Kurt hosts Old School Rock & Roll on Saturday nights from 10-12PM. Here he gives us his 5 favorite days of the week!
1. Sunday
2. Thursday
3. Saturday
4. Friday
5. Wednesday

Rev MC hosts a rad folky show on Mondays from 7-9 PM! Here she’s given us some of her favorite music-related things to rock her world in 2011.
5. David Bazaan’s new faith crisis
4. The Civil Wars
3. The new WPRB news team
2. Our speciality premiums
1. The discovery of multiple new The Smiths cover songs

DJ Carnie is the host of The Furnace, which used to air on Monday nights from 1-3 AM and now airs on Friday nights from 10-12PM!  Check out his list of the top 5 best metal labels of 2011. 
5. Prosthetic Records
These guys get the nod for a combination of wise signings and long-running bands finally starting to pay off.  They’ve solidly established themselves as a great label for very solid, if occasionally unremarkable, death …

 
As the year draws to a close, it’s time to resuscitate an old WPRB tradition – compiling yearly “best of” lists! So, our DJs and staff are taking some time to write up lists of your top 5 favorite anythings of 2011. It could be the top 5 albums released this year. It could be the top 5 songs about lemonade. It could be the top 5 bands they saw live this year.
To keep up …

John Weingart is the host of Music You Can’t Hear on the Radio, which airs Sunday nights from 7-10 PM. Here’s his list of his five favorite recent movies that focus on folk music!
Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune – Fascinating documentary about this quintessential political or “protest” folk singer and the 1960s in which he flourished. A great movie regardless of whether or not you like or are familiar with Ochs’ music.
Chasin’ …

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Two WPRB DJs had the privilege of checking out the most recent Architecture in Helsinki show last Friday night at The Fillmore – Irving Plaza in New York City. In this recap, you’ll get two points of view: one from a relatively new AIH listener and one from a serious fan who’s seen them live 5 times (3 times in the same Irving Plaza venue)! Full review after the jump.

It’s Friday night and you’re ready to let loose, eh? Well there’s no better way than Architecture in Helsinki tonight (11/18) at Irving Plaza in New York. AIH’s new album “Moment Bends” has been rockin’ the WPRB airwaves since its debut earlier this year. We have two DJs attending this event who will be sure to report back with a show recap and their thoughts. Tickets are still available so you guys should definitely check …

Over the next few weeks, we are going to listen to Thomas Sauer’s performances of three Beethoven piano sonatas from Opus 31, the 16th, 17th and 18th. I plan to begin on November 7th with number sixteen, a sonata that my Aunt Lucy, a fine, professional classical pianist, called “The Girl Next Door Sonata.” To help make sense of this nickname, I must start with an anecdote about my aunt.
Lucy Brown lived on the west …

So you’ve spent the week hooked on our membership drive and are ready to unglue your ears from the radio for a night? WPRB has the perfect idea for how to spend your Sunday: catch Tycho tomorrow night at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Sounds awesome, right? Even more spectacularly, Teen Daze and Korallreven will also be playing sets, making this unquestionably a must-see show. [WPRB DJs will be checking it out too, if you …