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Bates College has moved entirely to online learning – like most schools in the United States.  Because of this, WRBC is also closed at this time. Our stream is down and we are not broadcasting as of right now. We are also unable to access the station at this time. Read More...

Inspired by Lily Kip, the General Manger before me, I would like to go through my top albums of 2019. I think this is the year when I liked engaging with full albums and not just individual songs. I wanted and preferred listening to the artist’s full album – I Read More...

Chats with Cats is a podcast that takes topical issues that arise throughout the school year to start an open discussion with administrative members of the Bates community. We hope to give all sides of the issue a voice. We hope to use the issue to introduce members of the community to each Read More...

No surprises here, folks. Bates loves Maggie Rogers. Even if you don’t like Vampire Weekend, you kind of had to listen to their new releases, just to see what’s up. A few good, super-new releases are in there too. Here are your top 20 new albums of last week: Maggie Rogers – Read More...

What’s become enormously clear to me this year, especially when someone like me is allowed to be in charge of a radio station, is that there is really no true authority on *good music*. This has been unbelievably freeing! As well as experimenting with the sharing function on my spotify account has Read More...

How popular was your favorite new album last week? How popular will your favorite new album be this week? Will Be the Cowboy ever stop being popular? There’s no way of knowing (the answers to the last two)! Khalid – Suncity Mitski – Be the Cowboy Hobo Johnson – The Read More...