Welcome to the Free Music Archive (Beta)

WFMU is hosting a free daytime party at Beerland in Austin, that promises to be a dynamite non-stop afternoon of beer-and-BBQ fueled rock!

On tap inlcudes many bands who have recorded live sets at WFMU that are available here on the FMA, including Protomartyr, Spray Paint, Obnox, Guerilla Toss, and Pampers! WFMU's Liz Berg and Brian Turner will be hosting the broadcast live from the club on Saturday, March 15th. More info on Facebook.

On Thursday March 20, baritone Thomas Buckner joins Montreal-based ensemble Bradyworks, premiering new works by Tim Brady & Australian composers Erik Griswold & John Encarnacao. Also included are works by Christian Wolff, John Cage, & Annea Lockwood. Bradyworks, led by guitarist/composer Tim Brady, includes bass clarinetist Lori Freedman & violist Pemi Paull. They join Buckner to form a quartet that will premiere new commissions on a tour that includes New York, Montreal, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Australia.

In anticipation of this event, Interpretations would like to share some audio from Tim Brady and Thomas Buckner. Enjoy!

Like a pack of kids at the back of the bus, hacking Minecraft and throwing buns at hipsters, Sydney's Filthy Children arrive with a howl, indifferent to the past, present and future.  Their debut collection of disparate electronics pays little respect to those that have preceded them, those who tweak in their orbit, or those that are likely to follow.  

Across 20-tracks, Chillection is a free selection of FilChil's nonchalant side, featuring cuts from Defocus, Canecutter, Paperclip Galaxy, Mystery Wagon, Baerfrens, Moufteef, L-X-EN, cyber.akb, Kwze, Kaukana, Carpet Brick, Kuwait Paragraphic and Ilki - a wanton manipulation of the DNA of Australia's electronic music, foreshading everything and nothing.

In their own words: "Chillection is a journey through sounds, sights, textures, graphics, boss levels, loading screens, character select, hidden packages, rainbow roads, techno schmeckno, dragons, wizards and warlocks, the temple of time, pallet town, springfield, rivendel and winterfel."

DOWNLOAD FULL 20 TRACK COMPILATION FROM WOOD AND WIRE »

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We're also ideally looking for significant overlap with our current stack:

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Along with experience with reasonably modern source control (Git/SVN/Hg) and build practices. Note that we aren't zealots about any of the above; what we're most after is solid engineering chops -- if you're currently working with Rails or Django or Scala but don't mind digging into modern PHP for a good cause, that's fine. We need someone willing to roll up their sleeves and take long-term ownership of the project and address problems holistically. Here you'll have the chance to make valued, long-term strategic contributions to one of WFMU's most important projects.