Category: News
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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…
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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…
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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.
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Pete Seeger at Vassar College
Over the summer, I had the privilege of sitting in on a WVKR radio session with folk legend Pete Seeger. Our own Joel Tyner brought him on as a special guest on his show called Activist Radio. It was the first time I had ever seen this folk legend, and I immediately hoped that I…