WUOG 90.5 FM

The Athens community is still in shock about the proposed budget cuts. On the chopping block are some of our town’s most esteemed institutions, including our sister station WUGA.

WUGA provides the community with music, news and arts. WUOG and WUGA  both serve common goals by providing Athens with an alternative to mainstream radio.

In the coming days WUOG will reach out to WUGA to understand how to best support this great station. In the meantime, please join their facebook fan page, donate money and write your legislature.

We missed you! Sorry to keep you waiting. WUOG is back on air for a new semester. Join us for Live in the Lobby tonight at 8pm!

Hope everyone enjoyed their Tofurkey! Over the break we launched some new site features! Check out:

– Located on the top navigation, use this feature to quickly access links across wuog.org.

– Not a fan of rotating backgrounds? Now you can turn them off, party pooper. Find the feature at the very top right of every page. Refresh or navigate to a new page for the change to take affect.

– Recent posts lists the 16 most recently added posts. The colors indicate how recent. Hover over to view the post title.

– Located on the far right, under listen live, Fresh displays the newest content across wuog.org.

As always, please send comments and suggestions to: webmaster [at] wuog.org!

Keep on clicking!

Hey sports fans, today, Saturday, at 4 p.m. the sports staff will be broadcasting live from Tate Plaza the WUOG tailgate show. You can tune in at 90.5fm or at wuog.org/live/.

Also, be sure to check out the UGA vs Auburn live blog!

WUOG has great specialty shows. Now, more than ever, you’re able to listen to recorded specialty shows on demand online. Here are some highlighted shows from this week.

Crisis and Vespers had a very special Halloween special

Sound of the City had special guests Mike and Emily

Blank Generation played albums from Cherry Red Records

Keepin’ it Classy played pieces to be performed at the upcoming Atlanta Symphony Orchestra concert

Folk-influenced Russian rock from Soviet Block

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!

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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!

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.

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