Greetings once again, radio people. Here’s another spankin’-new in-studio for you to sink your teeth into. We’ve got just shy of a half-hour of Chicago solo artist the Singleman Affair. Armed with an acoustic guitar and some roomy reverb courtesy of WIDR’s gear, he cranked through a handful of tunes before heading off to a gig at The Strutt (which hopefully you caught).
Come out to The Little Theatre to see “Pirate Radio” this weekend! The fine folk at the Kalamazoo Film Society graciously donate the proceeds from one weekend of movie screenings to WIDR, so come out this Friday-Sunday to kill two birds with one stone! See and awesome movie and donate to WIDR in one fell swoop! The links below will give you all of the necessary info on the movie, movie times, and directions! See you there!
“Rock and roll will live forever – but can it float?”
“Pirate Radio is the newest ensemble comedy from Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and Love Actually), spinning the irreverent yet fact-based tale of a seafaring band of rogue rock and roll deejays whose “pirate radio” captivated and inspired 1960s Britain. Playing the music that rocked a nation and a decade, the group boldly and hilariously defies the government that tries to shut them down.”
—Focus
Station favorite Owen Ashworth (aka Casiotone for the Painfully Alone) stopped by the WIDR studios and gave us an exclusive in-studio performance this past weekend. Owen wanted to edit the recording himself and cut the whole thing down to 10 tracks instead of the 15 or so that were recorded, so here’s the Casiotone-approved version of it. Below is a 3-track sample mp3 of the performance, and you can download the full performance at the WIDR FM podcast page by clicking here.
WIDR Week is upon us gang! It is time for all of our loyal listeners to give back to the station they love so much! We have a shit ton of awesome events throughout March that all benefit WIDR! Click on the sweet poster (designed by our friends at the WMU Design Center) for all of the event details!
We would like to get some testimonials from you, our listeners to feature on our website for this pledge drive. Whether you are young or old, a new or long time listener, live outside of the US, or what have you, we want to hear about how WIDR is a part of your life and why you listen! Send all WIDR testimonials to me at widr.gm[at]gmail.com (with the subject heading being “WIDR Testimonial”).
We encourage you to donate to WIDR during WIDR WEEK 2010! We are listener supported, and by staying commercial free, we need your help now more than ever! Our on air pledge week is March 14-21, but you can donate anytime by clicking on the “support WIDR” button on the top of this site.
Thanks everyone and come out and show your support for you only source for radio evolution, WIDR fm!
(special thanks once again to Barbara Loveland (Art Direction) and Andranika Tkachuck and Tyson Ekeldo (design)! You guys are awesome!)
Our webstream is down again do to a server crash. Sadly because it is spring break here in Kalamazoo, we cant get into the server room until next week (when the right guy comes back to town).
If you are a listener via our webstream and you are pissed that it keeps going down, consider donating to WIDR during WIDR WEEK. Being that we are a non profit station, we depend on your donations to keep WIDR on the air. We are trying to move the steaming server to our office to fix the constant outages, but without your donations, who knows if we will be able to do it! You can donate during WIDR WEEK proper (march 14-21), BUT you can donate anytime by hitting the “Support WIDR” button right under the “Listen Now” button. That takes you to WMU’s secure online donation site where you can donate via credit card. You can always send a check too (if you are so inclined).
Anyway gang, we are still working hard on getting that webstream back up for you, and we are very sorry for the inconvenience! Perhaps this would be a good time to take a listen to our many many podcasts!
After hearing some very insightful comments from the fine staff at WIDR FM, we decided to re-organize the variety DJ section of our podcast page. For those who’ve seen it, it was kind of a mess of current DJ’s, old DJ’s, and DJ’s who may have only done one set in their career. Now, for your convenience (as well as the convenience of the WIDR variety DJ’s), the page is organized by day. Check out the new look, and hear some of the wonderful variety sets WIDR has to offer!
This past week, we had a couple things around the station that were worth recording. First, on Saturday afternoon, a wonderful garage-rock combo from the Detroit area called The Sights came through and gave us a brief but ass-kicking in-studio performance. You can find that HERE, on our Dead @ WIDR podcast page. They played a really cool Kinks cover for sound check, but there’s no actual recording of it, so damn.
Second, WIDR directors Jeremy and Dave conducted an on-air interview with Fred Schneider, former leader of the B-52’s and currently a member of The Superions. Click here to be taken to the WIDR interviews podcast page.
I came across this awesome 30 min video of Minor Threat LIVE at Love Hall in Philly from 1983. I thought you guys might need something to kick off your weekend, and what better than a little Minor Threat!?
Set List
01. Guilty Of Being White 02. Straight Edge 03. Little Friend 04. Bottled Violence 05. Betray 06. Seeing Red 07. I Don’t Wanna Hear It 08. It Follows 09. Stand Up 10. In My Eyes 11. Think Again 12. Out Of Step 13. Steppin’ Stone 14. No Reason 15. Screaming At A Wall 16. Filler 17. Look Back And Laugh 18. Sob Story 19. Small Man Big Mouth 20. Minor Threat 21. 12XU
go forth listeners and conquer!
(read: have an awesome weekend!)
