WMBR is looking for designs to use on fundraising swag.
You know this already: WMBR is a college/community radio station affiliated with MIT. We are a local, non-commercial station, broadcasting at 88.1fm, and online at http://wmbr.org. We are 100% volunteer, with no paid staff. This is rare - even among other local college and public stations. Our only sources of income are listener donations and a small stipend from MIT.
Each November, we host a week-long fundraising drive to replenish our capital budget and keep the station on air for another year. Typically, we offer various premiums — wmbr-branded T-shirts, bumper stickers, etc. — to donors as our way of saying thanks and for them to wear in support of the station.
Each year we choose different designs for these premiums, which is where you come in! We are reaching out to the local artist community for logos or other images. This year is special for us, we’re celebrating 50 years on the air! Because of this, we’re especially looking for designs that highlight the 50th anniversary of WMBR.
While we can’t provide cash payment, any designers whose images we use will receive publicity via on-air mentions and on our website, as well as ample samples of their work on the actual premiums. In addition, you’ll be helping out one of the premiere radio stations in the region.
If you’re interested in helping us out, please respond by Monday, Sept. 12. Reply to me at premiums@wmbr.org with a jpeg or link to your proposed design. Rough drafts are welcome if accompanied by examples of other finished work.
You can see examples of previously used artwork here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=43949&id=22335947090
Thanks for your consideration and please feel free to pass this along to anyone you feel might be interested!
New releases at WMBR for the week of August 1, 2011.
Listed here by:
Artist, Title of release, (label), format
Boston Spaceships - Let It Beard (GBV) CD
Chubby Wolf - Los Que No Son Gentos (Dragon’s Eye) CD
Deadlands - s/t (75 Or Less) CD
Doe, John - Keeper (Yep Roc) CD
Dom - Family Of Love EP (Astralwerks) CD
Endless Wave - Notes From The Compound (Fort Point) CD
Fountains Of Wayne - Sky Full Of Holes (Yep Roc) CD
Get Set Go - Loose Tongues (Square Tire) CD
Great White Plains - Heavy Dose (self-rel) CD
Human Instinct - Pins In It (Sunbeam) CD
Human Instinct - Stoned Guitar (Sunbeam) CD
Human Instinct - Burning Up Years (Sunbeam) CD
Interpol - Try It On (Matador) CD
Katalina Kicks - The Return Of Montague Rotter (self-rel) CD
Keenan, Brian - Today This Year (self-rel) CD
Lloyd’s Lllamas - s/t (75 Or Less) CD
Prophets & Kings - s/t (self-rel) CD
Ringo & Kiko Experience - You Need To Know (self-rel) CD
Schrag, Ember - Jephthah’s Daughter (eh?) CD
Sidewalk Driver - Car Broke Down EP (self-rel) CD
Tessier, David - Taurus (75 Or Less) CD
Yellow Ostrich - The Mistress (Barsuk) CD
Action Verbs - The Men East EP (self-released) CD
Aficionado - s/t (No Sleep) CD
All the Apparatus - s/t (Faulty) CD
An Isotope - Glass Bridges (self-released) CD
Army Navy - The Last Place (The Fever Gone) CD
Bandana Splits - s/t (Boy Scout) CD
Buckner, Richard - Our Blood (Merge) CD
Buffalo Killers - 3 (Alive Naturalsound) CD
Civil Tones - City Stoopin’ (Pravda) CD
Collections of Colonies and Bees - Giving (Hometapes) CD
Decemberists - An iTunes Session (EMI) CD
Delmhorst, Kris - Cars (Signature Sounds) CD
Dun2Def/Destructors - Ten Years/Wohlgefuhl (Rowdy Farrago) CD
Emblems - Our Bare Bones (self-released) CD
Fungi Girls - Some Easy Magic (Hozac) CD
Hanna Barbarians - Syzygy (self-released) CD
Imaginary Johnny - Dig (Unfinished Side) CD
Jayhawks - Mockingbird Time (Rounder) CD
Jean Caffeine - Geckos in the Elevator (self-released) CD
Ladybirds - Regional Community Theater (Creep) CD
Love Crushed Velvet - s/t (self-released) CD
marquis Melody - Hearts of Fire (single) (Skank So) CD
