]
MDC - "My Family Is A Little Weird" [2:17:13]
Operation Ivy - "TroubleBound in B Town (live on KALX 1987)" [Tim and Matt of OP IV and Rancid fame made their radio premiere on Billy. Jam's KALX show in 1986 when they were members of Basic Radio - and as Operation IVY continuted to come onto Billy's KALX show to perform live - before they would release their first record] [2:18:50]
Sex Pistols - "Oh Shut Up Sidney" - Never Mind The Filthy Lucre. . . Here's The Sex Pistolsfirst [the first album that Billy Jam (annonomously) produced and released from Norman Davis master tapes from KSAN] [2:31:18]
Descendents - "Catalina" - Milo Goes To College [2:34:42]
Raw Power - "Raw Power" - Screams From The Gutter [2:36:12]
Minor Threat - "in my eyes" [2:37:01]
Dose-One - "Freestyle @ Knitting Factory NY NY (2008 WFMU)" - Put The Needle On The Record WFMU live remote [2:39:48]
Rocky Rivera - "CLEAN Life I Live feat Tia Nomore" [2:42:19]
Little Simz - "one life, might live" [2:45:57]
Nina Simone - "Ain't Got No, I Got Life" [2:48:02]
End of set https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/164044
Duration:03:08:30
mayday from May 1, 2026
5/1/2026
Bo Diddley - "Mona" - 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bo Diddley
Pulp - "Death Goes To The Disco" - Countdown 1992–1983 [0:02:34]
The Veils - "Advice For Young Mothers To Be" - Nux Vomica [0:06:11]
Gene - "Haunted By You" - Olympian [0:09:14]
Shop Assistants - "Fixed Grin" - Will Anything Happen [0:12:43]
The Primitives - "Crash" - Lovely [0:15:51]
The Vaselines - "You Think You're A Man" - Enter the Vaselines [0:18:14]
Wire - "I Am the Fly" - Chairs Missing [0:23:20]
The Cramps - "Human Fly" - ...Off The Bone [0:26:23]
Nitzer Ebb - "Fun To Be Had" - Showtime [0:28:32]
Ministry - "I Wanted To Tell Her" - With Sympathy [0:33:04]
Liquid Liquid - "Optimo" - Liquid Liquid [0:38:25]
A Certain Ratio - "Lucinda" - Sextet [0:40:57]
CAN - "Turtles Have Short Legs" - Cannibalism 2 [0:45:02]
Spoon - "I Turn My Camera On" - Gimme Fiction [0:47:58]
Siouxsie & The Banshees - "Red Light" - Kaleidoscope [0:51:33]
The Droyds - "Girls On Pills" - God Made Me Hardcore: This Is Hardcore [0:54:45]
Music behind DJ:
Daniel Avery - "Glass" - Song For Alpha B-Sides & Remixes
Big Mama Thornton - "Hound Dog" - Hound Dog [1:03:39]
Shirley Ellis - "The Clapping Song (Clap Pat Clap Slap)" - The Clapping Song [1:06:36]
The Cure - "Close to Me (Extended Mix 1985)" - Mixed Up (Deluxe Edition) [1:09:15]
Malcolm McLaren, The Bootzilla Orchestra - "Waltz Darling" - Waltz Darling [1:15:47]
Blood Orange, Caroline Polacheck - "Chosen" - Cupid Deluxe [1:20:18]
Björk - "All Is Full Of Love (Strings)" - Homogenic [1:26:09]
Nona Hendryx - "Transformation" - Nona [1:30:18]
Arthur Russell - "This Is How We Walk on the Moon" - Another Thought [1:35:51]
John Maus - "Do Your Best" - Love is Real [1:42:52]
Dorian Pimpernel - "Twisted Charm Honey" - Flowers Too [1:45:29]
The Tablets - "I Love You In Your Tragic Beauty" - Tablets [1:49:19]
Broadcast - "Before We Begin" - Ha Ha Sound [1:52:32]
Music behind DJ:
Daniel Avery - "Glass" - Song For Alpha B-Sides & Remixes [1:55:46]
Cut Copy - "Moments" - Moments [2:03:54]
NEU! - "Isi" - NEU! [2:09:14]
KNEECAP - "Palestine (feat. Fawzi)" - Fenian [2:14:18]
Vitalic - "My Friend Dario" - Ok Cowboy [2:17:00]
Sash! - "Encore Une Fois" - It's My Life [2:19:46]
Robert Miles - "Children" - Children (Dance Vault Mixes) [2:23:19]
Rockell - "In A Dream" - What Are You Lookin' At? [2:26:14]
Kraftwerk - "Tour de France" - Tour De France [2:29:48]
