Elliot on WPRB

01/26/2022

'Music on hold (MOH) is the business practice of playing recorded music to fill the silence that would be heard by telephone callers who have been placed on hold. It is especially common in situations involving customer service.

Among the best known is the largely forgotten "Opus Number One" by Tim Carleton and high-school friend Darrick Deel, who recorded it on a four-track tape recorder in 1989. Deel went on to work for Cisco in building the company's first VoIP phone. When a need for default on hold music came up, he recalled the track he and Carleton had recorded and reached out to Carleton for approval.'

Provided to YouTube by DistroKidOpus No. 1 · Tim CarletonOpus No. 1℗ TIM CARLETONReleased on: 2016-06-01Auto-generated by YouTube.

01/14/2022

coming to a radio near you

01/11/2022

After months of silence, I return to WPRB this Saturday to play horrible noise and ask you a question about Chinese pop balladry.

11/14/2021

Once again I am thinking about Satie's "Le Fils des Étoiles". $10 to whoever makes a YouTube video that just loops the first 16 bars over and over again.

In my piece on Joséphin Péladan and the Salons de la Rose + Croix, I devote some space to Erik Satie's astonishing score for Péladan's mystical drama Le Fils des Étoiles, which was produced in conjunction with the first Salon...

10/15/2021

remember me? I'll be filling in for John Tobias Radio Host tomorrow morning 7-9am!

get ready for Chilean acid folk, new music from Deerhoof, and more jungle than you'd think

07/28/2021

surprise! I'll be playing serious sounds today on WPRB from 10am-12pm EDT!

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07/26/2021

Not quite the same spot and missing our brother DP but we managed to get back into the quarry !

07/21/2021

Surprise! I'll be filling in for Stitching Pink on WPRB this morning from 10am-12pm!

07/13/2021

Check out the NYT's track-by-track breakdown of Maggot Brain. Where else could you see Pierre Schaeffer and Outkast on the same playlist? (Besides WPRB, of course.)

Funkadelic’s third album was a psychedelic blast of freewheeling protest music. As the LP turns 50, we look back at the music that fueled it — and that was inspired by it.

06/24/2021

Women's News. Feminized.

06/23/2021

Today I learned that there was an Italian mispress of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures where they accidentally replaced the A-side with the first half of Pere Ubu's The Art of Walking. That must have been a shock!

View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1980 Vinyl release of "The Art Of Walking / Unknown Pleasures" on Discogs.

06/18/2021

We've all been there, man

“‘Oops’ does not suffice”

06/05/2021

My last show of the spring season! Catch me spinning old and new favorites from 6-8pm tonight!

103.3fm
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06/04/2021

Tomorrow will be my last broadcast before I take the summer off! Here's a little preview -- the perfect track for the rain outside my apartment right now.

I hope you can tune in.

6-8pm Eastern
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103.3fm

from "From Kingston JA To Miami USA" (1983)

05/29/2021

Just popping by to say I am on air right now! You missed the French hurdy gurdy drone, but I still have plenty of surprises in store.

6-8pm EST
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103.3fm

05/24/2021

confession: I still love every 15-minute-long album with stupid song titles made by 5 guys wearing skinny jeans ca. 2003.

With the continued rise of over-the-top, theatrical, obnoxious hardcore, this edition of In Defense of the Genre looks back on 25 albums from the 2000s that helped pave the way for this hard-to-define sound...

05/20/2021

'A 9-year-old in Dubai is considered one of the world's top DJs'

A 9-year-old in Dubai is considered one of the world's top DJs. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Michelle Rasul about how she became a wizard at scratching on a portable turntable.

05/15/2021

guess who's DJing on WPRB? me! 6-8pm EST!

tonight's show includes: newly unearthed jazz from Hasaan Ibn Ali and Jackie McLean/Michael Carvin; a Yugoslavian disco song about Genghis Khan; classic Boston no wave. dig!

6-8pm EST
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05/12/2021

Can't wait to play a selection from this long lost album on Saturday!

The Philadelphia musician’s only album as a bandleader was long thought lost in a fire. Now his legacy could undergo a reassessment.

05/12/2021

Happy Trail of Dead Day!

