We are a community radio sinking into a practice of deep listening and charting the waters of
Black memory, culture and place.

Perfect Memory Radio (PMR) is a volunteer-run collective of Black and gender expansive archivists, artists and DJs living in Baltimore, MD. We call people to commune over sounds, lyrics and memories that return us to our culture and the knowledge within. Our founding members are MacKenzie River Foy, Elissa Blount Moorhead, and Xavier Walker.

Our central project is an internet radio broadcast hosting experimental music and news programs attuned to the frequencies of Black life, erotics and technologies. Extending this digital program, we activate gatherings to incite critical conversations exploring the history of Black music, rhetoric and poetics. 

Established in 2025, PMR continues to develop its presence and scope with the vocal support of local journalists, sound selectors, and artists. The radio season runs annually from November through February. Following its successful first pop-up in February, our two interactive events Memory Lounge and Listening Session began in November 2025.

Amidst direct and indirect attacks on Black history and cultural sites, our systematic erasure is matched by a total disregard for the safety of our communities. Perfect Memory Radio is our response to this existential threat, a resistance effort to sustain Black life by preserving its key ingredients – culture and knowledge. 

Mobilizing an ecosystem of local media, poets, and memory workers, we’re creating collective listening experiences that connect and inform our peoples.  The broadcast and its connected programs are perfect containers to articulate the relationship between culture and movement, both practicing and theorizing ways Black art offers political frameworks to guide us through this destabilizing era of global and local history. PMR is also a gateway to radio for audiences of all ages, cultivating space for intergenerational exchanges that improve our ability to listen to/for one another.