Test Pattern Schedule for (part of) Summer 2008

May 30 - Jim - Wierd Records
June 6 - Matt - Basic Channel
June 13 - Andrew - Kevin Martin
June 20 - Jessica - Easy Tempo
June 27 - Rob - Nocturnal Emissions
July 4 - Carrigan and David Day - The Field
July 11 - Patrick - Gary Mcfarland
July 18 - Matt - Underworld
July 25 - Andrew - Adaadat Records
August 1 - Carrigan and David Day - The Knife
August 8 - James - Ed Keupper

Friday, May 23: Thalia Zedek on WZBC

Thalia Zedek will be the special guest co-host for part of the afternoon on Friday, May 23rd. Thalia's not completely sure what time she'll be able to arrive, but she will be joining WZBC DJ John Straub by 3:30 at the latest, and sticking around until 4:30 or so.


Thalia's new album, Liars and Prayers, came out last month on Thrill Jockey Records. She's also playing Friday night at The Middle East Upstairs on a bill with Joe Lally (of Fugazi), Glorytellers (feat. members of Karate), and Drew O'Doherty.


Thalia and John will be featuring some stuff from Thalia's new album, some of her older material, and some music by other artists. They will probably also be giving away a pair of tickets to Thalia's show at The Middle East.


Hope you can listen in!

Flyweight presents 28 Degrees Taurus & December Sound at Great Scott

28 Degrees Taurus
The December Sound
Screen Vinyl Image
Static of the Gods

at Great Scott in Allston
Saturday May 17, 2008
9:00pm show

Event Links:
28 Degrees Taurus
http://www.myspace.com/28degreestaurus

The December Sound
http://www.thedecembersound.com/home.html

Screen Vinyl Image
http://www.myspace.com/screenvinylimage

Static of the Gods
http://staticofthegods.delverano.com/

Great Scott in Allston
http://www.greatscottboston.com/

Listen to Flyweight on Thursday May 15th to win tickets to the show and CDs from the bands.

WZBC Studio Line: 617-552-4686
WZBC Flyweight: wzbcflyweight@gmail.com

We're Growing...

ZBC's blog has expanded... ever so slightly. If you check out the sidebar to your right you'll find a number of links that will whisk you away to various sites associated with the station. This list will grow in time, but for now there's a couple of links to shows broadcast on WZBC as well as links to friends of the station/former DJs. You can find free mp3s, various musings on new and old music, photographs, news concerning upcoming shows in the Boston area, and lots of other fun things on those sites. If you think you know of a link or two that should be added to this list, just leave us a comment and we'll eventually check it out.

You might also be interested in the fact that Brainwashed is currently putting together and preparing for a huge three-day music festival called BRAINWAVES 2008. You can bet that WZBC will be increasingly involved in this festival as its time draws nearer, but for now you can check out the website, linked here. Lots of bands featured on ZBC will be there and some of them are playing in the United States for the first time. Check it out.

Thanks for stopping by and continuing to support us.

ZBC

WZBC 35TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY and Neptune Reviewed in Pitchfork

For those of you who live under rocks or with overly protective parents, we are in fact turning 35 and are planning on celebrating our encroaching middle age with a balls out rock fest at TT the Bears this Saturday.

Doors at 8:30
No Age
Neptune
Big Digits
The Big Disappointments

Get there early kids, this shit is sure to sell out. Or listen in all this week to ZBC as we give away tickets!

There will also be an exclusive, sexy party afterwards, but we aren't releasing those details just yet. Keep your ear to the ground.

In conjunction with drumming up some noise about our 35th anniversary show this Saturday at TT's, I thought it might be nice to post a review of Neptune's new record Gong Lakefrom today's issue of Pitchforkmedia.

Check it out: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/49975-gong-lake

Finally, That Long Awaited Times New Viking Session

So, you may recall a couple months ago we had Times New Viking in the studio to record some songs especially for ZBC. You may then recall how we promised to make those tracks available on the blog. And then you waited. And waited some more. Maybe you went out to lunch, read a book, or listened to some Todd Rundgren. Still no tracks. You started to give up hope, you began to frequent the ERS site, these were dark times...

Well I am happy to announce that we have finally made the whole session available to our listeners. Just peep the Mediafire link below, download and unpack the .zip file, and you'll be able to have the whole thing in MP3 format. Depending on if we really get our act together, there may even be some footage too (don't hold your breath). You see? We would never break our commitment to you. Never.

Times New Viking at WZBC Studios, 2/23

Eternally Yours,

Nick (Spectra Sonic Sound)

WZBC now in iTunes

It's official: WZBC is now in the iTunes radio directory under the new College Radio category. All of our streams (128/56/24) are there, which means WZBC can be heard in multiple formats anywhere iTunes can be downloaded in the free and not-so-free worlds. Undoubtedly this means more unsuspecting listeners will happen upon WZBC's eclectic awesomeness.

So tell all your friends and relatives how they can easily listen to WZBC because of our new exclusive relationship with Apple computers and Steve Jobs (yeah it's a fib, but sometimes fibs are necessary for great things to happen).

Doug (Pinwheels of Your Mind, Wed. 7-10pm) and Judy (WZBC's adviser) and I have worked on this for a while -- thanks to them for willing this to happen.

Justin
Cafe of Shame
Sundays 10p-midnight