Break radio for fall break will begin this Thursday night (today..?) at midnight and continue until Sunday night at midnight. Friday will be a furlough day, however, meaning Tate will be completely closed and no one will be able to enter the station from Thursday at midnight until Friday at midnight.
WUOG was born on October 16th, 1972 at 2 pm, meaning we are now 37 years old!!
Come out to Cine (234 W. Hancock Ave.) at 8 pm to experience a once in a lifetime performance of HALLOWEEN: LIVE! Halloween Live is a screening of John Carpenter’s 1978 classic “Halloween” with its soundtrack, dialogue, and sound effects recreated by a cast of local musicians and voice actors. Following Halloween Live will be performances by two local bands, THE AGENDA and BAMBARA!
wwww.myspace.com/theagendanorthamerica
www.myspace.com/bambaraband
The event is free, but a suggested $3-5 donation would be so kind of you so that we can help out our buds over at AIDS ATHENS!
AIDS Athens mission is to serve and address the needs of individuals infected and affected by HIV/AIDS through supportive services and to prevent the spread of the disease through education and outreach. AIDS Athens vision is to enhance and enrich the quality of life for those living with HIV/AIDS, as well as their friends, families and partners. The organization also seeks to effect a fundamental change in society’s attitude toward persons infected with HIV/AIDS. For more information, visit www.aidsathens.org.
Pride Prade and Baclavaca have made tracks available for free download. You can find these tracks on the Local Music blog. If you didn’t know, WUOG is now accepting Digital Download Submissions from Georgia bands. Bands give WUOG the tracks and WUOG gives them to you. We love local music and want you to love our favorite local artists. We’ve received quite a few tracks and are still sorting through them – if yours isn’t posted yet, don’t despair!
We have also been improving our archive of Live in the Lobby recordings. These recordings are also available for download. Check out this live performance of Venice is Sinking from 2006! WUOG loves Athens Music!
WUOG’s AP Wire service is back up and running, so we’ll be posting news of Local, national and International value. You’ll also see your weekly weather forecast.
Head on over to http://wuog.org/news/ and don’t forget to subscribe to the Wuog News Rss feed!
Hey y’all! The alumni are back in town! Join us tonight at the Manhattan (across from Trapeeze) at 7 for a mixer.
Saturday we’ll be having the Townhall meeting along with the alumni dinner. Tune in to 90.5fm or wuogLive to hear alumni deejays!
Sorry for the inconvenience, but we’re having issues with serving files over 90mb. This means some specialty show streams will not be working.
We’ve discovered the problem and are working to resolve it.
Update: 10/16/2009
Blank Generation and Folk Scene have been restored.
Here is the link to Seize the Airwaves on CNN iReport.
If you didn’t know, you can listen to recordings of WUOG’s specialty shows online. Here are some of the most complete specialty show pages.
Afrika – Music from the ‘dark continent’
Blank Generation – Punk and Experimental
Bluegrass Junction – Jack Richy plays the best in bluegrass and gospel music
Gates of Delirium – The most recent show highlighted Faust
Matter of Jazz – Jazz performances live in our lobby
Halftime Hip Hop Show – The local hip hop institution – the triple H, S
Purple Cow – Spoken word and poets
Soviet Block – Music from the former soviet union
Vespers – Early music
All the money benefits AIDS Athens, so you can feel good about seizing our airwaves. Real good. Slink on over to wuog.org/seize to sign up. We want to know who you are and how you like it. Early on Friday? Late on Sunday?
Seize you some airwaves, October 9-11 (Friday, Saturday and Sunday). There will be a trained DJ present to help with all of the technical details. If you have any questions, you can shoot a quick e-mail to affairs@wuog.org.
Some of the best music in the world comes from the Athens / Atlanta / Georgia area, and WUOG has spent the past 37 years promoting that music heritage. We are now pleased to announce a new way for artists to promote their music by submitting tracks to wuog.org for download.
Any artist based in Georgia can submit a full-length track that they wish to distribute for free. WUOG will pick the best and post them online as a free download for users.
This is a brand new service, so we do not have any free songs yet. We’ll let you know when the first batch comes out. Until then, submit your local band’s music!
