Webstream In Transition

December 16th, 2010 • 1 comment Uncategorized

For those of you who are regular WRBC listeners on the Webstream, you may have noticed that we’ve been off-air for about a week. While the FM station has been going strong, we’ve reached the limits of our Webstreaming system and are looking to expand.

The good news is that the transition to a bigger-better-more-uptime webstreaming system has already begun. The bad news is that, sadly, we won’t be done in time for the end of the term…meaning that there won’t be any streaming WRBC until sometime in the second week of January. We apologize for the dead-online-air, but we promise to make it up to you in the year 2011!

Trivia Night Phone Numbers

December 3rd, 2010 • 1 comment Uncategorized

Call Me!

207-777-7916

207-777-7532

207-795-8793

Phantogram, Yellow Roman Candles visit Bates

June 21st, 2010 • Concert Calendar, Concert Review, Electronic, Events, Folk, Maine, News, Rock, Uncategorized

Electronic rock duo Phantogram and local folk group Yellow Roman Candles lit up the Bates campus on May 20th, with Bates DJ Jamie Cook closing out the show.  Yellow Roman Candles, based in Bath, Maine, journeyed up to share several original compositions with a growing crowd of Bates students in the Mays Center.  The mellow lights and reverberating acoustic instruments set the tone for the group’s stellar performance.  In the words of WRBC’s Doug Ray:

Yellow Roman Candles is the brainchild of singer-songwriter Aaron Morse, and based on their first release, If It’s Right, there is a sense that this band could really make a run at achieving a certain level of national notoriety. The album certainly has shades of LaMontagne’s earlier work. Its gritty and working-class sensibilities leave the listener transported to perhaps a greater understanding of the plight of much of middle America….. If It’s Right is a decidedly raw album, which, if given a few listens can really tear into one’s soul. It’s part Springsteen and part Dylan, but certainly all Maine. Not to say that I am surprised, but this simple little album proves that Yellow Roman Candles will one day be deserving of a place among the pantheon of great Maine folk musicians.”

Phantogram took the stage next, playing songs off of their recent full-length release, Eyelid Movies. The performance featured Josh Carter on guitar and keyboardist Sarah Barthel playing and singing over big-beat inspired drum machines.  The band’s simple setup echoed the style of Matt & Kim, who proved that complex is not always best at a Bates show last fall.  Barthel mixed the performance live onstage, layering different parts to create a sound that was both expressive and danceable.  It was easy to see why the duo are known for their energetic live performances.  The night was capped off with a DJ set from Bates’ Jamie Cook, a preeminent campus DJ.

http://www.myspace.com/phantogram
http://www.myspace.com/theyellowromancandles
http://www.myspace.com/jamiemcook

Photographs courtesy of Peter Senzamici

Short Term Radio Shows

April 11th, 2010 • Uncategorized

Here is the application for short term radio shows: WRBC Short Term 2010 Radio Show Application

Listen On

March 2nd, 2010 • 2 comments Uncategorized
Tags: Commercial, Google

WRBC Presents Washed Out with Small Black and Toro y Moi

February 1st, 2010 • 4 comments Uncategorized
Tags: concert, Small Black, Toro Y Moi, Washed Out

Friday, March 5th, 2010 9.30pm
Benjamin Mays Center, Bates College
Lewiston, ME

More details coming soon, but this show, this musical experience if you will will make all others seem like a poor attempt at entertaining you.

WRBC Presents Hey Mama

February 1st, 2010 • Uncategorized

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010, 9:00 pm
Benjamin Mays Center, Bates College
Lewiston, ME

WRBC presents Hey Mama

Hailing from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Hey Mama is a contemporary rock ‘n roll four-piece band, featuring Avi Salloway and Celia Woodsmith, formerly of the aptly named Avi and Celia. This show will be held in the Benjamin Mays Center.

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unDISCHARGED featuring ANAMANAGUCHI (US)

October 25th, 2009 • Uncategorized
Tags: Anamanaguchi, concert, undischarged

Light a fire of sensuality into your internal organs and unDISCHARGE yourself. This, the “Empire Strikes Back” to DISCHARGE’s “A New Hope,” is not a concert in the traditional sense. This is an audiovisual exhibition of what can only be called performance art because it will synthesize music, images, and bodies into a psychedelic experience appropriate for those willing to explore the inner workings of collegiate humanity.

Indeed, this event will not follow the most traditional concert format but will instead function as a collaboration between your dancing body and the following artists:

Anamanaguchi (http://www.myspace.com/anamanaguchi)
Sw33t America (http://www.myspace.com/sw33tamerica)
kid consumption (http://www.last.fm/music/DJ+Kid+Consumption)
vol-au-vent (http://www.last.fm/music/Vol-Au-Vent)
the public service announcements (http://www.myspace.com/thepublicserviceannouncements)
nando & the robo-teeth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=683cbW7jdG4)
jamie cook (http://www.myspace.com/jamiemcook)

Triva Night 2009 Victory: The Big Skadoosh

March 10th, 2009 • Uncategorized

The Big Skadoosh, a freshman team, has surpassed all obstacles and acquired the most glorious prize sought after by mankind, the Trivia Night Victory!!!

• Here is coverage of Trivia Night from the Bates Student
• Here are the Questions and Answers for Trivia Night 2009.

Boy Scouts Visit WRBC

March 9th, 2009 • Uncategorized

In an effort to learn communication skills, a troup of Boy Scouts from Lisbon came to visit WRBC.The WRBC board led the group of 15 or so 10 year olds around the station and explained how WRBC works.

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Alex Hernandez '09, the tech director, covered topics such as FM vs Am frequency and the complex inter workings of the transmitter and radio antenna. Jamie Donahue '10, the music director, explained how record companies send pre-released album copies to aid the distribution efforts of "up and coming" artists.

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The Boy Scouts seemed to enjoy their visit and even got to voice the WRBC FCC call letters live on the air. Bates is always trying to engage with the Lewiston-Auburn community and WRBC is great tool to make that vision possible.

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