The Audio Tourist

09/04/2023

in anticipation of one of my favorite holidays, Dyngus Day, i'll be sharing my 6th annual Polish music show tonight... all songs culled from recent Polish vinyl finds... tune in if you'd like to hear me mangle some insane consonant combinations, as i wrestle with Polish names and song titles, and share some great Polish music from the 60s/70s... 8p ET, as always, on the live stream at:

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

13/11/2020

Donate to WAYO!

It's that time of year again:

For anyone who listens to my weekly radio show, The Audio Tourist, the station is holding our annual fundraising event:

https://donate.wayofm.org/

We are completely listener supported, so any donations are appreciated and will help us continue through our 6th year, 2021!

Help keep community radio on the air in Rochester by donating to WAYO!

04/05/2020

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

New show starting now, part 6 of the collaborative isolation series:

https://wayofm.org/listen-live

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

26/04/2020

Hey now... My weekly radio show, The Audio Tourist, will be starting soon - this week is the 5th edition of the collaborative format I've adopted while we are all in isolation mode. You can listen live worldwide from 8-10p EDT at https://wayofm.org/listen-live

20 guesthosts this week!

10/11/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

After WAYO's successful fundraiser (thanks to all who donated!), I'm back with a regular episode of my weekly radio show, The Audio Tourist, tonight from 8-9p ET. You can listen live worldwide at wayofm.org/listen-live

I'll be visiting the music of Italy for this week's show, playing contemporary minimalist electronic (Caterina Barbieri), classic Western soundtrack (Ennio Morricone), modern indie rock (Verdena), early 70s psych rock (Moby Dick), ambient (Fabio Orsi) and a lot more! Hope you can tune in...

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

08/11/2019

Donate to WAYO!

10 hours left, and just under $2000 to go for us to hit our fundraising goal!

https://donate.wayofm.org

Help keep community radio on the air in Rochester by donating to WAYO!

07/11/2019

Donate to WAYO!

I've been hosting a weekly radio show, The Audio Tourist, on non-profit station WAYO 104.3 FM for four full years now... WAYO has survived and flourished through generous donations of all sizes from folks around the world who listen to and appreciate the increasingly rare free-form and non-corporate content that we broadcast.

Once a year we hold a fundraiser in order to remain in operation and there are only 30 more hours to donate - if you listen, or just want to support an all-volunteer organization that brings new music and ideas to the airwaves and internet, you can donate any amount here:

https://donate.wayofm.org/

Added incentives: a donation of $10 or more in The Audio Tourist's name will get you a CD I've put together from my audio travels, featuring great and hard-to-find music from around the world.

And if you donate $20 or more, and select any of these...
The Audio Tourist
Kryptic Pop Thrills
Are Friends Electric?
Mixtape
Keep Dreaming / Wake Up
..you'll get a bonus mixtape or CD collaboratively put together by Christopher Young, Jenn Rekos, Jeff Suszczynski, Kate Stathis, and Kameron Ackerman!

Help keep community radio on the air in Rochester by donating to WAYO!

04/11/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

About to transition over to part 2 of my 4-hour mini-marathon on wayofm.org/listen-live
...

From 730-830p ET I'll be playing songs that I first heard on the radio during my formative years - lots of stuff I first heard on CFNY in Toronto, including songs by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Soft Cell, Tragically Hip, The Tea Party, and many more!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

03/11/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

About to enter the second of 4 hours that I'll be on the air tonight... Continuing my monthly mix for a bit longer: wayofm.org/listen-live

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

03/11/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

Hey now... I'll be doing a multi-part 4-hour show tonight on WAYO, from 6-10p ET. You can listen live worldwide at: wayofm.org/listen-live

The schedule:
6.00-7.30p ET - My October 2019 mix, featuring all the best new tracks I heard in the past month (including Caribou, FKA twigs, Big Thief, Sampa The Great. Sudan Archives, Kim Gordon, DIIV, Teebs, Danny Brown and many more!

7.30-8.30p ET - My Radio, part 2, in which I'll play some great songs I first heard on the radio back in the 80s/90s.

8.30-9.30p ET - Classic Rock Death Pool, in which I'll be joined by Stolen Artists, Joe Jeezy and maybe more folks as we go dark and think about which great classic rock artists are nearing the end of their lives.

9.30-10.00p ET - ???

