Weekdays
A happy, relaxing mix of music largely consist-
Breakfast of Champions | 8-10a | Zoë, Ted,
Becky, Keith, & Jon | Heaping hot helping of
deliciously sweet pop, served with a short stack
of pretentiously introspective indie rock and a
side of crispy punk hits. All washed down with
a unique blend of self-deprecation and joie de
vivre, aged 25 years. s
Late Risers’ Club | 10a-12p | Chrissy Victims,
Ben Kochan, Mark Francis, Joanie Lindstrom, Nick
Wang | We rock you hardest, earliest. s
Lost & Found | 12-2p | Mark Francis, Eli
Polonsky, Brother Wayne, Christopher Vyce, Alex
McNeil | Rock, pop, and soul from the ’60s
and early ’70s, but not the same old songs you
hear every day on commercial radio.
WMBR Nightly News | 5:30-6p | Free Speech
Radio News, a progressive national newscast
from the Pacifica Radio Network.
Mo n day
French Toast | 6-8a | Brian & Yves | Bonjour!
Voo-lay voo fran-say? Then, start your week off
with the best in French-language music, local
event listings, and the Cheese of the Week!
Research & Development | 2-4p | Charlie
Kohlhase | Forward-looking jazz of every decade
with a special emphasis on the overlooked
masters of the ’60s and ’70s. Jazz Calendar
Highlights. Classic Tenor Corner.
The Jazz Volcano | 4-5p | Kennedy Compound
A seismic eruption of fiery music. A splash of
big band, a twist of dixie, a shot of blues, a
quart of instrumentals, and a whole gallon of
jazz vocals, from jazz greats to jazz divas!
Terravoice | 5-5:30p | Adam, Elizabeth,
Emily, John, Kelly, & Tracey (but not all at once)
Addressing social and environmental issues
through a mix of interviews, features, and
live discussion, all from a college student
perspective. s, r
Heartbreak & Footwork | 6-8p | Mr. Lonely/Kyle
Schmitt | Unconventional therapy for the lonely,
comsumptive student body. Two great things
to do alone: cry and dance. Hopefully you’ll do
both. Freeform: indie rock, club music, hip hop,
disco, and more. s
Bats in the Belfry | 8-10p | Mistress Laura
Enter a dark sanctuary...gothic and ethereal
music from all over the world, USA and Boston
that you won’t hear anywhere else. Moody,
dark, atmospheric; starting with ancient music
and chant to the newest gothic rock, darkwave,
ethereal, goth-industrial, neo-classical, and
dark ambient.
Last Dance at the Death Disco | 10p-12a | Rik
History you can DANCE to! Featuring post-
punk and underground classics from the ’70s
on up – we’ll dance to anything. s, m
Oregon Girl | 12-1a | Kelsey | Straight from
the Pacific Northwest (and everywhere
inbetween) – indie pop, twee, blues, electronic,
anything you can dance to, and whatever
else sounds good... s, r
Tight Jeans & Flannel | 1-2a | James & Kiran
The Culture as it was, The Culture as it is. s, n
Tasty Treats | 2-3a | Michael Harradon | Here to
get your foot tapping with a delicious mix of
indie, electronica and whatever else a growing
body needs. s, n
Ace Smile Ion | 3-4a | Monelisa | Moni & Elise –
ow ow! Prowling around Cambridge and
Boston for the best music vibes, and blasting
our current song fixations. Fun, lively, and oh
so delicious. s, n
T u esday
The Real News | 6-8a | Matt Davidson
Bringing you the stories buried by the corpo-
rate media. s, n
The New Edge | 2-4p | Ken Field | Creative and
innovative instrumental music.
The Jazz Train | 4-5:30p | Jon Pollack | A
weekly journey through the jazz legacy and
related musical styles, often featuring an
underlying theme.
DJ Awesome & the Wonderfriends | 6-7p
bananapants + brown sugar! | Complain around the
campfire with us! (Rock, punk, post-punk.)
