Come With Us On A Journey Through Time And Space!

WPRB has posting the first series of Rock Blastaar on the station blog to get listeners up to speed before the start of this year’s Membership Drive. These seven episodes were originally produced during the first-annual WPRB Membership Drive in October 2007, with the final episode being recorded and broadcast live!

In the first series, we heard our heroes, Rock Blastaar and the Radio Rangers battle a deluge of robots, anarchists, and diabolical scientists in their quest to retrieve WPRB’s stolen music library from the cretinous supervillain, Dr. Cosmo!

This year the series returns with an all new story and slew of enemies for Rock to clash with, not as a Radio Ranger, but as a Private Investigator managing his own firm here on Earth! He’s not in it alone, however, as he’ll be getting lots of help from the familiar faces of pevious cast members Daphne Willmington, Ranger Ray, the evil Dr. Cosmo, and more! Tune in for action, adventure, intrigue and mystery this October for the second season of the Adventures of Rock Blastaar!

Get caught up on what you missed the first time around…

Episode Seven:

Come With Us On A Journey Through Time And Space!

WPRB will be posting the first series of Rock Blastaar on the station blog to get listeners up to speed before the start of this year’s Membership Drive. These seven episodes were originally produced during the first-annual WPRB Membership Drive in October 2007, with the final episode being recorded and broadcast live!

In the first series, we heard our heroes, Rock Blastaar and the Radio Rangers battle a deluge of robots, anarchists, and diabolical scientists in their quest to retrieve WPRB’s stolen music library from the cretinous supervillain, Dr. Cosmo!

This year the series returns with an all new story and slew of enemies for Rock to clash with, not as a Radio Ranger, but as a Private Investigator managing his own firm here on Earth! He’s not in it alone, however, as he’ll be getting lots of help from the familiar faces of pevious cast members Daphne Willmington, Ranger Ray, the evil Dr. Cosmo, and more! Tune in for action, adventure, intrigue and mystery this October for the second season of the Adventures of Rock Blastaar!

Get caught up on what you missed the first time around…

Episode Five:

Episode Six:

Come With Us On A Journey Through Time And Space!

WPRB will be posting the first series of Rock Blastaar on the station blog to get listeners up to speed before the start of this year’s Membership Drive. These seven episodes were originally produced during the first-annual WPRB Membership Drive in October 2007, with the final episode being recorded and broadcast live!

In the first series, we heard our heroes, Rock Blastaar and the Radio Rangers battle a deluge of robots, anarchists, and diabolical scientists in their quest to retrieve WPRB’s stolen music library from the cretinous supervillain, Dr. Cosmo!

This year the series returns with an all new story and slew of enemies for Rock to clash with, not as a Radio Ranger, but as a Private Investigator managing his own firm here on Earth! He’s not in it alone, however, as he’ll be getting lots of help from the familiar faces of pevious cast members Daphne Willmington, Ranger Ray, the evil Dr. Cosmo, and more! Tune in for action, adventure, intrigue and mystery this October for the second season of the Adventures of Rock Blastaar!

Get caught up on what you missed the first time around…

Episode Three:

Episode Four:

Come With Us On A Journey Through Time And Space!

WPRB will be posting the first series of Rock Blastaar on the station blog to get listeners up to speed before the start of this year’s Membership Drive. These seven episodes were originally produced during the first-annual WPRB Membership Drive in October 2007, with the final episode being recorded and broadcast live!

In the first series, we heard our heroes, Rock Blastaar and the Radio Rangers battle a deluge of robots, anarchists, and diabolical scientists in their quest to retrieve WPRB’s stolen music library from the cretinous supervillain, Dr. Cosmo!

This year the series returns with an all new story and slew of enemies for Rock to clash with, not as a Radio Ranger, but as a Private Investigator managing his own firm here on Earth! He’s not in it alone, however, as he’ll be getting lots of help from the familiar faces of pevious cast members Daphne Willmington, Ranger Ray, the evil Dr. Cosmo, and more! Tune in for action, adventure, intrigue and mystery this October for the second season of the Adventures of Rock Blastaar! 

