–Jake Sanders
Seeing Memory Tapes play at Johnny Brenda’s this past Wednesday reminded me that hearing a band or musician play live can be such a unique experience from hearing them on record. As a concert goer, you expect a musician’s songs to be changed at least a bit in the live performance, or at the very least you expect to see how they’re played.  This seems especially true with electronic music. At a show you …

Album Review by Jake Sanders
Player Piano, the second release from home-based electronic recording artist Memory Tapes, is a very welcome continuation of the gentle pop-electronica that the sole musician Dayve Hawk crafted in 2009’s Seek Magic.  Like the last album, this one is rich with clear pop-melodies that jump playfully around, constructing a sound that’s both melancholy and charming, and both old and new.  Hawk himself describes the music on the album as ‘keyboard-based psychedelic …

by Jake Sanders
Ah yes. Like a national holiday for those who aren’t quite patriotic, The Pitchfork Music Festival comes around but once a year…however, I don’t have the money to attend. No, I’m not bitter or jealous. After all, there’s a ton of music blogs to choose from that give an group-by-group account of the festival, plus all the really juicy stuff that happens off stage. That should be almost as good as being there, …

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 …

This is the third of WPRB’s four part review of the Pitchfork Music Festival held on July 15-17  in Chicago, Illinois.
 Day Three
by Griffin Winton-LaVieri (WPRB Music Director)
Sunday was the hottest day of them all and I was the most worn out. We saw The Fresh and Onlys, Kurt Vile, and Ariel Pink at the Green Stage but I was too tired and hot to be able to judge them well. Kurt Vile seemed to be …

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 …

Happy Summer from WPRB 103.3 Princeton!
The whole crew celebrated the season at WPRB’s annual summer BBQ by grilling hamburgers, hot dogs, corn, even pineapple. Special thanks to our friends at Vitamin Water for cooling everyone down by providing us with an ample supply of our favorite flavors!
Stay tuned for info about submitting to our T-Shirt Design Contest for this October’s pledge drive!

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 …