Ain’t no marshmallows here, y’all. s, r
silly hats only | 7-8p [alternates weekly with
First Order] | Sarah | “As I recall, I think, we both
kinda liked it.” And I said, “Well, that’s one
thing we’ve got.” Indie poprock with frequent
randomness.
First Order | 7-8p [alternates weekly with silly
hats only] | Spherical Cow | Roughly speaking,
this show will consist of music. s, n
Pipeline! | 8-10p | Jeff Breeze, Mike Reed | The
sounds of New England are yours and mine.
We bring the best to you every week with new
tunes and live bands. s
Bass, Loop, & Scratch | 10-11p | DJ Bassil
Hitting you hard every week with heavy bass-
lines, and the occasional wobble. Check out this
showcase of electronic dance music. s, r
Peaceful Purgatory | 11p-12a | Shelby
Megadeth and Mendelssohn. Beethoven and
Black Sabbath. Led Zeppelin and Lalo. That’s
right. It’s Peaceful Purgatory, uniting hard rock
and classical. s, n
Generoso’s Bovine Ska and Rocksteady
12-2a | Generoso Fierro | “Rougher than
rough, tougher than tough. Strong like lion,
we are iron!”—Derrick Morgan, “Tougher
Than Tough”
Wed nesday
Ceangal Ceilteach | 6-8a | Kit Kelt | Come ex-
plore the diaspora in Celtic music with Ceangal
Ceilteach, a Celtic Connection. Hear hip hop,
rap, jazz, traditional, and more – all sung in
Celtic languages. m
Gorilla Got Me | 2-4p | Sara J | Crazed sounds
created by the rejects, rebels, and assorted
losers of rock ‘n’ roll!
In the Margin | 4-5:30p | Sue Schardt & Chuck
Rosina (hosts alternate weekly) | Masters of the Margin
butter your ears with deft spontaneity plumbing
the audiological depths, mixing with madness
sublime. Laugh, cry, tingle, sigh.
The Intercontinental | 6-8p | Jesse Kaminsky
Lounging at a seaside resort in prewar Japan
or drinking secretly in 1970s Ethiopia, the
Intercontinental is listening. On a dusty road-
side in Peru or lost in the southern seas, the
Intercontinental doesn’t speak the language,
the perpetual sonic tourist, making you listen
to his slide show every week.
What’s Left | 8-10p | Linda | News and inter-
views, music of all genres, poetry, comedy, and
other communiqués from the left. s
Take It Slow | 10-11p | Arathi Ramachandran
with Speeds in Excess of 140] | DJ Bryan & DJ Em
ing of chillout and world music. However, the
content ranges from techno, to indie, to prog
Rock – whatever pleases. s, m
Nooks & Crannies | 11p-12a | DJ Double A
A little of this, a little of that, all awesome!
[indie, hip-hop, classic rock and R&B] s
Vapor Funk | 12-1a | Kambel & Rhythmic
Drum & Bass, Dubstep, House, and whatever
else we think will get you groovin’. Weekly
live mixes from Kambel and Rhythmic with
guest djs from Boston’s underground EDM
scene. s, m
A Mad Tea Party | 1-2a [alternates weekly
with Beat Function] | Alice | Curiouser and
curiouser. Post punk, etc. s, n
Beat Function | 1-2a [alternates weekly with
A Mad Tea Party] | Rachel Mayer | The show that
plays the best and newest tracks in electronic
dance music! s, r
Textures | 2-3a | Akimitsu | Tune in to an
instrumental mix of ambient, minimalist, new
age, and post-rock. Concentrate, meditate,
sleep, cry, or dance. It’s up to you. s, n
Thur s d ay
Pontoon Palace | 6-8a | Rich Pontius | A good-
natured but incorrigible bin-digger becomes
embroiled in an early-morning plot to present
a rich panoply of deep folk, heavy rock, psych,
country, jazz, and pop, all the while indulging
his boundless zeal for mischief and romance.