Get caught up on what you missed the first time around…

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Episode Two:

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 annual membership drive is one of the ways we are able to keep WPRB running all year long.

Every year, we search for talented artists to contribute artwork. These designs grace the merchandise available during the drive that we give as exclusive premiums to our donors – T-shirts, hooded sweatshirts, tote bags – we give as premium items to donors.

Since we introduced our membership drive in 2007, WPRB has been fortunate to collaborate with many artists, including John Cei Douglas, Tim Gough, Ed Moorman, and Gregory Pizzoli.

This year, one of our artists could be YOU! (Or maybe a friend, family member, colleague!) This is a great way to get tons of exposure and link your work with an ace independent radio station.

This is NOT a contest. We’re posting this here to let people know about this opportunity.

If this interests you, please download the document below for complete details and contact our Development Director, Alaap.

» 2009 WPRB Membership Drive Artwork Submission Information (PDF)

Relive those memories and more — all while supporting WPRB — with the new Free Yr Radio compilation. The FYR comp is exclusively available from Insound and features !!!, No Age, Dan Deacon, Mudhoney, The Secret Machines, along with many other live and exclusive tracks. This compilation is available for the low, low price of 99 cents!

Profits of this compilation go to support WPRB (as well as other 2008 FYR beneficiaries)! Help keep independent radio alive through the very thing that makes it great — music.

» Purchase the Free Yr Radio Benefit Comp!

Sometimes, we make music too. I used only samples from The Dirty Projectors to compose this, it was recorded using my two Monome 40h Tupperware. You may have heard some of this live during the Membership Drive.

After the jump, full details about the piece!

“Dirty Projections” by Altitude Sickness (2008)
All original samples by the Dirty Projectors.

This project was created entirely from samples of The Dirty Projectors. Ableton Live was used to cut and render the samples. These were performed using two Monome 40h kits, running a variation of Brian Crabtree’s sample-manipulation program mlr (mlr_Aes mdb 0.4) and various MIDI patches in Max/MSP(including midi_bends). An M-Audio X-Session was used as well to control volume and effects parameters. Audio from mlr was sent to Live (via Soundflower), where the tracks were processed, mixed, and arranged. Audacity was used to master the audio.

Thanks very much to The Dirty Projectors, the Monome community, my friends and family.

As part of the “closing ceremonies” for the 2008 WPRB Membership Drive, we decided to host our own half-assed version of the late, great television game show $25,000 Pyramid, dubbed the $103.30 Pyramid for obvious reasons. (I should point out that no one actually won money, and it was a [cheap] ploy for donations. -m.)

Random Acts of Music’s Ian Auzenne hosted, with Cody (Development Director) and Sam (PNP Department) playing against Maria T (Her Jazz/Pop Recon) and Julia Factorial (x Clean Yr Room x).

If there’s something one shouldn’t do during a game show, we managed to do it within the span of 20 minutes. Give the wrong contestant the answers? Yup, did that. Play the wrong sound effect? Oh yeah. Use Neil Diamond as game show inspiration? Sadly, yes. Gain a contestant at the last minute? Bingo.

Despite the blunders, the participants had a blast, and we hope you either enjoyed it or were very, very confused by what was happening. Does this have a future on WPRB? Let us know in the comments!

» WPRB’s $103.30 Pyramid (Original air date: 10/8/08)

This is it: the end of our annual Membership Drive! Don’t touch that dial, because we’ve got some amazing stuff planned for the finale! As you can see, the WPRB webcam is up and running.

If that doesn’t work, click here!

For the final night of the 2008 WPRB Membership Drive, DJ Matt presents an extended version of “The Rhythm of The One.” The vaults of funk have been unlocked, as DJ Matt will present his favorite and most obscure top 103 funk songs ever recorded. You won’t hear songs that are played on other funk shows or on conventional radio! And every one will be on the one.

In addition, as a special Membership Drive challenge, DJ Matt will personally match the first 10 pledges of $103.30! Make sure you tune at the special time of 6:00 pm ET – 9:00 pm ET and show WPRB and The Rhythm of The One some love!

…followed by the Membership Drive Grand Finale!