Hope you can listen in on some/all of this super long show!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

31/10/2019

The Audio Tourist, Episode 0040: Halloween Special - Haunted Dance Party, Part 1

Anyone in the mood for some Halloween music, here's an hour mix of some creepy af songs that I mixed together back in October 2016 for my radio show... This mix is just music, all mic breaks edited out:
https://www.mixcloud.com/the_audio_tourist/the-audio-tourist-episode-0040-halloween-special-haunted-dance-party-part-1/

Listen to The Audio Tourist, Episode 0040: Halloween Special - Haunted Dance Party, Part 1 by the audio tourist

27/10/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

Hey now... I'll be on air with a special Halloween-themed show tonight, from 8-9p ET. You can listen live worldwide at wayofm.org/listen-live

Tonight's show will be a haunted dance party, featuring ghostly tracks from the likes of Burial, Clams Casino, The Caretaker, Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch, The Third Eye Foundation, and many more!

Hope you can tune in for this special WAYO fundraiser episode!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

16/10/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

I'll be subbing in for Sea of Sound tonight from 10-11p ET, playing some of my favorite shoegaze and dream pop from 1990-present. As always, you can listen live worldwide at wayofm.org/listen-live

I'll be playing "classic" 90s shoegaze from the likes of Chapterhouse, Adorable, Slowdive(band), and even local masters stillmotion... Then in the second half you'll hear a sampling of shoegaze from this century, including Belong, Memoryhouse, Wildhoney, Heartbeat Hotel, and an unreleased/previously unheard shoegaze track from my band, the gifted children ... Hope you can tune in for some late night atmospherics!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

13/10/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

Hey now...just picked ~50 of my favorite CDs from the old collection, going to play as many great tracks from my past as I can for a birthday edition of my weekly radio show, The Audio Tourist, tonight from 8-9p ET ... As always you can listen live worldwide at wayofm.org/listen-live

This will probably feature mostly indie rock from the 1990s, so tune in if you're into that sort of thing!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

06/10/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

I'll be live on-air with the weekly radio show, The Audio Tourist, tonight from 8-9p ET. As always, listen live worldwide at wayofm.org/listen-live

Tonight's show will be another installment of my monthly mix series, wherein I play some of the best new music I was fortunate enough to hear over the past month, featuring new tracks by Wilco, William Tyler, KEL ASSOUF, Tinariwen, Oliver Coates, Battles, Blarf, Tierra Whack, Jenny Hval, CHROMATICS, Joseph Clark and more!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

22/09/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

Hey now... I'll be live on-air tonight with my weekly radio show, The Audio Tourist, from 8-9p ET. You can listen live worldwide at: wayofm.org/listen-live

Tonight will be the first of two shows in which I'll play my most interesting record store finds from a recent roadtrip to Virginia:

I'll be sharing some really good finds from PA/MD/VA record stores - Israeli 70s rock, sweet folk/pop from a Manson-like figure in the 60s/70s, Congolese soukous, obscure private press folk, some Canadian hard rock/psych, the list goes on.... come listen to me inelegantly fumble with turntables!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

25/08/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

Hey now... I'll be back, live on air witih my weekly radio show, tonight from 8-9p ET: wayofm.org/listen-live

I'll be dipping back into the fertile pool of lost classics from 1969, playing psych, folk, rock and experimental tracks from 50 years ago!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

28/07/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

Hey now... I'll be on-air from 8-9p ET with my weekly radio show, The Audio Tourist - as always, you can listen live worldwide at wayofm.org/listen-live

Tonight's show will be my monthly mix for July, featuring some of the great music I've been fortunate enough to discover over the last few weeks. I'll be playing new tracks from Altın Gün, Yugen Blakrok, Jamila Woods, Bon Iver, Clark, Death And Vanilla, Velum Break, His Name is Alive, Rafael Anton Irisarri and a couple tracks from an extremely interesting compilation of African music from the 1950s that was influenced by American cowboy music/folk/country.... Hope you can tune in!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

21/07/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

Hey now... I'll be live on-air with my weekly radio show, The Audio Tourist, tonight from 8-9p ET: wayofm.org/listen-live

Tonight's show will be a trip back in time to the music I that reminds me of the summers of 1991-1992, in honor of the recent James/Psychedelic Furs show that I saw in Buffalo on Thursday. Featuring great music from Chapterhouse, James, Psychedelic Furs, The Church, The La's, Blur, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Peter Murphy, Rain Tree Crow, and more!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

15/07/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

On air now (8-9p ET) with my weekly radio show, The Audio Tourist: wayofm.org/listen-live

Tonight is part 2 of my exploration of the Broken Social Scene family tree, featuring a ton of great music from BSS and a host of related bands!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

