This is the second of WPRB’s four part review of the Pitchfork Music Festival held on July 15-17  in Chicago, Illinois.
 Day Two
by Griffin Winton-LaVieri (WPRB Music Director)
Having realized it was worth it to be up front and thus arrive at the gates early; Ravi and I spent two hours waiting outside the festival grounds on Saturday.  However, that day, instead of going to the Green stage where Fleet Foxes would headline, we opted for the nearby …

This is the first of WPRB’s four part review of the Pitchfork Music Festival held on July 15-17  in Chicago, Illinois.
 Day One
by Griffin Winton-LaVieri (WPRB Music Director)
Every year the Pitchfork Music Festival seems to book the best bands.  Last year as I watched the artist announcements (Broken Social Scene!) come out (LCD Soundsystem!) through out the spring (Pavement!), I was all too aware that there was no way I could make it. But 2011 was different; …

Every week this summer, WPRB will highlight one its DJs in “Get To Know WPRB’s DJS.”
Name: Dan Buskirk
Show: “Jazz with Dan Buskirk” Mondays 11:00AM -1PM.
Type Of Music Played: “Post-Coltrane era jazz.”
Reasons for Being a DJ: “I think I’m a frustrated musician and this is my way of getting that out.”
Day Job: Writer.
Hometown: Philadelphia.
Listening To Now: Roswell Rudd, “The Incredible Hunk.”
Favorite Summer Food: Oysters.
Currently Reading: Kingdom Under Glass by Jay Kirk (biography of Carl Akeley, an American …

Every week this summer, WPRB will highlight one its DJs in “Get To Know WPRB’s DJS.”
Name: Marvin Rosen
Show: “Classical Discoveries” (Wednesdays from 5:00AM to 11:00AM), “Classical Discoveries Goes Avant-Garde” (Wednesdays from 11:00AM to 1:PM).
Links: http://www.classicaldiscoveries.org/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Classical-Discoveries/132814286796248
Type of Music Played On Show: CD repertoires rarely heard–from all periods, with an emphasis on old and new songs from all over the world. For Avant-Garde it is more experimental, more progressive, more electronica music, music inspired by pop music sometimes.
Reason for Becoming a DJ: “There …

Every week this summer WPRB will highlight one its DJs in “Get To Know WPRB’s DJS.”
DJ Name: Julia Factorial
Show: “Cleanr Yr Room” (with Art), Mondays from 7-9PM.
Type of music played on show: Teenage concerns–ie; songs about hating your parents. A lot of punk rock–”The Replacements, The Marked Men, So Cow, Lunachicks, Ted Leo, Karp, Lungfish, The Raincoats, Kurt Vile, Reigning Sound… Pretty much anything on the following labels: Richie, Hozac, Tic Tac Totally, Siltbreeze, Homestead, K, Hyped To Death. …

When much-loved “Nocturnal Transmissions” host Doctor Cosmo passed away in early April, it was decided soon thereafter that a fitting, lasting tribute would be to name the station’s Production Studio after him.

Every week this summer WPRB will highlight one its DJs in “Get To Know WPRB’s DJS.”
Real Name: Griffin Winton-LaVieri
DJ Name: Griffin
Show: Wednesdays 4-6PM
Type of music played on show: Indie-Rock
Reasons why you decided to be a DJ?: “Because I like listening to radio!”
Day Job: Student.
Where are you from originally?: Pennington, New Jersey.
What can you not stop listening to right now?: The new The Pains of Being Pure At Heart album.
Favorite summer food?: Blueberry Buckle (Which is …

Every week this summer WPRB will highlight one of its DJs in “Get To Know WPRB’s DJS.”

Real Name: Pablo Mosteiro
DJ Name: Pablo
Show: “The Death of Tango” Saturdays from 6-8PM Eastern.
Blog For Your Show?: There is a Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_343616490591
Type of music played on show: Tango
Reasons why you decided to be a DJ?: “I thought it was a good opportunity to get to know new music and share my taste for music.”
Day Job: Graduate …

Every week this summer WPRB will highlight one its DJs in “Get To Know WPRB’s DJS.”
Name: Will Kukin
Show: Metal Mania
Blog For Your Show?: wprbmetalmania.tumblr.com
Type of music played on show?: Metal (mostly death metal and all the subgenres, melodic death metal, technical death metal, viking metal).
Reasons why you decided to be a DJ?: Went to freshman activities fair, the WPRB table was there and someone shouted out “Hey, do you like music?” and I was like …

WPRB’s concert calendar is sponsored by the Princeton Record Exchange, located at 20 S. Tulane Street in Princeton, New Jersey.  The Princeton Record Exchange, located at 20 S. Tulane Street in Princeton, is one of the largest independent new and used CD stores, record stores, music stores and DVD stores on the East Coast. Browse through over 150,000 new and used CDs, used vinyl records, and used DVDs. Do you have unwanted used music you no longer listen to? You can sell CDs, sell DVDs, …