Dave Mandl

wfmu.orgIt's Complicated with Dave MandlAudio & playlist from October 26, 2026

Hear last night's radio show, with music by PAK, Aksak Maboul, the Cardiacs, and more, or see the playlist, right here: wfmu.org/playlists/sh... We're in the final days of @wfmu.bsky.social's low-key Oct. fundraiser. If you like the great radio we make, please support us: pledge.wfmu.org/donate/GX

Guardian headline: "Some country singer died." (It's John Anderson. Note: not Jon Anderson of Yes.)

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You'd think I have bigger concerns than what costume I'm going to wear to this Halloween party next weekend, but you'd be very wrong.

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A few minutes of Emergency Group performing at Nublu on the Isle of Manhattan last night. Sorry about the Instagram link. Thanks to our friends Countermoon and ALÂN for making it such a great night. www.instagram.com/reel/De9hM1z... @emergencygroup.bsky.social

Reminder: Emergency Group plays with Countermoon and ALÂN tonight, and note that the venue has changed from Nublu Classic to the other Nublu, just down the street (151 Ave. C, Manhattan). Updated flyer:

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Jeffrey Alexander

@lidders.bsky.social

Circuits In The Woods festival, great success! Huge thanks to Wendy (of @wfmu.bsky.social ) and also the folks at Nova Arts in Keene for putting on another great event this year ! @circuits-in-the-woods.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Bellows Falls.

Bellows Falls, VT.

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@bourgwick.bsky.social

seeing @dmandl.bsky.social's nyc from elevated subway windows makes me see the city in a new way. really cool chaotic vistas & compositions of infrastructure, zoning, localized ingenuity, & what's left of nature. roman-nvmerals.myshopify.com/products/vol...

Jeffrey Alexander & the Heavy Lidders at Circuits in the Woods festival (Brattleboro, VT). We (@emergencygroup.bsky.social) go on in about an hour.

daveoftheweek.substack.comTWENTY EIGHT: DAVE, OF THE WEEK.TIM DAVIS: THE COVER PHOTOGRAPH OF ABBEY ROAD SUCKS / PORTFOLIO OF THE WEEK~FILIPPO BARBERO / THE LIST / HOTEL NOTES {FROM THE EDITOR} / MEREDITH BREECH ON GORDON PARKS AT JACK SHAIMAN, NEW YORK.

I love "Dear Dave," (magazine, blog) but this is...interesting. I once wrote a criticism of the Abbey Road cover for the WFMU blog but didn't publish it because I thought it was too nasty. This article critiques it because it's "bad photography." daveoftheweek.substack.com/p/twenty-eig...

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...They couldn't be bothered to do any more than walk across the street. I think that illustrates how tired they were of it all. Compare the Sgt. Pepper cover. I wouldn't necessarily blame the photographer.

...I think it's also a Bad Boy thing to criticize what is considered the most sacred, iconic album cover.

...He criticizes the fact that the photographer didn't use a large enough aperture to get narrower depth of field, and gets kind of classist, calling him "a guy who worked as a cruise ship photographer."

...But I think the "problems" with the photograph are related to what I pointed out in my unpublished piece. The Beatles were sick of each other, sick of John & Yoko's antics, sick of being Beatles, sick of the lawyers.

Just realized that someone said "Have a great weekend" in an email to me and I responded with "Have a good weekend" in mine. I hope this doesn't come off as too competitive.

Forgot the ticket link: shotgun.live/events/emerg...

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Dave Mandl@dmandl.bsky.social

Reminder: Emergency Group plays at Nublu Classic on Manhattan's Lower East Side this Sunday 10/25, with Countermoon and ALÂN (featuring WFMU's Sheila B.). Will be a great show! Come see us.

Reminder: Emergency Group plays at Nublu Classic on Manhattan's Lower East Side this Sunday 10/25, with Countermoon and ALÂN (featuring WFMU's Sheila B.). Will be a great show! Come see us.

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Faced with a tough decision first thing in the morning: Do I give this driver who cut my bike off the finger or the jerk-off gesture?

Been thinking about Tony Mansfield. Tony was a friend of a few friends of mine when I was a teenager, though I didn't know him well. Flamboyantly gay/mischievous/lascivious in a very '70s way. He'd passed through Warhol's Factory and was involved in porn films in some way. I think he's still around.

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ricardo.chRock Dreams: Die Bildergeschichte des Rockzeitalters | Kaufen auf RicardoPreis: CHF 16 | Zustand: Gebraucht | Rock Dreams: Die Bildergeschichte des Rockzeitalters in Zürich online kaufen auf Ricardo | "Rock Dreams. Die Bildergeschichte des Rockzeitalters." von Guy…

...This is the book "Rock Dreams." It was a big part of a certain '70s "star" scene. www.ricardo.ch/de/a/rock-dr...

...I heard "rumors" that Tony was related to Jayne Mansfield, which is unlikely but something that Tony probably would have liked people to believe.

...Tony was from Brooklyn, which I guess is how he ended up being friends with kids in my middle-of-nowhere neighborhood. He once spruced up my friend Vinny's room by putting photos from the book "Rock Dreams" on his walls, very appropriate. I found this photo of him.

Suddenly getting way more of these junk phone calls than ever, and the reason seems clear: all those websites *requiring* you to give them your phone number (when you make purchases etc.). Of course most of them are then going to sell it. Yes, I know I can give them a fake number.

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Call for submissions! WFMU's full-color print zine, Lowest Common Denominator (LCD), is now accepting art and comics for Issue 32, to be published Jan. 2027. The theme is musical instruments. Deadline Nov. 1st! Submit! More info at: wfmu.org/lcd/

...Photos of junkies shooting up, exactly like that one, were everywhere at the time. You'd think these guys were lurking on every street corner, their "works" in a rumpled paper bag nearby. I had a book about Drugs full of pictures just like that.

