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Mayhem 2024
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Mayhem 1
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Mayhem 2
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Mayhem 3
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Mayhem 4
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Mayhem 5
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Mayhem 6
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Mayhem 7
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Mayhem 8
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Mayhem 9
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Mayhem 10
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Mayhem 11
12PM
You've Been Progged!
3PM
Metal Mayhem |
Mayhem 12
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Mayhem 13
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Mayhem 14
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Mayhem 15
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Mayhem 16
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Mayhem 17
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Mayhem 18
12PM
Progged Again! |
Mayhem 19
12AM
Maximum Mancini! |
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Mayhem 21
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Mayhem 22
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Mayhem 23
6PM
For The Record |
Mayhem 24
6PM
For The Record |
Mayhem 25
3PM
Metal Mayhem
6PM
For The Record |
Mayhem 26
7PM
For The Record |
Mayhem 27
6PM
For The Record |
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Short descriptions of Mayhem Specials
Exploring the Bristol Sound: On Beyond Trip Hop
Wednesday, Mayhem 1 10:00am — 2:00pm
A history and overview of the Bristol music scene. The show will feature representative songs from the various Bristol bands.
Hosted by Ann Arbor
Doin' It To Death: Tribute to James Brown
Friday, Mayhem 3 12:00am — Saturday, Mayhem 4 12:00am
Hosted By Spliff Skankin and the KFJC Soul Enthusiasts
On The Birthday of the Godfather of Soul, KFJC hosts will honor his legacy with 24 hours of James Brown.
Aural Experimentation, Exploration and Exploitation, Part 1
Saturday, Mayhem 4 6:00am — 9:00am
KFJC enters the wormhole and embarks on an interdimensional journey of time
and space with Jeremiah Jahnson. Tune in as he contorts, teases, twists, blends,
grinds, muddles and mixes the sounds of the KFJC library for the month of
Mayhem. Will we make it back? When are we? Tune in to find out.
Hosted by Jeremiah Jahnson
Snap, Crackle, Pop Goes the Vinyl
Monday, Mayhem 6 7:00pm — 10:00pm
Have you ever gone to a thrift store and NOT bought a record because you
thought it was too scratched? Well Max Level and Jersey Girl think the snaps,
crackles, and pops add a layer of excitement. Will you agree? To make it an
interesting game, they will each buy their own vinyl and disguise the record
information and play to win points. Since Max was caught cheating last year, an
impartial judge, Hemroid the Leader, will join. What's the prize? Pasta? A bowl of
crispy cereal? Tune in and find out.
Hosted by Max Level, Hemroid the Leader, and Jersey Girl
Exploring the Bristol Sound The Mark Stewart Edition
Wednesday, Mayhem 8 10:00am — 2:00pm
An exploration of the work of Mark Stewart, a prominent figure in the UK Post-Punk, Avant-funk, Industrial and Dub music scenes. He was a singer and songwriter active from 1977-2023, who passed in 2023. Stewart was in The Pop Group, New Age Steppers, Tackhead, and Mark Stewart and The Maffia. He was also a frequent guest vocalist. Stewart is also known for his strong political statements which are reflected in his work.
Hosted by mister S
Two Tenors: Swingin', Boppin', and Playing Free.
Friday, Mayhem 10 10:00am — 2:00pm
DJ Albion Moonlight looks at the careers of two stalwart tenor players,
Lucky Thompson and Fred Anderson.
Thompson started in the swing era but then worked with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,
Charles Mingus and other pioneers of bebop.
Anderson started playing in the bop idiom but quickly moved to free jazz after hearing Ornette Coleman.
In 2001, author John Litweiler called Anderson "the finest tenor saxophonist in free jazz/underground jazz/outside jazz today."
Tune in for some Mayhem tenor madness.
Hosted by Albion Moonlight
More, More, Morr Music
Friday, Mayhem 10 10:00pm — Saturday, Mayhem 11 2:00am
Morr Music is a Berlin-based label run by Thomass Morr that has a lovely pop-infused take on electronic music. Stick around for 4 hours and find out why there's more to Morr than meets the eye (and ear).
Hosted by Mr. Goodwrench
Aural Experimentation, Exploration and Exploitation, Part 2
Saturday, Mayhem 11 6:00am — 9:00am
KFJC enters the wormhole and embarks on an interdimensional journey of time
and space with Jeremiah Jahnson. Tune in as he contorts, teases, twists, blends,
grinds, muddles and mixes the sounds of the KFJC library for the month of
Mayhem. Will we make it back? When are we? Tune in to find out.
Hosted by Jeremiah Jahnson
You've Been Progged!
Saturday, Mayhem 11 12:00pm — 3:00pm
Progressive rock incites passions among listeners. As with all genres there is
great, good and bad. Spend three hours with Carson Street listening to the great
with music from King Crimson, The Nice, Gong, Emerson Lake and Palmer,
Camel, Wilde Flowers, Atomic Rooster, Pink Floyd, Mars Volta and more.
