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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...

Location:

East Orange, NJ

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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


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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

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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

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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