Today is Trail of Dead day. The state of Texas says so. Post your favorite TOD memories & photos here! What a strange and beautiful ride! 🏆

05/04/2021

05/01/2021

04/17/2021

Louis Armstrong signing a fan’s head, 1961

04/17/2021

Zoom zoom! From 6-8pm tonight, hear me zip and zap with Krista of WPRB Habitat Enrichment! The Tammys! Popcorn! Christian hippies! Also, I finally cave and play a Led Zeppelin song. While you're at it, stop by pledge.wprb.com and lend your support to New Jersey's Only Radio Station.

04/14/2021

To be honest, it's going to be a little weird hearing the Screamers without the hiss of multiple generations of bootlegging.

An archival release marks the technical debut of a band that helped build a scene, 44 years later.

04/14/2021

Did you enjoy hearing from Sonny Boy Williamson III on my show this past Saturday? I'm repaying the favor by joining him on Blues, Off the Record today from noon-3pm. WARNING: There will be jug bands.

Come say hi, and remember to visit pledge.wprb.com.

TODAY’s the DAY folks. Tune in from noon to 3pm for a special membership drive broadcast on New Jersey’s ONLY radio station WPRB 103.3 FM. Joined by cohost Elliot on WPRB. PLEDGE.WPRB.COM

04/10/2021

Important announcement! After years of extensive research on "listening pleasure", I have finally come to the conclusion that WPRB is the ONLY place for adventurous, delightful, one-of-a-kind radio. But WPRB can't share your favorite music with the world, or keep you company throughout the day and night, without your support! Help keep WPRB on the airwaves by visiting pledge.wprb.com and becoming a sustaining member. We're SO grateful to everyone who has allowed WPRB to be a community-supported, independent radio station for the past 81 years, and we've got big plans for the next 8+ decades, too!

Come say hi tonight as I co-host a program with Sonny Boy Williamson III of Blues, Off the Record from 6-8pm! I can't wait to see you in our Listener Chat!

04/06/2021

Stunning new discovery

The jazz pianist only recorded two albums, the second of which was long believed to be lost. Now, the rediscovery of Metaphysics: The Lost Atlantic Session is cause for renewed celebration.

04/03/2021

Don't tell my Bubbie! Tonight's show has not one but TWO Easter-themed sets, including a build-your-own mass that I compiled from some of my favorite records. (Should I call it a 'mix-n-mass'?) Tune in and say hi in WPRB's listener chat!

6-8pm
103.3fm
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03/31/2021

Great write-up about the legendary Grauzone. I'll be playing 'Ich Lieb Sie' on Saturday!

Richard Foster dives into a new box set charting the work of Swiss NDW, post punk, coldwave, art punk, who-knows-what-the-hell-they-were group, Grauzone and finds some extraordinary music

03/27/2021

Tune in early for my special Passover playlist! Tune in late for ?????

WPRB.com
103.3fm
6-8pm

03/20/2021

Cutting loose right now at WPRB! 6-8pm! I'm playing a Norwegian cover of 'Harper Valley PTA', and also a Swedish cover of 'Harper Valley PTA', and also a German cover of 'Harper Valley PTA'!

New Jersey's Only Radio Station

03/19/2021

Raise your hand if you played the Headhunters debut album on repeat so often that your college roommates yelled at you about it

Best known for his work on Hancock's blockbuster 1973 album Head Hunters, Paul Jackson was a bassist who found his musical identity between jazz and funk.

03/14/2021

A great read on why contemporary pop songs have such weird structures.

'Over the course of the 1960s, verse-chorus form took stage, focusing songs’ emotional weight and intensity around that central, familiar chorus. Are we in the midst of another major shift?'

How chart-topping songs changed without us even noticing.

03/13/2021

6-8pm tonight! Swiss disco ('Swissco'?), new music from Bell Orchestre, and more than one song about peanuts.

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03/12/2021

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03/06/2021

need I say anything more?

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03/05/2021

up late? FYI, my show gets rebroadcast every Thursday night from 1-3am EST!

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(technically Friday morning, but who's counting?)

03/01/2021

'We can dance, we can dance /
Everybody's taking the chance /
Safety dance, safety dance'

Wedding receptions can resume on March 15th.