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

Derrick May Test Pattern this Friday

As many of you may know, every Friday night, WZBC does a one hour focus on a single artist or label or scene or category or maybe some other constraint that hasn't yet been imagined. One poor DJ gets stuck in the studio for an hour racking his or her brain for the best or rarest of what-have-you.

On April 11 at 6PM, Test Pattern presents the ever-pugnacious innovator; head of the Metroplex subsidiary Transmat Records; two-time organizer of Movement: Detroit Electronic Music Festival; resident DJ at The Music Institute in Detroit; and former radio host: the one and only Derrick May!*

God, I can barely fit the marketing hype into an hour!

Anyway, there will be music from across Mr. May's long career from 1987 on up to the present (well the past year anyway); including both classics and rarities; co-productions, originals, and remixes. If anyone has footage of Mr. May at Movement 2004, riding around on a golf cart, asking for donations through his megaphone, feel free to send that to me and I'll play that too :)

So anyway, listen Friday at 6PM to 90.3 FM or wzbc.org!

* There may be other people named Derrick May.

(presented by Matt K from Friday NCP2)

WZBC Countdown at River Gods on Thursday, April 3rd

This Thursday (the 3rd of April) is the first Thursday of the month, so it's time for WZBC's monthly countdown at River Gods.
The Countdown runs from 10-11 p.m. and features selections from WZBC's favorite releases of the previous month.
Two WZBC DJs will also be spinning before and after the countdown.
The DJs start at 8:30, and this month they will be:

Nick Feeley, host of WZBC’s Spectra Sonic Sound every Tuesday from 10 a.m. - noon.
Nick will be spinning ’70s Samba/Bossanova/Tropicalia while you eat before the countdown and loud booty jamz while you drink after 11.

Melissa Komadina - a WZBC alumna
Melissa will continue the funk with classic female soul singers and finish with the best of groovy and upbeat modern tracks.

21+, no cover
kitchen closes at 10, bar closes at 1
125 River Street near Central Square

WZBC's Top-19 of March 2008
No. 19: DeVotchKa, “Undone,” A Mad and Faithful Telling (Anti-)
No. 18: Atlas Sound, “Quarantined,” Let the Blind Lead Those Who … (Kranky)
No. 17: The Dodos, “Fools,” Visiter (French Kiss)
No. 16: Yeasayer, “Forgivness,” All Hour Cymbals (We Are Free)
No. 15: Rafter, “Chances,” Sex Death Cassette (Asthmatic Kitty)
No. 14: Xiu Xiu, “I Do What I Want, When I Want,” Women as Lovers (Kill Rock Stars)
No. 13: Mahjongg, “Problems,” Kontpab (K)
No. 12: Working for a Nuclear Free City, “Troubled Son,” Businessmen & Ghosts (Deaf, Dumb & Blind)
No. 11: Beach House, “Gila,” Devotion (Carpark)
No. 10. December Sound, “Drone Refusenik,” The Silver Album (MySpace.com/TheDecemberSound)
No. 9: Raveonettes, “Aly, Walk with Me,” Lust Lust Lust (Vice)
No. 8: Excepter, “Kill People,” Dept Dept (Cak)
No. 7: Crystal Castles, “Untrust Us,” Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
No. 6: Mountain Goats, “Sax Rohmer, Pt. 1,” Heretic Pride (4AD)
No. 5: Pacific UV, “If So,” Longplay, Vol. 2 (Warm)
No. 4: No Age, “Every Artist Needs a Tragedy,” Weirdo Rippers (Fat Cat)
No. 3: The Mae Shi, “Run to Your Grave,” HLLLYH (Team Shi)
No. 2: Times New Viking, “Times New Viking vs. Yo La Tengo,” Rip it Off (Matador)
No. 1: Neptune, “Grey Shallows,” Gong Lake (Radium/Table of the Elements)

Wednesday NCP Steps Out!

Join NCP hosts Doug of Pinwheels of Your Mind, and Ghostdad of Mofo Radio, live and in person this Friday at the Channel Cafe as they put the FUN back in Fort Point! Here's the official write up. Spread the word!

Z Night at the Channel Cafe

This Friday, March 28, Fort Point artist and radio DJ Doug Urbank--host of WZBC's No Commercial Potential program "The Pinwheels of Your Mind"--will play music accompanied by video projection by multi-media artist, John Gayle, from about 7 to 9 PM. From 9 to 11 PM DJ Ghostdad of WZBC's "Mofo Radio" will bring the usual mix of back alley funk and uproot dance music from vinyl's forgotten past and the digital music underground.

http://www.channel-cafe.com/

edit: actually ends at 10 so get there early! Posted by Ghostdad. Holler!

This Week's TP: Go-Go from DC

There's a reason there aren't a lot of MC's that rep Washington, D.C., and that reason is Go-Go. While other cities were nurturing hip-hop and rap scenes during the early to mid-1980s, D.C. was nurturing Go-Go. Funk with a highly syncopated back-beat and heady call and response vocals, it's the party music of choice for D.C. While it's pretty much unheard of outside of D.C./MD/VA (though thanks to some mentions on "The Wire" that seems to be changing), Go-Go remains one of the most popular styles of music in D.C.

I'll be playing a bunch of Go-Go records this Friday. It's by no means meant to be exhaustive, but hopefully it will get people interested in a style of music that doesn't make it out past the 'burbs of D.C. all that often.

-Nick

The Junkyard Band @ Showplace Photo