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WLOY Spring Semester Tickets
Thursday, January 16th, 2014 by The Professor
Here we go again! WLOY is bringing you more shows to enjoy for free. Win tickets by listening to the station, friending and following us on social media and coming to our events (Thursday night 9-11 free concerts, Live at Boulder Fridays 12-2).
Rams Head Live shows:
01.18 Saved by the 90s – A Party w. The Bayside Tigers
01.24 Skies in Chaos w. Yesterdays War, Down To Everything, Wrecking Crew, Dad Shoes
01.25 moe.
01.31 Eoto w. Emalkay, ELM
02.12 JJ Grey & Mofro w. Nicki Bluhm & The Gramblers
02.25 Young The Giant w. Cayucas
02.27 Animals As Leaders w. After The Burial, Navene K, Chon
03.01 Kermit Ruffins & The BBQ Swingers**
03.01 ZZ Ward
03.13 Uncle Kracker**
03.20 Mindless Self Indulgence
03.22 The Legwarmers
04.21 Alterbridge w. Monster Truck
04.26 Ani Difranco
**Baltimore Soundstage shows:
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Theatre Thursday: Bad Dates
Thursday, January 16th, 2014 by WLOY Staff
What: Bay Theatre Company
Where: Chesapeake Arts Center
When:January 17,18,19,24,25,26, 2014
Main character Haley Walker is a single mom (of a teen) and runs a business–understandably, for her, the dating scene is extremely difficult. A cross between performance and confession, Bad Dates is the story of a very busy woman trying to find love. You will find yourself enthralled by Haley Walker’s story; you’ll laugh and you’ll wince. Enjoy this great performance, and if you’re on the dating scene, good luck out there.
For $26 you can see this hilarious new show! Visit the website for more information.
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War Horse Tickets
Tuesday, January 14th, 2014 by The Professor
Once again, WLOY wants to send you to opening night at the Hippodrome! This time to see the remarkable theatrical version of War Horse on February 4th. Win tickets at our Thursday Coffeehouse events and during our Friday Live at Boulder shows.
A remarkable tale of courage, loyalty and friendship. England, 1914.
As World War One begins, Joey, young Albert’s beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped from England to France. He’s soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary journey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man’s land. But Albert cannot forget Joey and, still not old enough to enlist, he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and bring him home.
This powerfully moving and imaginative drama, filled with stirring music and songs, is a show of phenomenal inventiveness that is currently playing to packed houses in London and New York. At its heart are astonishing life-sized puppets created by South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, that bring to life breathing, galloping, charging horses strong enough for men to ride.
The performances are daily from 2/4-2/9, with 8:00pm shows during the week and 2 shows on Saturday (2 & 8pm) and Sunday (1:00 & 6:30pm). More details and tickets can be found here.
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Wendel Patrick/Kevin Gift Interview
Monday, January 13th, 2014 by WLOY Staff
Kat and I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down with former Loyola Professor and forever musical genius Kevin Gift, who is also known as Wendel Patrick. Between Kevin and Wendel he is releasing a combined number of 4 albums this January, and we had the chance to get a first look, as well find out a little about him. During the interview, we discovered the origin of his alter ego and his musical interests, and we also learned more about his experience teaching at Loyola (with a special appearance from Patricia, his former student and a current WLOY Staffer!) and much more! Listen to the whole interview to hear all about what it’s like to have two names.
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Museum Mondays: Book Bindings from the Gilded Age
Monday, January 13th, 2014 by WLOY Staff
What: Book Bindings from the Guilded Age
Where: The Walters Art Museum
When: Now until January 19th, 2014
During the late 19th and early 20th century, fine book binding enjoyed a golden age of creativity and lavish decoration. These handmade, individual and highly personal objects were made not only to protect the texts they contained, but also to be admired and appreciated as portable decorative masterpieces in their own right. Some binders strove to execute traditional designs at the highest levels of technical proficiency and artistic elegance, while others chose to break away and explore new emerging styles influenced by the Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements. This focus show of approximately 20 rarely seen examples from the Walters’ rare book collection will explore techniques and materials that were employed to showcase the book binder’s craft, sometimes resulting in truly fantastical creations.
Visit the website here for more information!
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Happy New Year from RadioEdu!
Wednesday, January 1st, 2014 by WLOY Staff
How many fifth gradersdo you know with a CD release?
Happy New Year everyone! RadioEdu ended the Fall 2013 semester in an extremely exciting fashion with a CD release for the students! This was a wonderful event highlighting the accomplishments of three remarkable fifth grade students. The amount of material that they were able to master in a short amount of time continues to astonish me as I look over the blog entries of the past three months.
We are looking forward to another great semester filled with exciting and challenging projects, and I have no doubt that the students will continue to demonstrate mastery over the increasingly difficult material while gaining confidence in their production techniques. This year we will continue with the project-based learning approach, while aiming to integrate a long-term collaboration providing the students an opportunity to demonstrate increasing autonomy in regard to audio production. We will continue to develop and hone core audio production skills and look to post more incredible content each week!
