When Eric Holland was growing up in the '80s and building his vinyl record collection, he would never have guessed that he'd be playing them on the air years later: "The best decision I ever made was not getting rid of my albums." His House of Wax segment Monday through Thursday evenings around 8 o'clock is the centerpiece of his 6-10 p.m. evening shift. Or maybe he would have guessed? "From the time I was 15 years old," he says, "I knew I wanted to be a rock radio DJ."

Holland's radio career took flight at Ithaca College's WICB. Following graduation, he spent time behind the microphone at rock stations like WAQY in Springfield, MA and WKGB in Binghamton, New York. Between gigs, he crisscrossed the country to explore national parks and musical cities such as Clarksdale, New Orleans, Memphis, Austin, and San Francisco, eventually settling down for a few years as Program Director and Afternoon Host at KKLV in Honolulu. ("Going to Hawaii was a good decision too!") After that consciousness-expanding quest, he ended up back where he grew up: Massachusetts, where he continued on air at WZLX and WBOS, and taught broadcasting classes at Emerson College.

As a lifelong lover of sushi and Kurosawa, Holland found a way to live for a few years in Japan, co-hosting a bilingual radio program in Tokyo called Henna ("Strange") Communication. In the fall of 2007, Eric returned to the states and headed for the town he fell in love with during a handful of visits in his college years: New York. In June of 2008, Eric did his first show on WFUV, and it has proved to be a perfect fit.

"It's brilliant to be able to draw on all the different genres in the FUV music library and carry on the spirit of independent, free-form radio. It's also a pleasure to be able to work with some of the best DJs I've ever heard."

Comfortable in front of the camera too, Holland was the music reporter on NY1-TV from 2012 to 2017. He currently resides not far from our Bronx studios with his wife and his cat, Black Sabbath, surrounded by his record collection and in striking distance of the city’s live music venues. Aside from being a live music fiend, he enjoys crossword puzzles and riding his bicycle.

He's also a nut about nature's best-dressed flightless birds! Holland traveled to the Chilean side of Tierra Del Fuego to hang out with penguins, and hopes to visit the Falklands or Antarctica one day to spend time with more.