Radio Free Montclair

You can now listen to RFM on the go

What's new: The Radio Free Montclair iOS app is here. Every host, every show, every hour — now in your pocket.

What you get: Marcel's jazz on the morning train. Scott's road stories on your own road trip. DJ Ritters on Sunday at the supermarket. Corrigan's ghost stories on a long walk home.

Why it matters: Independent local radio works best when it travels with you. Now it does.

Download for iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/radio-free-montclair/id6759936930

A mortgage is a thirty-year decision. Most people make it in an afternoon.
Show: The Pulse and Perspective with Peter D'Angelo

What you get: The latest mortgage trends, real estate news, and market insight from a working branch manager at Rate, Inc. — now expanded with motivational segments and conversations that go beyond the rate sheet.

Why it matters: Buying, selling, refinancing, or just trying to understand what the Fed did this week — Peter explains it the way a neighbor would, not the way a bank would.

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Montclair athletics are saved…for now! Join us for Episode #26 of Public Comment on Sunday, June 7 at 10am with Kevin Price and Laura Quiros of the Montclair Athletics Blue and White Club. We’ll talk about their wildly successful fundraising efforts and discuss the future of Montclair sports. Tune in at www.radiofreemontclair.org or download our new app from the Apple Store!

If "Sailing" by Christopher Cross makes you feel something, you're among friends.

Show: Yacht Rock Baby with Joe Peda

What you get: An hour of soft rock classics and Joe's stories from a 1970s and early-'80s childhood in the genre we now, with great affection, call yacht rock.

Why it matters: Some music is best understood through the eyes of the kid who grew up with it.

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He's not selling you a Riesling. He's telling you why it ended up on your table.

Show: Wine Down Montclair with Sommelier Sean Price

What you get: Thirty minutes on one topic — a varietal, a winemaking technique, a pairing, a storage trick. Listener questions welcome.

Why it matters: Wine is more enjoyable when you understand it. Sean is a patient teacher.
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Cheers to our man Frankie Moloney for his recent Emmy win for his work on Eric Dane Speaks for ABC News! Tune in to his show, the Montclair Bugle, every day at 2pm for the best in classic and new indie and alternative music. Yah Frankie!!!

Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested!

The store is on Fairfield Street. The conversation reaches farther.

Show: Watchung Booksellers Podcast with Kathryn Counsell and Marni Jessup

What you get: Authors, publishers, and serious readers, hosted by the people who run hundreds of literary events every year out of Montclair's beloved independent bookstore.

Why it matters: Independent bookstores are the last great salons. This one has a microphone now.

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Three songs walk into a bar. They have nothing in common. Except, on closer listen, they do.

Show: Themes With Boots with Brian Factor

What you get: Curated musical blocks built around a shared lyric, a shared subject, or a connection only Brian could have spotted. Listeners send him themes. He sends them back as a show.

Why it matters: This is what a great radio host does — finds the thread, then pulls.

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All vinyl. Mostly 45s. A lot of records you've never heard, and a few you've forgotten.

Show: The Skinny Tie Radio Hour

What you get: Early punk, power pop, new wave. The obscurities sit next to the classics. The needle does the talking.

Why it matters: Some music was made for the album side. This was made for the seven-inch.

Listen at radiofreemontclair.org