List of WFMU DJs

The List of WFMU DJs is a partial listing of notable individuals, past and present, who have been disc jockeys on the Jersey City, NJ, radio station WFMU.

• Todd Abramson, former co-owner of music venue Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ, former booking agent for The Bell House in Brooklyn, and proprietor of the Telstar Records label^[1]
• Michael D. Anderson (a.k.a. "The Good Doctor"), former musician in Sun Ra's Arkestra and Executive Director of the Sun Ra Music Archive^[2]
• Andrew Alan Escher Auernheimer, a.k.a. "weev," controversial media hacker and political commentator, formerly imprisoned for identity fraud and conspiracy^[3]
• DA The DJ (Dave Amels), organist for the garage-rock band The Reigning Sound and co-founder of music technology companies Voce musical instruments and Bomb Factory Digital
• Vicki Bennett (aka People Like Us), experimental musician/recording artist^[4]
• Your Host Bobby, experimental non-musician/found sound artist, former contributor to Big City Orchestra
• Andy Breckman, creator of the USA Network TV series Monk, Hollywood screenwriter,^[5] former comedic folk singer, former writer for Late Night with David Letterman and Saturday Night Live,^[6] and founder of Uncle Andy Toys
• Laura Cantrell, Matador Records recording artist^[7]
• Bronwyn Carlton, comic-book writer (Catwoman, The Big Book of Death, The Books of Faerie)^[8]
• Andy (Andrew) Cohen, Associate Editor of Newsweek^[9]
• Gerard Cosloy, cofounder of Matador Records,^[10] former manager of Homestead Records, and publisher/editor of Conflict magazine
• Irwin Chusid, author (Songs in the Key of Z, and four books about artist Jim Flora); record producer (Raymond Scott, Esquivel, The Langley Schools Music Project, others); and business manager (R. Stevie Moore, Sun Ra,^[11] Beth Sorrentino, Curt Boettcher). Chusid is a leading authority in the realms of incorrect and outsider music.^[12]
• Michael Cumella, a.k.a. MAC, Host of the Antique Phonograph Music Program since 1995.
• Evan "Funk" Davies, the longest-lasting drummer for seminal new-wave band The Cosmopolitans and current Director of Business and Operations for Digital Media at VH1
• Dennis Diken, drummer for The Smithereens and The Beach Boys, record producer, music historian^[13][14]
• DJ /Rupture (Jace Clayton), musician, DJ, writer, and producer
• Danny Fields, former manager of The Ramones and The Modern Lovers,^[15] subject of the film biography Danny Says (2015) ^[16]
• George Flores, hosted The David & Goliath Show from 1976–1994, now a top-rated DJ in Christian radio, having hosted for many years a program at STAR 99.1 FM ^[17]
• Jason Forrest, aka Donna Summer, electronic-music recording artist
• Ken Freedman, DJ and General Manager. Ken preserved WFMU by arranging the purchase of the station in 1994 when license holder Upsala College faced bankruptcy. Freedman's show Seven Second Delay, co-hosted with Andy Breckman, is an innovator in radio humor, whose concepts are predicated on failure.^[18] Freedman is the president of Congera Public Benefit Corporation,^[19] which developed and markets The Audience Engine, a fundraising platform for radio and social media.
• Kenneth Goldsmith (air name: Kenny G), author, UbuWeb founder, conceptualist, Dadaist, journalist, exhibitionist, Poet Laureate of the Museum of Modern Art,^[20] and professor at the University of Pennsylvania^[21]
• Kurt Gottschalk hosts Miniature Minotaurs, author and music journalist
• Jason Grote (co-host of WFMU's The Acousmatic Theater Hour), playwright and television writer (Smash, Mad Men)^[22]
• Keili Hamilton host of "Beastin' The Airwaves! with Keili" and youngest DJ in WFMU history^[23]
• Dave Hill, comedian, actor, musician with the bands Cobra Verde, Sons of Elvis, and Valley Lodge.
• Billy Jam, Hip Hop Slam founder^[24]
• Jesse Jarnow, journalist and author of Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock (Gotham Books, 2012), and Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America (Da Capo Press, 2016)
• Glen Jones, held the world record for the longest continuous radio broadcast by an individual (over 100 hours, set May 28, 2001)^[25]
• Ira Kaplan, singer and guitarist for Matador recording artists Yo La Tengo, and former rock journalist
• Monica Lynch, longtime president of Tommy Boy Records and A&R advisor for Queen Latifah and Martina McBride^[26]
• Dave Mandl, writer and editor (Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia, The Wire, The Brooklyn Rail)
• Jeff Mangum, founder and frontman of Neutral Milk Hotel^[27]
• Jim "The Hound" Marshall, longtime host of rockabilly, chitlin R&B and musical rarities, former co-owner of Manhattan's Lakeside Lounge^[28]
• R. Stevie Moore, Nashville-born pioneer of DIY home recording^[29]
• Frank O'Toole, former guitarist for the band Speed the Plough
• Douglas Rushkoff, New York–based writer, columnist, and lecturer on technology, media, and popular culture^[30]
• Nachum Segal, host of Jewish Moments in the Morning
• Vin Scelsa, longtime NYC broadcaster who has hosted shows on WNEW-FM, WLIR, WBAI, WABC-FM, WPLJ, WXRK, and WFUV^[31]
• Tom Scharpling, writer and executive producer of the TV series Monk,^[32] and music video director
• Michael Shelley, singer/songwriter with five LPs, runs the Confidential Recordings label
• Steve Stein (a.k.a. Steinski), influential hip hop sampler and mixmaster^[33]
• Thomas Storck owner/founder of the Bunkerpop Records label ^[34]
• Irene Trudel, engineered Jeff Buckley's first radio broadcasts and Daniel Johnston via phone with Yo La Tengo on Nicholas Hill's Music Faucet, Technical Director for WNYC's Soundcheck.
• Chris Tsakis (a.k.a. Chris T), host of the Sirius radio call-in show Freewheelin' with Meredith Ochs and Chris T.
• Amedeo Turturro, founder of the comic book magazine INK ^[35]
• Matt Weingarden a.k.a. Mr. Fine Wine, internationally known soul DJ & CD compiler
• Wildgirl (b. Ericka Peterson), Hot Rod Diva and creator of the popular "Go-Go-Rama" shows
• Douglas Wolk, writer and Dark Beloved Cloud record label owner
• Bill Zebub (a.k.a. "Professor Dum-Dum"), publisher of the quarterly death metal magazine The Grimoire of Exalted Deeds and director of an extensive catalog of independent films^[36]

