Category: Blog

  • Guest blog: Nathaniel Sandler a.k.a. Chicken Flava, General Manager 2004

    That Bear. Maybe you’ve heard his grizzly call. Faintly, like a grumbly ringing in your ears. He stands hibernating on the third floor of the College Center at Vassar. In the lobby of WVKR. So captivating. So carnivorous. So much potential for mauling. Did you know “Bear Danger” is an accepted phrase? It refers to…

  • Comic Michele Balan Live on Lost And Found

    Comic Michele Balan of “Jay Leno Laugh Squad” and “Last Comic Standing” will be a guest on WVKR’s “Lost And Found Oldies Show” today at 3pm. She’s hilarious and she’ll be LIVE in the studio dishing the oldies and cracking us up before her performance at Bananas Comedy Club tonight in Poughkeepsie. Check this out: (http://www.thejaylenoshow.com/laugh-squad/michele-balan/) Tune in!

  • Darlings play live at WVKR

    Recently, the up-and-coming Brooklyn-based band and WVKR favorite The Darlings stopped by to do a live on-air performance for WVKR. Following this performance we interviewed them to find out more. Having just released their first album “Yeah, I Know,” their jangly garage-pop sound has been well received and has given these post-college rockers some considerable…

  • 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…