Over at the Chicago Reader‘s blog, there’s a great piece about the Fems and the strange-but-true story of how WPRB DJ alum Ken Katkin may have been responsible for getting this slice of 80s-era Buffalo punk reissued on Drag City:
When I was still in high school, a long, long time ago, the only radio station I listened to regularly was WPRB, operated by students at Princeton University. I first heard a lot of great bands …

It’s easier to get WPRB’s reception in NYC when you stand on a roof.
Pitchfork has an interview with The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, who have a great self-titled record on the resurrected (and stronger than ever before!) Slumberland Records. You may have heard this record on WPRB recently; last week it was #3 on our Top 30 charts.
Anyway, in today’s Pitchfork interview there’s a little WPRB namedrop that made us go …

When we say WPRB is “cool,” we’re talking about the temperature. In a New York Post article about the politics of the thermostat wars, Jon Solomon drops some science about our HVAC system:
Help may be on the way, though; a newer and more efficient system circulates chilled water to cool the air instead. But there are drawbacks in these buildings, as well: “My office is freezing 24/7,” says Jon Solomon, who works at Princeton radio …