WPRB’s award-winning program, “Classical Discoveries,” takes a turn toward the avant garde every Friday from 11AM to 3PM. Host Marvin Rosen and his program won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award in 2005.
This week, Marvin will be joined for the entire program by the director of Bridge Records, Becky Starobin, and guitarist and vice-president of the company, David Starobin. Bridge Records is an independent label from New Rochelle, NY specializing in 20th century classical music.
WPRB & R5 Productions are proud to present all-around cool guys NO AGE on Thursday, July 10 at the First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut Street) in Philadelphia.
No Age are currently on tour in support for their new album Nouns, released on Sub Pop. You can’t throw a stone without hitting a rave review for the new record, but in the words of one of our DJs:
“Much more accessible than some of Weirdo Rippers; [consisting of] loud guitar fuzz mixed up with poppy/punk vocals. Play this album!”
Stay tuned to WPRB — you can win tickets to this show!
Also on the bill are High Places, and Abe Vigoda. Both of them are pretty fantastic, so make sure to get there early and check them out!
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Special thanks goes out to WPRB listener Adam H. for designing the No Age banner ad on our website!
Here are two awesome events happening after the Saturday edition of Popped! we at WPRB are pretty psyched about.
9PM: England Belongs to Twee! at the Khyber (52 S. 2nd Street)
OppositeLand comes to life! Nerdy twee kids meet, dance, and drink it up with big ol’ skinheads and oi punkers. Easily one of the best DJ nights in Philly. This month, Herbie from Brown Recluse Sings is their special guest! (You might remember Herbie from when I covered Jon Solomon’s show a couple weeks back.) This is a 21+ event, sorry!12AM: “Nadastrom” at Pilam (3914 Spruce Street)
Baltimore club DJ/genius Dave Nada joins forces with Matt Nordstrom. We have seen Dave lay waste to entire dancefloors. This might be a FREE event. This is an ALL-AGES event, yay!
Stay up until sunrise! Sunday’s Popped! show doesn’t begin until 3PM — that’s plenty of time to catch some ZZZ’s.
WPRB’s hitting up the Popped! Music Festival in Philadelphia this weekend. Please stop by our booth and say hello!
Congrats to all of those who won tickets & passes on our station!
We hear that 3-day passes are SOLD OUT but you can still pick up tickets for the individual events. Avoid ticket surcharges — here’s a list of the box office locations & set times:
FRI 06-20: Kick-off Party
Tix still available at: The Trocadero (1003 Arch Street)
SAT 06-21: Outdoor Show @ Drexel University
Tix still available at: The POPPED! Box Office (33rd & Market Streets)
01:00 The Ting Tings
01:50 Hoots & Hellmouth
02:40 Mr. Lif
03:30 Dan Deacon
04:10 Gogol Bordello
05:40 Crystal Castles
06:45 Mates of State
08:00 Vampire Weekend
SUN 06-22: World Café Live
Tix still available at: The World Café Live (3025 Walnut Street)
Upstairs at World Café Live
04:00 Cheers Elephant
05:00 The Vandelles
06:00 The Swimmers
07:00 Takka Takka
08:00 Sam Champion
09:00 Project Jenny/Project Jan
Downstairs at World Café Live
05:15 Gildon Works
06:15 PWRFL Power
07:15 Tickley Feather
08:15 O’Death
09:45 The Capitol Years
10:15 Daniel Johnston