WNMC Radio

10/30/2025

Our Top 30 from last week . . .

Rank ARTIST Record (Label)
1 AUTOMATIC Is It Now? (Stones Throw)
2 WATER FROM YOUR EYES It's A Beautiful Place (Matador/Beggars)
3 ROOMFUL OF BLUES Steppin' Out! (Alligator)
4 BILLY BRANCH AND THE SONS OF BLUES The Blues Is My Biography (Rosa's Lounge)
5 BUDDY GUY Ain't Done With The Blues (Silvertone/RCA)
6 GEESE Getting Killed (Partisan)
7 KIRK FLETCHER Keep On Pushing (Vizztone)
8 YATES MCKENDREE Need To Know (Qualified)
9 PACKAGING Packaging (Share It)
10 ARTICHOKE Artichoke (Self-Released)
11 BALTIMORE JAZZ COLLECTIVE self-titled (Stricker Street)
12 MUD MORGANFIELD Deep Mud (Nola Blue)
13 UPCHUCK I'm Nice Now (Domino)
14 CHEIKH LO Maame (World Circuit)
15 GIACOMO SMITH Manouche (Stunt)
16 WET LEG moisturizer (Domino)
17 MOTHER MOTHER Nostalgia (Warner)
18 BRAD MEHLDAU Ride Into The Sun (Nonesuch)
19 BLACK LIPS, THE Season Of The Peach (Fire)
20 DUST Sky Is Falling (Kanine)
21 GOLOMB The Beat Goes On (No Quarter)
22 SNOOPER Worldwide (Third Man)
23 AUTOCAMPER What Do You Do All Day? (Slumberland)
24 OSEES Abomination Revealed At Last (Deathgod)
25 SPRINTS All That Is Over (Sub Pop)
26 WEDNESDAY Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
27 DEAD TOOTH Dead Tooth (Trash Casual)
28 GREET DEATH Die In Love (Deathwish)
29 BITCHIN BAJAS Inland See [EP] (Drag City)
30 BARRY CAN'T SWIM Loner (Ninja Tune)

10/24/2025

$500 match up right now in honor of Biz, longtime host of Friday Afternoon Jazz and WNMC's Jazz Music Director. Biz has stepped back from his volunteer role, but we wanted to honor his 20+ years of music curation for WNMC!

231-995-1090 or....

WNMC is local radio from Northwestern Michigan College for the Grand Traverse area. We don't beam our programming down from satellites or consult playlists generated by focus groups in Los Angeles. We play what we — right here in Traverse City — think is great music. We hope you enjoy it, and wi...

10/23/2025

Closing Days of the Fall Fundraiser and a long way to go in raising funds. Last Crossroads show of the drive on right now. Please give to Community Radio, local volunteers, local programming, local support: Give Now by clicking below:

WNMC is local radio from Northwestern Michigan College for the Grand Traverse area. We don't beam our programming down from satellites or consult playlists generated by focus groups in Los Angeles. We play what we — right here in Traverse City — think is great music. We hope you enjoy it, and wi...

10/23/2025

Nic doing Jam Band for the Jazz Fan until 5pm. Give him a call: 231-995-1090 or ....

WNMC is local radio from Northwestern Michigan College for the Grand Traverse area. We don't beam our programming down from satellites or consult playlists generated by focus groups in Los Angeles. We play what we — right here in Traverse City — think is great music. We hope you enjoy it, and wi...

10/21/2025

And here's more thing you can count on from WNMC: interesting interviews, information about great college events. Christopher Preble is appearing Thursday as part of the International Affairs Forum-Traverse City series at the Dennos Museum Center

We cultivate the life of the mind in our northern Michigan community. Help pay for some fertilizer: https://www.nmc.edu/about/foundation/wnmc.html

Christopher Preble is appearing as part of the International Affairs Forum on Thursday, October 23. Reception begins at 6pm. Preble is Senior Fellow and Director of the Reimagining US Grand Strategy p

10/20/2025

Josephine and Michael on air today raising the funds that keep Coomunity Radio alive. Lend a hand! Call 231-995-1090 or . . .

https://www.nmc.edu/about/foundation/wnmc.html

10/18/2025

https://www.nmc.edu/about/foundation/wnmc.html

Well, it looks like we we've spent all of our money on records again!

Fall Fundraiser starts tomorrow at 8am!

And music is a pretty small portion of what we spend money on (the vast majority of what we play is sent to us for free!)

But we do have bills to obligations to meet, and your generosity is how we do it.

We've been federal funding free for thirty years or more. We dig up music gems and share them with you. You enjoy the music and the people who bring it to you. We run a fundraiser, and you do whatever you deem to be appropriate to keep the great music coming.

That's how it has worked since we started as a real public radio station more than 40 years ago.

And that's how we hope it will continue to be. More great music. More interesting personalities from our northern Michigan community. And more support from that same community.

WNMC: community radio, community supported. No stae money. No federal money. No corporate money. Just us.

And a whole load of records.

https://www.nmc.edu/about/foundation/wnmc.html

WNMC is local radio from Northwestern Michigan College for the Grand Traverse area. We don't beam our programming down from satellites or consult playlists generated by focus groups in Los Angeles. We play what we — right here in Traverse City — think is great music. We hope you enjoy it, and wi...

