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4/25: New Pop Recon debuts; features Antietam & Scrawl!
April 24th, 2008
Pop Recon returns to WPRB this Friday 4/25 at 7:00 PM ET with two archive interviews featuring ANTIETAM and SCRAWL.
These interviews have been transferred from the original reel-to-reels, and mostly likely, unheard since their original broadcasts. I hope you’ll tune in for these great, rare interviews and music from the artists.
Tune in! 103.3 FM on your radio dial, or visit WPRB on the Internet at http://www.wprb.com/
» Louisville, KY transplants ANTIETAM formed in 1984 — on the day of the Kentucky Derby, as the story goes. The group released a string of records on Homestead and Triple X, then quietly hung up their hats to focus on other projects. Antietam has recently regrouped and their new album, “Opus Mixtum,” is out now on Carrot Top.
This interview, taped in March 1990, catches the band right around the release of “Burgoo” (Triple X).
» Tough and noisy, Ohio rockers SCRAWL might have defined a lot of riot grrrl’s characteristics without knowing it. The group raged their way through seven albums for Rough Trade, Simple Machines, and Elektra. Though they called it quits in 1998, the group’s recording sound just as fresh as they did nearly twenty years ago.
The interview was taped in January 1990 at the Elm Club on the Princeton University campus, shortly before their show with Love Child. Needless to say, if I could devise a time traveling machine I would certainly go back to see this one.
ABOUT POP RECON
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pop-Recon/8493783673
Pop Recon is a monthly arts & culture series on WPRB. Pop Recon features new, on-the-scene interviews with musicians, writers, and more, and mixes them up with rare interviews unearthed from the station’s vault. Like the title suggests, Pop Recon seeks to take an in-depth look at the world of popular music.
Pop Recon is produced and hosted by WPRB’s Maria T (from the radio program Her Jazz), and is broadcast on WPRB the last Friday of the month at 7:00 p.m. ET. In addition to the broadcast, Pop Recon’s archive will be available for download via podcast. Pop Recon is WPRB’s first foray into the world of podcasting.
ABOUT WPRB
http://www.wprb.com/
Founded in 1940, WPRB is the oldest college FM radio station in the U.S.; it is a non-profit, independent organization operated by a staff of nearly 100 volunteer students and community members. WPRB can be heard on the airwaves throughout New Jersey and most of the Philadelphia metropolitan area by tuning into 103.3 FM or anywhere in the world via streaming audio at wprb.com or on iTunes radio.