Vin Scelsa is hanging up his headphones. A pioneer of freeform FM radio and a New York icon for five decades, Vin announced on Saturday night during "Idiot's Delight"®, his weekly program on WFUV ...

When Vin Scelsa said he planned to retire on May 2, we knew we couldn't let him just drift away without a proper sendoff. So we rounded up some of his favorite musicians, writers, and friends to say ...

Longtime listeners to Vin Scelsa's "Idiot's Delight"® know that Lou Reed was a compañero and friend of the show, visiting many times over the years (the above photo was taken in 2003 when Lou came by ...

Vin Scelsa, whose “Vin Scelsa’s Idiot’s Delight” is heard on WFUV (90.7 FM), marks his 40th radio anniversary starting this weekend. Scelsa started his radio career on WFMU and has kept the free-form ...

WHEN veteran deejays talk about the golden age of radio, they aren’t wishing for some mythic time when Rudy Vallee sang through a megaphone. They’re talking about the time when different styles of ...

On May 2, Vin Scelsa will air the last installment of his decades-long show, Idiot's Delight, on WFUV. Here, the radio vet shares some parting thoughts on his nearly 50-year-long career. By Vin Scelsa ...

The scene still operates according to three essential commandments: "Respect the elders; embrace the new; encourage the impractical and improbable, without bias." I wrote that in March, 1993, in a ...

Vin Scelsa, the last link to the old WNEW-FM (102. 7), said Tuesday he will leave after the New Year’s Eve edition of his long-running “Idiot’s Delight. “It’s an amicable parting,” said Scelsa. “It’s ...

On May 2, Vin Scelsa — a pioneer of free-form radio, a warm and wise voice on New York’s airwaves and a hero to a generation of DJs through his stints on WFMU, WNEW, WXRK and most recently WFUV a… By ...

Just before ten o’clock on Saturday night, Vin Scelsa concluded nearly fifty years on New York’s airwaves by playing Lou Reed’s “Goodnight Ladies,” a suitably bittersweet song with the refrain “It’s a ...

WFUV(FM) host Vin Scelsa is to receive the 2007 ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award for outstanding coverage of music on his show “Idiot’s Delight.” The award comes in his 40th year on the air in ...

The Spirit of Death hovers in and around tonight's "Idiot's Delight"® at 8, but don't let that frighten you away. It is a loving gentle Spirit. I was a little late in remembering the anniversary of ...