Music for the Masses: Funk Makes the World Go 'Round #2: Mar 26, 2023

Broadcasting live from Catskill, NY.

Music for the Masses: Africa Rocks! #8: Mar 22, 2023

How does Africa rock? Let us count the ways. Part 8 of this continuing series dives deep into the realm of rock fusion from north, south, east, west, and central Africa, from the 1960s to the present....

Music for the Masses: Africa Rocks! #8: Mar 19, 2023

How does Africa rock? Let us count the ways. Part 8 of this continuing series dives deep into the realm of rock fusion from north, south, east, west, and central Africa, from the 1960s to the present....

Music for the Masses: Music for the Masses: Mar 19, 2023

Broadcasting live from Catskill, NY.

Music for the Masses: citiot: Mar 18, 2023

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Music for the Masses: Swing Forward: Mar 13, 2023

Daylight Saving Time has started, so don’t forget to Swing Forward! Limber up, grab your nearest dancing partner, and get ready for a special Sunday afternoon groove session featuring irresistible rhy...

Music for the Masses: Swing Forward: Mar 12, 2023

Daylight Saving Time has started, so don’t forget to Swing Forward! Limber up, grab your nearest dancing partner, and get ready for a special Sunday afternoon groove session featuring irresistible rhy...

Music for the Masses: Highlife House Party: Mar 07, 2023

Ghana Independence Day celebration: On March 6, 1957, the West African republic of Ghana gained its independence from British colonial rule. With its roots in the Gold Coast region (Anglophone West Af...

Music for the Masses: Music for the Masses: Mar 06, 2023

Broadcasting live from Catskill, NY.

Music for the Masses: Highlife House Party: Mar 05, 2023

Ghana Independence Day celebration: On March 6, 1957, the West African republic of Ghana gained its independence from British colonial rule. With its roots in the Gold Coast region (Anglophone West Af...

Music for the Masses: African Soul Power The Disco Era #3: Feb 27, 2023

In this rebroadcast from Feb. 26, 2023, we travel back to a time when the global economy was in crisis and people everywhere were facing inflation, unemployment, and collapse of the dreams brought by...

Music for the Masses: African Soul Power The Disco Era #3: Feb 26, 2023

In this broadcast, we travel back to a time when the global economy was in crisis and people everywhere were facing inflation, unemployment, and collapse of the dreams brought by advances of the previ...

Music for the Masses: So Much Samba! 3.0: Feb 19, 2023

In this broadcast: A tropical escape from the chill of winter, featuring the scintillating sounds of samba from Brazil – and beyond. Help WGXC reach our goal of $5,000 in monthly contributions during...

Music for the Masses: Matters of the Heart 4.0: Feb 13, 2023

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, this rebroadcast from Feb. 12, 2023 features a diverse selection of soul, funk, blues, reggae, and much more on the theme of love — the bitter, the sweet, the hopeful...

Music for the Masses: Matters of the Heart 4.0: Feb 12, 2023

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, this broadcast features a diverse selection of soul, funk, blues, reggae, and much more on the theme of love — the bitter, the sweet, the hopeful and hopeless, happy...

Music for the Masses: Pan-African Jam 2023: Feb 07, 2023

At Music for the Masses, every day is "Black History Month." This broadcast features a diverse selection of contemporary music from across the African motherland and her diasporic family. Africa is th...

Music for the Masses: Pan-African Jam 2023: Feb 05, 2023

At Music for the Masses, every day is "Black History Month." This broadcast features a diverse selection of contemporary music from across the African motherland and her diasporic family. Africa is th...

Music for the Masses: Deep State #2: Jan 31, 2023

If current events have you feeling paralyzed, uncertain, afraid, or straight-up furious, you are not alone. In this broadcast, we reclaim the “deep state” with two hours of trancified, funkified, and...

Music for the Masses: Deep State #2: Jan 29, 2023

If current events have you feeling paralyzed, uncertain, afraid, or straight-up furious, you are not alone. In this broadcast, we reclaim the “deep state” with two hours of trancified, funkified, and...

Music for the Masses: Disco Dancing Around the World #2: Jan 25, 2023

In this rebroadcast from Jan. 22, we bring back the Hustle, the Bump, the Funky Chicken, the Bus Stop, and Disco Finger — all with an international twist — as we travel back to the 70s and 80s, when t...

Music for the Masses: Disco Dancing Around the World #2: Jan 22, 2023

In this broadcast, we bring back the Hustle, the Bump, the Funky Chicken, the Bus Stop, and Disco Finger — all with an international twist — as we travel back to the 70s and 80s, when the musical melt...

Music for the Masses: Living the MLK Dream: Jan 15, 2023

As the U.S. commemorates the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., some musical reflections on dreams of a better world … faith and hope, unity and struggle … and the illusion of progress in our ti...

Music for the Masses: The World According to Dub 7.0: Jan 11, 2023

An assortment of dubwise reggae, funk, soul, jazz, and more to carry the imagination on an international journey of sound and riddim. (Part 7 of an ongoing series.) Special birthday livication to Dian...

Music for the Masses: The World According to Dub 7.0: Jan 08, 2023

An assortment of dubwise reggae, funk, soul, jazz, and more to carry the imagination on an international journey of sound and riddim. (Part 7 of an ongoing series.) Special birthday livication to Dian...

Music for the Masses: Blessings: Jan 03, 2023

Nothing but good vibes going out to the masses with Part 2 of our “Roots and Riddims” mini-series featuring reggae, soca, afrobeat, and more. The selections in this broadcast are about counting our bl...

