Weekdays
Josh Bails | Proving it's not that hard to find good
Breakfast of Champions | 8-10a | Zoë, Becca,
Ted, Becky, Keith, & Jon | Heaping hot helping of
deliciously sweet pop, served with a short stack of
pretentiously introspective indie-rock and a side of
crispy punk hits. All washed down with a unique blend
of self-deprecation and joie-de-vivre, aged 25+ years. s
Late Risers’ Club | 10a-12p | Chrissy Victims, Ben
Kochan, Mark Francis, Joanie Lindstrom, Mully, & Tim
R./Jeff | Rockin you hardest, earliest for 33 years.
Lost & Found | 12-2p | Mark Francis, Eli Polonsky,
Brother Wayne, Christopher Vyce, Alex McNeil | Rock,
pop, and soul from the ’60s and early ’70s, but not the
same old songs you hear every day on commercial radio.
WMBR Nightly News | 5:30-6p | WMBR News
Dept | A uniquely independent, non-corporate,
national newscast from Pacifica Radio Network.
Sunday
Compas Sur FM | 6-8a | Emmanuel René
The intricacies of compas music.
Haiti Focus | 8-10a | Jacques-Antoine Jean
Dedicated to the Haitian community: featuring news,
music, community information, interviews, and reports
on issues related to women, immigration laws, health
care, education, politics, development, and the current
situation in Haiti and the Haitian diaspora.
Radio with a View | 10a-12p | Marc Stern
Economic democracy, human rights, and other
idealistic visions of the world. Truth and reconciliation
and music to get your mind and body in sync.
World Beat | 12-2p | Brutus Leaderson | Presenting
world music to the Boston audience.
Jam Session | 2-4p | Pam Spencer & Carol
Muschette-Kirk | Awesome reggae program with
soca, calypso, and gospel music segments, plus
interviews on many varied topics including passport,
citizenship, lobbying, medicine, education, and
entertainment. “Forward always, backwards never.”
Afrika Kabisa | 4-6p | Julia Mongo
Africa Absolutely! Boston’s African music radio show.
Classic and contemporary African and Afro-Caribbean
music. Soukous, ndombolo, rumba, zouk, kompa,
coupé décalé, makossa, highlife, and more. Plus an
African music concert report and interviews with guests
on a variety of African-related topics.
R&B Jukebox | 6-8p | Captain Al | Vintage soul
music from the ’60s through the early ’80s. A unique
blend of blues, R&B, funk, and soulful jazz. It’s New
England’s hottest jukebox.
Hidden Gems in Plain Sight | 8-9p
music if you know where to look – musical goodies
just off from mainstream. s, r
THAT Show | 9-10p | DJ’s Megan & Dalitso
Hey, have you heard about that one show on that one
station? Yeah... THAT Show. s
For Your Pleasure | 10p-12a | Ré Antoine
Love is what it’s all about on a Sunday night. R&B
love songs, jazz, and your requests and dedications for
The Roll Call via mail, phone, or email. You’ll be
guided through this “love serenade” by host Ré
Antoine. The best slo jams to be heard in Cambridge,
greater Boston, the internet, and beyond!
Instrumentality | 12-2a | Brendan Fay | A genre-
spanning journey through the world of instrumental
music, from the many emotions of Ennio Morricone
to the exotic sounds of Les Baxter – and all the
beauty in between. s, n
Monday
French Toast | 6-8a | Brian & Yves | Bonjour!
Voo-lay voo fran-say? Then start your week off with
the best in French-language music, local event listings,
and the Cheese of the Week!
Research & Development | 2-4p | Charlie Kohlhase
Forward-looking jazz of every decade with a special
emphasis on the overlooked masters of the ’60s and
’70s. Jazz Calendar Highlights. Classic Tenor Corner.
The Jazz Volcano | 4-5:30p | Kennedy Compound
Serving up a seismic eruption of wonderful jazz divas
and jazz greats – mostly vocals… tossing in some big
band, swing, and some suprises along the way.
Sound Principles | 6-8p | Fred Allen | Post-bop,
free jazz, and creative improvised music from
America, Europe, Japan, and even Boston/Cambridge.
Hear the 21st century new jazz underground.
Bats in the Belfry | 8-10p | Mistress Laura
Enter the sanctuary…gothic, ethereal, atmospheric
music from all over the world, USA and Boston. Dark,
moody, atmospheric; beginning with ancient music and
chant to the newest gothic rock, darkwave, gothic neo-
classical, goth-industrial and dark ambient.
Last Dance at the Death Disco | 10p-12a
[alternates with Strangers with Candy]
Rik Eberhardt | History you can DANCE to!
