Station Updates

Surface Noise will spend hour one this week partying with Bryan Ferry as the singer of Roxy Music and solo musician turns 71….though we doubt this birthdate as he hasn’t aged in about 50 years....

We have officially entered a new season of the year which, a season that many look forward to because of all of the wonderful treasures it brings, to include the cooler weather. During today’s program...

Have you been following the massive sinkhole – just 30 miles east of Tampa in New Wales? JACLYN LOPEZ, Florida Director, Staff Attorney, Center for Biological Diversity. Jacki thinks Florida may be beginning to wake...

Be the One Who Accepts the Sarasota Giving Challenge! September 20, 2016 For the next 24 hours, WMNF is proud to participate  in the Giving Challenge sponsored by the Community Foundation of Sarasota County and...

Thanks to all who attended the Freakin’ Dreamin’ Groovefest, 9/17/16 at Skipper’s… Especially to those who took a chance on buying a ticket to WIN! Many lucky winners left the show before picking up their...

There will be many things in life that challenges us, yet somehow we must find a way to muster up the faith, strength and courage to move forward and make the best out of negative...

Paying respects to the late Dave Swarbrick, member of Fairport Convention, singer & songwriter, revolutionary fiddler, and Folk Rock icon. Part of the folk revival days of the 1960s, he helped create the British Folk Rock...

By Arlene Engelhardt The Dilemma of “The Donald”… Is he an outlier that somehow came from an outer planet? Or is he the expected product of many years of disdain for government and the people?Why have...

On Monday’s WMNF Sustainable Living Show we first talked with a couple of members of our local Sierra Club about the Sierra National Campaign aimed at leveraging the power of cities to catalyze a national...

WMNF is celebrating 37 years on the air! Surface Noise will play songs that were likely on 88.5FM in 1979 (meaning, yeah, there might be a song from 1969 or 1977, but not 1980, because...

Are promises meant to be broken? Well according to the words of one unknown author, “Promises are meant to be kept, for they are like precious pearls in an ocean, their value is high and...

To get a little historical perspective on, particularly “Trumpism,” we need to look at the far right.  Phyllis Schlafly, who died Monday, was a huge factor in the shape of the present Republican Party.  Perhaps...