Notes from the Pandemic #1
Just days after my first show, we got word that the station was closing as a result of the pandemic. Of course, like all of the other volunteer DJ’s at the stat...
Category: Music
What’s This Called? 100 Favorite Albums of 2019
By Ricardo Wang While my show has featured end-of-year shows and lists off and on throughout the 25+ years of What’s This Called?, it has not been an annual tra...
Cheyenne’s 15 Favorite Records of 2019
By DJ Noah from Sick Sad World Sick Sad World broadcasts live on Freeform Portland on alternating Wednesdays from 6 to 8 PM.
Music and Movies
Freeform Portland DJ’s roundup some of their favorite film-inspired music. DJ Mrrranda from Spider in the Ear Giallo and 60s-70s “artsy” horro...
WFMH Shares 5 Halloween Songs to Get Spooky With
He Met Me In the Guest House by Bappi Lahiri Soundtrack and title song to the Indian Hindi horror movie Guest House (1980). The plot involves Christopher who is...
Songs for Autumn
A roundup of favorite fall tunes from Freeform Portland DJ’s:
Pixy Liao & Her Art of Giving the Middle Finger to Heteronormative & Patriarchal Ideologies
Pixy Liao (Yijun Liao) is a Chinese Shanghai-born photographer, musician and multidisciplinary artist who resides in Brooklyn, NY with her partner and muse, Mor...
Noah Fence Interviews Raymond Gorman of That Petrol Emotion and The Everlasting Yeah
Noah Fence First off, Raymond, thank you for agreeing to let me interview you. Please tell me about growing up in Ireland, your musical influences. What led you...
The NEW Sounds of Summer
By: DJ Ducky / Jessie Stepan We’ve all heard The Beach Boys. You can’t live in America, especially on the Western seaboard, without hearing at least ONE song by...
The Importance of Odion Livingstone Records and the Impetus of Decolonizing African Music
African and Asian musicians are often living subserviently working for a white privileged man practicing homogenous postcolonialism. For decades, and to this da...