Featuring postpunk and underground classics from
the ’70s on up. We’ll dance to anything.
Strangers with Candy | 10-12p [alternates with
Last Dance at the Death Disco] | Juan Carlos Ybarra |
POST-POST-hardcore and POST-POST-punk, or
something pretentious like that. Mostly just punk, some
hard rock, indie rock, electronica, and a little rap. s, m
Lattice Vibrations | 12-1a | Nathan | Traveling
both spatially and temporally to visit a variety of
electronic dance beats; hitting up everything from
trance to techno. s, n
Suavecito | 1-2a | Legranster and Joe Pabz | Un
poquito de lo bueno de la música en español. s, n
Tuesday
Thickly Settled | 6-8a | Dave Goodman | Or How
I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love My Neighbor.
A radio program about civilization and citizenship.
The New Edge | 2-4p | Ken Field | Creative and
innovative cross-genre instrumental music from the
past, present, and future.
The Jazz Train | 4-5:30p | Jon Pollack
A weekly journey through the jazz legacy and related
musical styles, often featuring an underlying theme.
DJ Awesome & the Wonderfriends | 6-7p
bananapants & brown sugar | Complain around the
campfire with us. (Rock, punk, post-punk) s
Riding the Norse Horse | 7-8p | Roman | Take a
ride on the Norse horse, a thoughtful musical trek
through the Scandinavian/Norse countries of Sweden,
Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and Finland. Oh Norse
horse – such a beautiful beast.
Pipeline! | 8-10p | Jeff Breeze & Mike Reed
Locovores are cool. We help your ears eat even more
locally than your stomach.
Party Shuffle | 10-11p | Comrade Cosmobot
Delivering delectable ditties for discriminating ears,
People's Commissar of Music Comrade Cosmobot
presents everything from classic rock to electronica
to the latest indie errata. s
The Rude Show | 11p-12a | nadia | A weekly
serving of second- and third-wave ska that’ll get you
on your feet skanking the hour away, with enough
reggae and rocksteady to satisfy your soul. s
Generoso’s Bovine Ska & Rocksteady | 12-2a
Generoso Fierro | “I live from east to west, botheration
there I move from north to south, botheration there.
So everywhere I go, botheration there. Too much
confusion in the city. Too much botheration on the
land” —Justin Hinds, “Botheration”
Wednesday
Ceangal Ceilteach | 6-7a | Kit Kelt | Come
explore the diaspora in Celtic music with Ceangal
Ceilteach, a Celtic Connection. Hear hip hop, rap, jazz,
traditional, and more – all sung in Celtic languages.
The Real News | 7-8a | Matt Davidson | Bringing
you the news buried by the corporate media. s, m
Gorilla Got Me | 2-4p | Sara J | Crazed sounds created
by the rejects, rebels, and assorted losers of rock ‘n’ roll!
In the Margin | 4-5:30p | Sue Schardt & Chuck U
[hosts alternate weekly] | Masters of the Margin butter
your ears with deft spontaneity plumbing the
audiological depths, mixing with madness sublime.
Laugh, cry, tingle, sigh.
The Intercontinental | 6-8p | Jesse Kaminsky
Lounging at a seaside resort in prewar Japan or drinking
secretly in 1970s Ethiopia, the Intercontinental is
listening. On a dusty roadside in Peru or lost in the
southern seas, the Intercontinental doesn’t speak the
language, the perpetual sonic tourist, making you listen
to his slide show every week.
Slow and Unsteady | 8-9p | Tim Gilman
Providing the perfect soundtrack to days when you
want to hide from the world in the fetal position.
Slight emphasis on the slowcore genre.
Music by Dead People | 9-10p | Brian Sennett
Classical music: whether you're a connoisseur, or think
it's for snobs, we provide you with a finely tuned mix
of pieces from ancient to modern. s, n
Musenomix | 10-11p | DS Turner | An onslaught of
raw hip hop, dub, and post-punk rhythms, interviews
with hip hop legends, local artists, and music
journalists, mixed with slabs of absurd comedy.
Background Music | 11p-12a | Lipika
Electronic listening music: downtempo, hip hop,
jazz, ambient, new compositions. Requests and
contributions are welcome. n
Mostly Improved | 12-1a | DJ Noah | An eclectic
mix of live concert recordings. Ranging from long and
psychedelic to short and folksy. Tune in for the best in
live music! n
Out of Order | 1-2a | Puck Vickery | Mixing the
new with the old, digging through jazz, afro, hip hop,
Latin, electronica, soul, and beyond. s, n
Transformers | 2-4a | Noah Vawter | Remixing,
mashups, and intriguing subgenres of subcultures,
erring on the side of electronic and live. s, n
Thursday
Pontoon Palace | 6-8a | Rich Pontius | A good-
natured but incorrigible bin-digger becomes embroiled
in an early-morning plot to present a rich panoply of
deep folk, heavy rock, psych, country, jazz, and pop,
all the while indulging his boundless zeal for mischief
and romance.
