Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Things that defy categorization. Kinda like WPRB!

Norwegian Arms visit WPRB

Norwegian Arms

Norwegian Arms, a jangly folksy trio from Philly, recently came down to WPRB to record a session.

With their mandolin, drumsticks, and synthesizer in hand, Brendan Mulvihill, Eric Slick, and Andy Molholt, respectively, rocked out in our basement—ascending to shrill heights in their rendition of Kiva Ikva.

They shared “fun facts” and some great music with us, and now we’re sharing all of that with you! Check out our recording of their time here, and be sure to check them out on the internetzzz.

Also: they’ll be performing at PhilaMOCA on March 8^th; and they released an album earlier this year, Wolf Like a Stray Dog, inspired by Brendan’s time in the wilds of Siberia. Listen to it.

Top 5: Jamtronica Music Top 5

This the third and final part of a series on Jamtronica by PRB Staffer Murray Lynch. Read the first and second pieces!

The New Deal

Murray has set up an 8tracks playlist for you to jam to while you read his pieces, or just while you do stuff and things. Check it out here.

For a quick Top 5, check out Murray’s most recommended Jamtronica songs, in no particular order:

“Find Your Cloud” by Papadosio
“Scheme” by Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9)
“Self Orbit” by The New Deal
“Koncrete” by The Disco Biscuits (footnote: some attribute them with starting the ‘jamtronica’ genre)
“The Elevator” by Particle

BONUS:

“ash” by EOTO

19th March: Free B Movies at Philadelphia “Secret Cinema”

Any Philly listeners (or listeners with cars) should definitely go check out the Secret Cinema’s free “B Picture Double Feature”.

Tuesday, March 19
7:00pm

at Woodmere Art Museum
9201 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia

with the Chestnut Hill Film Group

There will be one complete screening, starting at 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm). Admission is free.

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05/05: WPRB at Princeton Artwalk

The entrance to the art museum.

Hey all,

This Thursday from 5-8pm, the Princeton Artwalk will be happening. Here’s a short blurb on the event from the PUAM website.

“The Princeton ArtWalk invites you to discover the lively downtown Princeton visual arts scene at your own pace, with activities, events, and refreshments at venues from the Art Museum to the Arts Council of Princeton and beyond. During this ArtWalk, the Museum celebrates Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe with a three-part evening…”

WPRB will have a table, and we’ll be talking to guests of the museum as well as giving away buttons and stickers. Come meet us in person!

There will be other art-related activities at Firestone Library and the Lewis Center for the Arts. I especially urge our listeners to see the current exhibit in the Lewis Center. A senior in the visual arts program has completely transformed the gallery into a living space with rooms for perplexing performances.

The location of the Princeton University Art Museum is in the middle of campus, south of Nassau street. Our table will be within the building in one of the galleries.

Gerardo

Duchess, Duchess — Light Up Your Candles for Me

Because a Scott Walker song cut with footage from Two or Three Things I Know About Her might be exactly what you need right now.

Live Review: New York Jamtronica (Part 2)

For context, read PRB Staffer Murray’s first article on New York Jamtronica.

Flyer

People were flooding out of Stage 48. I went in–if someone was going to save us, I was not going to find him or her in the puke of people spreading across the street.

The venue was in fully lit reality-mode; the fantasy world of glowing balls levitating to loud music in the dark is over. My saviour was handing out flyers that said something-after-party-something. The flyer was Comic Sans-sketchy, but the quasi-spontaneity of the moment helped me ignore it.

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Visuals: Sigur Ros’s Valtari Mystery Film Experiment Dissected

A WPRB Blog series by Nathan, WPRB Blog Staffer

Banner of Sigur Ros’s Project website

I love the visual components that accompany songs or groups – from music videos to posters to album covers. In this series, I’ll be working my way through the artwork that comes along with your music.

I want to start with Sigur Ros’ Valtari Mystery Film Experiment.

The project tries to separate the video-making process from the artists’ visions. In their words, “the idea is to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom.”
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Staff Recommendation: Upcoming Albums

Chantelle, our favorite WPRB staffer, came up with a lovely list of upcoming albums for you all to keep an eye out for:

Artist	Album	Release Date
James Blake	Overgrown	April 8, 2013
Darwin Deez	Songs For Imaginative People	February 11, 2013
The Strokes	Comedown Machine	March 26, 2013
Born Ruffians	Birthmarks	April 16, 2013
Phoenix	Bankrupt!	April 22, 2013
Vampire Weekend	Modern Vampires of the City	May 6, 2013

Happy listening, friends.

Live Review: New York Jamtronica

By Murray (PRB Staffer)

I went to a concert expecting a concert and ended up stumbling into the world of Jamtronica.

I got my first first taste for the genre when I came across Papadosio’s “Polygonz”.

Album artwork from Papadisio’s newest album, T.E.T.I.O.S.

The song exploited my weakness for climactic Electronic Dance Music sounds. Papadosio seamlessly blended the funk/rock jam-band sounds with synth. So I went to check them out at Stage 48.

The opening act was Consider the Source, a psychedelic jam-band with Middle-Eastern and metal influences. The experience was intense, the crowd totally engaged, and after two hours I had forgotten that these were the openers.

But at 11:30pm, Papadosio was setting up.

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TRIVIA CONTEST: Win Awesome WPRB Swag!

Is your PRB swag collection deficient? Could you use more laptop decals? YES. YES, YOU COULD. And now you can have them!

A laptop decal you could potentially own.

Here’s how: Every month or so, the WPRB blog is going to host a trivia session with a PRIZE! We’re going to start with two rounds–the first round will be ten questions, and the answers will have a mystery theme. The second round will be 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:

The answers to the first round
The mystery theme to the first round
The answers to the second round

If you get every question right, we’ll send you some sweet decals and probably something hilarious.

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