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On This Day: March 10
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Explore Baltimore: 5 Music Legends
The Love Leighs Interview
August 23rd, 2010 by WLOY Staff
Interviewed by: Karyn Oliver
Mobtown Couch host, Karyn Oliver managed to get the Austin, Texas based band, The Love Leighs into WLOY Studios on 8/19/10 for an interview and performance. The Love Leighs combine the songwriting styles and ukulele strums of Raina Leigh and Jessica Leigh with the side-man stardom of Jimmie Dreams to bring you the twisted, delightful, dark and dazzling jazz, blues and twang you’ve always longed for.
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Sid Bernstein Interview
August 21st, 2010 by The Professor
What can you say about the man that brought the Beatles to America*? We can say THANKS Sid for giving us the interview time on Radio RockonTour.
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*and The Rolling Stones, Herman’s Hermits, The Kinks and the Moody Blues, among others!
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Save Student Station KTRU
August 19th, 2010 by The Professor
Yesterday the University of Houston approved a deal to buy the non-commercial, student-staffed 50,000 watt KTRU-FM from Rice University. The trouble is, no one mentioned it to KTRU! Rice University apparently decided to sell the station for between $9-10 million dollars to U of H without any public discussion. The deal will effectively kill independent radio in the Houston market, end 40 years of Rice student radio and add another NPR affiliate to the market. Rice has had major losses in it’s endowment in the past year, but the explanation given is that the money will fund new programs. Perhaps the most amazing thing is the statement from their PR office claiming that “the students aren’t losing anything” since they will move to the internet?! Ok, we at WLOY will happily trade our internet stream for your 50,000 watt FM signal ANY DAY. Please call 🙂
Want to find out more? Savektru.org is one of the many sites set up to support cancellation of the deal. KTRU was threatened with shutdown in 2000 and raised enough noise from the community and alumni to bring them back from the brink then.
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Lollapalooza 2010
August 16th, 2010 by WLOY Staff
With 240,000 people, 130 bands, on 110 acres of the beautiful Grant Park, Lollapalooza saw its 19th year as a festival as an overwhelming success for the Austin based promoters C3. Perry Ferrell’s traveling festival is a distant afterthought. Instead we’ve become accustomed to the three-day event and are finally getting used to it as a mainstay Chicago event every August.
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Arcade Fire: “The Suburbs”
August 10th, 2010 by WLOY Staff
If Funeral was the personal homage to life, love, and loss and Neon Bible was a straight shot at the gut of political immoral corruption, than Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs is merely a simple acknowledgment of the two concepts along with the reluctant but powerful realization that “we can’t run from our upbringing” especially when two story brick houses and shopping malls stand in our way. And as Win Butler and company convey on their third album, each new generation is engulfed in a more brutal “suburban war.” With so much indie cred on the line, Arcade Fire delivers once again with their longest most expansive album yet. Read the rest of this entry »
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Interpol & Twin Tigers Concert
August 5th, 2010 by WLOY Staff
I was first introduced to Interpol in 2004 when I heard their album, Antics. I became fond of the band after listening to the album, but I admit I lost faith in them after Our Love to Admire (2007) received less praise than Antics. However, I think I need to revisit the album, now that I found a new appreciation for Interpol. I had always heard great things about Interpol’s live show, but it was difficult to ignore all the hype and avoid preconceived notions. I expected a great show and that is exactly what I got. Their sound filled the venue, reinforced by a brilliant light show. What impressed me was the balance between the vocals and instrument sound levels. The lyrics were clearly distinguishable over the rest of the band, not to mention that Paul Bank’s voice was perfect.
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Vote for WLOY in Pepsi Grant Competition!
August 2nd, 2010 by The Professor
We found out this morning that we’re officially in the running for a $50,000 grant that will allow us to expand the What Happens Next program into at least 5 more schools!
We’ll be able to print materials, provide enhanced teacher training, and build 5 in-school studios for at least 5 Baltimore City Public Schools if we win! Only the top 10 vote totals win grants, so we need your help! You can go vote here and please tell everyone you’ve ever met about it!
This is an awesome opportunity for us to expand our program and make a real impact on the kids in Baltimore City Public Schools. Every vote counts and we only have until the end of August!!!
NOTE: YOU CAN VOTE EVERY DAY!
AND YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR US EVERY DAY!!
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Both Feet In: JR
August 1st, 2010 by The Professor
JR (Originally aired Aug. 1, 2010)
After more than 20 years of living on he streets, JR speaks to us from his home. He gives this advice to you: “Get all the education you can, soak it up…. do it for yourself, not for anybody else…” and talks about how he survived sleeping in the alleyways for so long. He also plays a few notes on his guitar, as music “soothes the soul.”
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All In The Family Way : Willie Nelson at Pier Six
July 28th, 2010 by The Professor
REVIEWER: Radio RockonTour host Timothy Tilghman
Living legend Willie Nelson charmed Charm City with his wit and wiles on Sunday, July 25, 2010. Baltimore was host to his “Singer Songwriter Actor Author Tour”. The iconic outlaw has been twanging away on his guitar strings for six decades in a celebrated music career that has provided a needle-worn soundtrack of memories for his legions of blue collar, working class fans.
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From the Vault: Michael Phelps and Loyola
July 20th, 2010 by The Professor
We all know how much Michael achieved at the 2004 Olympics. The records set and shattered, and the shine of all that Olympic gold. What a lot of folks don’t know is the connection to Loyola. Michael was a volunteer swimming coach at Loyola in 2004, and came back to do a swimming demonstration and discussion in September BEFORE going off to achieve Olympic fame (do 14 medals constitute fame or demi-god status?) We just found a few photos and somewhere we even have audio from the press conference…
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