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#NewBook "Museums in New York" by Fred W. McDarrah. A slight splurge, because what good is a 53-year-old museum guide? But everything about this evokes what I consider one of NYC's Golden Ages: the content, presentation, photography, design.

Waitress in Chinese restaurant asked me a question and I answered "Yes." But I misheard her question. She'd asked me "Do you want a fork?" so she brought me one. Humiliating. I can use chopsticks.

Getting an MRI today (nothing serious). Tech person: "Would you like music in there?" Me: "Yes! What are my options?" TP: "Anything." What does that mean? Can I say "Side three of Ummagumma" or "Grant Green"? Didn't want to be a jerk so I said "Jazz." Predictably, got some kind of hold music.

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Our servers are back!

WFMU@wfmu.bsky.social

⚠️ As many of you have noticed, WFMU's servers have been down for the past couple of hours. Sorry! We're working on it and will have more information and hopefully a resolution soon.

nytimes.comAlex Hartman, of the ‘Nolita Dirtbag’ Instagram Account, Grows UpAlex Hartman has made a mark with his critiques of downtown denizens. Now he’s expanding his gaze beyond Nolita Dirtbag.

People are still paying to read smug shitheads whose entire shtick is pointing at people and laughing? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/s...

washingtonpost.comWhy a recent college grad wants Republicans to ‘step it up’ on affordabilityMichael Fusella, 21, said he feels the American Dream slipping away and wants the party he supports to do more to address rising costs.

Please tell us what college this moron attended.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

Michael Fusella supported President Trump for nearly a decade. But as the Iran war drags on and the cost of living continues to climb, the 21-year-old Republican said he feels betrayed by a president who said he’d end overseas conflicts and lower prices.

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Note, the WFMU apps (iPhone and Android) are working!

WFMU@wfmu.bsky.social

⚠️ As many of you have noticed, WFMU's servers have been down for the past couple of hours. Sorry! We're working on it and will have more information and hopefully a resolution soon.

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⚠️ As many of you have noticed, WFMU's servers have been down for the past couple of hours. Sorry! We're working on it and will have more information and hopefully a resolution soon.

Look at how he talks to people, especially women (aided by his openly Nazi sidekick). Anyone supporting these psychopaths should be shamed for the rest of their lives.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😳 Trump loses it and SNAPS at a string of reporters, says Ilhan Omar might "go to jail," calls Somalia "a shit house," and boasts that thanks to a new program he announced today Americans "will make millions of dollars by turning others in" during absolutely deranged Oval Office event Supercut:

"Catholic Girl" by Andrea Modica at AMR Art, Dumbo, Brooklyn. Photos of Catholic-school girls in Bay Ridge ca. 1984. Running for just a couple more days! www.amrartdumbo.com

HBD to my friend Peter Lamborn Wilson/Hakim Bey, whose influence on me can't be measured. I really miss him. (From the 2026 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints.)

If you're in the NYC area w/access to a bike, please join me and @wfmu.bsky.social's Uncle Michael on 10/31 for the WFMU Halloween Hell-Ride, a social ride up Manhattan's picturesque West Side ending in a meetup at Tryon Public House in Inwood. Details: stylesdeluxe.com/hellride/ (RT appreciated.)

wfmu.orgWith guest DJ Kyle Kyle: It's Complicated with Dave MandlAudio & playlist from October 19, 2026

Last night's radio show, with music from all over the place selected and discussed by DJ Kyle Kyle, is now in the @wfmu.bsky.social archives. Listen or check out the playlist here: wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

Dave Mandl@dmandl.bsky.social

On tonight's edition of my radio show, "It's Complicated" (an hour of prog and prog-adjacent music), guest DJ Kyle Kyle! Tune in at 7 p.m. at wfmu.org. If you enjoy my show, please help out non-commercial, listener-supported @wfmu.bsky.social during our October fundraiser: pledge.wfmu.org/donate/GX

The feeling when you turn to the music that's playing and think, "Hey, this is good," and then realize it's a recording of your band that's been playing in the background and you'd completely forgotten. (In this case, a recording of a long jam by Emergency Group made last week.)

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FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

3-time Trump voter who lost her job from DOGE: The betrayal is pretty significant. Come time for presidential elections, it's gonna warrant a conversation of what party we vote for. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Feeding my daughter's cat while she's away. That kitty is crazy about me.

Seen at B&H Photo: Three Rolleiflex cameras, "Serial numbers 0000001, 0000002 and 0000003" #cameras #photography

metrograph.comParis Was a Woman - Now Playing In Theater at MetrographFilmmakers Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss in person from October 16th-October 18th

See "Paris Was a Woman" at the Metrograph. Nice new print. Tells the story of the literary avant-garde of Paree in the early 20th c, with focus on the woman at the center of it, inc. the owners of the two great bookshops. James Joyce doesn't come off too well. metrograph.com/film/9999003...

Don't fuck with the sound man.

fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social

A band insulted me, the local audio guy, all day, literally threw stuff at me. Promoter was just absent. I may or may not have put a pitch shifter on the singers in ear monitoring. People walked out, demanded refunds at the door because it was so bad.

theguardian.comUS disaster survivors still await at least $10bn in federal aid: ‘It’s devastating’The last long-term federal recovery funds allocated for a major disaster were for Hurricane Milton, which hit in late 2024

I don't get why this is completely absent as a campaign issue. Withholding disaster aid b/c it's a Democratic state (or whatever stupid reason) is a crime against humanity, willful mass-murder. It's among the sickest things this guy has done. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...