List of WFMU Radio Hosts

The List of WFMU Radio Hosts is an index of notable individuals, past and present, who have hosted programs on the Jersey City, NJ, radio station WFMU.

• Clay Pigeon, host of the WFMU morning show, Wake n Bake.
• 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, former radio host on WBGO and Sirius XM, 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
• Dan Behrman aka "The Immigrant", on WFMU from 1979 to 1991 until he moved to Canada. Founder of Immigrant Music, Inc. managed Haiti's Boukman Eksperyans, Dissidenten, Malicorne, Kristi Stassinopoulou, Saltarello etc. Program manager of The Montreal International Jazz Festival & FrancoFolies de Montréal & was a popular producer-host on CBC/Radio-Canada
• 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, the Netflix series The Good Cop, and the TBS comedy game show The Misery Index; 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
• Sheila Burgel, music writer,[7] has produced and provided liner notes for box sets and compilations with a focus on women in music for labels such as Rhino and Ace
• Pat Byrne, Host of Prove it All Night
• Laura Cantrell, Matador Records recording artist[8]
• Bronwyn Carlton, comic-book writer (Catwoman, The Big Book of Death, The Books of Faerie)[9]
• Andy (Andrew) Cohen, Associate Editor of Newsweek[10]
• Gerard Cosloy, cofounder of Matador Records,[11] 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/administrator for R. Stevie Moore, Beth Sorrentino, Wendy and Bonnie, The Mighty Sparrow, and the estates of Sun Ra,[12] Raymond Scott, Esquivel, Curt Boettcher, and Shooby Taylor.
• 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]
• Jo Firestone, comedian, TV scriptwriter, producer, actress[17]
• George Flores, host of WFMU's The David & Goliath Show from 1976–1994, later a top-rated DJ in Christian radio, hosting for many years a program at STAR 99.1 FM[18], now broadcasting at The Gate radio ministries [19]
• Otis Fodder, member of The Bran Flakes[20]
• Jason Forrest, aka Donna Summer, electronic-music recording artist
• Ken Freedman, Yippie 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.[21] Freedman is the president of Congera Public Benefit Corporation,[22] which developed and markets The Audience Engine, a fundraising platform for radio and social media
• Devon Goldberg aka Devon E. Levins of Morricone Youth, Pretendo and Cargo Music recording artists Creedle
• Kenneth Goldsmith (air name: Kenny G), author, UbuWeb founder, conceptualist, Dadaist, journalist, exhibitionist, Poet Laureate of the Museum of Modern Art,[23] and professor at the University of Pennsylvania[24]
• 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)[25]
• Keili Hamilton host of "Beastin' The Airwaves! with Keili" and youngest DJ in WFMU history[26]
• Dave Hill, comedian, actor, musician with the bands Cobra Verde, Sons of Elvis, and Valley Lodge. Author of Tasteful Nudes ... and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation (St. Martin's Press, May 2012), Dave Hill Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Blue Rider Press, May 2016), and Parking the Moose (Penguin/Random House, 2019)[27]
• Mark Hurst, founder of Creative Good and the Gel conference, and author of the cybertech books Bit Literacy and Customers Included.
• Billy Jam, founder of the Hip Hop Slam record label, music journalist and radio broadcaster for over 30 years has hosted the show "Put the Need On The Record" weekly since 2005.[28]
• 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)[29]
• 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[30]
• Darren Mabee, musician and actor (The Special Without Brett Davis) [31]
• Dave Mandl, writer and editor (Semiotext(e)/Autonomedia, The Wire, The Brooklyn Rail)
• Jeff Mangum, founder and frontman of Neutral Milk Hotel[32]
• Jim "The Hound" Marshall, longtime host of rockabilly, chitlin R&B and musical rarities, former co-owner of Manhattan's Lakeside Lounge[33]
• R. Stevie Moore, Nashville-born pioneer of DIY home recording[34]
• Frank O'Toole, former guitarist for the band Speed the Plough [35]
• Larry Ozone, prominent mobile DJ for private events in the New York City area, 1975 -1995
• Douglas Rushkoff, New York–based writer, columnist, and lecturer on technology, media, and popular culture[36]
• Jeff Sarge, longtime host of Sunday morning Reggae Schoolroom.
• 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[37]
• Tom Scharpling, writer and executive producer of the TV series Monk,[38] voice actor on Steven Universe and music video director. Has been running The Best Show independently since 2014 after 13 years on WFMU.
• Michael Shelley, singer/songwriter with five LPs, runs the Confidential Recordings label
• Steve Stein (a.k.a. Steinski), influential hip hop sampler and mixmaster hosted a show called A Rough Mix with Steinski, first in the mid 90s and later in 2007 and 2014; the Mid-'90s shows were rebroadcast in 2012. [39]
• Thomas Storck owner/founder of the Bunkerpop Records label[40]
• 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 [41]
• Matt Weingarden a.k.a. Mr. Fine Wine, internationally known soul DJ & CD compiler [42]
• 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[43]
• Joe Britton, Student of Upsala College, DJ playing Folk Music with interest in the New York Folk Music Scene - 1960-1962