acroyear2 » wrct http://www.acroyear2.org Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:23:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Massive Music Weekend 2009 http://www.acroyear2.org/2009/01/26/massive-music-weekend-2009/ http://www.acroyear2.org/2009/01/26/massive-music-weekend-2009/#comments Tue, 27 Jan 2009 04:16:00 +0000 Alex http://www.acroyear2.org/?p=98 It’s time, once again, for Massive Music Weekend, WRCT’s 60-hour marathon of 120 30 minute blocks of our favorite artists, which we do over Valentine’s Day weekend because we’re married to music. I’m doing five blocks this year, and it should be really good. Here are the slots corresponding to bands I already know I like (there are a bunch more of bands I am anxious to learn about), with ones I’m particularly excited about hearing in italics, and the ones I’m doing in bold. Listen from Friday, February 13th at noon until Sunday the 15th at 11:59 on 88.3fm in Pittsburgh or on our website worldwide!

  • Friday, 2:00pm: Frank Zappa (experimental rock)
  • Friday, 3:30pm: Brian Eno (rock, ambient)
  • Friday, 4:00pm: Captain Beefheart (experimental rock)
  • Friday, 5:00pm: King Crimson (prog rock)
  • Friday, 9:00pm: The Orb (ambient house)
  • Saturday, 1:30am: The RZA (hip-hop)
  • Saturday, 3:30am: Judas Priest (80s metal)
  • Saturday, 4:30am: Keith Fullerton Whitman (ambient)
  • Saturday, 5:30am: The Avalanches (dance, dj)
  • Saturday, 6:30am: Windy & Carl (ambient)
  • Saturday, 7:00am: M83 (electronic shoegaze)
  • Saturday, 8:30am: Time Machines (ambient)
  • Saturday, 12:30pm: Mogwai (post rock)
  • Saturday, 2:00pm: Broadcast (indie)
  • Saturday, 8:30pm: Modeselektor (dance)
  • Saturday, 9:00pm: Aphex Twin (idm)
  • Saturday, 10:00pm: Wiley (eskibeat, grime, 2-step, 8-bar, garage, urban)
  • Saturday, 10:30pm: Lucky Dragons (ambient)
  • Sunday, 12:30am: Emeralds (ambient)
  • Sunday, 1:00am: Autechre (idm)
  • Sunday, 1:30am: Squarepusher (idm)
  • Sunday, 3:30am: Portishead (trip-hop)
  • Sunday, 6:00am: Hrvatski (idm, drum’n'bass)
  • Sunday, 6:30am: Mu-ziq (idm)
  • Sunday, 8:00am: Bleach (hardcore)
  • Sunday, 11:00am: Melvins (metal)
  • Sunday, 5:30pm: Lee “Scratch” Perry (reggae)
  • Sunday, 8:30pm: Funkadelic (funk)
  • Sunday, 11:30pm: Crystal Meth Wolf Fire From Barcelona (free improv)
]]> http://www.acroyear2.org/2009/01/26/massive-music-weekend-2009/feed/ 0 Massive Music Weekend! http://www.acroyear2.org/2008/02/01/massive-music-weekend/ http://www.acroyear2.org/2008/02/01/massive-music-weekend/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:56:25 +0000 Alex http://www.acroyear2.org/2008/02/01/massive-music-weekend/ Once again, the radio station I am part of, WRCT, is doing its “Massive Music Weekend” celebration, where we bury the entirety of the weekend after Valentine’s Day in 60 continuous hours of half-hour blocks of our favorite artists. As usual, I’m doing a few (only five, though, down from last year’s eight!), and a lot more are happening that are interesting, so I’m providing a highlight schedule.

  • 1:00p, Friday: Wagon Christ (IDM, sort of trip-hop, acid)
  • 10:00p, Friday: Serge Gainsbourg (French pop and jazz)
  • 10:30p, Friday: Coil (by me! industrial, experimental)
  • 2:30a, Saturday: Pavement (classic indie rock)
  • 3:30a, Saturday: Sonic Youth (classic-er indie rock, noise rock)
  • 6:30a, Saturday: Tujiko Noriko (by me! Japan’s version of Björk)
  • 2:30p, Saturday: Growing (ambient rock)
  • 3:00p, Saturday: Max Richter (neoclassical)
  • 7:00p, Saturday: Nautilis (IDM)
  • 7:30p, Saturday: Leonard Nimoy (star trek)
  • 11:00p, Saturday: Portishead (trip hop)
  • 12:00a, Sunday: The Jesus Lizard (math rock)
  • 1:00a, Sunday: Orbital (90s electronic)
  • 2:30a, Sunday: Autechre (by me! IDM, experimental)
  • 4:00a, Sunday: Stars of the Lid (by me! ambient, released the best record of last year)
  • 5:00a, Sunday: Grand Buffet (Pittsburgh’s own, hip hop)
  • 10:00a, Sunday: Mad Professor (classic dub)
  • 1:00p, Sunday: Black Dice (noise rock)
  • 3:00p, Sunday: Sun Ra (free jazz, psych jazz)
  • 6:00p, Sunday: Sun City Girls (uhh… experimental rock of some kind)
  • 7:00p, Sunday: Apparat (IDM)
  • 8:30p, Sunday: King Crimson (prog rock)
  • 9:30p, Sunday: Twine (by me! amazing experimental/ambient)

A full schedule will appear shortly on wrct.org. Listen to the whole damn weekend!

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