December 8, 2008
Fa La La La La (La La La La)
WMCN is now off the air for winter break. Thank you to all our DJs, staff, and listeners for an excellent semester, and a very special thanks to all those artists who came to our humble station this fall to play a live set. We'll be doing more of this in the months to come.
Check back here during the break for expanded audio and video content, and in January for information about spring semester DJ applications. New charts coming soon, as soon as CMJ overcomes their web difficulties.
'Tis the season for some top ten love. Read our blog.
November 25, 2008
HALEY BONAR!
St. Paul beauty and singer-songwriter extraordinaire Haley Bonar will be dropping by the station for a live performance at 8 pm this evening. Finally, a sequel to her enchanting performance in the Campus Center three years ago, when I was a lowly first-year and all my guy friends seemed to have a crush on her. Tune in! The webcast works.
Speaking of that Haley Bonar performance in 2005...Eric Anderson opened then, and only three days ago, he played our fall concert in the art gallery in support of Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps. That show was a great success and bodes well for future station-sponsored events outside of the studio.
Here are some photos from the Big Quarters performance on WMCN last month. More can be found in our gallery.
Take notes from our blog.
November 22, 2008
WMCN Presents...
Live in Macalester's art gallery tonight, starting at 10 pm:
Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps
Cataldo (featuring Mac grad Eric Anderson)
Fun will be had!
Also, here's one more for the archives, Kritical Kontact on WMCN on November 14.
Our long-gestating reviews section is in the process of being constructed, with high quality materials from our newsletter and elsewhere. Take a peek!
November 13, 2008
Archivin'
Click the links for two more recent live performances in the WMCN studios: Green Sketch (September 26) and JSL from 301 Studios (November 7), who was kind enough to play a set even when his pal Rek the Heavyweight couldn't make it. Up next: Kritical Kontact tomorrow at 8 p.m., and Margaret Stutt from 10 a.m. to noon on November 16.
All of our archived in-station performances can now be found in one place. How convenient!
Our webcast has been hit-or-miss recently. We're working on it. Continued apologies...
November 2, 2008
Charlie Parr is here...
...in the form of an mp3. Listen to last month's fantastic in-station performance right here. Don't forget new charts and a new edition of Liner Notes, featuring a WMCN rock director tell-all. This and all future copies can also be found in the periodical racks outside Cheapo!
We hope to have webcast difficulties resolved soon. Sorry for the interruption.
October 26, 2008
Up Next
Upcoming live performances in the WMCN station:
REK THE HEAVYWEIGHT (Spawn from Atmosphere): November 7th, 8-10 p.m.
KRITICAL KONTACT: November 14th, 8-10 p.m.
Check out new charts, in which The Replacements make an appearance for the first time in decades, probably (but not for new material). J Mascis has also returned.
October 12, 2008
Big Quarters on WMCN. Listen right here.
A new edition of Liner Notes will be arriving on shelves and blogs tomorrow (and maybe at Cheapo too)!
October 9, 2008
As Seen On Blog
The great Charlie Parr played a one hour set in the station on Sunday, and here are the video clips to prove it. Here he is with a song called "Come Along and See":
This one's lower resolution, but its Charlie Parr index is very high. It's called "Last Payday at Coal Creek":
That's WMCN's own Andrew Berger introducing Mr. Parr out of view of the camera. Andrew could write a much more knowledgeable appreciation of the man's music than I could muster, so I won't attempt it. More video and audio coming soon.
October 2, 2008
Big audio dynamite
Here's the promised audio from last Friday's live performance by Sarah Johnson in the WMCN studio. More stuff coming soon. We'll also be hosting the legendary Charlie Parr in the station this Sunday, so stay tuned for that.
September 25, 2008
The Word Is Out
Listen in for two more live performances from the WMCN studio tomorrow (Friday) night. Around 7 pm, Twin Cities band Sarah Johnson will be dropping by for DJ Arella Vargas' local rock show, and hip-hop group Green Sketch will grace the airwaves during Music Director Nolan Levenson's show from 8-10 pm. Check back here in the coming days for video and audio from the performances.
September 21, 2008
Inaugural Live Performance
Twin Cities singer songwriter Jeremy Messersmith dropped by the station last night for a special live performance. We videotaped the whole thing, and one song already "leaked" on YouTube (see above, and pardon the extraneous noise). We hope to post more video and audio soon, and of course, this is only the first in a series of in-station shows that WMCN will be hosting throughout the year. Don't miss Jeremy at the Varsity Theater this Thursday for his CD release show.
Also, check out our fall semester program guide, and our first CMJ charts of the new radio year. DJs, let us know if you see any problems with your program guide description.
September 14, 2008
It's Really Happening...Really!
WMCN returns tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. with a new lineup of quality radio shows. Read about it (and more) in the new edition of Liner Notes, our very own bi-weekly newsletter. It can be found on the blog, and in the Campus Center, station, and library starting tomorrow.
We are proud to announce no webcast difficulties at the moment, so your early morning and ever after listening will be uninterrupted and highly pleasurable. If WMCN isn't quite enough for your free-spirited nature, don't forget our new concert calendar.
August 29, 2008
Hear Ye, Hear Ye!
We hereby announce the return of WMCN to the cripsy airwaves of the Conjoined Villages on the morning of September 15th, 2008. Commence the search for DJs who are great!
APPLY! for your own radio show. In the coming days, online applications will be made available on this site, and paper copies at the station door and Info Desk. Due on or before September 8 at 10 pm.
VISIT! our table at the Org Fair in front of the Campus Center this evening from 4:30 to 6:00. Pick up an application or a WMCN face-shirt (potentially free)!
AWAIT! with giddy anticipation the launch of WMCN's new live recording studio, snug in the confines of the radio station's warm bowels! Other grand projects to be announced imminently.
READ! our blog.