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Membership Drive Schedule for Fri 10/9

What’s on WPRB today during the Membership Drive? Check the schedule! Love this programming? Support WPRB today!

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10/09/09 06:00:00-08:00:00
Classical with Nathan

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10/09/09 08:00:00-10:00:00
Classical with Julie

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10/09/09 10:00:00-13:00:00
Classical meets Rock with Andrew & Dave (Classical/Rock)

Nope, not “classic rock” – it’s classical-meets-rock!

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10/09/09 13:00:00 – 16:00:00
Las Fantasmas with Zoe & Gracie (Rock)

In-studio performance by Brown Recluse

Las Fantasmas will be gracing the airwaves with their signature mix of indie rock and far-reaching eclecticism, plus an in-studio performance by Philadelphia’s Brown Recluse (Slumberland Records) at 3 p.m. ET!

Formed in 2006, Brown Recluse take influences from the psych pop of The Zombies and Margo Guryan, the tropicalia of Os Mutantes, and 60s producers like Curt Boettcher, Joe Meek and Phil Spector, and create something very modern. A pastoral, psychedelic vibe permeates the group’s new EP, The Soft Skin, bringing to mind the sunshine pop of Curt Boettcher’s The Millennium/Sagittarius projects, and such familiar touchstones as Brian Wilson, Belle & Sebastian, The Clientele and the Elephant 6 collective.

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10/09/09 16:00:00-16:30:00
Timeout with WPRB Sports

Sports interview and discussion with the WPRB Sports department.

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10/09/09 16:30:00-17:00:00
State of the Station with Ned

Join WPRB Station Manager Edwin Bennett as he brings listeners up to speed with the station’s activities, and answer your burning questions about us!

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10/09/09 17:00:00-18:00:00
Top Ten Countdown with DJ Day

Count down WPRB’s top releases of the week!

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10/09/09 18:00:00 – 20:00:00
Her Jazz with Maria T (Rock)

Food, glorious food! Join Maria Tesla Pizzeria for “Songs About Eating,” a program featuring music morsels so tasty you’ll want to gnaw on the radio. A rare live performance of a “pizza crust” punk band may or may not happen. Each donation pledged during this show will receive a copy of Maria T’s “piz’zine,” a ‘zine all about pizza. You look a little hungry. Eat something.

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10/09/09 20:00:00-22:00:00
Slot Time with SG (Rap/Hip-Hop)

Nothing but the illest hip hop and rap from the Surgeon General.

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10/09/09 22:00:00-01:00:00
Nocturnal Transmissions with Dr. Cosmo (Rock)

Nocturnal Transmissions features live music each week followed by a challenging maze of audio architecture. From the obscure to the commonplace, Dr. Cosmo offers WPRB listeners the opportunity to exercise their listening muscles in new and interesting ways.

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10/10/09 01:00:00-04:00:00
Music With Space with Mike Hunter (Ambient/ Electronic/Avant Garde)

Music for the space between your left and right ears. Ambient, electronic and avant garde music. Music to dream to!

Membership Drive Schedule for Thu 10/8

What’s on WPRB today during the Membership Drive? Check the schedule! Love this programming? Support WPRB today!

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10/08/09 04:00:00 – 11:00:00
Towe on Thursday with Teri Noel Towe (Classical)

The 2nd installment in the series of programmes devoted to the pupils of the harpsichordist and pianist, Wanda Landowska, the 50th anniversary of whose death we commemorate in 2009. The pupils to be featured on this programme: Alice Ehlers, Sylvia Marlowe, Rafael Puyana, Denise Restout, Irma Rogell, and Alexis Weissenberg.

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10/08/09 11:00:00 – 13:00:00
Blues, Bop and Beyond with Will Constantine (Jazz)

Classic and new recordings from a variety of jazz composers.

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10/08/09 13:00:00 – 15:00:00
The Clothesline with Wilbo (Rock)

“Music about radio” features selections about all aspects of this wonderfully addictive, organic, living thing that feeds the music junkie in all of us who either listen and/or spin. You’ll be standing on your couch, pumping your fists in the air, and screaming “WPRB!!!” at the top of your lungs. We promise.

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10/08/09 15:00:00-15:30:00
In-studio performance by Sian Alice Group

Join us for an in-studio set featuring UK band Sian Alice Group, currently on tour supporting their new release, Troubled, Shaken Etc. (The Social Registry Records). Pitchfork writes, “Sian Alice Group chart transformations from psychedelic rock, pastoral folk, and piano-lounge balladry into analog-synthtronica, free-jazz breakdowns, pounding Afro-tech grooves, and avant-classical composition. The beauty of Sian Alice Group is that the band is capable of creating highly effective music even when they stray far from traditional torch-song territory.”

