From Detroit, MI, to our PK 12604 studios come Tyvek, hailed by some as the only true punk band in the U. S. of America.  Call them what you will, but the foursome’s knack for the art of the tune, coupled with biting lyrics and breakneck energy, is undeniable.  This is it.

1. 4312

2. Prics in a Car

3. This One

4. Underwater 1

5. Frustration Rock

6. Nothing Fits

7. Animal

8. The Rift

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1. Cage Those Pythons

2. Haze on the Mobius Strip

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1. Fishscraps

2. Jamming Every Forecast

3. Sidewalk Sludging (Airbud)

4. Kartwheels

5. New Wife, New Life

T R U M A N   P E Y O TE   MYSPACE

Our spring program guide is out now!  Keep track of our new shows and times by downloading our printable PDF schedule:

WVKR Spring Schedule 2010

Thanks for listening!

The two massive storms this past week have caused an incredible amount of power outages around the area. WVKR’s radio tower was afflicted by the power outage early on Friday morning, since then power has not been restored. The power outage at the radio tower is preventing WVKR to perform its radio broadcast. At this point in time it hasn’t been established by Central Hudson Utilities when power will be restored to the station’s radio tower. As a result please stay tuned for updates on the Website.

Meanwhile, WVKR’s web-cast is intermittently on and off, due to technical difficulties at the station. Dj’s are encouraged to do continue broadcasting in the station via the Web-cast.

Please be patient throughout our efforts to restore WVKR to the air-waves.

Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience,
Station Management

Screwed and Chopped music originated, geographically speaking in Port Arthur, Houston, menschlich speaking from Robert Earl Davis Jr. a.k.a Dj Screw. Screw was the inventor of the genre that now has a choke-hold on the Houston music scene. Even though Screw died in 2000, his tape store is still open and doing business, selling only Screw tapes. The lasting success of the Screw’s store is a symbol of the permanence of the Screwed and Chopped music style. Screwed music is in itself slow, so slow and extensive in space-time that the listener can almost drift into an eternal version of a single song.

The eternal extension of a song is an interesting concept; many artists of different media have sought to create immortal works of art. In a sense Screwed and Chopped as a genre allows songs to extend past their original conception in an eternal manner. Creating immortal tunes.

It isn’t too difficult to understand why Screwed and Chopped music has infiltrated other spheres of music aside from hip-hop. Recently much-acclaimed band, Teeth Mountain released a Chopped and Screwed live record. Live on Not Not Fun Records is an excellent composition of a Teeth Mountain Live set, slowed down.

All I’m trying to say is that Screwed and Chopped is the new blues guitar, it is too good to pass up, by anyone. Keep on seeking Kunst Screw or immortality.

Check out the Teeth Mountain Record or Some DJ Screw.

Kunst Screw

Another week, more music, here’s the best picks on the playlist from this past week:

Courtesy of myspace.com/princeramaofayodhya

MD PICK OF THE WEEK: PRINCE RAMA OF AYODHYA “ZETLAND” [s/r] – Might you have forgotten Prince Rama in the haze of ecstatic blues last Thursday? Perhaps? Well then, you should check out this album, clad in its own fur, on our very own playlist. Swirling psychedelic anthems sound as if you would be worshiping the god-queen yourself clad in nothing but sonic fuzz.

ELODIE’S PICK OF THE WEEK: LOCAL NATIVES “Gorilla Major” [Frenchkiss] - Sunny California meets almost tribal percussive rhythms with very jubilant and ecstatic hooks.

DARIUS’ PICK OF THE WEEK: WOODHANDS “Remorsecapade” [Paper Bag] – Synth and drums electro-pop duo with glam swagger and oh-so-approaching-manic “on the ups” emotional intensity.

ADAM GREEN “Minor Love” [Possum] – This sounds like an anti-folk crooner Lou Reed. Green is the co-founder of the Moldy Peaches and in this album the crass lyrics seem to be the focal point.

XIU XIU “Dear God I Hate Myself” [Kill Rock Stars] - This album is very intense and incredibly emotive, but well produced and an interesting mix of weird electronica sounds.

CRAIG RAMSEY “Parting Gift for a Party Girl” [s/r] – Ramsey is Bear’s front man’s solo debut. The album has a very twee crisp clean and airy lush folk strains.

Jamaica Plains ambient noisenik Many Mansions brought his tropical vibes to VKR’s door last week to get us excited for the days when it stays light past 6 PM.  Let the sweet jamz roll on.

Many Mansions — Live at WVKR

Tracklisting: Sparkly Portal/ Oneness/ Limitless Light/ Ascension House/ Eye Patterns

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When I first heard Mountain Man’s Animal Tracks, the simple chords and hauntingly immaculate harmonies left in my mind no room to question the irony of their name.

Comprised of three ladies from Vermont, they describe themselves as “a creature growing from three mouths: Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, Amelia Randall Meath.” They sound like the hills, like the crisp winter air. What comes out of them is a sort of true modern folk–handcrafted songs that emerge straight from their fingers and their vocal chords, songs built upon three soft and powerful voices that often intertwine to create one, immense, mountainous sound.

Signed to Underwater Peoples, they seem to be in good company, alongside Real Estate, Pill Wonder, and Alex Bleeker and the Freaks. And though they have yet to release a true album, their songs are available for free download at their BandCamp page, and fortunately they will be releasing a 10″ soon.

Below you’ll find a couple of videos–each of which provides us with a momentary escape from our modern world’s electronica-suffused musical self-alienation.

Mountain Man “Honeybee” for Yours Truly [part 2 of 3] from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

The rocking Brooklyn psych-chant-drone crew trio Prince Rama took VKR to other worlds when they took over our production studio.  Make the journey:

1. Ragupati

2. On Namo Shivaya

3. Incarnation

4. Mithras

5. Lightning Fossil

6. Aeolian Divine

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