Bob Fass

We Asked the Unicorn: An Interview with Ed Askew

If you're the type who gets all doe eyed over every young snot who wears a kaftan and sings of freewheeling mysticism like it's some newfangled thing, you better wise up and pay attention to the man who has been the master of all such things in this city for over 40 years, Ed Askew. The LP he rele ... More >>

Bob Fass: Funny Fart Noises on the Radio

A new documentary explores the activist (and irreverent) free-form radio of the 79-year-old host

Radio Unnameable

On NYCTaper and the Proud, Obsessive Lineage of Local Audio Hoarders

Clip Job: Susan Brownmiller Laments the Money Woes of WBAI

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives July 15, 1965, Vol. X, No. 39 WBAI: Mastering the Art of Eking Out a Living By Susan Brownmiller They had a marvelous time, those plucky non-conforming radio kids over at WBAI. They suspended regular programming with the evening news, ... More >>

Yippie Apocalypse in the East Village

A feud of staggeringly stupid proportions

The Birth of the 'Voice': 1955–1965

From the Beats to Civil Rights, Lenny Bruce to Warhol's Factory . . .