Troubadour | 2-4p | Bruce Sylvester | An eclectic
journey through traditional and contemporary roots
music reaching back to the 1920s: American, British,
and Irish folk. Blues, bluegrass, and classic ’50s
rockabilly, R&B, and country. Roots music without
bounds or barriers.
Droppin’ Knowledge | 4-5:30p | Joeg | Local music,
live music.
Tonto’s Fury | 6-7p | Bob Roffi | An exploration of
traditional and contemporary music and spoken word by
Native American artists. From LaFarge to Trudell, Davis
to Indigenous, Boyd to Bilagody, Mirabal to Means.
Radio Ninja | 7-8p | L-Train | Lobotomy beats:
Downtempo, Midtempo, trip hop, turntablism, and
straight up car commercial music. Radio Ninja gives a
nod to all things Ninja Tune and beyond. m
Nonstop Ecstatic Screaming | 8-10p | Thao
Two hours of sound designed to split your skull open,
break your brain, and pop your funk. Bloopity bits and
bobs, plinkety plonk, drone, skronk, assorted noise, a
bumping beat here and there, etc.
House Therapy | 10p-12a [alternates with
Sewersounds] | Mike LaRosa | Feed your soul with
the finest in foot-tapping, body-moving house music.
Continuous mixes from top-notch local and
international DJs. s
Sewersounds | 10p-12a [alternates with House
Therapy] | Teep | The undercurrent of electronix
presented via moodmat. Sewersounds collection and
treatment system is qualified not by genre, but by
viscosity, density, pH, and thermal stratification. n
The No No Nothing | 12p-2a | evelyn ruby
Art, experiment, rock, sound, rap, me, the medium,
and you. s
A Band Apart | 2-3a | Logan | Music of the present,
the past, the future, and that one time that time
became a loop. s, m
Friday
Pink Bullets | 6-7a | Andrea Tentner | Curious
knick-knacks found on the ground, beauty, fun, and
things you should know... “If there is magic on this
planet, it is contained in water”—Loren Eiseley n
The Scene | 7-8a | Nick Saloman & Paul Simmons
Psychedelia, soul, surf, blues, rock, beat, mod, prog,
easy, rock & roll, and a whole lot more fed through
the distinctly British mincer that is The Bevis Frond’s
Nick Saloman & The Alchemysts’ Paul Simmons Scene
radio show.
Coffeetime | 2-4p | Angelynn Grant | Hard bop,
bebop, west coast & cool, early & vocal jazz. Plus, every
so often, jazz from the movies or TV. And, at the end
of the show, a little bit of gospel, a little bit of soul.
Doin’ okay, feelin’ good. o
I Love a Parade | 4-5p | Lindsay Ellison | Parading
in tunes and local artists for interview; keeping time
with vintage, new and local AAA/Americana/folk/
roots, swingers/songsters/rockers; floats with local
theater, comedy, spoken word.
What’s Left | 6-7p | Linda Pinkow | Political talk,
music of all genres, art and culture, live interviews,
pre-recorded sounds, all with a radical spirit.
Music for Human Beings | 7-8p | Dr. Jalis
As-Sakran, Aurora, Erno, Zoro, & Friends | Wander into
the swirling echoes of a honeycomb formerly inhabit-
ed; be the aural bee that creates and consumes! s
Terravoice | 8-8:30p | Maria Cassidy, Allison
Schneider, Jessica Fujimori | The best of environmental
trends around Boston. Our loud, proud news and
science pieces inform, inspire, and entertain. s, m
Three Chords and the Truth | 8:30-10p
[alternates with The Improbability Field] | Ollie,
Matt, & Joe | For all the young punks. s, m
The Improbability Field | 8:30-10p [alternates
with Three Chords and the Truth] | Glenn Nameless
An FTL voyage through a myriad of subgenres in
electronic music from across the ’verse. (Warning:
subject to the improbability field.) n
Time Traveling | 10p-12a | Nomadik | Taking you
on a music journey into the soulful sounds of funk, soul,
and hip hop of yesterday and today.
