WPRB and Whole Foods Market Princeton (3495 Route 1 South) are lovin’ la vita local and we will be celebrating with a great, big event – LOCALPALOOZA!! Show your support of our local community and organizations. LOCALPALPOOZA showcases local vendors and purveyors, local conservation groups, local artists, local museums. Lots of food and fun, not to mention activities for children.

Come join WPRB and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia as we celebrate jazz pioneer SUN RA with live performances, lectures, films, and a record fair! These events are part of the ICA’s current exhibition, “Pathways to Unknown Known Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-1968,” which runs until August 2nd.
Full information about Sun Ra and the exhibition after the jump!
WED 07-01 @ 7PM: The Sun Ra Arkestra
Tickets are $10 …

Artwork credit: Gregory Pizzoli
The 2009 WPRB Membership Drive is coming! Mark your calendars! This year’s drive is October 7-14, 2009!
As you may (or may not!) know, WPRB 103.3 FM holds a membership drive every fall to raise funds and meet our annual operating costs. While our station is located on Princeton’s campus, we receive no direct funding from the University. We are an all-volunteer organization but there are still costs we cannot eliminate. Our …

Giants of Jazz welcomes De Stijl recording artists Circuit Des Yeux on Friday 6/26 at midnight ET for a live performance.
Fronted by Haley Fohr, Indiana’s Circuit Des Yeux are currently on tour in support of their new album, Symphone, which Volcanic Tongue’s David Keenan calls “a bunch of beautifully fractured tracks.” The album comes from “the same void that birthed Jandek, Jim Shepard, Adris Hoyos et al albeit cut with some almost Diadal-styled …

We’ve been working all week preparing for Art All Night-Trenton and The Van Pelt. There’s been some nice things being said about both events:

Art around the clock (Michele Angermiller, Newark Star-Ledger)
Annual marathon show for art lovers slated (Chris Sturgis, Times of Trenton)
Review of The Van Pelt’s performance in Brooklyn (Ryan Muir, Brooklynvegan.com)

And of course, we’re psyched! Please don’t forget to stop by our tables/booths to say hello when you come out to support these fantastic …

In our ever-continuing saga of tracking WPRB alumnus Ken Katkin’s awesomeness, we’d like to congratulate him on his special award from the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Ken’s continuing support of that state’s grand contributions to independent music has awarded him the rank of colonel:
“For decades of unbroken support for the Babylon Dance Band, King Kong, Bastro, Bonnie Prince Billy, Slint, Bodeco, Your Food, Antietam, Squirrel Bait, Papa M, the Endtables, the Blinders, the Dickbrains, the Palace …

WPRB & R5 Productions are thrilled to welcome THE VAN PELT to Kung Fu Necktie (1248 N. Front Street, Philadelphia, PA) on Sunday, June 21st, for a rare reunion performance that will be taped for broadcast. This show is 21+ and starts at 8:00PM! Also performing are Blacklist and This Frontier Needs Heroes.
Stay tuned to WPRB — we’re giving away tickets! You don’t want to miss this!
WPRB is taping this performance at Philly’s Kung Fu …

(Image: WFPK 91.9 FM)
Always wanted to go to Bonnaroo, the four-day outdoor music festival, but you’re (a) too broke, (b) have a job, (c) loathe camping, or (d) some other reason? Stay tuned to this blog and our Twitter feed for daily updates live from Bonnaroo, courtesy of our very own Lance Loud (Fridays 1-3 PM)!

Join WPRB and hundreds of artists of all ages at ART ALL NIGHT-TRENTON 2009! Art All Night-Trenton is a 24-hour long art and entertainment celebration happening at the Museum of Contemporary Science (675 South Clinton Avenue) in downtown Trenton, NJ. Art All Night-Trenton begins at 3:00 PM on Saturday 6/20, runs through the night until 3:00 PM Sunday 6/21.
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Art All Night-Trenton takes place in the Chambersburg section of …

On Friday 5/8 at 10PM ET, Dr. Cosmo and “Nocturnal Transmissions” welcomes Philly pysch rockers Infinien!
“Atmospheric Philly cinema-rockers iNFiNieN — who blend piano, many-pedaled guitars, sitar, Arabic melodies, complex percussion, and cooing female vocals straight out of a Blonde Redhead album.” (Philadelphia Weekly)
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