20250511: May 11, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

20250504: May 04, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

20250429: Apr 29, 2025: 8pm - 10pm

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

20250427: Apr 27, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

20250420: Apr 20, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

Strictly Live #6: Apr 13, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

A selection of exceptional performances that, fortunately, were captured live – and now we get to enjoy them forever. Featuring recordings of Oneness of Juju, Fela Ransome-Kuti & Africa 70, Joe Dr...

¡Descarga! Springtime Salsa Jam 2025: Apr 06, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

We add a little sazón to your early April showers and serve up a swingin' descarga – a non-stop Salsa jam featuring classic Afro-Latin grooves spanning more than six decades – from mambo to bugalú, gu...

Jazz Is Spoken Here #8: Mar 30, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

An exploration of Jazz as a universal language with an infinitely diverse range of dialects. Featuring selections by contemporary artists from Austria, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Cong...

Struggle Sounds: Mar 23, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

Part 9 of our "Afrobeat International" series, in which we explore interpretations of the genre from just about everywhere. Today's theme – the title of a song by Seun Kuti (son of Fela) – reflects th...

Pan-African Women's Jam 2025 (re-air of March 9, 2025): Mar 21, 2025: 2pm - 4pm

A celebration of International Women's Day – African style! Featuring a diverse and dynamic selection of contemporary women's voices from across the Continent. "Africa is the root; music is the mother...

Treasures from the Emerald Isle: Mar 16, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

Éirinn go brách! Seeing as how Greene County is home to the "Irish Catskills", today we'll celebrate our neighbors with a little bit country, folk, rock, jazz, blues, funk and other musical treasures...

Pan-African Women's Jam 2025: Mar 09, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

A celebration of International Women's Day – African style! Featuring a diverse and dynamic selection of contemporary women's voices from across the Continent. "Africa is the root; music is the mother...

Highlife House Party #3: Mar 02, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

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...

Reggae Africa #2 (Re-air of February 23, 2025): Feb 26, 2025: 8pm - 10pm

Featuring songs about roots, resistance, revolution and redemption from across the African motherland, spanning the 1970s to the present."Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and...

Reggae Africa #2: Feb 23, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

Featuring songs about roots, resistance, revolution and redemption from across the African motherland, spanning the 1970s to the present."Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and...

Africa Rocks! #11: Feb 16, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

How does Africa rock? Let us count the ways. Part 11 of this frequent series dives deep into the realm of rock fusion from north, south, east, west, and central Africa, from the 1960s to the present....

Pan-African Jam 2025 (Re-air of February 14, 2025): Feb 14, 2025: 2pm - 4pm

Black History Month has begun, but here at Music for the Masses we celebrate black and brown history every day: "Africa is the root; music is the mother tongue." This broadcast features a diverse sele...

Sublime Soukous for a Snow-Bound Sunday: Feb 09, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

Are the mid-winter blues getting you down? Well, we've got just the cure for that! Let us take you to your Happy Place with two hours of sweet, soothing, swinging, and sublime Soukous grooves – guitar...

Pan-African Jam 2025: Feb 02, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

Black History Month has begun, but here at Music for the Masses we celebrate black and brown history every day: "Africa is the root; music is the mother tongue." This broadcast features a diverse sele...

Deep State #4: Jan 26, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

If current events have you feeling paralyzed, uncertain, afraid, stressed out or straight-up furious, you're not alone! In this series, we reclaim the meaning of "deep state" with two hours of trancif...

Roots & Riddims 3: Situation Critical: Jan 19, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

Nothing but good vibes going out to the masses with Part 3 of our "Roots & Riddims" mini-series featuring reggae, afrobeat, soca, hip-hop, and more. Today's selections are about struggle, solidari...

Jazz Is Spoken Here, Part 7: Jan 12, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

An exploration of Jazz as a universal language with an infinitely diverse range of dialects. Featuring contemporary artists from across the globe, including several cross-cultural collaborations. (Par...

The World According to Dub 9.0: Jan 05, 2025: 1pm - 3pm

A selection of dubwise reggae, funk, soul, jazz, and more to carry the imagination on an international journey of sound and riddim. (Part 9 of an ongoing series.) Special birthday week livication to D...

Let's Dance Kadans!: Dec 31, 2024: 8pm - 10pm

It began with the Biguine… A genre with many styles, cadence (Creole: kadans) evolved primarily in the Antillean islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, and Haiti from the early 1960s through the...

Let's Dance Kadans!: Dec 29, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

It began with the Biguine… A genre with many styles, cadence (Creole: kadans) evolved primarily in the Antillean islands of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, and Haiti from the early 1960s through the...