DAF - "Der Mussolini - Giorgio Moroder & Denis Naidanow Remix" - Der Mussolini - Giorgio Moroder & Denis Naidanow Remix [2:34:54]
Nine Inch Nails, Boys Noize - "Parasite" - Nine Inch Noize [2:38:43]
Elegant Machinery - "Process" - Degraded Faces [2:43:31]
Pet Shop Boys - "It's Alright" - Introspective [2:47:55]
Joe Smooth - "Promised Land" - Promised Land [2:51:39]
Laibach - "Singularity (feat. Donna Marina Martensson)" - MUSICK [2:58:23]
End of set https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163817
Duration:03:08:29
Episode from Apr 24, 2026
4/24/2026
Bo Diddley - "Mona" - 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Bo Diddley
Shell Company - "Salt Fields (feat. Richie Culver)" - Locket [0:02:25]
Alliyah Enyo - "The HEALER (Rework by naafi)" - Echo's Disintegration [0:06:14]
Tara Clerkin Trio - "Silently" - Somewhere Good [0:11:22]
Massive Attack, Tom Waits - "Boots on the Ground (clean radio edit)" - Boots on the Ground [0:17:28]
Ben Frost - "Bread Or Bullets" - Palestine 36 [0:21:32]
Big Hard Excellent Fish - "Imperfect List Pt 1" - Imperfect List [0:27:25]
PUNCHBAG - "Playing God" - I Am Obsessed [0:34:53]
Disclosure feat. Eliza Doolittle - "You & Me [Flume Remix]" - You & Me [0:39:24]
Love and Rockets - "Haunted When the Minutes Drag" - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven [0:43:22]
The Stylistics - "People Make the World Go Round" - The Original Debut Album [0:51:12]
Foals - "When the War is Finally Done" - HELP(2) [0:57:20]
Music behind DJ:
Daniel Avery - "Glass" - Song For Alpha B-Sides & Remixes [1:00:56]
Jose Gonzalez - "Ay Querida" - Against the Dying of the Light [1:05:38]
Holger Czukay - "Persian Love" - Movies [1:08:35]
I Magus - "Indian Sweets" - Sounds Vol. 1 [1:14:44]
Tricky - "Out of Place (feat. Marta)" - Different When It's Silent [1:19:24]
Killing Joke - "Requiem" - Killing Joke [1:21:57]
Cocteau Twins - "The Tinderbox (of a Heart)" - Head Over Heels [1:25:38]
Miss Grit - "Waste Me" - Under My Umbrella [1:30:18]
The xx - "Shelter (Live Remix 2017)" - Shelter (Live Remix 2017) [1:33:50]
Operating Theatre - "Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth" - Spring Is Coming With A Strawberry In The Mouth [1:38:21]
TKA - "You Are the One" - Lean On Me (OST) [1:41:58]
Information Society - "Running" - Creatures of Influence [1:45:26]
Evelyn Thomas - "High Energy" - High Energy! [1:51:01]
Malena Ernman, Fredrik Kempe - "One Step from Paradise" - La voix du nord [2:02:17]
Laibach - "Musick (feat. Wiyaala)" - Musick [2:06:08]
La Bouche - "Sweet Dreams" - Sweet Dreams [2:09:30]
Maha - "Law Laffeina El Ard" - Habibi Funk 020: Orkos [2:12:37]
St. Vincent - "DOA" - Death of a Unicorn OST [2:18:54]
Dwight Twilley Band - "Looking For The Magic" - Twilley Don't Mind [2:22:33]
Timber Timbre - "Curtains?!" - Hot Dreams [2:25:20]
Roy Orbison - "In Dreams" - Blue Velvet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [2:28:52]
Dif Juz - "No Motion" - Soundpool [2:32:10]
Alessi Brothers - "Seabird" - The Best Of The Alessi Brothers [2:36:12]
The Chills - "Purple Girl" - Kaleidoscope World [2:39:20]
Cat Power - "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again" - I'm Not There - Original Soundtrack [2:42:32]
John Waters - "It's In the Book" - It's in the Book [2:49:08]
Cornershop - "Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook Remix)" - Brimful of Asha (single) [2:52:10]
End of set https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/163583
Duration:03:08:28