Troubadour | 2-4p | Bruce Sylvester
An eclectic journey through traditional and
contemporary roots music reaching back to the
1920s. American, British, and Irish folk. Blues,
bluegrass, and classic ’50s rockabilly, R&B, and
country. Roots music without bounds or barriers.
Droppin’ Knowledge | 4-5:30p | Joeg | The
Wire, and Guests, and Themes, …Oh My!
The Wire, and Guests, and Themes. Oh My! s
Books on the Radio | 6-7p [alternates
weekly with Strangers with Candy] | Cady & Jessie
Songs relating to (or possibly not) your
favorite books. Mildly relevant and completely
unprofessional. s, r
Strangers with Candy | 6-7p [alternates
weekly with Books on the Radio] | Juan Carlos
Ybarra | Protopunk, punk, grunge, post-mod-
ern-grunge, post-hardcore, proper-hardcore,
post-punk, incoherent rabble, rabbble, rabble.
JUST LISTEN! Pretty much everything I like.
I just want to please you – by “you” I mean my-
self. But seriously, listen in and find out. s, r
The Neighborhood Radio Show | 7-8p
[alternates weekly with Paradigm Shifts] | Emily
Corwin Featuring local politicians, artists, and
academics in and around Boston. n
Paradigm Shifts | 7-8p [alternates weekly with
Tea Time in Beantown] | Rohit Sakhuja | Paradigm
Shifts: Ideas that could change the way we
work, live and play in the 21st century. n
Nonstop Ecstatic Screaming | 8-10p | Thao
Two hours of sound designed to split your skull
open, break your brain, and pop your funk.
Bloopity bits and bobs, plinkety plonk, drone,
skronk, assorted noise, a bumping beat here
and there, etc.
House Therapy | 10p-12a | Mike LaRosa
Feed your soul with the finest in foot-tapping,
body-moving house music. Continuous mixes
from top-notch local and international DJs. s
All Look Same | 12-1a | Charles & Shen
Music made on laptops and music not made
on laptops. s, m
Xiphias Radio Theater | 1-2a | Steve Herbst &
Cody Daniel | Brand new productions of hard-
boiled detective stories from the ’30s and ’40s,
broadcast live from our studio. “Dead men are
heavier than broken hearts.” s, n
Culture Shock | 2-3a | Zack | “I might not climb
the social ladder, but I can climb the schoolyard
fence.” Punk & Hardcore, Thrash & Grind. s, m
Fri d ay
Non-Dim Blues | 6-7a | Anemone! | Beats. Dance.
Something to keep you moving. Mash-ups. Mix
tapes. Keep on grooving. Come on, bob your
head, you know you want to. s, n
88 Rewound | 7-8a | Philip Smith | Take a trip
back in time as WMBR rewinds to play radio’s
top hits from a random day in history. s, n
Coffeetime | 2-4p | Angelynn Grant | Hard bop,
bebop, west coast & cool, early & vocal jazz.
Plus, every so often, jazz from the movies or
TV. And, at the end of the show, a little bit of
gospel, a little bit of soul. Doin’ okay, feelin’
good. Big hug. u
Three Ring Circus | 4-5:30p | Joan Hathaway
Music to make your soul sway, your hips
shake, and your heart break. Featuring new
music, the occasional in-studio performance,
and an emphasis on upcoming shows. Consider
3RC your personal music assistant. r
Spherio: The Local Voice of Our Hemisphere
6-7p | The Spherio Collective | We highlight how
people are making the Americas a better place,
from reviving traditions to creating new ones.
We invite popular organizers, artists, scientists,
musicians, and activists to come share ideas
and struggles. s
Music for Human Beings | 7-8p | Dr. Jalis
As-Sakran, Professor Levine, & friends | Sweeten the
tea of existence with the honey of togetherness.
Gurus, saints, scientists, and thinkers join
hands with you for discovery. s
Massachusetts Bay & Response: | 8-8:30p
Gina Badger & Brad Simpson | Thirty minutes
split in two: (1) Field recordings from the beach
mash up times and places; (2) The combined
sound of ambience, moving images, and algo-
rithms transmitted as layered soundscapes. s, n
Hidden Gems in Plain Sight | 8:30-10p
Josh Bails | Proving that it’s not that hard to
find good music if you know where to look.
