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WMBR Spring 2026 Program Schedule:    Return to Main Schedule
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Monday Programs:
7-8am
Alternates Weekly
Mindless Schlock
Hosted by: Jake K
Covers of songs you didn't even want to hear once. No intellectual value.
Upcoming shows: Feb 23, Mar 9, Mar 23
7-8am
Alternates Weekly
Ceangal Ceilteach
Hosted by: Kit Kelt
Come explore the diaspora in Celtic music with Ceangal Ceilteach -- a Celtic Connection. Hear hip-hop, rap, jazz, and more in Celtic languages.
Upcoming shows: Mar 2, Mar 16
Listen to past shows: Mon Feb 16 7:00 am Playlist
8-10am Breakfast of Champions
Hosted by: Mateo, Abby, Ted, Becca, Jeremy, Fred, 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: Mon Feb 16 8:00 am Playlist
Mon Feb 09 8:00 am  
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: Mon Feb 16 10:00 am Playlist
Mon Feb 09 10:00 am Playlist
Noon-2pm Lost and Found
Hosted by: Larry Azrin, Mark Francis, Bob Dubrow, Rick Roth, Christopher Vyce, Alex McNeil
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: Mon Feb 16 12:00 pm Playlist
Mon Feb 09 12:00 pm Playlist
2-4pm Research & Development
Hosted by: Charlie Kohlhase
Forward-looking Jazz from from the 40's to the present. Occasional Birthday features. Classic Tenor Corner. Jazz Calendar Highlights.

Listen to past shows: Mon Feb 16 2:00 pm Playlist
Mon Feb 09 2:00 pm Playlist
4-5:30pm Not Brahms and Liszt
Hosted by: Alley Stoughton
Classical music of the 20th and 21st centuries, from Reich to Nyman to Wolfe to Higdon and onward.

Listen to past shows: Mon Feb 16 4:00 pm Playlist
Mon Feb 09 4:00 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 a variety of national programs, and on Mondays we present the Local News, reporting on the Cambridge-Boston area.

Listen to past shows: Mon Feb 16 5:30 pm  
Mon Feb 09 5:30 pm  
6-7pm
Alternates Weekly
Sound Soup
Hosted by: Kanokwan Tungkitkancharoen
Everything is soup. I'll bring ingredients every jam: tunes spanning space (places around the world) and time (musical eras), accompanied with objects I find for some interspersed ASMR. Yum.
Upcoming shows: Feb 23, Mar 9, Mar 23
6-7pm
Alternates Weekly
Box of Maniacs
Hosted by: Tapedeck Tommy
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but first, the tunnel. Proto-something, post-other, mostly incongruous noise and uneasy listening with hints of melody. Of maniacs, by maniacs, for maniacs.
Upcoming shows: Mar 2, Mar 16
Listen to past shows: Mon Feb 16 6:00 pm Playlist
7-8pm The Willows
Hosted by: Jay Sitter
And when I turned my eyes again from his ghastly face to the river, the current had done its work, and the body had been swept away into mid-stream and was already beyond our reach and almost out of sight, turning over and over on the waves like an otter.

Listen to past shows: Mon Feb 09 7:00 pm Playlist
8-10pm Bats in the Belfry
Hosted by: Mistress Laura
Enter the sanctuary... revel in gothic and ethereal music from all over the world, USA, and Boston. Moody,dark, atmospheric...starting with ancient music and chant to the newest gothic rock, deathrock, darkwave,coldwave,neo-classical,and dark ambient.
Listen to past shows: Mon Feb 16 8:00 pm Playlist
Mon Feb 09 8:00 pm Playlist
10-11pm
Alternates Weekly
Dust Bin
Hosted by: adam
Overseas pop from the 80s onward - tune in to find out where and when.
Upcoming shows: Feb 23, Mar 9, Mar 23
10-11pm "Scenes From"
Hosted by: Allen Wang
experimental sketches in dj mix format. original work by allen wang performed live on air.
Upcoming shows:
11pm-Midnight Shadows of the Common
Hosted by: Grey (Winston) Orr
Welcome to Shadows of the common. A show where we observe through narrative the fantastic, strange, and fabricated stories of the greater Boston area. Hello mom I am safe from the mole people uprising For now

Listen to past shows: Mon Feb 16 11:00 pm Playlist
Mon Feb 09 11:00 pm Playlist
Midnight-2am Nonstop Ecstatic Screaming
Hosted by: Thao
Two hours of sound designed to split your skull open, break your brain, and pop your funk. Bloopity bits and bobs, plinkety plonk, drone, skronk, assorted noise, a bumping beat here and there, etc.
Listen to past shows: Mon Feb 16 5:00 am Playlist
Mon Feb 09 5:00 am Playlist
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