So WFMU, which not incidentally is the best free-form radio station in America, has just launched its winter fund-raiser, running through March 12 and aiming to bring in $300,000.

WFMU, New Jersey’s much-loved free-form radio station, took a haymaker from Hurricane Sandy. The not-for-profit station, which depends on donations, has been off the air ever since the storm.

Getting its juice back was a bit of a return to normal for WFMU and the 200,000 listeners that Freedman says tune in each week on radios and online. But the station, like so many other people and ...

The Free Music Archive, run by WFMU since 2009 and was set to shut down, has been acquired by camera gear rental startup KitSplit.

Fundraisers are typical for the proudly listener-supported station—but Sunday's event in Brooklyn is uncommon for its cause: $250,000 in losses from damage incurred as a result of Hurricane Sandy.

Thirteen years ago comedian and writer Tom Scharpling started a radio program on New Jersey-based independent station WFMU. The Best Show went on to become a nationwide cult hit — and sadly ...

Long-running New Jersey independent radio station WFMU has just erected its first-ever billboard, which you can see one the west side of a stretch of Route 280 in Newark, N.J. It’s got pictures ...

Sex and Broadcasting threatens, at times, to be mere hagiography. Roughly one-third of its 78 minutes is devoted to fundraiser footage, and the film itself is a sort-of fundraiser. If the station ...

The notion of free-form radio developed in the late ‘60s around the country and thrived at WFMU until album-oriented progressive rock emerged in the early ‘70s, an era that 26-year WFMU ...

Doug Schulkind, one of WFMU's best DJs, shares his online buried treasures.

Quintron and Miss Pussycat will perform as part of the WFMU fundraiser at Siberia on Friday (Dec. 14) along with the Happy Talk Band, Babes, Life Without Elvis, Lonely Lonely ...

Wax on! New Jersey radio station WFMU brought its famed annual record fair to Brooklyn for the first time last weekend, drawing thousands of music fans from around the globe to Greenpoint’s Brooklyn ...