Radio rock album cuts, indie rock, and
anything enjoyable. s
Time Traveling | 10p-12a | Nomadik | Taking
you on a musical journey through time with the
sounds of hip hop funk soul and more. Occa-
sional discussion on a music/community topic.
darkBOT radio | 12-2a | electronic Max
Meditative mechanical melancholy modulated
meticulously with motivational manipulations ~
(darkBOT radio: music for your lonely robot) s
Speeds in Excess of 140 | 2-3a [alternates
weekly with Back to the Baysics] | Jake Brown
Introducing your legal biweekly stimulant
rush: a non-stop hour of hypnotizing, euphoric
trance/dance music. 100 dB+ listening level
highly recommended. Get on your feet! s, n
Back to the Baysics | 2-3a [alternates weekly
Hip-hop, hyphy, rap, and crunk with a little bit
of soul and R&B. Music to make your head nod
and your booty shake; nothing but good beats
from old and new artists. s, m
S atur d ay
brain punch | 6-7a | cristina | powerviolence,
grind, crust, black metal. PMA never helped
anyone. s, r
The RootCellar | 7-8a | Richard Hughes | Acoustic
blues from the 1920s to today. m
Lost Highway | 8-10a | Doug Gesler | Music for
folks who like cowboy boots but are afraid to
wear ’em.
Backwoods | 10a-12p | John Funke | The best in
vintage rock ‘n’ roll, country and western, and
rhythm ‘n’ blues. More songs about Cadillacs
and chickens.
Subject to Change | 12-2p | Patrick N. Bryant
Still playing Pet Shop Boys after all these
years. And other mutant disco. Features
Somerville Speakout, actual complaints from
actual neighbors.
Howlin’ the Blues | 2-3p | Ahmed Ahmed
“I started wailing the blues when the doctor
whacked my bottom on the day I was born”
—Jet Black s, r
The Dan McDuff Show | 3-4p | Dan McDuff
A show for music lovers – to introduce and
share ideas on music. Listeners’ suggestions
and guests abound. s, n
Aural Fixation | 4-6p | Sue | The Aural Fixation
Sonic Libation: 1 part garage, 1 part psychedelia,
1 part punk, a pinch of prog, a dash of drone.
Shake with favorite ’60s unknowns, garnish
with feedback & serve on the rock.
James Dean Death Car Experience | 6-8p | Lisa
Pop, psych, punk, and garage evoking distant
memories of the flying hubcaps, shattered
taillights, and rapidly approaching highway
ditches. Somewhere in the haze, an AM radio
drones with weekly cheese…
The Show Show | 8-9p | MaGoGo | Get up, Get
Down. MaGoGo and The Show Show start your
night off right. New Wave to Post Punk, Planet
Rock to Electro-Pop.
Nite Owl | 9-10p | Noobie DJs | A sandbox for
new members. s, r
The Choice Is Yourz | 10p-12a | DJ Jimizz
DJ Jimizz on deck for 120 minutes with The
Choice is Yourz. The Choices are: Hip Hop &
R&B Jointz, Old School Jam of the Week, and
a listing of New Releases.
Mellow Madness | 12-1a | PJ Porter | Let host
PJ Porter get you in the mood as he brings
you the best in R&B slow jams Boston has to
offer. Looking for that song you fell in love to,
something new and hot, he’s got just what you
are looking for. Express your love to a special
someone with a live dedication. It’s easy. Come
aboard and enjoy this love affair called Mellow
Madness. Feel The Heat!!!!
THAT Show | 1-2a | Megan Velasquez & Dalitso
Nkhoma | Playing everything, oldies to pop. Week-
ly guests will contribute their playlists! s, n
Algorhythms | 2-4a | DJ Endo & DJ DC | Your
weekly journey into electronic dance music
with DJ Endo & DC mixing live every week,
featuring guest DJs from all over the world.
