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Friday November 25th
Music By: Baby Love Movement
Hosted By Ringo T
Time: 10pm - Until
2101 Chelten Ave.
PHiladelphia, PA

Presented by Baby Love Movement

Friday November 25th
Music By: Baby Love Movement
Hosted By Ringo T
Time: 10pm - Until
2101 Chelten Ave.
PHiladelphia, PA

Presented by Baby Love Movement

Friday November 25th
Music By: Baby Love Movement
Hosted By Ringo T
Time: 10pm - Until
2101 Chelten Ave.
PHiladelphia, PA

Hosted By: Baby Love Movement

Damn, you know you're gonna have a good day when you wake up at 8:00 am from a late, Friday night and still feel excited. Adrenaline pumping through my veins, I walked down to WKDU for the Night Kids In-Studio with guests acts of Jack Deezl, Dirty Dave, and Ben Pramuck. A Blitzkrieg of dubstep and trance, each set brought with it a whole new flavor, keeping me wired for well over three hours. Serving as a build up to tonight's event, Dissociative Identity Productions Drexel Sierra Earth Week Finale, there was live recordings of all the acts mixing as well as an impromptu dance party.

As WKDU, enters its 40th year broadcasting the best of the local and underground scenes to an ever fractioning and depreciating listenership, it only seems right that we team with other proponents of the scene to try and rally any of you who have ever thought "I’m sick of hearing the same contrived crap, is there anything with any substance out there?" or simply "I want to listen to 18 minute melodica solos played by guys in tight pink spandex because no one else does!"

Thursday, January 20, 2011 - 3:00PM

These two great songstresses of the folk genre will be coming to our studio before their show at Johnny Brenda's. Both recognized on Pitchfork for their unique sounds, Sharon Van Etten plays bittersweet neofolk so slow, spare and subtle that you might have to crane your neck to hear. Barwick's songs are mostly a cappella, with lots of loops and layers and builds; very creative, very entrancing. Listen to them talk about their sound, their feelings, heck even their favorite animal! (Maybe there'll be a pair of tickets in it for you...)

Friday, January 28th, 2011 - 1pm

The band that received Pitchfork's "Best New Music" Award is coming into WKDU for an interview before their show at the Starlight Ballroom! Tune in during Boombox to hear what these guys have to say! "Staten Island band Cymbals Eat Guitars came out of seemingly nowhere when, a little under a month ago, their debut album, Why There Are Mountains, was bestowed Pitchfork's "Best New Music" honor. Who were these guys? Staten Island, seriously?

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 - 8-10pm

Tune in to Cannon To A Whisper this week (Wednesday 8-10 p.m.) to hear a Guest DJ set and interview with Will Noon, the drummer of Straylight Run and Breaking Pangaea! In addition, he's played on tour for bands like Fun, and is a manager extraordinaire. Breaking Pangaea's full length Cannon To A Whisper is this particular program's namesake, and we're psyched to have him coming in. We'll be talking about and hearing bands he's in, has been in, is managing, or whatever else comes up. Check it out, this Wednesday, January 19th, 8-10 p.m.

With an album title like Don’t Die, you wouldn’t expect anything like the folk music issued by Nightmares for a Week. “You Destroy Me” is a weird gang-vocaled, slow tempo-ed introduction that crusades into a much more energetic and nostalgic feeling bunch of songs (“Baby”, “Our Vessel”, “Breath’s Hard as Kerosene”). The track “Alright” feel as though you’re listening to a cross between Minus the Bear and Silversun Pickups while “Bear Mountain” basically sounds like the perfect soundtrack to dancing around naked in your underwear and ridding your mind of every possible stress you had.

Friday, January 7, 2011 - 2:00pm

Tonight at The OX, the warehouse dwellers will be privy to a performance by the undisputed chiptune champions of the world known as Anamanaguchi. And today at 2pm (punk rock time, meaning sometime around then), they'll be hanging out in the WKDU studios, DJing some of their favorite tracks, talking about music with bleeps and boops (usually from a hacked Game Boy or NES), and, I assume, collecting Choas Emeralds or defeating Dr. Wiley. The least you can do to thank them is tune in around 2pm and dance to the 8-bit jams they'll be blasting. Did I mention they did the soundtrack to the Scott Pilgrim vs. The World video game?