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The first ever WIDR RECORD FAIR will be taking place TOMORROW from noon-5pm at THE STRUTT: 773 W.Michigan Kalamazoo 49008.
Do you have any vinyl you’ve been searching for? Any vinyl you’ve been trying to get rid of? cds? DVDs? Videogames?! Bring them all down to The Strutt and buy/sell/trade with other locals, Green Light Music & Video, The Corner Record Shop, WIDR, SNSE and more!
YOU KNOW YOU WANT THESE THINGS…….
Hello all who will potentially buy our first-ever WIDR CD release tonight at the Old Dog Tavern,
If you do, in fact, purchase our “Dead at WIDR Vol. 1″ CD tonight and you are one of the first 100 people to do so, you will be receiving a free bonus disc with 14 of our favorite tracks from other WIDR in-studio performances recorded during the past year. If you do this, you will possibly be wondering, “Where is my tracklist? How the hell do I know what I’m listening to?!”
Well, you don’t have to worry about that anymore. Here’s a printable paper case to hold your bonus disc, complete with a front cover, tracklist, AND folding lines. It’s all black and white, so all you WMU students can print it for free in the computer labs or something and not worry about losing color.
Here it is! Just save the image and open it. It’s automatically sized to fit on a standard sheet of computer paper (landscape-style, that is).
Click me to get the full size image!
We also wanted to give extra special thanks to TYLER RUBENFELD who designed all of the CD art work! In our infanite wisdom, we forgot to thank him on the actual CD, so we will be thanking him here!
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).
Check out the podcast here, or below is a 3-song teaser of the performance.
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
Pirate Radio movie info 
Pirate Radio showtimes
Directions to the little theatre
Kalamazoo Film Society Homepage
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!)
Hey gang,
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!
-Dave the GM
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!
http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2010/02/widrs_top_5_feb_25_2010.html
It has been brought to my attention that I should post the weekly reviews that I do for the Kalamazoo Gazette….so here they are sucka!
I Do this every week~
(yea I know I missed a week, but watchoo gunna do?)
one week late, here is some nice updated WIDR rotation. Call us up at 269-387-6303 to request these albums and all of your WIDR favorites.