07/07/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

Hey now... I'll be live on-air again tonight with my weekly radio show, The Audio Tourist, from 8-9p ET. You can listen live worldwide at wayofm.org/listen-live

This week's show will be the first installment of a multi-part exploration of the Broken Social Scene family tree, featuring amazing music from BSS themselves, as well as from various members' projects, including: Feist, Metric, Stars, La Force, Kevin Drew, Andy Kim, Gord Downie, K.C. Accidental, and Do Make Say Think (official) ... An hour of excellent music from The North!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

30/06/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

Hey now... I'll be on-air tonight from 8-9p ET, with my weekly radio show, The Audio Tourist... As always you can listen live worldwide at wayofm.org/listen-live

Tonight's show will feature some of the best new music I've been fortunate enough to hear this month, including new tracks by Cate Le Bon, Flying Lotus (featuring David Lynch!), Little Simz, Bill Callahan, Damien Jurado and many more!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

16/06/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

Hey now... I'll be on-air with my weekly radio show, The Audio Tourist, tonight from 8-9p ET. You can tune in live worldwide here: wayofm.org/listen-live

Tonight's show features some great music from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly known as Zaire), covering Congolese music from the 1960s to the present. Really excited for this one, hope you can tune in!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

09/06/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

I'll be on-air with my weekly radio show, The Audio Tourist, for two hours tonight, from 8-10p ET. You can listen live worldwide here: wayofm.org/listen-live

8-9p: My monthly mix for May, 2019, playing some of the best newly released tracks that I was fortunate enough to hear over the past month... Featuring new music from Big Thief, The National, RAINER VEIL, 65daysofstatic, a few songs from the great new compilation of obscure 70s songs released by Anthology Recordings, Sad About These Times, and a lot more...

9-10p: I'll revisit my monthly mixes from 15 years ago, playing the best things I culled for my June 2004 mixes. Featuring great tracks by The Robot Ate Me, Guided By Voices, AC Newman, matt pond PA, CocoRosie, Asobi Seksu, end.user, Dabrye, Cass McCombs and more!

Hope you can tune in!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

02/06/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

RIP Roky Erickson... In remembrance of this madcap genius, I'll be playing songs spanning his strange and often brilliant career on tonight's edition of my weekly radio show, The Audio Tourist, from 8-9p ET.

As always, you can listen live worldwide at: wayofm.org/listen-live

Hope you can tune in!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

05/05/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

Hey all, I'll be back on air with my radio show from 8-9p ET tonight. Listen live worldwide: wayofm.org/listen-live

We're visiting Savannah, GA, for tonight's show, featuring great music from one of my favorite cities, including songs by: The Casket Girls, Dreamend, Cunabear, Dope KNife, Bummerville, Jeff Zagers, Rabbit Girl, The Silver Machine and more!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

21/04/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

Hey now... In anticipation of tomorrow's Dyngus Day festivities, I'll be on air tonight at 8p ET with the 3rd annual Polish music edition of my radio show The Audio Tourist. As always, you can listen live worldwide at wayofm.org/listen-live

Hope you can tune in to see great music from Poland, new and old!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

14/04/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

Hey now... I'll be back on air with a special all-vinyl edition of my radio show, The Audio Tourist, tonight from 8-9p ET: wayofm.org/listen-live

I'll be playing some great just-listened-to tracks from my annual Record Store Day train trip, featuring music from Madagascar, French Cajun Louisiana, Mali, Cape Breton, India, Canada, Japan, and more!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

07/04/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

I'll be live with my weekly radio show, tonight from 8-10p ET... You can listen live worldwide at wayofm.org/listen-live

Stolen Artists won't be in tonight, so I will have two hours - first hour will be some of the best (mostly) new music I heard last month...For the second hour I thought it would be fun to go back in time 15 years and revisit my monthly mix from March 2004.

Lots of indie rock, with some electronic, world, folk, hip-hop and ambient in the mix too - hope you can tune in!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.

10/03/2019

WAYO 104.3FM - Rochester, NY

I'll be live on-air with the weekly radio show, tonight from 8-9p EDT. As always, you can tune in live worldwide at: wayofm.org/listen-live

Tonight's show will be a new edition of my monthly mix series - I'll be sharing my favorite finds from February, 2019, including new songs by Broken Social Scene, Yamila, Bibio, Modeselektor, Black Taffy, Malibu Ken, Lorn, Bjarki and more!

WAYO is a free-form, low-power station in Rochester, NY providing diverse and idiosyncratic arts and cultural programming.