Right now, Omaha Nebraska’s Husbands are recording an in-studio for the Dead at WIDR series. Tonight, they will be playing the Corner Bar on Vine St. around 9 pm, accompanied by Coma Nova. This is part of their midwestern tour, which started in their hometown and worked its way to Michigan. Last night, they played the Basement 414 in Lansing.
Husbands’ sound is spacey, noisy indie rock in the classic trio format. Former Kalamazoo resident David Ozinga bangs the drums, and he is joined by Devin M and Brendan M on bass and guitar/vocals, respectively.
You can check out their in-studio performance later this week, and to hear the band’s tunes, you can visit their myspace page.
Who would bring you two new in-studios in the same week? Only WIDR FM, of course! Both of these fine performances are brought to you by the WIDR audio interns.
This past weekend, garage-rockers Doomstar from Cambridge, Mass. came by to tear shit up, and you can check out the entire performance HERE or play a 3-song sample below!
Also, check out a slightly more subdued performance by NY indie-rockers matt pond PA. Full podcast HERE and 3-song sampler below!
Making his third (?) appearance at WIDR, local rapper Skitzo of Merk will be performing on the Hammock District this afternoon between 3 and 5 pm. Also, here’s an official, self-produced music video:
Despite the WIDR-Week commotion, we made time for another in-studio performance this weekend. Past Lives, a band from Seattle, formed out of the ashes of the legendary Blood Brothers in 2007. They play some experimental rock music that WIDR listeners can probably get down with. Check out a 3-song preview below, and download the full podcast here!
…because it’s going to be a party. From 2 pm to 2 am this Thursday, WIDR will feature 12 hours of live on-air music brought to you by the best in Kalamazoo music. This is lovingly being called the WIDR ALLNIDR, in honor of the WIDR Weeks of yore where DJs would often commandeer the studio for an entire night to ask for donations. How does this help us raise money for WIDR Week? Well, it doesn’t, really…but the idea is to show you, the listeners, what we here are doing with audio equipment purchased during past WIDR Weeks. These are the kind of free events WIDR needs your help to set up each year.
The flier below will clue you in on what groups are playing throughout the day, so you can tune in for that particular set (kind of like a music festival, if you think about it). A couple of the groups will even be playing OUTSIDE the WIDR offices (if the weather is nice enough) and we’ll announce it on air so y’all can come down to campus and watch a free outdoor concert of sorts.
PLUS: Free giveaways! Be there, or don’t. But your friends will probably treat you differently like you just came back from Vietnam or something if you don’t.
Also, Who Are the Owls? (3:30 pm set) will NOT be playing, but a group featuring some of the same members, Glennerd, will be taking their spot.
Also also, Only the Ashes Remain will not be performing for this event, but they’ll be there in spirit.
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).
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).
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.
