Friday Night Live: Se Hoon Kim
Friday Night Live is back this week, with Se Hoon Kim performing songs from the Himalayan regions of South Asia! We’re live from 10pm to midnight tonight (3/25/16) – tune in now on The Sting!
Friday Night Live is back this week, with Se Hoon Kim performing songs from the Himalayan regions of South Asia! We’re live from 10pm to midnight tonight (3/25/16) – tune in now on The Sting!
Missed this year’s Winterfest? No worries, WRUR-TV recorded a bunch of footage from the event, and compiled it into this sweet video. Check it out:
The moment you’ve been waiting for.
Something is happening underneath Rochester!
Just this past week, the station has started broadcasting UR Concerts’ Friday Night Live.
Friday Night Live is a weekly concert in Starbucks at the University of Rochester. Updates from each week’s show can be found here, on the Friday Night Live page.
Below is a picture from last week’s, which featured Gabe Becker & Blake Harriman.
Next week’s concert will feature Yang Yang and Reid Zuckerman. Facebook Event.
Check out this awesome rap track from WRUR’s very own Damani Eubanks! It can be found on Soundcloud, and you can listen right below.
This weekend, our station took the first steps to digitizing our CD catalog! Using our fancy new scanning machines, we have added a bunch of CDs, and their reviews, to our online database. Eventually, all of our CDs will be scanned and online, so it will be very easy to see what we have and what we need to get. The party was full of pizza and good vibes, and apparently bubble tea. Keep your ears open for future parties.
Empire Film Music Ensemble presents From Darkness into Light
Wednesday, January 27, 2016
8pm ~ Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music
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WRUR streamed URConcert’sVundabar and Scope and Figure concert tonight (December 12).
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/128043790895510/
Thanks goes to Vundabar, Scope and Figure, UR Concerts and Event Support for making this event happen and giving us the ability to stream it.
On November 3, Complex published an article titled “Why Did Everyone Claim to Enjoy Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’?”. The article criticized other websites and media for releasing interviews too quickly after the album’s release, and went further to call the album “overwhelming” in its portrayal of Black experience. Today at 5 DJ Birdbrain and I will be discussing what it means to “understand” an album, as well as said article. Here are DJ Birdbrain’s thoughts as a start:
“While questioning the quick turnarounds of reviews after a dense albums release is valid, implying the the album doesn’t deserve that praise and is also misunderstood by the masses is just ignorant. All this article proves is that the writer is not connected to the music of the album, and tries to say the album is important without even believing it themselves.
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