Jason Isaac
@jasonisaacdrums.bsky.social
Jazz / funk / rock drummer of little renown in New York City, professional radio guy with WNYC, and host of the Crescent City Connection on WFMU's Rock'n'Soul Radio stream. Let's go Mets! Also on Mastodon: https://heads.social/@jasonisaacdrums
“Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps... Nearly all the staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now owned by Live Nation, acquired the publications in 2024 or 2025”
BrooklynVegan, Alt Press Hit With Mass Layoffs
Music publications Revolver and Goldmine have also been gutted by owners Veeps and Live Nation
pitchfork.com
Duke Ellington Mather Air Force Base Sacramento, CA 7-22-1960 FM Broadcast https://archive.org/details/duke-ellington-mather-air-force-base-sacramento-ca-7-22-1960-fm-broadcast
Duke Ellington Mather Air Force Base Sacramento, CA 7-22-1960 FM Broadcast : Duke Ellington : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Duke EllingtonMather Air Force BaseSacramento, CA 7-22-1960 FM Broadcast (Hot Summer Dance Bootleg CD)1 Take the A Train2 Paris Blues3 ...
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The Summer 2026 issue of LCD, WFMU's magazine/program guide, is out! If you donated $75 or more during our fundraiser or are a Swag for Life member living in the US you will automatically receive a copy. Everyone else: You can order a copy at iwantmylcd.com. Questions? Email lcd@wfmu.org.
Join me very late tonight for a joyride across the overnight spaceways. Freeform Jazz Dance, 3am to 6am only on WFMU. wfmu.org/playlists/sh... @wfmu.bsky.social / #WFMU
Freeform Jazz Dance with Jason Isaac
Audio & playlist from August 2, 2026
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Everything we can manage to do or make right now is a triumph over AI and the oligarchy pushing passivity
The final sentences of this piece are obscene, surreal, & terribly sad
Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."
arstechnica.com
I am upstate absorbing sunshine and fresh air (and buying jazz records), so I will not be doing my WFMU show tonight. But I enlisted my friend Mike Sin to fill the overnight airwaves with wondrous Optical Sound. Catch it late tonight / early tomorrow from 3 to 6am. I'll be back with you next week!
This is a great piece. If a store has ordinary not expensive stuff locked up I sure as shit am not going to buy it there.
Marc Masters 🌵@marcissist.bsky.social · 2w ago"The great lotion lockup was a corporate moral panic, which has been a disaster for their profits and for the rest of us a degrading enshittification of running basic errands."
I'm playing again tonight with Stephanie Marie & the Double-Knit 3. I'm busting out the brushes for a short and chill set opening for Towncryer, 7:30pm at Cowgirl Seahorse down by South Street Seaport.
I'm taking a couple of weeks from my WFMU show to get out of the city and catch up on sleep. Gianna Guerino will fill in for me tonight (early tomorrow) from 3 to 6am, and Mike Sin is lined up for next weekend. Take good care of them, overnight listeners!
HR Records in D.C. combed through the Voice's online archives and created a zine that reprints all of the ads they could find for legendary jazz club Slugs' (1964–1972). Includes archival interview w/ club founder Jerry Schultz (run of 100 copies) homerulerecords.com/collections/...
Slugs' In The Far East Zine
EVERY SLUGS' SALOON AD AVAILABLE IN THE VILLAGE VOICE ONLINE ARCHIVE, 1964-1972 The greatest jazz club in history, Slugs' Saloon, also known as Slugs' in the Far East, operated in the east village, NY...
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Dominic Umile@dominicumile.com · last yr.And I'm hopeful that everyone did the right thing and read @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social's cover story at @thenation.com on Slugs' and 1960s jazz www.dominicumile.com/blog/nation-...
Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.
WIRED@wired.com · 3w agoYesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
Catch up with our #SoundcheckPodcast On today's episode, available now on the New Sounds website, the @wnyc.org app, or wherever you get your podcasts, we have brass band EMEFE performing at WNYC Studios. wnyc.org/browse/shows...