Mutinymutiny - Constellation (Secret Frequencies) CD
Now Playing - s/t (JDA) CD
Violet Lights - Sex & Sound (LAVL) CD
Viva Brother - Famous First Words (A&M) CD
War on Drugs - Slave Ambient (Secretly Canadian) CD
Action Verbs - Music for Children (self-released) CD
Wooley/Looney/Smith/Walter - Scowl (ugEXPLODE) CD
Jones, Grace - Hurricane (Pias America) CD
Miri - Okkar (Kimi) CD
Twenty One Pilots - Regional at best (self-released) CD
Fall On Your Sword - Another Earth (Milan) CD
Basa, Emilio - To the End (self-released) CD
Land, Lex - Were My Sweetheart To Go… (Intelligent Noise) CD
Pidgeon, Rebecca - Slingshot (Toy Canteen) CD
Pidgeon, Rebecca - Disintegration Man/Get Up Get Out (Toy Canteen) 7″
Warshauer, Laura - The Pink Chariot Mixtape (self-released) CD
Bell, Philip - Since (ClarionBell) CD
Blnrb - Welcome to the Madhouse (Out here) CD
Lehn/Schmickler - Live Double Seance (Editions Mego) CD
Metronomy - The English Riviera (Big Beat) CD
Schnitzler, Conrad - Con-Struct (M=minimal) CD
WMBR was off the air today for a few hours due to a blown capacitor in our transmitter. Here’s a photo of the culprit:
Mimi and Richard Farina made some of the most exotic music within the ’60s folk scene. In 1965, the Putnam Ave. residents dropped by the studios of WTBS (now WMBR) with electric guitarist Barry Tashian (of Barry & the Remains) for music and talk with DJ Ed Freeman. Richard is on dulcimer. One of Mimi’s two guitars is tuned like a dulcimer. People who’ve read David Hajdu’s “Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina” won’t be surprised that Richard does most of the talking. The explanation for the brief gap in the tape has long been lost. [LINK]
Afraid Of Figs I Ate A Vegan self-rel CD blue
http://www.afraidoffigs.com/merch.html
Ceremony Extended Play Killer Pimp CD blue/rpm
http://killerpimp.com/
Chiodos Notes In Constellations Equal Vision CD blue
http://soundcloud.com/equalvision/05-notes-in-constellations
Cynics, The Spinning Wheel Motel Get Hip CD blue
http://www.gethip.com/web/catalog/cynics-spinning-wheel-motel/
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. It’s A Corporate World Warner Bros CD blue
http://www.daleearnhardtjrjr.com/
Dark Mean s/t self-rel CD blue
http://www.darkmean.com/fr_news.cfm
Junior Boys It’s All True Domino CD blue/rpm
http://www.dominorecordco.com/juniorboys/
Kingsley Flood I Don’t Wanna Go Home self-rel CD blue/local
http://kingsleyflood.bandcamp.com/track/i-dont-wanna-go-home
Johannsson, Johann The Miners’ Hymns FatCat CD blue
http://www.johannjohannsson.com/2010/06/the_miners_hymns_a_new_film_by.html
O’Halloran, Dustin Vorleben FatCat CD blue
http://www.dustinohalloran.com/discography-vorleben
Phoenix Foundation, The Buffalo Memphis Ind CD blue
http://thephoenixfoundation.bandcamp.com/album/buffalo
Soundpool Remirrored Killer Pimp CD blue/rpm
http://brainwashed.com/common/htdocs/discog/pimpk019.php?site=pimp
Strange Markings Lightly Asleep Muddmins CD blue
http://www.myspace.com/strangemarkings
Suit Of Hair Yeah Lou self-rel CD blue/LOCAL
http://www.myspace.com/suitofhair
Vetiver The Errant Charm SubPop CD blue
http://www.subpop.com/releases/vetiver/full_lengths/the_errant_charm
White Hills H-p1 Thrill Jockey CD blue
http://www.thrilljockey.com/catalog/?id=105301
Wooden Birds, The Two Matchsticks Barsuk CD blue
http://www.thewoodenbirds.com/media.html
Zavala, Jason Ornament self-rel CD blue
http://jasonzavala.bandcamp.com/album/ornament
Oi! A Nova Musica Brasieira! Mais Um Discos CD blue/world
Bloom, Mike King Of Circles Little CD pop
http://www.myspace.com/mikebloom
Brady, Paul Hooba Dooba Proper CD pop
http://www.paulbrady.com/
Eppington, Flash Jack Penny Up Epmusic CD pop
http://www.flashjackeppington.com/index
Gallagher, Rory Notes From San Francisco Eagle CD green/pop
http://www.rorygallagher.com/
Afuche - Highly Publicized Digital Boxing Match (Cuneiform) CD
