Music

Thanks to the super talented John Mazzello, we have some great pictures from the Parker Milsap and Sarah Jarosz concert last Thursday night. It was a memorable evening. You can read CL’s review here. They...

“Charles Dickens would have had a fine time with Mr. Trump.” Says Bryan Kozlowski, adding, “He liked larger than life people, Mr. Trump could easily be a character out of a Dickens’ novel!” Kozlowski, is...

Surface Noise will spend hour one this week partying with Bryan Ferry as the singer of Roxy Music and solo musician turns 71….though we doubt this birthdate as he hasn’t aged in about 50 years....

The first Presidential debate between Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump, scheduled for Monday, September 26th is being hailed as the biggest event since the invention of sliced bread. The audience could exceed 100 million people, according...

Generation Chef by Karen Stabiner is a captivating page-turner about the first year at a young chef’s first restaurant. Stabiner researched her story like a fly on the wall in Jonah Miller’s New York kitchen....

“Russia Hacks DNC”, “The New Red Scare”, “Trump’s Pal Vlad”. Russia keeps showing up in the headlines as we hurtle toward the most bizarre Presidential election ever. Mr. Trump, the GOP Presidential nominee, constantly refers...

Paying respects to the late Dave Swarbrick, member of Fairport Convention, singer & songwriter, revolutionary fiddler, and Folk Rock icon. Part of the folk revival days of the 1960s, he helped create the British Folk Rock...

So much new music to listen to here at WMNF. And the music is in every genre, some songs combining a bunch of genres. Did you want science fiction/art noise/hip hop?  Hello, Clipping. How about...

WMNF is celebrating 37 years on the air! Surface Noise will play songs that were likely on 88.5FM in 1979 (meaning, yeah, there might be a song from 1969 or 1977, but not 1980, because...

Don’t miss your chance to hear some great music as the tye dye evening crew gathered to musically celebrate my 60th birthday. So much grate music in fact that it runs over into The Dream...

Each week WMNF gets about 60 or more cds in that bands and labels want the station to play. Our dedicated team of quality music ears (that would be the Music Office with Randy, Flea...

“It was Seattle circa 1984, I had an early version of Life Elsewhere on KCMU (now KEXP) radio. A teenage listener would call my show regularly, he’d say, “Can you play that Folk Devils record again? That young...