A Detour Through Time | 12-1a | Matt | I just
plan on playing music. I won’t be discussing issues or
talking a lot in general (except about the music I am
playing). s, n
Girls Only | 1-2a | Ang | Spanning all music genres
and trends to celebrate female artists and groups from
around the world. s, n
The Mohs Scale | 2-3a | Jacob Bailey | As the name
suggests, The Mohs Scale presents rock of varying
degrees of hardness. From pop to death metal, you’ll
find it here. s, n
Words to Your Mother 2: Oh, the Verbosity!
3-4a | Mark Tiberius Wittels, Alejandro Braggadocio Ruiz
Exotic melodies served with a delicate mix of succulent
wit and hand-picked olives for your aural arousal. s
Saturday s: student show m: moved show
88 Rewound | 6-8a | Philip Smith | Take a trip back in r: returning show
time as WMBR rewinds to play radio’s top hits from a (after an absence of one ph: 617.253.8810
or more seasons)
random day in music history. s AOL IM: wmbrdj
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Lost Highway | 8-10a | Doug Gesler | Country music
for the modern family...
WMBR would like to thank Cambridge Trust
Backwoods | 10a-12p | John Funke | The best in
Company for its generous support all year long.
vintage rock ‘n’ roll, country and western, and rhythm ‘n’ Cambridge Trust, we salute you!
blues. More songs about Cadillacs and chickens.
Howlin’ the Blues | 12-1p | Ahmed Ahmed | “I
Management: Technology Broadcasting
started wailing the blues when the doctor whacked my
Zoë Rogers ’12, Corporation:
bottom on the day I was born.”—Jet Black s, r
General Manager Henry Holtzman SM ’91,
The Paradox Box | 1-2p | Eduardo & Lily | Lily has a Dalitso Nkhoma ’13, President
ska habit. Eduardo has an alt-rock problem. Listen to Megan Velasquez ’13, Anne Slinn SM ’91,
Campus Promotions Directors Vice President
their musical tastes duke it out like two rabid cats
fighting in a dumpster. s Lisa Gassaway ’88, Shawn Mamros ’89, Treasurer
Comptroller Todd Glickman ’77, Clerk
The Hidden Capital | 2-4p | Tim Kelly | “Boston...
the hidden rock and roll capital…”—Peter Zaremba
Jabe Ziino ’11, Event Director Philip J. Walsh, Secretary
Lily Tran ’13,
(The Fleshtones) Membership Director
Prof. Timothy F. Jamison
Michael R. Jung
Aural Fixation | 4-6p | Sue | Set the controls for Ahmed Hussain ’12,
John Kosian
the heart of autumn! Sue returns from summer vacation Program Director
with a beach bag full of fuzz guitars, psychedelic Joeg, Station Manager
Ayida S. Mthembu
sounds and dreamy drones. William Kuhlman ’07,
Oedipus
Technical Director Prof. Joseph A. Paradiso
James Dean Death Car Experience | 6-8p PhD ’81
Capt. Al Franklin,
Lisa | You’re tooling down the highway and are
Training Coordinator Paul Parravano
overcome with desire for indie pop. Do you (a) stop in
DJ Slick, Volunteer Professor Evan Ziporyn
road, (b) text, (c) visit the highway ditch, (d) turn on
Coordinator Zoë Rogers ’12, student
the Death Car Experience?
representative
The Show Show | 8-10p | MaGoGo | Starting your
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ceangal ceilteach pontoon pink bullets
7a compas sur fm french toast thickly settled 88 rewound 7a
the real news palace the scene
8a 8a
haiti focus breakfast of champions lost highway
10a 10a
radio with a view late risers’ club backwoods
12p 12p
howlin’ the blues
world beat lost & found
paradox box
2p 2p
research &
jam session the new edge gorilla got me troubadour coffeetime the hidden capital
development
4p 4p
africa kabisa the jazz volcano the jazz train in the margin droppin’ knowledge i love a parade aural fixation
5:30p 5:30p
6p wmbr nightly news 6p
dj awesome &
the wonderfriends tonto’s fury what’s left james dean death
7p r&b jukebox sound principles the intercontinental 7p
riding the norse horse radio ninja music for human beings car experience
8p 8p
terravoice
8:30p hidden gems slow and unsteady 8:30p
9p
nonstop ecstatic 9p
bats in the belfry pipeline! three chords improbability the show show
that show music by dead people screaming and the truth field
10p 10p
last dance
strangers with
party shuffle musenomix house
11p for your pleasure at the sewersounds time traveling the choice is yourz 11p
candy therapy
death disco
the rude show background music
12a 12a
lattice vibrations generoso’s bovine mostly improvised detour through time
1a instrumentality the no no nothing mellow madness 1a
suavecito ska & rocksteady out of order girls only
2a 2a
a band apart the mohs scale
DZ
3a transformers algorhythms 3a
words to your mother
4a 4a
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