WVKR’s Summer Schedule has been finalized! We’ve got our beloved regulars and a few new shows to look forward to. There’s Bay Area Hip Hop on Mondays 4-5PM, nostalgic pop from the 1960’s on Wednesdays 1-2PM, and purely Thrash Metal on Saturdays 2-4AM. Also, you should really check out all our New Music shows:

• Ballinga: Monday 2-4PM
• WVKR Top Ten: Monday 9-10PM
• Pünk Haus: Monday 10pm-Midnight
• Poughkeepsie Omnivore: Tuesday 10pm-Midnight
• The Radio Solution: Wednesday 10PM-Midnight
• New American Rocks: TBA

Earlier this month psychedelic folk-mongering Johnny Appleseeds THESE UNITED STATES made their way to WVKR for some acoustic recordings before playing a show at Vassar.  Check out the awesome tracks from the session below:

• Those Low Country Girls
• Kings And Aces
• Sun Is Below And Above
• Six Fast Bullets

Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch praised WVKR’s programming in a recent interview for GreenCine Daily:

“I love to get playlists off of [Jersey City's] WFMU or WVKR in Poughkeepsie—Vassar has a good radio station. WFUV has a good morning show in New York, and there’s some underground hip-hop shows on WKCR, the Columbia station.”

Check out the full interview here:
http://daily.greencine.com/archives/007443.html

WVKR presents a screening of WILD COMBINATION with a presentation by director Matt Wolf.

Wednesday, April 8 at 7pm

Taylor Hall Room 203

Vassar College

124 Raymond Avenue

Poughkeepsie, NY

WILD COMBINATION is director Matt Wolf’s visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his untimely death from AIDS in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned both pop and the transcendent possibilities of abstract art. Now, over fifteen years since his passing, Arthur’s work is finally finding its audience. Wolf incorporates rare archival footage and commentary from Arthur’s family, friends, and closest collaborators—including Philip Glass and Allen Ginsberg—to tell this poignant and important story.

http://www.arthurrussellmovie.com/

View the trailer here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uziDEMpJmAo