Salsa Africana #3: Dec 22, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

Winter has officially arrived, the holidays are here, and we've come to heat your home with music! Kick off those snow boots and get your dance on as we bring you two hours of burning African salsa cl...

Arabia Rocks! #2: Dec 15, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

How does Arabia rock? Let us count the ways. In Part 2 of a new series we cook up a stew of rock fusion from the Levant, the Maghreb, the Arabian Peninsula and more. The recipe? Start with a base of n...

So Much Samba! 5.0: Dec 08, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

A tropical escape from the chill of winter, featuring Brazilian classics from the 1960s through the '80s – because there's so much samba!"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and...

Brazilian Breakaway #2: Dec 01, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

A two-hour musical vacation in Brazil, a land of unlimited interpretations and integrations of ancestral rhythms with contemporary, globally popular genres. Unfettered enjoyment strongly encouraged. W...

PALOP Africa! #5: Nov 24, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

Part 5 of a series featuring music from the PALOP (Países Africanos de Língua Oficial Portuguesa) – those African nations formerly colonized by Portugal that continue to share Portuguese as a common l...

We've Got You Covered #8: Nov 17, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

Part 8 of an ongoing series featuring a selection of obsure and lesser-known cover versions of some better-known popular songs."Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. D...

Abdullah Ibrahim (Abdullah Ibrahim Trio) - re-air of November 13, 2024: Nov 16, 2024: 9am - 10pm

In this special edition of "Music for the Masses," host DJ Neva speaks with distinguished pianist Abdullah Ibrahim of the Abdullah Ibrahim Trio. Abdullah Ibrahim performs in "The Egg Presents: Abdulla...

Fresh from Africa #7: Nov 10, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

Part 7 of a series featuring new and recent releases by African artists across the continent and the diaspora, ranging from contemporary traditional to Afro-futuristic, with lots of collaboration, inn...

Fèt Gede, Haitian Day of the Dead 2024: Nov 03, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

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, fier...

20241029: Oct 29, 2024: 8pm - 10pm

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

Africa Rocks! #7: Oct 27, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

How does Africa rock? Let us count the ways. Part 7 of this multi-part series dives deep into the realm of rock fusion from north, south, east, west, and central Africa, from the 1960s to the present....

Felabration! Afrobeat International, Part 8: Oct 20, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

Celebrating the Oct. 15 birthday of Nigerian musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti (1938-1997) with Part 8 of our ongoing Afrobeat International series, exploring the rich language of Afrobeat and...

Pan-American Jam #2: Oct 13, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

As Yom Kippur meets Indigenous Peoples' Day, we call upon the ancient spirits of the First Nations for forgiveness, mercy, and purification with sounds of resistance and resilience from the vast music...

African Soul Power – The Disco Era #5: Oct 06, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

In this series, 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 previous...

20241001: Oct 01, 2024: 8pm - 10pm

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

Mali on My Mind: Sep 29, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

A mere sampling of music by some of the countless outstanding artists from Mali, West Africa. All but one are recent recordings, from within the last 15 years, by artists currently at the forefront of...

Son, Cuero y Boogaloo: Sep 22, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

Our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with a throwback to the era of Fania Records, the independent label founded in 1964 by Gerald Masucci and Johnny Pacheco. Though the roots...

In Full Swing: Sep 08, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

We send off the summer season with a fun-day afternoon dance party, featuring a special selection of smoky and sultry tropical rhythms. So limber up, shake it out, and grab your nearest dancing partne...

Re-air of September 1, 2024: Sep 03, 2024: 8pm - 10pm

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

Soca Bacchanal 2024: Sep 01, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

How de music sweet so! Labor Day weekend is the time for "liming" with family and friends, so mek wi party – West Indian style! In this broadcast we feature a fresh selection of carnival soca from (mo...

We've Got You Covered #7: Aug 25, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

Featuring a selection of obscure and lesser-known cover versions of some better-known popular songs. (Part 7 of an occasional series.)"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rh...

African Soul Power – The Disco Era #4: Aug 18, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

In this series, 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 previous...

Summertime Samba Party: Aug 11, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

Too hot to go anywhere? Sem problemas! We bring the beach, breeze and batuque to you with a musical escape to Brazil, featuring contemporary sounds of samba, swing and soul."Music for the Masses" invi...

Re-air of August 4, 2024: Aug 06, 2024: 8pm - 10pm

"Music for the Masses" invites you on an excursion of sound and rhythm. Discover the music of established and emerging artists, both signed and unsigned, on the international music scene. For the avid...

Calypso Invasion #3: Aug 04, 2024: 1pm - 3pm

In this series we bring you a diverse selection of Trinidadian calypso and some of its close relatives found throughout the Caribbean, the Americas, and West Africa."Music for the Masses" invites you...