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Workin' For [An Action-Packed WPRB] Weekend

We’ve been working all week preparing for Art All Night-Trenton and The Van Pelt. There’s been some nice things being said about both events:

Art around the clock (Michele Angermiller, Newark Star-Ledger)
Annual marathon show for art lovers slated (Chris Sturgis, Times of Trenton)
Review of The Van Pelt’s performance in Brooklyn (Ryan Muir, Brooklynvegan.com)

And of course, we’re psyched! Please don’t forget to stop by our tables/booths to say hello when you come out to support these fantastic events.

WPRB Welcomes The Van Pelt on Sunday 6/21!

WPRB & R5 Productions are thrilled to welcome THE VAN PELT to Kung Fu Necktie (1248 N. Front Street, Philadelphia, PA) on Sunday, June 21st, for a rare reunion performance that will be taped for broadcast. This show is 21+ and starts at 8:00PM! Also performing are Blacklist and This Frontier Needs Heroes.

Stay tuned to WPRB — we’re giving away tickets! You don’t want to miss this!

WPRB is taping this performance at Philly’s Kung Fu Necktie for broadcast (air date TBA), so we hope you can make it out and be a part of the live audience! It will be quite a night!

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The Van Pelt formed in 1995 and subsequently released two albums for the Gern Blandsten label: Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves (1996) and Sultans of Sentiment (1997). These records combined the ferocity of post-hardcore with the experimental textures of Sonic Youth. The Van Pelt occupied a rare space in the New Jersey rock scene and beyond: delicate enough to be pegged with the “emo” tag, but loud and angry enough to hang with the punk rock kids. Back in the day, you’d be hard-pressed to find a moment on WPRB that didn’t include one of their songs; all these years later Chris Leo & co.’s music still deeply resonates with us.

Here’s a sweet video of The Van Pelt performing in 1997 (it’s even shot on real film):

Explore Your Creative Side with WPRB at Art All Night Trenton 6/20-21!

Join WPRB and hundreds of artists of all ages at ART ALL NIGHT-TRENTON 2009! Art All Night-Trenton is a 24-hour long art and entertainment celebration happening at the Museum of Contemporary Science (675 South Clinton Avenue) in downtown Trenton, NJ. Art All Night-Trenton begins at 3:00 PM on Saturday 6/20, runs through the night until 3:00 PM Sunday 6/21.

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Art All Night-Trenton takes place in the Chambersburg section of Trenton in a sprawling 50,000 square foot factory building. The site of Art All Night is a former Roebling Machine Shop and played an important part in manufacturing parts to construct the Brooklyn Bridge.

What is Art All Night-Trenton? It’s a 24-hour (literally) art and entertainment event! An opportunity for four-year-old refrigerator artists, spirited novices and seasoned professionals to display one piece of art in a gallery like setting and for the public to enjoy that art in a dramatic renovated urban space.

Submitting art to and attending Art All Night-Trenton is FREE and open to the public!

Last year over 500 artists of all ages, skill levels and mediums submitted work and more than 5,000 people attended. Join in to enjoy live music on indoor and outdoor stages, interactive art, art films featuring stop motion photography, and animation, lectures about using art to revitalize cities, meaningful kids art activities, interesting food, and plenty of artful surprises!

WPRB is proud to be a sponsor of this year’s event and station DJs will be showing off their skills at the event on the indoor stage! Don’t forget to stop by the WPRB booth and say hello, too!

Saturday 6/20
03:00 PM Alaap
03:30 PM Jon Solomon
04:00 PM Maria T
11:30 PM KPC

Sunday 6/21
01:00 PM Lance Loud
01:30 PM Bene.dj.ctus

For a complete listing of the event’s music line-up, interactive art events, directions and much more, visit the Art All Night-Trenton website.

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart & WPRB, Sittin' In A Tree

Earlier tonight, WPRB sponsored the The Pains of Being Pure At Heart and Zaza at The Barbary in Philadelphia, and we just got back from the long train ride back from Philly.

What a wonderful show! Before the show, we got to meet the band, who are so awesome and sweet (just like their music). WPRB bonded with Kip and Peggy of TPBPH over college radio. In fact, Kip grew up in Philly listening to WPRB, so he told us stories of how he loved listening to Shellac on WPRB. Peggy, who grew up in uptown New Orleans, talked about how she loved being DJ and music director at Tulane’s station. Just as much as we loved meeting the band we love to listen to, TPBPH was excited to meet the college radio kids they once were. We had a wonderful time talking with the band; the interview with the band will air in the very near future, so stay tuned for details.