Ancient Motorcar - Quiet Countries (Imminent) CD
Architect Sketch - The Great Dilemma (-) CD
Arctic Monkeys - Brick By Brick/Don’t Sit Down (-) 7″
Art Brut - Brilliant! Tragic! (Cooking Vinyl) CD
Bazan - Strange Negotiations (Barsuk) CD
Bedouin Soundclash - Light The Horizon (Nat Geo) CD
Bettysoo and Doug Cox - Across The Borderline: Lie To Me (Borderline) CD
Blackmore’s Night - Autumn Sky (Minstrel Hall) CD
Blake, Ran - Grey December (Tompkins Square) CD
Bodega Girls - Et Tu Bootay? (-) CD
Box Codax - Hellabuster (Gomma) CD
Bright Light Social Hour - The Bright Light Social Hour (-) CD
Brown, Greg - Freak Flag (yep roc) CD
Brown, Suzie - Heartstrings (Freshie) CD
Bruteheart - Lonely Hunter (Soft Advise) CD
Bui, Carol - Red Ship (Exoh) CD
Bunbury - Gran Rex (Capitol) CD
Can You Canoe - Can You Canoe (-) CD
Caretaker - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (Boomkat) CD
Cheer-Accident - No Ifs Ands Or Dogs (Cuneiform) CD
Convergence - Umbrella Spokes (-) CD
Cubic Feet - The Living End (Meteor) CD
Curtis, Jack - Dubowsky Ensemble III (De Stijl) CD
Demos - Lovely (Young Lion Of The West) CD
Dennen, Brett - Comeback Kid (That’s My Dog) (Dualtone) CD
Drool Brothers - Decoupage (Barfing Glitter) CD
Dustwire - Dustwire (Velvet Dog) CD
Ear Pwr - Ear Pwr (Carpark) CD
Emily’s Army - Don’t Be A Dick (Adeline) CD
Farewell Drifters - Echo Boom (Heart Squeeze) CD
Father’s Children - Father’s Children (Numero Group) CD
Fereshta - Global Citizen (-) CD
Foster The People - Torches (Star Time) CD
Freitas, Nik - Saturday Night Underwater (Little Record Company) CD
Friendly Fires - Pala (XL Recordings) CD
Gabriel, Joshua - 3rd Chance EP (-) CD
General Bastard - You Can’t Touch Me (SEGMedia) CD
Givers - In Light (Glassnote) CD
Gosta Berlings Saga - Glue Works (Cuneiform) CD
Harris, Emmylou - Hard Bargain (Nonesuch) CD
Haynes, Warren - Man In Motion (Stax) CD
Hazmat Modine - Cicada (Barbes) CD
Hernandez, Saul - Remando (Capitol) CD
Hugo - Ready (Ungar Minded) CD
Hugo - Old Tyme Religion (Epic) CD
James Farm - James Farm (Nonesuch) CD
Jones, Booker T. - The Road From Memphis (Anti-) CD
King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine (Domino) CD
Klim, Kate - Kamikaze Love (-) CD
Knox, Daniel - Evryman For Himself (Webb Whale) CD
Koli - Who Said I Can’t Dance? (K3) CD
Legacy of Disorder - Legacy of Disorder (LoD) CD
Lerche, Sondre - Sondre Lerche (Mona) CD
Let’s Wrestle - Nursing Home (Merge) CD
Lonely Island - Turtleneck & Chain (Universal) CD
Lord + Lopatin - Channel Pressure (Mexican Summer) CD
Mando Diao - Give Me Fire! (Universal) CD
Marley, Ziggy - Wild and Free (Tuff Gong) CD
Maus, John - Believer (Ribbon) CD
Moore, Thurston - Demolished Thoughts (Matador) CD
Morning Fuzz - Shadows In The Rearview (Morning Fuzz) CD
My First Earthquake - Friction (-) CD
My Morning Jacket - Circuital (ATO) CD
N.E.D. - Six Degrees (Rhythm Heals) CD
Oxygen Ponies - Exit Wounds (Hidden Target) CD
Pale - In The Time Of Dangerous Men (A Blake) CD
Panther Style - Emergencia (-) CD
People Like Us - Welcome Abroad (Illegal) CD
Pictora - Countdown (-) CD
Pinhas, Richard & Merzbow - Rhizome (Cuneiform) CD
Pure Grain - Sowing Seeds (SOL) CD
Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age (Rekords) CD
Radical Dads - Mega Rama (Uninhabitable Mansions) CD
Readymade Breakup - Readymade Breakup (-) CD
Reatards - Teenage Hate (Goner) CD
Repulski, Graham - Into An Animal Together (Shorter) CD
Right On Yukon - The National Policy EP (-) CD
Rock & Roll Joe - Tribute to the Unsung Heroes of Rock N’ Roll (Train Wreck) CD
Roper, Rob - Misfit (-) CD
Rosebuds - Loud Planes Fly Low (Merge) CD
Sarmiento, Michi - Aqui Los Bravos! The Best Of Michi (Sound Way) CD
Scumbag Philosopher - It Means Nothing So It Means Nothing (Words On Music) CD
Seapony - Go With Me (Hardly Art) CD
Sebadoh - Bakesale (Sub Pop) CD