Hosted by Carson Street
Metal Mayhem
Saturday, Mayhem 11 3:00pm — 6:00pm
Hard rock and heavy metal history from the 1970’s to today: The origins of what began as hard rock and acid rock then became heavy metal, NWOBHM, doom metal, black metal, speed metal, thrash and finally death metal. Metal Mayhem will emphasize the era that spawned a multi subgenre labyrinthine web of music that is going strong today in every part of human culture around the world, then and now, the underappreciated and overlooked, rare and obscure as well as hybrids that divide, conquer and rule over the cosmos.
Hosted by Teachers AIDS
Lost in the Valley of Hearts Delight: The Early Songs of Burt Bacharach
Sunday, Mayhem 12 9:00am — 12:00pm
An encore broadcast from February 2023 of Sir Cumference's celebration of the life of the prolific composer, Burt Bacharach, with three hours of songs from the early part of his career. You will hear music performed by Kings and Blobs, crooners and twisters, from the well-known to the obscure. All songs from before it was asked if we knew the way to San Jose…
Presented by Sir Cumference
San Jose Found: The Bacharach Boom!
Sunday, Mayhem 12 12:00pm — 3:00pm
In honor of the 96th birthday of Burt Bacharach, Sir Cumference presents a sequel to Lost in the Valley of Hearts Delight (which looked at Burt's early songs) with songs from his big hit years starting in the mid ‘60s – when it seemed impossible to not hear a Bacharach song on the radio or in a film. Dionne, Herb, Dusty, and many others will find their way to San Jose, wonder why birds suddenly appear, discover that this guy is in love with you, and get out our umbrellas to protect us from those raindrops...
Presented by Sir Cumference
Exploring the Bristol Sound The Trip Hop Edition
Wednesday, Mayhem 15 10:00am — 2:00pm
Bristol is best known as the home/birthplace of trip hop. This edition of the All British Music Show will focus on trip hop: the music and the musicians.
Hosted by Ann Arbor
Warren Smith - Jazz Percussionist
Friday, Mayhem 17 10:00am — 2:00pm
Warren Smith (born 1934) has been an active percussionist in the jazz scene for many years as leader and sideman and composer. I'll be spending 4 hours sorting out his tangled discography and his many creative projects.
Hosted by Mr. Goodwrench
Luke Slater - Another Look - Part 1
Friday, Mayhem 17 10:00pm — Saturday, Mayhem 18 2:00am
It's been 27 years since I last dealt with the output of multifaceted DJ and electronic producer Luke Slater. This segment will deal with his pre-2000 output under many pseudonyms, ranging from the hardest of hard techno to transcendent ambient music.
Hosted by Mr. Goodwrench
Aural Experimentation, Exploration and Exploitation, Part 3
Saturday, Mayhem 18 6:00am — 9:00am
KFJC enters the wormhole and embarks on an interdimensional journey of time
and space with Jeremiah Jahnson. Tune in as he contorts, teases, twists, blends,
grinds, muddles and mixes the sounds of the KFJC library for the month of
Mayhem. Will we make it back? When are we? Tune in to find out.
Hosted by Jeremiah Jahnson
Progged Again!
Saturday, Mayhem 18 12:00pm — 3:00pm
If you liked it the first time you will beg for more and we have it. Three more
hours of progressive rock with Carson Street. What will he play? Only he knows
for sure so tune in to love it or hate it.
Hosted by Carson Street
Counting Rounds Vol. II
Saturday, Mayhem 18 3:00pm — 6:00pm
Only the past is reliable. Hour Hand returns to KFJC for the second iteration of the Counting Rounds special. Blending music unearthed from the KFJC library with obscurities plucked from the band members' private collections, the band and host Teachers Aids will weave a program spanning from dreary post punk through industrial inevitability and past the formless and bizarre. The pendulum will allow time to advance anticipated tracks and exchange questions of dormant enigma.
Maximum Mancini!
Sunday, Mayhem 19 12:00am — Monday, Mayhem 20 12:00am
From a jobbing piano player to Academy Award winning composer, Henry Mancini was the soundtrack to millions of peoples lives. To celebrate the occasion of his 100th birthday (April 16) and 30th anniversary of his passing (June 14) KFJC will dedicate 24 hours to the music on Sunday, Mayhem 19 starting at midnight.
Hosted by Lucky Jae, Sir Cumference and many others...
A Day and Night of the Sun
Wednesday, Mayhem 22 12:00am — Thursday, Mayhem 23 12:00am
Hosted By Spliff Skankin and Others
Celebrating Sun Ra's 109th birthday with a 24-hour round-the- clock party of experimental music, psychedelic poetry, cosmic philosophy, and Afro-futuristic space jamming.