The opening band, Zaza definitely mastered the art of using loop machines. While the band only consists of a guitarist, a bassist, and drummer with a cymbal, floor tom, and a snare, the band used loop machines to create a full and dreamy sound.

After Zaza, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart played a set of mostly songs from their self-titled album. The band was so adorable! They also played their latest single, “103,” which they dedicated to WPRB. Kip, before playing the song, mentioned to the audience how much he loved WPRB and that their latest single was for WPRB, which shares its frequency with the song title.

Overall, it was a very fun show, filled with awesome shoegaze and dream pop! What did you think?

Stay tuned for more fun this summer — we’ve got a bunch of great shows lined up!

WPRB presents The Pains of Being Pure At Heart on 5/6!

WPRB & R5 Productions are proud to present everyone’s favorite twee act THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART on Wednesday, May 6th at the Barbary (951 N Frankford Ave) in Philadelphia! This show is ALL-AGES and starts at 6:30PM!

It should come as no shock that we love The Pains… noisy brand of rock — and they love us too, it seems! Their self-titled debut for the Slumberland label has taken the country by storm:

If dreamy, ’80s-sounding indie pop is your thing, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart have your number in a big way. Close your eyes and this local quartet will whisk you away to a magical land of Smiths posters and John Hughes montages. Like riding your bicycle to your friends house after you’ve finished your homework.

Stay tuned to WPRB — you can win tickets to this show!

Also on the bill are Brooklyn’s Za Za. What we’ve heard sounds good, so come early to check them out!

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WPRB Presents Gang Gang Dance and MOMS

WPRB is proud to present Gang Gang Dance and Miracles of Modern Science at the Terrace F. Club on Thursday, March 26!

Gang Gang Dance, an experimental music group from New York, delivers great dance music through an interesting fusion of electronic music with a unique, almost tribal sound. Their fourth and most recent album, Saint Dymphna (The Social Registry), was repeatedly ranked as one of the best albums of 2008. Unfortunately, in the recent past, the drummer was shot at and their musical equipment was completely destroyed in an electrical fire in Amsterdam. We will see how phenomenal the show will be despite their recent misfortunes.

Opening for Gang Gang Dance is Princeton’s own Miracles of Modern Science! While wearing futuristic space suits, the group members play an assortment of instruments, including an electric cello and a mandolin. An interesting medley of string players accompanied with a drummer, MOMS never fails to make beautiful yet vibrant music.

The show will be held at Terrace F. Club on Washington Rd. on the Princeton Campus.
Doors at 11:30 pm
Miracles of Modern Science 11:45 pm
Gang Gang Dance 12:30 am

This show will be open to the public (21+) before midnight. If you are under age or cannot arrive early, please email pnp@wprb.com. After midnight, the doors will be open only to University students.

WPRB presents The Rosebuds on 1/15!

WPRB & R5 Productions are proud to present, for your listening pleasure, a night with The Rosebuds, with The Love Language and National Eye. It’s going down on Thursday, 1/15 at Johnny Brenda’s (1201 N. Frankford Ave) in Philadelphia! Come out for this 21+ show! Starts at 9 PM!

Husband and wife duo The Rosebuds hail from North Carolina and write songs full of infectious pop will strike a chord with you. We’ve been jammin’ on their new record, Life Like (Merge Records), for a while now!

Also on the bill are The Love Language (another N.C. band) and Philadelphia’s own National Eye. Come out early and leave late — it’s a Thursday night you won’t want to miss.

Stay tuned to WPRB because we’re giving away tickets to the show!

Let us know if you’re gonna be there… stop by the WPRB booth and say hi!

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Tomorrow 11/14: Diplo! Free Pizza! WPRB!

We’ve already told you about the awesomeness that is tomorrow night’s concert with Diplo, Abe Vigoda, Blaqstarr, Telepathe, and Boy 8 Bit, but we forgot to mention that (A) it’s Diplo’s birthday, and (B) there will be free pizza.

