Category: Blog
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Polka Dot Dot Dot, A Review of Sorts
In Walter Percy’s The Moviegoer, Binx Bolling views movies as a sort of validation. In a constant fight against becoming an Anyone, lost in deadening everydayness, Binx shambles together a unique reality from the movies he sees. For Binx, movies situate time, place, and even character. A neighborhood only becomes real–becomes solid–when it is featured…
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WVKR Goes To The Dogs!
Meet VKR’s new mascot– Buddy Vidrine, the 11-month old standard poodle of Cajun Medicine Show’s Doctor Romo. You can never know for sure who’s really operating the board. Cajun Medicine Show airs every Thursday from 10 AM to noon.
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WAVVES WVKR Set
Two weeks ago San Diego’s surf-punk one-man superstar WAVVES stopped by VKR to hammer our some tracks on an old Stella acoustic, ditching his trademark wall-of-noise to let the pure tunes shine. Check out “To The Dregs” off of his current record “WAVVVES” (Fat Possum) and a new untitled track. 1. To The Dregs…
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Chinese What?!
From the beginning, I’ve had a secret fear of writing on this blog. The truth of the matter is that my taste in music isn’t particularly cool. For my show, I’ll spend hours rooting around the Good Will vinyl stacks for borscht-belt comedy or dixieland jazz. And I’ll never get sick of 1960’s folk music,…