• 5/4/09

    1    WOODS    Songs Of Shame    SHRIMPER 2    MICACHU AND THE SHAPES    Jewellery    Rough Trade 3    BRAKESBRAKESBRAKES    Touchdown    FatCat 4    JULIE DORION    I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day 5    CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE    Vs. Children    Tomlab 6    HARLEM SHAKES    Technicolor Health    Gigantic 7    COMET GAIN    Broken Record Prayers    What’s Your Rupture? 8   … Read more

  • Jim Jarmusch Loves WVKR!

    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… Read more

  • Message from Halimah, former WVKR General Manager

    Dear WVKR, How is my favorite independent radio station? I am writing on the off chance you are interested in my post-VKR life. For those of you I don’t know, I graduated in 2007 and was GM my senior year and finance director before that. After working a few different jobs (programmer at the Free… Read more

  • WVKR DJ nominated for Webby Award

    WVKR is pleased to announce that Vassar student and DJ, Matthew Leung, has been nominated for a Webby Award for his video about Vassar College and the financial crisis. The video, produced for CNNMoney, can be viewed at Matt’s website. The decision of which video will win depends partly on the number of votes received.… Read more