Our talented and creative DJs have done it once again. For this year’s Fall Silent Drive, expect specialty shows on topics ranging from emotions and feelings to specific regions and languages! And, in one case, a show about pointlessness (someone check in on DJs Senni Kat and Bohr). To get involved with our Fall Drive, go to pledge.wprb.com where you can make a tax-deductible donation, see this year’s exclusive “thank you” items, and learn how else you can assist New Jersey’s Only Radio Station. Find the specialty show schedule (updated daily) below:
Fri. 10/31 – 7 – 10 AM ET – Dark Music for Dark Times with Dave the Obscure.
Tune in for the deepest darkest somber music for the dawn of Halloween.
Fri. 10/31 – 10 AM – 12 PM ET – Everything’s Pointless: A Show on Circles, Life, and Death with DJ Senni Kat and DJ Bohr.
Music that muses on life, death, and everything that comes in between. Subvert the spookiness of mortality and join us as we embrace the ephemerality that defines eternity. So it goes.
Fri. 10/31 – 12 – 3 PM ET – Halloween Jazz From Hell with Jerry Gordon.
Eerie and weird jazz appropriate for Halloween!
Fri. 10/31 – 3 – 5 PM ET – Running from Redlights with Jen.
It’s Halloween again — time to challenge our definition of spooky tunes. Garage? Yes. Goofballs? Always. Rockwell? Not even if he’s watching us.
Fri. 10/31 – 5 – 8 PM ET – Vibes and Vapors. with Jay Weaver and Dale Williams
John “Jay” F. Weaver Jr. and Dale Williams, hosts of WPRB’s Wednesday night 90s hip-hop radio show “Vibes and Vapors” will return to Princeton on Friday, October 31st. DJ Bohr and Chef Patti will be airing segments of Jay and Dale’s set on-air from 5:00 pm ET – 8:00 pm ET.
Sat. 11/01 8 – 11 PM – Dead Souls Day with Commie Francis.
Songs about souls, spirits, minds, and other essences for All Souls Day.
Sun. 11/02 – 12 – 3 PM ET – The Cat’s Meow with Robin!
Tune in for songs about cats!
Mon. 11/03 6 – 8 PM – 4AD Records: A Chronological Exploration w/ DJ Sheff.
From Pixies and Cocteau Twins to Grimes and Big Thief, the British label has been home to some of the most influential artists and records that helped shape the sound of independent music. Tune in to explore some of the label’s defining releases from its start in 1980 to today!
Tue. 11/04 5 – 8 PM – Darkwave Stairs to the Stars with DJ Esoterica!
Join DJ Esoterica on a moody danse macabre that centers on a celebration of All Saints/All Souls days as well Los Días de lo Muertos.
Fri. 11/07 – 5 – 8 PM ET – ¡demasiado ruidosa! with Agent Emi!
Tune in to hear emo and heavy music from the Spanish speaking world.
PAST SPECIALTY SHOWS:
10/27 – 7 – 10 AM ET – Red October with DJ Jagannath.
Inspired by the beautiful red fall foliage of October and the 108th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917 (by the old calendar, at least), this show will explore the influence of revolution on music — spawning a new avant-garde classical scene and the foundations of modern industrial music, expressing hope and affirming progress while being fundamentally experimental in a way that later socialist realism could not, and continuing to inform music today through protest music and modernist electronic approaches.
Mon. 10/27 – 10 AM – 12 PM ET – conversation pit with jali.
exclusively songs with spoken speeches, ruminations, and interludes.
Mon. 10/27 – 8 – 11 PM ET – ♥ ✧˖° ໒꒰ྀི ♱ seraphic mirrorgazing & the forlorn voice of love profane ♱ ꒱ྀི১ °˖✧ ♥ with Rosasolis Dream.
flecks of empyrean light enwreathe a lonesome cloud in a beleaguered sky, where high above a seraphim lost and enchanted with catoptromancy catches glimpse of an enamored, forbidden double and plunges unabated into an infernal world desecrated by concupiscence, doomed to wear a second skin that tears with each transgression…join us in this devastating journey as the anchorites intervene for the beloved amid a maelstrom of soaring devotionals and prurient cacophony.
Tue. 10/28 – 3 – 5 PM ET – Food Fight! Live with K Train.
Tune in for a live set by Asbury Park band Food Fight!
Wed. 10/29 – 7 – 10 AM ET – Halloween Goodies and Other Surprises with Marvin Rosen!
Tune in for music for Halloween as well as Other Musical Treats.
Thu. 10/30 – 12 – 3 PM ET – Re-SCARE-ché – What Fresh Hell Is This? with Readie Righteous.
What is scarier than our daily newsfeed? Find out on 30 October at noon on Re-SCARE-ché – What Fresh Hell Is This? Auditory disturbance promised! Taphophobic listeners be advised!
Thu. 10/30 – 5 – 8 PM ET – THE 2025 DEVILPLUSGHOUL with KILLBOT HALLOWEEN SPECIAL on MISCHIEF NIGHT!
The days are getting darker, and so is the music! Tune in for some oddball, freakish and haunting sounds, culled from the recesses of an ancient, recently-excavated and then reanimated record collection by yours truly Lizbot, in full KILLBOT mode!We will hear darkwave, spooky synth, ghoulish zeuhl and creeping dread!