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WMBR Fall/Winter 2025 Program Schedule:    Return to Main Schedule
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Friday Programs:
4-7am Second Fiddle
Hosted by: Rick Biskit Roth
One hundred years of country music in every form, from bluegrass to Bakersfield and more. If some hillbilly picked up a stringed instrument and it was recorded, I might play it.

Listen to past shows: Fri Sep 26 4:00 am Playlist
Fri Sep 19 4:00 am Playlist
7-8am Leaves Turn Inside You
Hosted by: lochness monster
Embrace the eclectic in life! Sugar-coated pop, heartfelt distortion, flowstate rhythms, prismatic melodies. Life-affirming underground (and rarely sky-high) music from all over the map. Senescense to frondescence: the leaves are changing, so are we.
Listen to past shows: Fri Sep 26 7:00 am  
8-10am Breakfast of Champions
Hosted by: Fred, Ted, Becca, Amanda, Erik, and Jon
Start your morning off right with a bowl full of sugary sweet pop goodness, sprinkle on some tasty punk influences, and help yourself to the buffet of sumptuous soundscapes, melancholy melodies, quirky cadences and raucous rock.

Twitter Feed: @bocwmbr
Listen to past shows: Fri Sep 26 8:00 am Playlist
Fri Sep 19 8:00 am Playlist
10am-Noon Late Risers' Club
Hosted by: Joanie, Mark, Mook, Nick, Brandon, Tapedeck Tommy, & the Tuesday Rotation
Your punk rock alarm clock since 1977.

Twitter Feed: @laterisersclub
Listen to past shows: Fri Sep 26 10:00 am Playlist
Fri Sep 19 10:00 am Playlist
Noon-2pm Lost and Found
Hosted by: Lawrence Azrin, Mark Francis, Bob Dubrow, Brother Wayne, Christopher Vyce, Alex McNeil, Rick Roth
Rock, pop, soul, psych, prog, girl groups -- from the 50s into the 70s and beyond, but not the same old songs you hear every day on commercial radio.

Listen to past shows: Fri Sep 26 12:00 pm Playlist
Fri Sep 19 12:00 pm Playlist
2-4pm Coffeetime
Hosted by: Angelynn Grant
Hard bop, bebop, west coast and cool, early and 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. Baby.

Twitter Feed: @angelynng
Listen to past shows: Fri Sep 26 2:00 pm Playlist
Fri Sep 19 2:00 pm Playlist
4-5:30pm The Big Beat
Hosted by: JM
The Big Beat provides a mish mosh of eclectic music & sounds every week from the '50's to current latest albums from all over the globe.
Listen to past shows: Fri Sep 26 4:00 pm  
Fri Sep 19 7:00 pm Playlist
5:30-6pm WMBR Nightly News
Hosted by: WMBR News Department
News and analysis focusing on under-reported issues, marginalized communities, and struggles for social change. Our weekly line-up includes progressive independent national programs as well as locally produced reporting on Cambridge and Greater Boston.

Listen to past shows: Fri Sep 26 5:30 pm  
Fri Sep 19 5:30 pm  
6-7pm Mindblown
Hosted by: Linda Pinkow
A weekly selection of psychedelic, neo-psychedelic, avant-garde, and experimental music of many eras and genres, and related sounds. All carefully arranged to surprise, enlighten, and/or delight you.
Listen to past shows: Fri Sep 26 6:00 pm Playlist
Fri Sep 19 6:00 pm Playlist
7-8pm
Alternates Weekly
Sometime after 7
Hosted by: Sara Sime Christian Cardozo
The right mix of very eclectic musical tastes, nuanced and quirky conversation, and - dare we say - a couple of soothing voices. It will always feel like sometime after 7.
Upcoming shows: Oct 10, Oct 24
Listen to past shows: Fri Sep 26 7:00 pm Playlist
7-8pm
Alternates Weekly
Papaya
Hosted by: Sarita Pepita & MiSHA2000
tune in to our bedroom club set of blissful and biting dance pop. see you next tuesday, or whenever...
Upcoming shows: Oct 3, Oct 17, Oct 31
8-9pm
Alternates Weekly
sunnymoon <3
Hosted by: Ellie Lei, Michelle Mo
the sun to her moon, the fork to her spoon... two besties, one wedding, zero legal documents <3 join us, your favorite next house 'newlyweds', as we take on a ridiculous honeymoon bucket list - proving commitment is temporary, but chaos is forever.
Upcoming shows: Oct 10, Oct 24
Listen to past shows: Fri Sep 26 8:00 pm  
8-9pm
Alternates Weekly
Bleeps + Bloops
Hosted by: Rowan Wergeland
Let's explore the vast valleys and mountain ranges of music made by machines. Electronic, hip-hop, pop, and indie; the eclectic, the beautiful, the goofy, the serene: it's all just a bunch of bleeps and bloops.
Upcoming shows: Oct 3, Oct 17, Oct 31
Listen to past shows: Fri Sep 19 8:00 pm Playlist
9-10pm Permanent Phase
Hosted by: Kendree Chen
For anyone who has ever been a teenager with a music obsession. K-pop, punk, metal, and more.
Listen to past shows: Fri Sep 26 9:00 pm Playlist
10-11pm Fourier Transform
Hosted by: Abbas Darwich
Tune in to Fourier Transform for all your psychoacoustic needs: Rock? We got classic, surf, and pop! Jazz? From Coltrane to Charlie Brown, you'll find it here! Genres that sound made up? Just arrived this morning! Listen to us and you'll be transformed.
Listen to past shows: Fri Sep 26 10:00 pm Playlist
11pm-Midnight Red Scissors
Hosted by: Matt Lui
whatever's on my mind this week
Midnight-1am The Spin Cycle
Hosted by: Akshay
Underground dance and electronic music. We bring our filthiest tunes and rinse them all semester long. Come dance yourself clean.
Listen to past shows: Sat Sep 27 12:00 am  
1-2am Calling the Cranes
Hosted by: Lex
A crane calling in the shade.

Listen to past shows: Sat Sep 27 1:00 am Playlist
Sat Sep 20 9:00 pm  
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