Dead @ WIDR #3: Crack Baby

Reformed (mostly) after about 5 years of absence from the West Michigan music scene, Crack Baby gave an in-studio performance for WIDR FM. It was recorded at Western Sound Studios with no overdubs and it hits hard. Although the original bassist (or a bassist of any kind) was absent, original members Jeremy and Dan-0 blaze through a half hour set of their favorite Crack Baby tunes. Listen for Jeremy’s new recordings in WIDR rotation this month. Below is a link to the Dead @ WIDR podcast page, where you can find this performance and all the other in-studio performances we’ve had as well.

Crack Baby live recording for WIDR!

WIDR Interviews Steve Kilbey of The Church

Last week, WIDR DJs Jers and Bizarro Jerry had a chance to speak with Steve Kilbey of the decade-spanning Australian band The Church. Along with Adam Franklin (of Swervedriver) The Church made their way to The Intersection in Grand Rapids and were nice enough to answer some questions we had about their new album, “Untitled #23″ and their history. A transcript of this interview will be available early next week, but for now, here’s a link to our interviews podcast page! You can expect some more interviews in the near future, including Cris Kirkwood of the Meat Puppets and the Paper Chase.

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Served up Hot for The holidays……..NEW MUSIC!

Here’s a fresh taste of whats new for the week of 7/2/09

Bjork-Songs From The Volta Tour
Hopewell-Good Good Desperation
Grafton Primary-Eon
Jeremy Allison-Clean Demos
Me Without You-It’s all crazy…..
Wilco-Wilco (The Album)
Pterodactyl-Worldwide
Boogie Boarder-Pizza Hero
Cookbook-I love the 80’s

Check out our new ‘casts! (of the ‘pod’ variety)

WIDR now features podcasted reviews of our favorite new releases! DJs and directors both will be contributing, and the reviews will be updated weekly. For this week’s new release reviews, follow the link below!

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Dead @ WIDR #2: The Satin Peaches

This past Saturday, we had our second “Dead @ WIDR” live performance. For those of you who didn’t catch the Julie Doiron performance a couple weeks back, we at WIDR are having various bands/musicians come to the studio to perform exclusively for the WIDR website and podcast page.

The Satin Peaches are from Detroit and just recently got signed to Island records. For young guys (in their early 20’s), they rock it pretty solid. They played at The Strutt Saturday evening, as well. Not only did they give us an exclusive performance, but it was acoustic! We apologize for the semi-shoddy recording value of this performance, as it was recorded straight to a cassette due to that being the only technology available on that particular day.

Here is the link to the “Dead @ WIDR” podcast page, where you can hear and download the whole thing!

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Sky Saxon - R.I.P.

Even though MJ just died, it shouldn’t overshadow the face that Sky Saxon, of the legendary band The Seeds, has also died. This was overlooked on our part due the over saturation of the media of MJ’s death. We will miss Sky Saxon and all he did for music…

Our new site is a’comin!

Hey Everyone,

We are working on updating our website. Until then, here are

links to our Webstream, Podcasts, and Live Playlists.

song for fat kids.

Funny fat kid humor.

New Music Fo Roto Yo!

Pigface-6
Eugene McGuinness-S/T
End Times Orchestra-S/T
Lost Road Ramblers-S/T
Doug Gillard-Call From Restricted
The Polka Floyd-The Polka Floyd Show
Those Darlins-S/T
Alphabet Stew-Mentil Soup
Tiny Vipers-Life on Earth
Shad-The Old Prince
Rebotini-Music Components
Deerhunter-Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Usparing Sea-In the Crystal Canyon
Coralie Clement-Toystore
Starlight Mints-Change Remains

MJ’s heart just beat it.

I know that we are a non-commercial station, but the king of pop, Michael Jackson died of a heart attack yesterday. Granted this doesn’t affect us in any way, but it is a bit o’ music news to gnaw on during your day. See ya Mike.