Radio Free Brooklyn - What Brooklyn Sounds Like

When Pop Music Gets Weird: Christina Aguilera’s “What A Girl Wants”

It’s strange to hear a standard 4/4 pop melody get spun around like this. Music is more interesting when it makes your brain say, “Waitaminute - what just happened?”

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RFB Leaderboards April 2024

RFB launches RFB Top 10 listener rankings For the first time, Radio Free Brooklyn is publishing its listener rankings publicly as a way to celebrate listener engagement and help our community discover our most popular shows. Show rankings overall, for all music programming and all talk programming will be published across RFB platforms monthly. RFB’s

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Brooklyn Royalty: The Dap-Kings

Their musical lane may have been narrow, but they drove it in a monster truck powered by James Brown’s hairspray.

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Albums You Might Not Know: Elvis Costello’s Spanish Model

Spanish Model may be another footnote in Elvis Costello’s career, but it’s a career more memorable for the chances it has taken.

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Local Music Spotlight: Skorts

A new band making waves in the North Brooklyn/Lower Manhattan circuit have a heady sound that's both retro and refreshing.

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