Music for the Masses: Blessings: Jan 01, 2023

Nothing but good vibes going out to the masses with Part 2 of our “Roots and Riddims” mini-series featuring reggae, soca, afrobeat, and more. The selections in this broadcast are about counting our bl...

Music for the Masses: We Wish You a Funk 'n' Soul Christmas: Dec 25, 2022

The broadcast features a jolly and joyful yet down-and-dirty selection of American funk, soul, blues, and gospel songs that cover the complexities of Christmas from the Nazarene to the North Pole....

Music for the Masses: Hudson Valley Hanukkah #4: Dec 18, 2022

It's a Hanukkah party! With a diverse musical selection ranging from classic to contemporary, from klezmer to kitsch, we celebrate the fire, food, and fun that symbolize the Jewish Festival of Lights....

Music for the Masses: Great Collaborations #3: Dec 11, 2022

This broadcast features a selection of unique, creative collaborative projects between musicians from diverse cultures and traditions across our shared planet. (Part 3 of a series.) "Music for the...

Music for the Masses: Meet Me in the Maghreb #4: Dec 06, 2022

This broadcast finds us in the Maghreb region of northern Africa, where music meets at the crossroads of tradition and global pop from Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, and Mauritania....

Music for the Masses: Meet Me in the Maghreb #4: Dec 04, 2022

This broadcast finds us in the Maghreb region of northern Africa, where music meets at the crossroads of tradition and global pop from Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, and Mauritania....

Music for the Masses: In the Mood for Ska #2: Nov 28, 2022

The rebroadcast from Nov. 27, 2022, features a light-hearted mix of classic and contemporary ska — the music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and has inspired some fabulous and fasci...

Music for the Masses: I’m in the Mood for Ska #2: Nov 27, 2022

The broadcast features a light-hearted mix of classic and contemporary ska — the music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and has inspired some fabulous and fascinating fusions with mu...

Music for the Masses: Africa Rocks #7: Nov 23, 2022

Part seven of a continuing series dives deep into the realm of rock fusion from north, south, east, west, and central Africa, from the 1960s to the present. Replete with searing guitars, driving rhyth...

Music for the Masses: PALOP Africa #3: Nov 14, 2022

A rebroadcast from Nov. 13, 2022 featuring music from the PALOP (Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa), the African nations formerly colonized by Portugal that continue to share Portuguese as...

Music for the Masses: PALOP Africa #3: Nov 13, 2022

A broadcast featuring music from the PALOP (Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa), the African nations formerly colonized by Portugal that continue to share Portuguese as the common language:...

Music for the Masses: Funky Brazil: Nov 09, 2022

A Sunday afternoon groove session featuring classic and contemporary Brazilian funk and soul, spanning the late 1960s to the present. "Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and...

Music for the Masses: Funky Brazil: Nov 06, 2022

A Sunday afternoon groove session featuring classic and contemporary Brazilian funk and soul, spanning the late 1960s to the present. "Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and...

Music for the Masses: Fèt Gede: Nov 01, 2022

Calling all souls to celebrate the Day of the Dead, Haitian style. Every year, the beginning of November brings the sacred and spectacular Vodoun celebration that is Fèt Gede, a raucous, bawdy, fiery...

Music for the Masses: Fèt Gede: Oct 30, 2022

Calling all souls to celebrate the Day of the Dead, Haitian style. Every year, the beginning of November brings the sacred and spectacular Vodoun celebration that is Fèt Gede, a raucous, bawdy, fiery...

Music for the Masses: Diwali, Light Up the World: Oct 26, 2022

Features a wall-to-wall mix of South Asian popular music known as Bhangra, this broadcast celebrates Diwali (aka Deepavali) – the five-day Festival of Lights observed by Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and...

Music for the Masses: Diwali, Light Up the World: Oct 23, 2022

Features a wall-to-wall mix of South Asian popular music known as Bhangra, this broadcast celebrates Diwali (aka Deepavali) – the five-day Festival of Lights observed by Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, and...

Music for the Masses: Felabration!: Oct 16, 2022

Celebrating the October 15 birthday of Nigerian musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti with Part 5 of the ongoing Afrobeat International series, exploring the rich language of Afrobeat and its infi...

Music for the Masses: Pan-American Jam: Oct 09, 2022

The fourth and final broadcast celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month 2022 features a "popurrí" of rhythms and genres — a mere sampling culled from the vast musical cosmos of Las Américas. Rebro...

Music for the Masses: Herencia Hispana Remixed: Oct 04, 2022

The celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with an appreciation of the new generation of Latinx artists who are embracing and expressing their own musical roots within the context o...

Music for the Masses: Herencia Hispana Remixed: Oct 02, 2022

The celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with an appreciation of the new generation of Latinx artists who are embracing and expressing their own musical roots within the context o...

Music for the Masses: Cecilia Villar Eljuri: Sep 28, 2022

The celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with a fiesta of rock en español, digital cumbia, tropical futurism, electro-funk y mucho más, with Part 5 of the Latin Music Rocks series...

Music for the Masses: Cecilia Villar Eljuri: Sep 25, 2022

The celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with a fiesta of rock en español, digital cumbia, tropical futurism, electro-funk y mucho más, with Part 5 of the Latin Music Rocks series...

Songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Cecilia Villar Eljuri speaks with Neva Wartell about her new release, Reflexión,.: Sep 25, 2022

Born in Ecuador and raised in New York City, her towering solos and emotive vocals resonate clearly through her stories of resilience, shelter, our borders, and the planet. Her music is empowering to...

Music for the Masses: Ivy Hest: Sep 22, 2022

This rebroadcast, from Sept. 18, 2022, is dedicated to National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15), an acknowledgment and celebration of the contributions made by generations of Hisp...