For The Record
Thursday, Mayhem 23 6:00pm — 10:00pm
KFJC presents FTR#’s 838, 839, 840, 841. The interviews with Peter Levenda cover the powerful Nazi Fifth Column in the U.S. in the run-up to World War II, the origins of jihadism as a Western tool during the First World War and Peter’s harrowing experience at Colonia Dignidad—a U.S. Nazi out post in Allende’s Chile.
Hosted by Dave Emory
For The Record
Friday, Mayhem 24 6:00pm — 10:00pm
KFJC presents FTR#’s 842, 843, 844, 845. These interviews cover Ukrainian collaboration with American fascists in an attempt to assassinate FDR, the Nazi diaspora in the aftermath of World War II and its roots in U.S. national security collaboration with Hitler’s henchmen, the Vatican’s complicity with Nazism.
Hosted by Dave Emory
Luke Slater - Another Look - Part 2
Friday, Mayhem 24 10:00pm — Saturday, Mayhem 25 2:00am
It's been 27 years since I last dealt with the output of multifaceted DJ and electronic producer Luke Slater. This segment will deal with his post-2000 output on Berlin-based Ostgut Ton and his own Mote Evolver label.
Hosted by Mr. Goodwrench
Aural Experimentation, Exploration and Exploitation, Part 4
Saturday, Mayhem 25 6:00am — 9:00am
KFJC enters the wormhole and embarks on an interdimensional journey of time
and space with Jeremiah Jahnson. Tune in as he contorts, teases, twists, blends,
grinds, muddles and mixes the sounds of the KFJC library for the month of
Mayhem. Will we make it back? When are we? Tune in to find out.
Hosted by Palimpsest
Metal Mayhem
Saturday, Mayhem 25 3:00pm — 6:00pm
Hard rock and heavy metal history from the 1970’s to today: The origins of what began as hard rock and acid rock then became heavy metal, NWOBHM, doom metal, black metal, speed metal, thrash and finally death metal. Metal Mayhem will emphasize the era that spawned a multi subgenre labyrinthine web of music that is going strong today in every part of human culture around the world, then and now, the underappreciated and overlooked, rare and obscure as well as hybrids that divide, conquer and rule over the cosmos.
Hosted by Teachers AIDS
For The Record
Saturday, Mayhem 25 6:00pm — 9:00pm
KFJC presents FTR#’s 846, 847, 864. The interviews with Peter Levenda highlight how Trump’s anti-immigrant ideology stems from a Nazi dynamic, as well as the cover-up of Adolf Hitler’s escape after World War II.
Hosted by Dave Emory
This One Time At Bandcamp...
Sunday, Mayhem 26 12:00pm — 3:00pm
Sir Cumference continues his annual look at specific instruments in songs. This time he looks at some of the places a flute has been inserted.
For The Record
Sunday, Mayhem 26 7:00pm — 10:00pm
KFJC presents FTR#’s 865, 914, 915. These interviews with Peter Levenda and Gerrard Williams detail Hitler’s escape after World War II, and the complicity of the Vatican, Allen Dulles and elements of Western intelligence with the escape.
Hosted by Dave Emory
For The Record
Monday, Mayhem 27 6:00pm — 10:00pm
KFJC presents FTR#'s 602, 481, 428, 689. These programs cover the 1934 “Businessmen’s Plot” to overthrow FDR in 1934, the Bush family’s longstanding collaboration with the Third Reich, as well as Japan’s looting of Asia via the Golden Lily program and the decisive role of the looted wealth in covert operations during the Cold War.
Hosted by Dave Emory
Anthony Braxton - Nexus Composition Improvisation
Tuesday, Mayhem 28 2:00pm — 6:00pm
Witnessed through Anthony Braxton's over 400 compositions, he has explored the intersection between composition and the musician's contribution...improvisation. Traveling between years, to explore a selection of Braxton's recorded catalog, provides a listen to this process. Braxton's music at times resists classification. Is it jazz or modern classical?
Hosted by Oly Gark
The Kaleidoscope of Colored Vinyl
Tuesday, Mayhem 28 10:00pm — 2:00am
From what started as a joke, Ras Babo continues the yearly tradition of the Kaleidoscope of Colored Vinyl . Four hours of multi-colored platters spinning and being 'live cammed' on KFJC.org.
Vote for your favorites. All colors and all musical styles are on display. Find out if colored vinyl really does sound better.
Exploring the Bristol Sound The Gravenhurst Edition.
Wednesday, Mayhem 29 10:00am — 2:00pm
Before Nick Talbot’s untimely death in 2014 at the age of 37, he released five albums as Gravenhurst that straddled the line between folk, psych rock and noisier sounds. Tune in for a deep dive into his musical output, as well as a few gems from the catalog of one of his major influences, fellow Bristolians Flying Saucer Attack.
Hosted by Preston Peace
Exploring the Bristol Sound The Whatever We Missed Edition
Wednesday, June 5 10:00am — 2:00pm
Here we’ll include musicians and music from Bristol that for whatever reason weren’t included in the rest of the series.
Hosted by Ann Arbor
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