09/24/2025

This morning's interview with Amanda and Mike of Golden-Fowler Home Furnishings.

https://soundcloud.com/wnmcradio/golden-fowler-edit

09/24/2025

Our latest Top 30 . . .

ARTIST Record Label
1 BASS DRUM OF DEATH Six Cobraside
2 IN THE PINES Sunbeam Dream Self-Released
3 CHAMELEONS, THE Arctic Moon Metropolis
4 BEN SIDRAN Are We There Yet Nardis/Bonsai
5 LATHE OF HEAVEN Aurora Sacred Bones
6 MARGO PRICE Hard Headed Woman Loma Vista/Concord
7 CASE OATS Last Missouri Exit Merge
8 CHARLEY CROCKETT Lonesome Drifter Lone Star Rider/Island/UMG
9 DK HARRELL Talkin' Heavy Alligator
10 MIKEY JUNIOR Tribute To Aleck "Rice" Miller AKA Sonny Boy Williamson 8th Train
11 GUERILLA TOSS You're Weird Now Sub Pop
12 DIVA JAZZ ORCHESTRA, THE Tappin' Thru Life DIVA Jazz
13 OSEES Abomination Revealed At Last Deathgod
14 RODNEY CROWELL Airline Highway New West
15 ARTICHOKE Artichoke Self-Released
16 COLIN HANCOCK'S JAZZ HOUNDS Cat And Hounds Turtle Bay
17 TOMMY CASTRO AND THE PAINKILLERS Closer To The Bone Alligator
18 BIG THIEF Double Infinity 4AD/Beggars
19 GILLES PETERSON PRESENTS INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM VARIOUS ARTISTS Atles
20 RORY BLOCK Heavy On The Blues MC
21 CHRIS SMITH Jazz Grunge Cellar
22 HARD BOP MESSENGERS Jazz Interpretations Of The Grateful Dead Self-Released
23 BLIND LEMON PLEDGE Lemon Live! Ofeh
24 BARRY CAN'T SWIM Loner Ninja Tune
25 GIACOMO SMITH Manouche Stunt
26 WET LEG moisturizer Domino
27 ROBBIE FULKS Now Then Compass
28 BETHS, THE Straight Line Was A Lie Anti-
29 PROBLEM WITH KIDS TODAY, THE Take It! In The Shed
30 CUT COPY Moments Cutters

09/16/2025

We'll be interviewing Mary Roach tomorrow (Tuesday) at 8am. She'll be at the City Opera House the following Tuesday 9/23 as part of the National Writers Series.

09/04/2025

An interview with Alex Tank of NMC's International Affairs Forum about IAF's upcoming season, which kicks off this evening with a talk on relations with China with Prof. David Shambaugh, Professor of International Affairs & Director of the China Policy Program, George Washington University.

That starts at 6pm with a reception at the Dennos Museum Center

tciaf.com for more information

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08/27/2025

our Top 30 from last week:

ARTIST Release Record Label
1 ACCIDENTALS, THE Time Out 3 Self-Released
2 PAXTON SPANGLER BAND Trick Bag Eastlawn
3 GILLES PETERSON PRESENTS INTERNATIONAL ANTHEM VARIOUS ARTISTS Atles
4 RORY BLOCK Heavy On The Blues MC
5 SHAKI TAVI Minor Slip felte
6 PIERS FACCINI AND BALLAKE SISSOKO Our Calling No Format
7 TIERNEY SUTTON Talking To The Sun Gemini
8 KIP LONDON The Last Dance MoMojo
9 DREAM IVORY When You Come Back I Have So Much To Tell You AWAL
10 ARTICHOKE Artichoke Self-Released
11 MIKE FREEMAN ZONAVIBE Circles In A Yellow Room VOF
12 ZURHUB Countryside Motorways Origin
13 CHRIS VINCENT AND THE RAW DEALS Good Crook Self-Released
14 CHRIS SMITH Jazz Grunge Cellar
15 GIACOMO SMITH Manouche Stunt
16 HAYES CARLL We're Only Human Hwy 87/Thirty Tigers
17 RACHAEL AND VILRAY West Of Broadway Concord
18 OSEES Abomination Revealed At Last Deathgod
19 NNENNA FREELON Beneath The Skin Origin
20 PSYCHEDELIC PORN CRUMPETS Carpe Diem, Moonman What Reality?
21 MICHAEL DEASE City Life - Music Of Gregg Hill Origin
22 DAWN CLEMENT Delight Origin
23 MAMALARKY Hex Key Epitaph
24 JOHNNY IGUANA At Delmark Delmark
25 WORMBURNER Last Of The Winter Light Dive
26 BARRY CAN'T SWIM Loner Ninja Tune
27 TEETHE Magic Of The Sale Winspear
28 WILLIE BUCK AND BOB CORRITORE Oh Yeah! Vizztone
29 GOLOMB The Beat Goes On No Quarter
30 PUG JOHNSON El Cabron Self-Released