The Freak Show on WTSQ

06/11/2024

Strike that! See you next Monday June 17th!

06/05/2024

Monday June 24, we are back! Two hours from 7 to 9pm covering for our buds at Dealer's Choice on WTSQ. See ya then!

04/28/2024

This Monday we are back! Doing a show with the pals Dealer's Choice on WTSQ. 7 to 9pm.

04/10/2024

Since her days as a founding member of avant-pop band Stereolab, Lætitia Sadier’s music has engaged with everything from world-systems analysis to the surrealists. In an interview with Jacobin, she explains why she’s a radical but not a savior.

03/04/2024

Tonight at 7pm!

02/29/2024

This coming Monday, we are back! Filling in for Dealer's Choice on WTSQ, you got two hours of Freak coming at you! 7 to 9pm.

02/28/2024

Good stuff!

track by Dinosaur Burps

02/18/2024

We are back tomorrow at 7pm with Dealer's Choice on WTSQ previewing this year's Big Ears Festival!

02/06/2024

Watch a moment of music history – on Monday a single chord changed in an iconic piece of 20th-century music which ends in the year 2640.

02/06/2024

For four decades, Billy Bragg’s music has been a soundtrack to the British workers’ movement, enriching its long tradition of political songwriting. In an interview with Jacobin, he explains why his songs about socialism are also love songs.

02/06/2024

On Monday Feb. 19th, we will be back once again, doing a Big Ears tribute show with Dealer's Choice on WTSQ. 7pm!

01/21/2024

We are back on the air tomorrow with our buds from Dealer's Choice on WTSQ! 7 to 9pm, see ya then!

01/16/2024

01/10/2024

The American film maker and composer, Phill Niblock has died aged 90. Here composer and artist Lawrence English pays tribute

01/08/2024

Happy New Year! We are back on January 22nd, with Dealer's Choice on WTSQ, playing some of our favorite jams from last year. 7 to 9pm. See ya then!

11/07/2023

This coming Monday, November 13th, we are back! For two full hours at that, filling in for Dealer's Choice on WTSQ . 7 to 9pm. See ya then!

10/23/2023

We're back for this Monday! 7 to 9pm, tune in and get your Autumnal jam fix on WTSQ 88.1FM - The Status Quo !

10/09/2023

We're back! See you tonight at 7pm only on WTSQ 88.1 or streaming at WTSQ.org

09/24/2023

Missed us? We will be back for a couple of shows in October, so stay tuned! In the meantime, here is a playlist to hold you down.

Damp days · Playlist · 22 songs

09/08/2023

So, I recently got to thinking during that whole Oliver Anthony fudge round song hubbub about great songs actually about class struggle and…

08/14/2023

We are back this Monday! Doing double duty with our pals at Dealer's Choice on WTSQ this week, the fun starts at 7pm, 88.1 in Charleston and WTSQ.org for everyone else.

08/01/2023

See y'all 9.5.23 at the Grand Ole Opry
https://ffm.link/opry-2023

07/16/2023

Just in time for the 8 year anniversary, We will be back on Monday, live and in-person, to do three big hours of in-studio radio with Dealer's Choice on WTSQ 's Brendan Bell from 6 to 9pm. Tune in, turn on and turn up.

07/14/2023

It’s finally here! The WTSQ 8th Anniversary Come hang out with us tonight and tomorrow!

WTSQ 88.1 FM is celebrating 8 years of independent community radio with two FREE ALL AGES events on July 14th & 15th in Charleston, WV.

Things kick off on Friday, July 14th at 6:30pm as WTSQ takes over Live on the Levee at Haddad Riverfront Park** with three awesome local acts. Starting the night off we have Dinosaur Burps & The Infidelfonics (DBurps with members of THE YETTI) and special guests, Duck City Music. Then Huntington's goth cowgirl, Ally Fletcher will take the stage followed by Jim P***k to finish out the night.

Then on Saturday, July 15th is QuoFest at City Center at Slack Plaza on Summers Street** starting at 5pm, as part of the City Center Live summer events sponsored by The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation. Mark Price will kick things off followed by mediogres. Then our good friends Lung, from Cincinnati, will take the stage and Red Audio will close out the show. WTSQ DJs Robert Erby and Gavin Wissen will be spinning vinyl in between the bands and keeping Slack Plaza rockin' all evening long. We will have food trucks including Dem 2 Brothers & A Grill and delicious empanadas from Nellita’s Cocina, local artists, beer & wine, and a special one day only WTSQ t-shirt printed on site by Brand Yourself.

Come join all of us DJs, volunteers, sustaining members, underwriters and supporters as we celebrate everyone's favorite local indie radio station, WTSQ 88.1 FM.

**We do have a rain contingency plan in place for both nights in case of rain showers, the shows will still go on! IF a storm moves through, we will relocate to Rock City Cake Company at 205 Capitol Street. And both shows would still be free all ages events.

07/07/2023

OUT NOW ON ALL STREAMING PLATFORMS

ratship.bandcamp.com

06/24/2023

PETER BRÖTZMANN MEMORIAL BROADCAST

“Join WKCR-FM today, Saturday June 24, from 4pm until Midnight EDT, for a memorial broadcast in honor of German free jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann (1941-2023). Known for his expressive playing and forceful tone, Brötzmann worked with numerous musicians of the avant-garde, including Don Cherry, Andrew Cyrille, and Anthony Braxton, and was part of the legendary group Last Exit. WKCR’s broadcast will include live and studio material from across his over fifty-year career, as well as special live recordings courtesy of Last Exit affiliate Mitch Goldman.”

https://www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/peter-br%C3%B6tzmann-memorial-broadcast

06/23/2023

October 17, 1974Palace Of Culture And Science, Congress Hall - Jazz JamboreeWarsaw, PolandPeter Brötzmann - tenor saxophone, clarinet, mouthpieceAlexander vo...

06/23/2023

The indefatigable saxophonist who helped redefine jazz in the late 1960s died in his sleep Thursday.

06/07/2023

Crucial West Virginia jams.

New single out now.

05/22/2023

Meet us at 7pm tonight if you wanna get your ass kicked musically. WTSQ 88.1 / WTSQ.org