Funky Afrobeat Brass Band EMEFE Rekindles Old Songs, In-Studio | WNYC
Jazz-funk/afrobeat collective EMEFE returns after their hiatus with a new album and a special performance for the Soundcheck podcast.
wnyc.org
My favorite Joe Frank episode (and I heard 'em ALL back when WNYC was airing them.)
WFMU@wfmu.bsky.social · 3w agoToday on WFMU: On Joe Frank's show, Joe Frank: Just An Ordinary Man. An eccentric teetering on the edge of madness claims he's "just an ordinary man." Originally performed onstage. Cast: Joe Frank Music: James Harrah, Kenny Lyon, Danny Frankel (6 p.m. ET).
Uncivil war: When Louisiana attacks its most valuable asset, the city of New Orleans There has been tension between New Orleans and the rest of the state for a long time. It’s a blue city in a red state. But what we’re witnessing now isn’t just tension, it’s open warfare.
Uncivil war: When Louisiana attacks its most valuable asset, the city of New Orleans
There has been tension between New Orleans and the rest of the state for a long time. It’s a blue city in a red state. But what we’re witnessing now isn’t just tension, it’s open warfare.
veritenews.org
My overnight show hits just as hard when the sun is up. Three hours of jazz and jams await you in WFMU's online archive. Just click the link below.
Jason Isaac@jasonisaacdrums.bsky.social · 4w agoExploring the parts the musical omniverse where earth meets sky and night yields to dawn. Freeform Jazz Dance, late tonight / early tomorrow, 3am to 6am on WFMU. wfmu.org/playlists/sh... #wfmu / @wfmu.bsky.social
Exploring the parts the musical omniverse where earth meets sky and night yields to dawn. Freeform Jazz Dance, late tonight / early tomorrow, 3am to 6am on WFMU. wfmu.org/playlists/sh... #wfmu / @wfmu.bsky.social
Freeform Jazz Dance with Jason Isaac
Audio & playlist from July 12, 2026
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I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio
Kids today have lost the fine art of bullshitting a 10 page paper from a single Funk & Wagnalls entry or from reading only the CliffsNotes. 🤣
Brilliant story by @KeithOlbermann about his "extra" Honus Wagner: loveofthegameauctions.com/the-restored...
I’m Honus, Dammit - Love of the Game Auctions
I'm Honus, Dammit" by Keith Olbermann Every collector wants to discover a T206 Honus Wagner. But none of us expect to discover one in our own collections. On a shelf. In a big Lucite screw-down holder...
loveofthegameauctions.com
I'm at An Beal Bocht in the Bronx tonight with Time Machine Appetizer, playing soul jazz and surf rock with gusto. Retro groovalistic instrumentals from 8 to 10pm, with Merritt Jacob (guitar), Dave Archer (keyboards), Dan Asher (bass), and me on drums and cymbals.
Beloved Brooklyn metal bar Saint Vitus to reopen in Bushwick gothamist.com/arts-enterta...
Beloved Brooklyn metal bar Saint Vitus to reopen in Bushwick
The Greenpoint venue closed in 2024.
gothamist.com
Per radio WWOZ, RIP James Rivers, New Orleans saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist/composer/bandleader, April 1937 - July 2026 -- Reflecting on a Stellar Career James Rivers has Performed at Every Jazz Fest by Dean Shapiro 2022 www.whereyat.com/reflecting-o... #jazz #NewOrleans #JamesRivers #RIP
Reflecting on a Stellar Career
Reflecting on a Stellar Career
whereyat.com
Coming up very late tonight, jazz and more till dawn's early light. Freeform Jazz Dance, 3am to 6am on WFMU. wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
Freeform Jazz Dance with Jason Isaac
Audio & playlist from July 5, 2026
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