Every week this summer, WPRB will highlight one its DJs in “Get To Know WPRB’s DJS.”
DJ Name: Lance Loud
Show: “Peacock Dreams” Wednesdays from 10:00PM -12:00AM.
Type Of Music Played: “Far out stuff.”
Reasons for Being a DJ: “Seemed like a good idea at the time, and apparently it was.”
Day Job: Student (and Summer Station Manager for WPRB).
Hometown: New York.
Listening To Now: Sun Araw, Alice Coltrane, Dr. John, Incredible String Band.
Favorite Summer Food: Sushi.
Currently Reading: Myths, Dreams and Mysteries …

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 …

WPRB DJs Altitude Sickness and Josh will be performing this Saturday 1/24 at the Danger Danger Gallery in Philadelphia. They will be performing a unique collaborative set incorporating turntables with (Philadelphia-made) Monome interfaces .
The show is $5 and all proceeds go to support Danger Danger Gallery, which in turn is supporting an entire generation of young artists. Please come out and say hi.
Full details after the jump!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=44128148801http://www.myspace.com/dangerdangergallery
Lineup:Seanicus (opening set 10pm)(live set – electro-house-techno-DnB-IDM)
Altitude …

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 …

The Philadelphia chapter of the Recording Academy holds its second annual Independent’s Day Conference on Saturday. The conference is a one-day seminar about the business of music in todays changing landscape. WPRB’s Maria T (“Her Jazz”) has been asked to speak on the radio panel.
There is a registration fee for the conference ($15 for members; $25 for non-members). Full panel details after the cut — we hope to see you there!
11:30 – 1:00 | …

As a student-run station, one of the things that WPRB encounters is a turnover of operations during the summer. College kids — I guess they all just can’t be slacking around on campus in the summertime! Our very own Ian Auzenne (“Random Acts of Music”) is down in Lousiana, currently hosting a cable access show while he’s away from WPRB. You can check out the debut episode after the jump.

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Just a wee news item to share with y’alls: seems that Philly group Man Man were interviewed by Pitchfork today, and they had this to say about, ahem, a particular radio station:
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Pow Pow: Princeton 103.3 [WPRB]. I actually saw a guy in the crowd today at the show who was wearing a Princeton 103.3 shirt. I grew up listening to that station, and it has completely warped my brain forever. Young influence.
Aw, …