Thanks for all the support and for helping to make the first semester of RadioEdu at Eutaw-Marshburn a success!
Jonathan
How many fifth graders do you know with a CD release?
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WLOY Holiday Music Bash
Friday, December 20th, 2013 by The Professor
It’s Christmas time at WLOY! We wait ever year until Christmas Eve, unlike those stations that go all Christmas sometime in late August… Starting at midnight we will be all Christmas on Christmas Eve and Day, with student and alumni specials. And since we know people at home won’t want to miss their family and friends shows, we’re going to rerun some of them too. We have 8 different DJs with their own special Christmas wish for you, including the annual return of Nick Centanni (Moldie Oldies Show Wednesdays 10a-12p) with two big segments the Ultimate Christmas Eve Show and the Ultimate Christmas Day Show featuring 6 hours of his guests, great tunes and possibly the return of Ziggy.
Here’s the lineup of the special programs:
Christmas Eve
10:00a – 12:00p Kat & Rae Christmas Show
12:00p – 02:00p Radio RockonTour Christmas Show
02:00p – 03:00p Carl & James Christmas Show
03:00p – 04:00p Somewhere in the Between Christmas Show
04:00p – 05:00p Anthony & Tom Christmas Show
05:00p – 06:00p Kim & Kenzie Christmas Show
06:00p – 09:00p Nick’s Ultimate Christmas Eve Show
Christmas Day
12:00p – 03:00p Nick’s Ultimate Christmas Day Show
03:00p – 04:00p Carl & James Christmas Show
04:00p – 05:00p Somewhere in the Between Christmas Show
05:00p – 06:00p Anthony & Tom Christmas Show
06:00p – 07:00p Kim & Kenzie Christmas Show
But don’t worry about the rest of the time because it’s wall-to-wall Rudolph all Christmas Eve and Day. Tune in, and leave us on all day both days, like we’re your Yule Log Channel!
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Order Your WLOY Sweatshirt Now!
Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 by The Professor
They’re here, they’re ready to ship and they are in very limited quantities.
These are high quality Gildan Ultra Cotton Sweatshirts
*9.5 oz., 70% cotton, 30% polyester.
*Pill-resistant air jet yarn
*Double-needle stitching throughout.
*2×1 ribbed cuffs and waistband with spandex.
We have a VERY limited number of XXL size sweatshirts. You MUST tell us in your online order if you want a XXL size sweatshirt!! First come, first served.
Sweatshirts are available now on campus, in the station (11a-11p M-Th), at Thursday Coffeehouse and Late Night events (9-11p) and Friday Live at Boulder (12-2p) events for $25.
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Staff Picks: Kait’s Top Albums of 2013
Tuesday, December 17th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
Disclosure – Settle – [itunes link=”https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/latch-feat.-sam-smith/id649157100?uo=4″ title=”Disclosure – Settle”]
Before 2013, electronic music was a rare find in my iTunes. This year, however, has been rather kind to the deteriorating genre (although I can’t say the same about EDM culture) with explosive releases from Daft Punk, James Blake, Pretty Lights, and my favorite of the year, Disclosure. Made up of two UK bloaks who just happen to be brothers, Disclosure debuted their first album Settle in June 2013 and needless to say, I have not stopped listening since. If you are not listening yet, you are doing yourself a disservice; that’s how strongly I feel about Disclosure.
Suggested Tracks: “Latch,” “Help Me Lose My Mind,” “Boiling,” & “What’s In Your Head”
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RadioEdu Week 12: Part Two
Friday, December 13th, 2013 by WLOY Staff
Concepts: Cutting Loops, Advanced Editing, Recording Vocals over Soundbeds
While M worked on mixing and finalizing her track, J was working on another ‘Top Ten’ list, this time thinking more about how the loop would sound under what he was planning. He decided to do a ‘Top Ten Worst Video Game Cliches’ and already had a vision of what the track would sound like.
He selected a few different basslines that he liked, and then cut them up and rearranged the audio samples into his own groove. He manipulated the audio slices and even began to comfortably use the ‘reverse selection’ function to enhance his new bassline. J has developed a go-to method that he uses for this process, which involves keeping the original audio file intact on a separate, muted track. This allows him to easily go back and cut out the sections he wants. I’m going to post screenshots of J and M’s arrangement so that everyone can see the detailed cutting and editing of the looped segments.
After recording this, J did a quick mixdown of the 30 second clip and looped it under his ‘Top Ten.’ We then listened and mixed it Thursday morning. M wanted to add some drums to J’s original bassline, so Thursday I had her and J work together to accomplish this task. M did an excellent job chopping up the beats and layering them in, and realized that it’s often quite difficult to add drums to an already existing line, especially if that piece was done without drums to begin with.
The project was more an exercise in working to place audio visually, as M used the waveforms to line up the hits, just as she did in her 30 second track from Wednesday.
We finished the session with M recording a recipe segment where she walked the listeners through creation of one of her favorite meals. Make sure to keep posted for this file next week!
J’s Top Ten Cliches
J and M Combo
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