Remember the cassette mixtape? In our music loving group of friends, we all had different music collections and different tastes. Mixtapes became the "share" button of the time, tapes from friends were the way to discover new music while enjoying common selections. Each week we bring you a mix of music that we hope you enjoy.

The Broadcasting System: is about getting into it. Lightning Bolt gets into it, and so do Tony Conrad and Stereolab. Ralph Peer recorded Jimmie Rogers and the Carter Family getting into it in Bristol. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan is all about it. They get into it in the forests of Bali and they surf slack-keyed on it in Hawaii. It's called transport, and only music - every kind of music - does it for me. How about you? Two hours spent deep in it, with Tyler.

Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza: Live improvised sound collage experiment, weaving mesmerizingly dreamy soundscapes in the present moment from found and collected materials, performed from stages, radio stations, tree houses, cement bunkers, construction sites, experimental dance spaces, living rooms, and elsewhere. Pop music, speeches, spontaneous monologues, and your live call-ins become ambient loopy layered threads riding the liminal spaces between waking and dreaming. Now in its 25th year. Audio archives: lastever.org

Loosely alternating Monday afternoons from 2 to 4pm.

A variety of rock, jazz, hip-hop, electronic and funk to get you through the wee hours of the night.

The grimiest sounds in indie, psychedelia, and any other noises that come across the CB. An aural equivalent of Waffle House at 4 in the morning.

Ye Olde Tuesday Afternoon Rocke Show, heard each Tuesday afternoon from 2-4, is an assortment of afternoon ear candy from 30 years ago to 30 seconds ago.

Let's hear how DJ Walt sums it up: "It's different every show. And they often go deep into certain places that you don't usually get to anywhere else - it's always a journey." Following a map passed down from their Virginia forebears, the crew sets sail on a serpentine course from the undersea caverns of garage rock through the treacherous straits of art-damaged punk, around the balmy isles of Italo disco, on through the Tropics of Ambient and often running aground on the desolate shoals of forgotten pop songs from decades of American music. At times veering off the globe into uncharted murky waters of subgenres, where THERE BE MONSTERS. May occasionally contain pop songs that you think you know all too well, or sometimes guitars and other instruments when necessary. DJ Steve Here alternates weeks with kendaLL, Actually, making up new Virginia Traditions every week that has a Tuesday, from 11 until 1am.

Late Night Adventures

Sippin' a witches brew, you're bound to take in some potent kaleidoscopic combination of heavy psych, early bell-bottomed metal, hard rock and proggy '70s fusion with an occasional accent of tripped-out stoner and doom. Wicked Sharkie offers up heavy riffs and shredding guitars for the fuzzy minded on Witches Brew each Wednesday from 2-4 pm.

Inspired by the name of a 1975 Brian Eno song, Merging With the Night blurs the lines between rock and other genres. Join ANDROID on Wednesday nights from 11pm to 1am to discover some of the best music you may have never heard. More information at https://musicalandroid.blogspot.com/

Two hours of rock from old to new to help you start your Thursday (or finish your Wednesday).

Geezer Rock is a weekly, one-hour radio program that plays new music by geezers who rock. For our purposes, that's anyone over 50 (AARP eligible). On Geezer Rock, it's the musicians who are the oldies, not the songs! We'll hear all-new songs by all of our favorite touch-of-gray rock stars from the '60s, '70s, and '80s who are still hitting the stages and putting out new albums of new rockin' tunes. These songs rock, and they deserve to be heard!

Your trusty selectors Matthew and Stevik host WTJU's long-standing Thursday afternoon tradition Carry the Zero from 2 to 4 o'clock. They gladly give you a wide variety of rock tunes to get you through the day-- including, but not limited to, innovative pop, soul, psychedelic, and calculated beats. You do the math. It's enough rock to make your wave function!

Stay up and explore the outer limits of rock and roll with Black Circle Revolution Thursday night from 11 to 1. Two vinyl-heavy hours of classic and new punk, stoner metal, garage rock, psychedelic freak-outs, and the best riffs you've never heard from the past 30 years to the present. Join Phil Free and Sam for an audio adventure guaranteed to ease the pain.

Bridging the gap between sci-fi and honky-tonk, Johnny Paycheck's "The Meanest Jukebox in Town" tells the story of a record machine that literally sucks the life from the singer's poor, broken heart. The Second Meanest Jukebox brings you music of similar -- albeit more benevolent -- power. Tune in Thursday nights at 1:00 for mix of country, electronic and experimental sounds from around the world.

Join your local chapter of the Deadbeat Club every Friday afternoon from 2 until 4. Host Baby Shampoo serves soup to nuts. Drop out and tune in.

An assortment of songs. There is no focus, only an exploration. We travel through Hardcore, New Wave, No Wave, Jazz, Garage Rock, Progressive Rock, Post Punk, Disco, World, etc... there is no genre, but only an experience. Join me as we sift through a sea of sounds and bring in each Saturday morning from 1-3 A.M.

Call me during my show...
434-924-3959

Listen to my past shows...
https://youtu.be/q47bFRNB4GM

One salt-rubbed hunk of indie rock
1 Florin, Post-Punk Gold
1/4 Cup, Whine Pop Vinegar
1/3 Mole, Brazilian Tropicalisimo
2 Bunchs, Wilted Soul and Psychedelia
2 Omicrons, Electronic Ambience
1 Candela, Forgotten Funk
1 Blessed Blast, Japanese Noise Bands
Dash of bitter insouciance
Salt-n-Pepa to taste
Braise Weekly. Cooks between 2 and 4 PM on Saturday afternoons on 91.1 WTJU.

Two elephants were sitting in a bathtub debating the difference between a duck, when they found out why a motorcycle has no car doors. But we don't care about their conversation, we care about what they're listening to! Tune in and follow along, for a curiouser and curiouser mixture of sound that's not entirely unlike music, right at the cusp of the weekend. With so many genres, we had to make up a few, it may just be the real reason the chicken crossed the road. That's No Soap Radio every Saturday night from 11 to 1 right here on WTJU.

Sounds, words, and music sometimes

Raw Music from the 20th and 21st centuries: Airing its genre-busting blend of progressive hootenanny, provocative commentary, and sprawling pop music history lesson on WTJU since 1995 (or 1996), Radio Wowsville, heard each Sunday night from 11 to 1, is broadcast via nuclear warhead from a cave / sound lab in Grottoes, Virginia.