Sun d ay
Compas Sur FM | 6-8a | Emmanuel René
The show will get the listener accustomed to
the intricacies of Compas music.
Haiti Focus | 8-10a | Jacques-Antoine Jean
Dedicated to the Haitian community: featuring
news, music, community information, inter-
views, and reports on issues related to women,
immigration laws, health care, education, poli-
tics, development, and the current situation in
Haiti and the Haitian diaspora.
Radio with a View | 10a-12p | Marc Stern &
David Goodman | Economic democracy, human
rights, and other idealistic visions of the world.
Truth and reconciliation and music to get your
mind and body in sync.
World Beat | 12-2p | Brutus Leaderson | The
show’s goal is to present world music to the
Boston audience.
Jam Session | 2-4p | Pam Spencer & Carol
Muschette-Kirk | Awesome reggae program
with soca, calypso, and gospel music segments,
plus interviews on many varied topics includ-
ing: passport, citizenship, lobbying, medicine,
education, and entertainment. “Forward
always, backwards never.”
Afrika Kabisa | 4-6p | Julia Goldrosen | Africa
Absolutely! Boston’s African music radio show.
Classic and contemporary African and Afro-
Caribbean music. Soukous, ndombolo, rumba,
zouk, kompa, coupé décalé, makossa, highlife,
and more. Plus interviews with guests on a
variety of African-related topics.
R&B Jukebox | 6-8p | Captain Al | Vintage soul
music from the ’60s through the early ’80s.
A unique blend of blues, R&B, funk, and soul-
ful jazz. It’s New England’s hottest jukebox.
Musical Dope | 8-10p | Ben Lamothe | I play what
I like and tell you why it’s good. [freeform]
For Your Pleasure | 10p-12a | Ré Antoine
FYP provides a comfort zone. Forget the day’s
problems; it’s about L-O-V-E. Whether it’s past,
present, regrets, or thinking about that special
one on your mind, with R&B love songs, jazz,
Black History facts, “The Roll Call”, driven by
your dedications, making your Sunday night
end… purrrrfectly. Only FYP puts YOU to bed
with a satisfying smile on your face, with your
host Ré Antoine.
The Rude Show | 12-1a | Nadia | A weekly
serving of second- and third-wave ska to
nourish your soul. s, r
Entropy Enhancer | 1-2a | DJ Tony | Can’t wait
for the dance party this weekend? Want to hear
the latest in indie dance and house? Well, now
you can have it early: electronic and dance
beats to help you satisfy the urge, along with
some synth pop and acid jazz to contribute to
the package. This should be fun! s, n
Suavecito | 2-3a | El Jay y Legranster | We bring a
little of the good stuff of Spanish rock. Traemos
un poco de lo bueno de rock en español. Suavecito. s, n
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3a algorhythms culture shock 3a
suavecito baysics excess of 140 textures comfortably dumb tasty treats
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entropy enhancer that show xiphias radio theater function party tight jeans & flannel
beat mad tea ska & rocksteady
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the rude show mellow madness all look same vapor funk generoso’s bovine oregon girl
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nooks & crannies peaceful purgatory death disco
11p for your pleasure the choice is yourz time traveling house therapy 11p
take it slow bass, loop, & scratch last dance at the
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9p musical dope the show show hidden gems what’s left pipeline! bats in the belfry 9p
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mass bay + response
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shifts neighborhood only
car experience music for human beings first order footwork
paradigm the silly hats
7p r&b jukebox the intercontinental 7p
james dean death spherio with candy the radio the wonderfriends heartbreak &
strangers books on dj awesome &
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5p africa kabisa aural fixation three ring circus droppin’ knowledge in the margin the jazz train 5p
the jazz volcano
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the dan mcduff show development
jam session coffeetime troubadour gorilla got me new edge
howlin’ the blues research &
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worldbeat subject to change lost & found

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radio with a view backwoods late risers’ club

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haiti focus lost highway breakfast of champions

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