From R5 Productions:

This is going to be real life fun, get really crazy, watch weird people dance in pizza costumes and Elmo suits while you get drunk and stupid for DIPLO’s BIRTHDAY PARTY AT THE STARLIGHT BALLROOM. We told you about how he is buying everyone pizza for the party (for real – we are ordering tons of pizza from 10 area pizza shops). Now here is the next surprise addition:

For those who purchase advance tickets (including those who purchased them already) you will get a special invite to a FREE AFTER PARTY that’s taking place later that evening. The event is limited to ONLY THOSE WHO PURCHASED ADVANCE TICKETS. None of this “can my friend get in nonsense. YOU HAVE TO BUY A TICKET TO GET IN.

Check it, so for just $10 you get admission to the DIPLO show on Friday at The Starlight with special guests Abe Vigoda, Blaqstarr, Telepathe, Boy 8 Bit, you get lots of pizza, if you are 21+ you can drink lots (and if your not – well you can see Diplo for the first time in Philly cause he has only played 21+ events!) and then you get into the free after party.

In 2008 nothing costs $10 these days – check out the prices to our other shows below. This is all because Diplo wants to really just make it a big crazy fun night and doesn’t care about “getting paid”. We honestly think that’s the best (seriously – so many artists are total money hungry crazy people) and want to make sure this really does go off.

You can get the advance tickets online or at Deep Sleep (53 N 3rd Street) or of course online atr5productions.com

In the meantime, let us know you’re coming! RSVP on Facebook or drop us a line on Twitter! Don’t forget to stop by the WPRB booth and say hi!

WPRB Presents "Christmas On Mars" Screenings!

WPRB and Sherman Arts are proud to present screenings of CHRISTMAS ON MARS, a film by Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips. It features ADAM GOLDBERG, WAYNE COYNE, ELIJAH WOOD, FRED ARMISEN (of SNL) and other MEMBERS OF FLAMING LIPS. It also features music from FLAMING LIPS.

We have two screenings!

MONDAY NOVEMBER 10th
At National Mechanics (22 S. 3rd St)
Doors 9:30 PM, Screening at 12 Midnight
FREE!!!

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 13TH
At the Marvelous (208 S. 40th St)
Screenings at 8PM, 10PM
All ages, $5.00 (Buy Tickets)

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Psychedelic rock band the Flaming Lips present Christmas on Mars: A Fantastical Film Freakout Featuring the Flaming Lips, a glorious science fiction film that marks the directorial debut of the Lips’ visionary frontman Wayne Coyne. Seven years in the making, Christmas on Mars features original music by the Flaming Lips (“The greatest U.S. band today” – The Guardian), with acting performances by all band members, and many others from their Oklahoma City-based team. Comedian Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live) and actor Adam Goldberg (Dazed and Confused, Two Days in Paris) also appear, as do Isaac Brock of band Modest Mouse, and performer Steve Burns of the band Steve Burns and the Struggle (who had also appeared in children’s television show Blue’s Clues). Bradley Beesley and George Salisbury co-directed the movie with Mr. Coyne.

It’s Christmastime, and the colonization of Mars is underway. However, when an oxygen generator and a gravity control pod malfunction, Major Syrtis (the Lips’ Steven Drozd) and his team (including the Lips’ Michael Ivins) fear the worst. Syrtis also hallucinates about the birth of a baby, and many other strange things. Meanwhile, a compassionate alien superbeing (Coyne) arrives, inspiring and helping the isolated astronauts.

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WPRB Presents Diplo On 11/14!

WPRB & R5 Productions are psyched to bring you an evening with Philadelphia’s own DIPLO, along with BLAQSTARR, ABE VIGODA (the band), TELEPATHE, and BOY 8 BIT on Friday November 14th at the Starlight Ballroom (460 North 9th Street) in Philadelphia! This is an all-ages show and starts at 8PM!

You probably know Diplo already from his work with M.I.A., but he’s an amazing DJ in his own right and runs the Mad Decent label. But long before he became a Pitchfork favorite, he was throwing down at the Hollertronix parties. This is Diplo’s first legit all-ages show, so be sure to check it out!

The show is rounded out with performances from Blaqstarr (Mad Decent’s newest addition to the roster), Abe Vigoda (who we were psyched about way back when), Telepathe (they just made a record with the TV On the Radio guys), and Boy 8 Bit (who does some awesome dubstep stuff).

Stay tuned to WPRB — we’ll be giving away tickets to this super fun show!

In the meantime, let us know you’re coming! RSVP on Facebook or drop us a line on Twitter! Don’t forget to stop by the WPRB booth and say hi!