WRBC to present Seabear (IS) on March 29

March 10th, 2010 • Folk, Maine, News, Press Release
Tags: Benjamin Mays Center, seabear, We Built a Fire

On March 29th at 8:30pm in the Benjamin Mays Center, WRBC will present a concert featuring Seabear.

Seabear is an Icelandic indie-folk band from Reykjavik, Iceland. Although hailing from Iceland, they sing primarily in English. They are signed to the Morr Music record label.

Seabear started as a one-man project of Sindri Már Sigfússon, but he eventually ended up taking in six other members.

In 2007/2008, the Seabear song ‘Cat Piano’ was featured in a BBC advert for Finding Neverland as well as in Season 2, Episode 2 of Gossip Girl (TV series). Seabear’s most renowned song is “I Sing I Swim” – the music video for the song was viewed more than 582.000 times on Youtube as of November 2009.

Seabear’s music has been described as “Sufjan Stevens meets an unplugged Arcade Fire” by Clash. Sindri Már Sigfússon has been called the “icelandic Beck” by Rolling Stone.

They have finished their new album “We Built A Fire” which will be released in March 2010. A song from this album has been featured on Grey’s Anatomy and been highlighted on NPR

This is the only college show of their first ever North American tour. It’s free, and it’s going to be stupendous.

WRBC: The Movie

January 15th, 2010 • Maine, Video
Tags: Film, Refrigerators, Station Operations, WRBC: The Movie

In case you missed out on the general meeting or you just want to be able to watch this again and again, here is the WRBC movie.

In this version, you will be able to see all the captions, which will hopefully make it more relevant for you. Its available here for you below.

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WRBC Show Application — Winter Semester 2010

January 12th, 2010 • 1 comment Maine, Press Release
Tags: Board Elections, General Meeting, Radio Shows

The WRBC General Meeting for Winter 2010 will be Thursday, January 14, 2010 at 8 PM in Carnegie Science 204. If you want to have a radio program this coming semester, you will need to be in attendance. Questions regarding scheduling may be forwarded to wrbc91.5@gmail.com.

The meeting will close with an election for a number of board positions that are opening up. Only person with previous WRBC experience will be allowed to run and also vote.

Click here for a copy of the show application in PDF format: WRBC Winter 2010 Application

2009 – The Year in WRBC

December 18th, 2009 • 1 comment Commentary, Maine, News
Tags: 2009, Anamanaguchi, Art-In, Black Taxi, FM Belfast, Friends Academy, Glenn Jones, Matt and Kim, Retrospective, Trivia Night

2009 was the 51st year of WRBC on FM

2009 was an interesting year in the history of WRBC. The saw several key changes and its prominence on campus grow to a significant degree. It was a year marked by a variety of concerts, excellent programing, and a few bumps along the way. The WRBC board and the station at large has worked hard to make 2009 one of the best years in our over 50 year history on FM and hopes to build on that momentum in 2010.

Thus, here is a partial rundown of everything that was accomplished over the past year.

January 15: Winter Semester general meeting, we welcome new members onto the board and completely fill the schedule for the third semester in a row.

January 17: Concert by Black Taxi (With Class of 2010 Co-Presidents and Bates Musicians’ Union)

February 28: Concert by FM Belfast (With Bates Musicians’ Union) Read more »

Happy Holidays from WRBC

December 9th, 2009 • Commentary, Maine, Photo Gallery
Tags: 2010, Christmas, Hanukkah, Holidays, Kwanzaa, New Years, News, The Board, WRBC

WRBC Holiday Portrait, December 2009

Happy Holidays from all of us at WRBC. May the blessings of free-format radio be with you throughout the coming year!