References

1. Telstar Records info page
2. Sun Ra Archives
3. AT&T Hacker ‘Weev’ Sentenced to 3.5 Years in Prison, Wired magazine, March 18, 2013
4. Cooper, Neil (July 2, 2010). "People Like Us celebrate record cover art in Prints of Darkness". The List. Edinburgh. Bennett’s ongoing weekly podcasts for art radio station WFMU, ‘ Do or DIY’, meanwhile, are legend.
5. Andy Breckman at Internet Movie Database
6. Production Bios - Andy Breckman
7. Matador Records Bio
8. "Bronwyn Carlton Wed in Brooklyn". New York Times. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. location = New York. March 18, 1991.
9. http://www.leadershipdirectories.com/NMYBInfo/Andrew_Cohen_Associate_Editor_Newsweek.html
10. About.com: History of Matador Records
11. Interview with Irwin Chusid, Administrator for Sun Ra LLC
12. Projects page at WFMU.org
13. http://www.officialsmithereens.com/dikenprj/ddproduc.html
14. Interview with Diken about drumcraft
15. Interview with Danny Fields at Stay Thirsty Media
16. Danny Says: A Documentary on the Life and Times of Danny Fields
17. STAR 99.1 website
18. Seven Second Delay homepage
19. Congera Public Benefit Corporation
20. An Interview With MoMA's First Poet Laureate, Kenneth Goldsmith
21. UPenn Bio
22. Jason Grote c.v. at New Dramatists
23. http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/breaking/56285/
24. Introduction to hiphopslam.com
25. Picture of Jones' Guinness World Record certificate
26. "Queen Latifah to release The Dana Owens Album," MusicRemedy.com, September 10, 2004
27. Jeff Mangum page at WFMU.org
28. Horan, Kathleen, "East Village’s Lakeside Lounge to Shutter After 16 Years", WNYC, April 23, 2012
29. "I Am NJ" NJ.com
30. Douglas Rushkoff bio
31. Idiot's Delight homepage at WFUV.org
32. "In Person: Gotcha! Stay Tuned," The New York Times
33. Interview with Steve Stein at The Onion's A.V. Club
34. http://www.silbermedia.com/qrd/archives/59Bunkerpop.html
35. http://www.fanboyradio.com/fanboy-radio-626-svas-comics-magazine-ink/
36. Bill Zebub director/producer/writer/actor credits at Internet Movie Database