WPRB is so ridiculously pumped to go check out legendary musician Vince Clarke (of Depeche Mode)–an early explorer of electronic music who helped write some of Depeche Mode’s classic tracks like “Just Can’t Get Enough” and “New Life”.
Along with Erasure, Yaz(oo) and VCMG, he’ll be DJing a long set on the main floor of

QXTs Nightclub in Newark, NJ
on

Saturday, April 20th

Doors open at 10pm.

This is especially beast because WPRB’s own DJ TM5 / Pete DeFillipo ( Tuesday night 11pm “Transitional Soundscapes” ) will be showing all kinds of Depeche Mode and VCMG music videos and concert footage of Depeche Mode and Erasure on the large video screen over the dance floor.
He’s also giving out WPRB bumper stickers and shirt pins, so come get that PRB swag.

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You guys! It’s been a completely arbitrary period of time and as such is time for trivia again! I know you want ridiculously awesome prizes.

Rules recap: Two rounds! The first round has ten questions, and the answers will have a mystery theme. The second round is four movie mashups.

What’s a movie mashup? We take the last word of one movie title and bleed it into the first word of a second movie title–and then we give you the plot. For example–if the clue was ‘a movie about a whale who inherits a candy factory’, the answer would be ‘Free Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory’. 

To enter, send us an email at pnp@wprb.com with the following things:

1. The answers to the first round
2. The mystery theme to the first round
3. The answers to the second round

If you get every question right, you don’t win a car. But you do win bumper stickers for the car you don’t win.

LET US DO THIS THING!

Round 1:

1. In 2000, this crooner was declared the Entertainer of the Century.
2. Zeus transformed into a white bull in order to abduct this Phoenician princess, but she ultimately became queen of Crete.
3. Barbara Streisand starred in this movie about a young Polish girl who disguises herself as a man after her father’s death.
4. You might once have found Peggy Olson and Pete Campbell working at this Madison Avenue company.
5. Paul Ryan expressed his fondness for this author, founder of ‘objectivism’.
6. If you can’t succeed in business unless you have close connections with a variety of government officials, you might be experiencing this form of capitalism.
7. This close relative of the urchin is also known as the ‘sea cookie’ and the ‘snapper biscuit’.
8. This social networker dropped out of college.
9. Michael Caine played this famous butler in a recent film franchise.
10. This Bravo ‘docusoap’ series spans the United States, from California to New York to Georgia. Two potential contestants caused quite a commotion when they crashed a White House function.

Round 2:

1. A high school senior skips class and it’s literally the end of the world.
2. A post menopausal couple  communicate through a mailbox while weathering the hardships of the prairie lifestyle.
3. Heath Ledger seduces a high school classmate for money in a series of quirky email exchanges.
4. An inner city math teacher makes a difference in the lives of some West Virginia campers as they brave the Appalachia wilderness.

Don’t cheat. Cheating on the Internet is for squares.

By Murray, PNP Staffer

He’s seventeen and on an international tour with his label.

Have you heard of XXYYXX?

A couple of months ago, I stumbled onto this artist in the height of my progressive trance/house fandom, a very upbeat and almost poppy genre.

XXYYXX’s music is what one blogger calls “spacey, R&B-infused, future bass, beat music.” It is experimental yet accessible. It pulled me in despite my prior inexperience/ambivalence to the softer side of EDM.

After a week or two of heavy listening to most of his tracks (some were just too experimental), I wikied him. It turns out the producer behind XXYYXX is seventeen, and recorded most of this music at sixteen.

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This Wednesday from 5:30am to 11:00am, tune into Classical Discoveries on WPRB for:

Double Concerto for Violin, Guitar and String Orchestra by Italian composer, Giovanni Albini (1982- )

Sonata for Viola and Piano by American composer, Paul Chihara (1938- )

Concerto for Four Horns and Orchestra by German composer, Harald Genzmer (1909-2007)

Speed by Australian composer, Matthew Hindson (1938- )

Concerto for Orchestra No. 2 by Ukranian composer, Ivan Karabits (1945-2002)

Piano Concerto, Op. 111 (2009) by English composer, David Matthews (1943- )

Ioannes Rex for Baritone, Choir and Orchestra by Polish composer, Romuald Twardowski (1930- )

Canti Asolani for Strings by Italian composer, Sante Zanon (1899-1965)

plus music by Elizabeth Brown, T. Patrick Carrabre, Elena Kats-Chernin, Michele Mascitti, Francesco Provenzale…

…and more.

On WPRB.

If you’ve got nothing to do and want some arts and culture all up in your life, you should get in your car, tune into WPRB and drive over to check out some of these events.
(Alternatively, you could take public transportation and listen to WPRB on a mobile device. That would potentially be even cooler.)

 

The New Jim Crow Read-Out
Sunday, April 7 – Saturday April 13
every night from 5-6 PM

Hinds Plaza in front of the Princeton Public Library

The New Jim Crow movement wants to bring attention to problems in our prison systems, especially racial issues influencing African-American and Hispanic-American citizens.
Every evening will be a chance to hear selections from Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and to listen to people who have been imprisoned or have worked with inmates. Continue reading →

Do you have small to medium children people who are off on spring break this week? Do you have no idea what to do with them? 

The Princeton Public Library has a literally absurd number of amazing events going on next week. The full schedule of events is here, but here are some highlights (for ages 5+):

Tuesday, March 26th from 3-4 PM: Dragons and Dreams

I know what you are thinking. You are thinking, “Every child loves physics!” But actually, David Maiullo from Rutgers is supposed to put on an amazing display that both kids and parents love.

If your kids go to a school with spring break in April, you’re still set. The PPL has some awesome talks going on that week too, including Discovering Insects on April 5th and Discover Lenape Lifeways on April 2.