Shine 2009 - Realism (Cascine) CD
Sorry Bamba - Volume One 1970-1979 (Thrill Jockey) CD
South For The Summer - South For The Summer EP (-) CD
Souther, JD - Natural History (eOne) CD
Sphynx - Human Beast (Indie Fort) CD
Stealing Earth - Smartest On The Street (Retro Rocket) CD
Susanna & The Grinders - Twine (Ehmm) CD
Sweeney, Molly - Gold Rings And Fur Pelts (Syren) CD
They Might Be Giants - Join Us (Idlewild) CD
Thile, Chris & Michael Daves - Sleep With One Eye Open (Nonesuch) CD
Thousand Pities - Believe In Sound (Overpop) CD
Thunderbang! - More Fun (-) CD
Udden’s, Jeremy Plainville - If The Past Seems So Bright (Sunnyside) CD
Vampire Weekend - iTunes Session (XL Recordings) CD
Various Artists - An Alternate History Of Popular Music (Numero Group) CD
Various Artists - Rave On Buddy Holly (Fantasy) CD
Various Artists - New Arrivals Vol. 4 (nn4y) CD
Various Artists - Watch The Closing Doors (Year Zero) CD
Various Artists - I Love: Tom T. Hall’s Songs of Fox Hollow (Red Beet) CD
Various Artists - Vegabonds (Dear Revolution) CD
Amor De Dias - Street Of The Love Of Days (Merge) CD
Baby Baby - Money (The Gospel of Rhythm) CD
Balance And Composure - Separation (No Sleep) CD
Balkans - s/t (Double Phantom) CD
Bbigpigg - Phantom Photography (self-rel) CD
Clutters, The - Breaking Bones (Chicken Ranch) CD
Cave, Nick & The Bad Seeds - Remastered Sampler Vol 3 (Mute) CD
Come Wind - Wanderer O Wanderer ep (self-rel) CD
Company - Holy City (Exit) CD
Darrow, Tiger - You Know Who You Are (self-rel) CD
Davis, Ben & The Jetts - Charge It Up! (Lovitt) CD
Des Ark - Don’t Rock The Boat, Sink The Fucker (Lovitt) CD
Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling - Questions Are A Burden To Others (self-rel) CD
Flies Around It - s/t EP (Humdinger) CD
Ford, Sallie & The Sound Outside - Dirty Radio (Partisan) CD
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact (4AD) CD
Gemini, Miwa - Fantastic Lies Of Grizzly Rose (Rock Park) CD
Gold-Bears - Are You Falling In Love (Slumberland) CD
Gray, Ash & The Girls - This Could Be A Wild Night (LuvRock) CD
Higgins, Gary - A Dream A While Back (Drag City) CD
Jerusalem And The Starbaskets - DOST (De Stijl) CD
Le Butcherettes - Sin Sin Sin (Rodriguez Lopez) CD
Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math (Columbia) CD
Mercury Program, The - Chez Viking (Lovitt) CD
Mighty Tiny - White Dog Rough Again (self-rel) CD
Moonlight Towers - Day Is The New Night (Chicken Ranch) CD
Moreno, Gaby - Illustrated Songs (Paisley) CD
Most, Dennis - Instigate Me! (self-rel) CD
No Bird Sing - Theft Of The Commons (self-rel) CD
Nodzzz - Innings (Woodsist) CD
Pond P.A., Matt - Spring Fools (Altitude) CD
Pygmylush - Oldfriends (Lovitt) CD
Saint Lips - Charm (No More Fake Labels) CD
Sartain, Dan - Legacy Of Hospitality (self-rel) CD
Serenaders, The - My One And Only You (self-rel) CD
Simone, Alina - Make Your Own Danger (self-rel) CD
Soft Opening - s/t (Family Night) CD
Sound And Shape - Now Comes The Mystery (Essomenic) CD
Take Back, The - Win Some Lose Some (self-rel) CD
Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania (In The Red) CD
This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket (Suicide Squeeze) CD
TV Ghost - Mass Dream (In The Red) CD
Wild Beasts - Smother (Domino) CD
Fonseca, David - Between Waves (V&A) CD
Kent, Jamie & The Options - Neoteny (self-rel) CD
Swimming With Dolphins - Water Colours (Tooth & Nail) CD
Waterson, Mary & Oliver Knight - The Days That Shaped Me (One Little Indian) CD
WMBR’s 50th anniversary will soon be upon us. Here’s an audio program that marked our 25th. [LINK]
Well… almost 50. In anticipation of WMBR’s upcoming 50th anniversary, we have been digitizing promos from old shows! An assortment of these promos is now available online: [LINK]. This collection covers the period from roughly 1965-2000. Added bonus: liner notes from the news and promo tapes [LINK].
