WMNF: The Blog

Crowdsourcing Music Funding

Matt Cowley about almost 5 years ago

<>The money that fuels the music industry has been getting scarcer for quite a while now. Bands outside the theme-park realm of Madonna and U2 have had a harder time getting funding for recording, touring, and especially promotion. The Guardian <>re... read this post

Video of the Day: Toubab Krewe

Randy Wynne about almost 5 years ago

From Bonaroo, of Toubab Krewe, who are playing WMNF's Birthday Bash/Earthdance September 13 at the Cuban Club.

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New Video From Guardian Films Questions What the Surge Has Accomplished

Tags: surge, iraq

Rob Lorei about almost 5 years ago

Take a look at these three videos- shot by a crew of Iraqi journalists. They show us what no American journalist has been able to tell us about the success or failure of the surge.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/5/12346/33766/512/562900

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What Is Your Cell Phone Doing To Your Brain?

Tags: 'cell phone radiation"

Rob Lorei about almost 5 years ago

Cell Phones Cook Popcorn

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Latest Animated JibJab Political humor

Rob Lorei about almost 5 years ago

Time for Some Campaignin' | Funny Jokes at JibJab

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What Keeps WMNF on the Air

Tags: support

Matt Cowley about almost 5 years ago

...Is listeners like Susan O:

We turned most of our tax incentive check over to WMNF, and in return got a pass that will get both of us into every concert, film, event for a year.

<>WMNF is funded almost entirely by contributions like that, big or sma... read this post

Video of the Day 7/8/08: Wild Sweet Orange

Randy Wynne about almost 5 years ago

This band will be coming to WMNF's Birthday Bash on September 13, where we hope to turn you on to a bunch of terrific new artists. Here you an see their national debut on TV on the David Letterman show in June.

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Peter Gabriel knows what you want.

Tags: music, technology

Matt Cowley about almost 5 years ago

Peter Gabriel is backing a new automatic media-filtering service.

<><>Three years ago the former Genesis frontman gave his backing to an iTunes plug-in called "The Filter", which was designed to automatically generate playlists from your music collecti... read this post

David Ford - 'Untitled'

Tags: video, sun studios

Matt Cowley about almost 5 years ago

David Ford working on a new song at Sun Studios:

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Another Route 66 Fan

Tags: Route66

Matt Cowley about almost 5 years ago

Here's a great plug for Mike Vinyl and Route 66 (Monday nights at 9), and for supporting WMNF. Where else but from the Duke Basketball Report?

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St Pete Pride 2008 is this coming Saturday!!!

Scott Elliott about almost 5 years ago

<>St. Pete Pride is please to announce that Janice Langbehn has agreed to be our Grand Marshall this year. Janice is not a house hold name yet but her story is compelling especially in light of the current attempt to deny gay partners any rights.In ... read this post

Terrence Brewer on WMNF

Tags: jazz

Matt Cowley about almost 5 years ago

WMNF recently had the honor of hosting Terrence Brewer as part of our monthly live jazz series. He's got some nice things to say about WMNF and the Florida jazz community on his blog.

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Lizz Straight in the news

Matt Cowley about almost 5 years ago

Lizz Straight, host of WMNF's Poetry Is, is featured in today's Florida Sentinel.

Don't forget about the monthly Poetry Is..Live series at WMNF. The next event is this weekend.

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Video of the Day 6/11/08 Stephen Colbert on Confederate flag in Tampa

Randy Wynne about about 5 years ago

Many programmers and people in Tampa are talking about the Confederate flag flying here. Here's Stephen Colbert's tongue in cheek take on the situation.

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