• A Taste of Russian Rock on WVKR

    Last night, Professor Nikolai Firtich from Vassar’s Russian Studies Department, did an hour-long show on Russian and Soviet rock music, starting with groups from the 1970s and coming all the way up to the present.  Playing records and CDs from his own collection to narrate this musical journey, Nikolai presented great insight on a music… Read more

  • 11/10 1 THAO WITH THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN Know Better Learn Faster Kill Rock Stars 2 CURSILLISTAS Les Biches Self-Released 3 NEON INDIAN Psychic Chasms Lefse 4 COLD CAVE Love Comes Close Matador 5 FRESH AND ONLYS Grey-Eyed Girls Woodsist 6 KURT VILE Childish Prodigy Matador 7 GROOMS Rejoicer death by audio 8 FUCK… Read more

  • 11/3

    1 FRESH AND ONLYS Grey-Eyed Girls Woodsist 2 GIRLS Album True Panther Sounds 3 MILES BENJAMIN ANTHONY ROBINSON Summer Of Fear Saddle Creek 4 THAO WITH THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN Know Better Learn Faster Kill Rock Stars 5 DEAD MAN’S BONES Dead Man’s Bones Anti 6 NEON INDIAN Psychic Chasms Lefse 7 FUCK BUTTONS… Read more

  • Radioactivity-Twitter Integration

        WVKR is now beta-testing a new Radioactivity facility which will link our play-logs with a twitter account in real time. We have set up an alternate twitter account (twitter.com/wvkrfm) to post these plays. So now you can keep up with our live shows on twitter. Check it out, it’s pretty freakin’ awesome. Read more