Music You Can't Hear on the Radio
with John Weingart
33⅓+ years on WPRB in Princeton, NJ
Sunday Evenings from 7:00-10:00 PM
THE RADIO SHOW
Now 4 Ways To Listen to "the best radio program in the universe*" which is "always very wide-ranging, unpredictable and fun**":
LIVE on Sundays from 7:00-10:00 pm:
1. 103.3 FM - in New Jersey from Morristown to Cherry Hill, Red Bank to Milford and Exits 4-13 of the Turnpike and in much of Philadelphia and Bucks County.
2. WPRB.com - anywhere in the world.
PODCAST (Almost) TO LISTEN LATER:
3. DAR.FM - Check out this VCR-type device you can set to automatically record the show each week. Then you can listen at your convenience on your PC, mobile phone or other device, save through iTunes or other programs, and/or record onto CDs to listen in your car.
4. TuneIn Radio - listen on your web browser on PC or Mac; mobile device apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Palm, BlackBerry, Samsung Bada, and Windows Phone; and home devices including Google TV, Yahoo TV, Roku, and WDTV).
Latest blog entries:
Summer Sundays
I’ll be away from the radio for the summer. I hope you get a chance to enjoy the music selected by Pete Labriola, Frank Todd and Andy Blue.
As always, thanks for listening,
- John.
June 23 Pete Labriola
June 30 Pete Labriola
July 7 Pete Labriola
July 14 Frank Todd
July 21 Frank Todd
July 28 Pete Labriola
Aug 4 Pete Labriola
Aug 11 Andy Blue
Aug 18 Frank Todd
Aug 25 Pete Labriola (9th Annual Post-Katrina Show)
Sept 1 Andy Blue (Annual Labor Day Show)
Sept 8 John Weingart
Tonight’s penultimate show
This evening’s penultimate show of the 2012/2013 Music You Can’t Hear On The Radio season will include brand new albums by Beppe Gambetta (his 1st since 2011) and Jackie Washington Landron (the 1st since 1967) as well as songs about the blood of the lamb, music about baseball, songs associated with Dave Van Ronk, music from Tampa Red and Nellie McKay, new albums from Peter Rowan, Slaid Cleaves, Ginny Reilly, David Maloney and Deborah Holland as well as songs from John Fogarty and Amy Rigby and, our old friend, others.
Listen live from 7:00-10:00 pm on WPRB 103.3 FM or WPRB.com or set your computer to record the show at DAR.FM.
This Sunday, DVR for Radio, & Summer Plans
This Sunday, about 8:00 pm my guest on the show will be Peter Myers, a singer-songwriter from Manasquan, NJ with a new album I have been enjoying. Learn more about him at http://www.peterqmyers.com/.
I have written before about DAR.FM (http://dar.fm/), the amazing essentially free service that lets you regularly record Music You Can’t Hear On The Radio and thousands (at least hundreds) of other radio shows. They refer to themselves as “DVR for radio” which is exactly right and much clearer than my reference to what they provide as “almost podcasting.”
Here’s a sample of what their recording sounds like from the start of last week’s show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZIT3MsdK5I.
Finally, in recent years – that is, starting in 1990 – I have been taking the summers off from the radio. This year, my first Sunday away will be June 23rd and I will return right after Labor Day. Back by popular demand to host the show over those 12 weeks will be Andy Blue, Pete Labriola and Frank Todd. (I’ll also be away on June 2nd but back for the 9th and 16th.
- John
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Music You Can't Hear On The Radio was begun by John Weingart in February 1974 to weave folk music, string band music, bluegrass blues, humor, the Grateful Dead and occasional news clippings and readings into a whole that aims to be, as often as possible, bigger than the sum of its parts. The program usually includes a mix of CDs and LPs each often linked to the ones that came before and follow after in a way intended to evoke interest, amusement, surprise, profound educational experiences, bewilderment, or other forms of active engagement. The opening song and other parts of the program may refer to particularly current news or seasonal events.
Every Sunday evening, for a few minutes usually sometime between 8:45 and 9:15 pm, the program includes a reading of selected concerts in the central New Jersey, Bucks County and Philadelphia area. These events and many more are maintained on a list available at the Concert Calendar page. To have other events noted on the list, please e-mail a barebones version of the relevant information.