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10/08/09 15:30:00 – 18:30:00
Doubleplusgood with Lizbot (Rock)

This edition of Doubleplusgood will feature the panting, snarling, scurrying and generally hirsute members of our community, in other words: Beasties! In fitting with the theme, Lizbot will be offering albums by the following bands: Grizzly Bear, Art Bears, An Albatross, Deerhoof, Modest Mouse, Tyrannosaurus Rex as an incentive for listeners to support WPRB.

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ON WPRB 103.3 FM
10/08/09 18:30:00-22:00:00
Princeton Football versus Colgate University (Sports)

*** Please note: this is will be broadcast only on our FM signal! ***

Princeton Tiger football takes on the team from Colgate University.

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ON WPRB.COM
10/08/09 18:30:00-22:00:00
Doubleplusgood with Lizbot (Rock)

*** Please note: this is will be broadcast only via streaming audio! ***

Lizbot continues her monster of a show on our Internet stream, and it is devoted to the panting, snarling, scurrying and generally hirsute members of our community, in other words: Beasties! In fitting with the theme, Lizbot will be offering albums by the following bands: Grizzly Bear, Art Bears, An Albatross, Deerhoof, Modest Mouse, Tyrannosaurus Rex as an incentive for listeners to support WPRB.

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ON WPRB.COM
10/08/09 20:00:00 – 22:00:00
I Like to Dance: Shake off Your Pants! with Gildilocks & Postnatal (Rock/Dance)

*** Please note: this is will be broadcast only via streaming audio! ***

We’ll be playing our dance-making, pants-shaking grooves. New tracks and old favorites will be cut loose. We’ll be cutting the rug for the entire show!

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10/08/09 22:00:00 – 0:00:00
Best of the UK with Scott Einhorn (Rock)

From The Beatles to Coldplay, the best British artists, albums and songs from the last 50 years.

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10/09/09 02:00:00 – 06:00:00
Steppin’ Out with Ian Auzenne (Jazz/Blues/R&B)

Ian Auzenne stays up all night playing the best of jazz, blues, and R&B and telling tales of life, love, and the pursuit of happiness.

Membership Drive Schedule for Wed 10/7

What’s on WPRB today during the Membership Drive? Check the schedule! Love this programming? Support WPRB today!

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10/07/09 19:00:00 – 00:00:00
Rock with Jon Solomon

Live in-studio with exclusive sets for the start of the 2009 Membership Drive:

Jennifer O’Connor (left, playing covers in return for your pledges), Caterpillar, Danielson (Secretly Canadian), Obits (Sub Pop), The Spinto Band (Park The Van) and Screaming Females (Don Giovanni), plus guest appearances by Bitter Bitter Weeks, Rebecca Gates and Tim Midgett!

Jon will have giveaways to The Bent Spoon and Blue Sage Grille.

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10/08/09 00:00:00 – 02:00:00
Rock with Abby & Harlan

We bring the indie jams from rock to hip hop every Wednesday night!

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10/08/09 02:00:00- 04:00:00
Deadly Tango with SKM

Random samplings focused on 2009 releases, with the inevitable nonsequiturs and sonic mayhem.

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Back By Popular Demand: Classical Discoveries Goes Avant-Garde!

Photo: Princeton Packet/ Centraljersey.com

Photo: Princeton Packet/ Centraljersey.com

Back by popular demand “Classical Discoveries goes Avant-Garde” returns to our Fall 2009 schedule! “Classical Discoveries Goes Avant-Garde” will air Wednesdays from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. ET beginning Wednesday, 9/30.

Devoted listeners of the program were unhappy when it didn’t return in our Fall lineup. You called, emailed, tweeted, and blogged – and we listened! Classical Director Tiffany Lu remarks:

“Please thank your listeners for me and for the whole of WPRB management, for letting us know what they think and for showing support for the programming they love. It’s well-deserved!”

Where else but on a station as unique as WPRB can the listeners make a difference? Please remember that if you like WPRB, we are currently conducting a Listener Survey — share your comments! It’s only when we hear from you that we know how we’re doing!

Holy Crap We Have A New Blog

Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth

Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, July 2009. Photo by Maria T

Welcome to the brand new WPRB blog. We hope you like it! Please feel free to share your thoughts on posts and pass along our stories to your friends, family, and colleagues.

Even though we’ve had a million eyes on this, there’s always the chance that we left something off, there’s bizarro code, and so on. So if you see anything wonky, let us know. Your help makes us better, faster, stronger.