They say that Christmas comes just once each year. Maybe this is true. But I urge my reader not to be boxed in by Decemberistic definitions of that magical gift-giving day. For once every April, there comes a glorious day for audiophilic vinyl junkies and music snobs alike. I speak, of course, of National Record Store Day. It’s exactly what it sounds like, folks. A celebration of that obscure, hole-in-the-wall record store in your hometown …

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 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!

When much-loved “Nocturnal Transmissions” host Doctor Cosmo passed away in early April, it was decided soon thereafter that a fitting, lasting tribute would be to name the station’s Production Studio after him.

Last week, WPRB DJ’ed at Trenton’s Art All Night Festival, an overnight musical extravaganza hosted in a 50,000 square foot building and adjacent park. We had a great time and hope you did too! Here are some of our favorite photographs!

For my first show this January, I plan to play Schöenberg’s Verklärte Nacht, in the original Sextet form. (I detest attempts to play it with a string orchestra. I know Schöenberg did the arrangement himself, but it is far less colorful and emotional in that form.)
This work precedes Schöenberg’s twelve tone period, but for me, it explains exactly why he made such a remarkable change to his compositional style. Schubert started it, with an …