“I maybe thought I dreamed this, but it’s real.” That’s the text I woke up to on Saturday morning. It’s in reference to a particularly spirited rendition of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot that graced the WCFM airwaves at 5:30 am — a rendition that, it should be noted, boasted banjo-strumming and harmonica-playing. (Sad that there isn’t… Continue reading Readathon Recap
The 2024 WCFM Formal was held on Friday, December 7 at Agard and went off without a hitch. The theme of this year’s bash was WCFMiami Beach Club and the ballroom was decorated accordingly with NOT so phallic party balloons and attendees donned their finest Panama hats and linen blazers. Doors opened at 10 and… Continue reading 2024 WCFM Formal Recap
We’ve got cricket noises, we’ve got banjos, we’ve got Adrianne Lenker’s voice coming through the speakers a lot. Semester 1 of my tenure as GM is coming to an end… and I am thinking a lot about the things that have been constant and the things that have changed. How I love listening to my… Continue reading November On Air
When I think too deeply about my Williamstown quotidian, I have this overwhelming need to throw up or go on a run. On these flees from normalcy, I often tune in to 91.9 WCFM Williamstown. Though I can typically rely on my headphones and 1 MPH runtime, I was caught in a particularly tough spot… Continue reading When On Air Goes Dim
On September 21, two General Managers of WCFM, one PR Director, one Programming Director, one ex-Programming Director, and a dear friend of the radio went to FreshGrass music festival, nominally to see an ex-DJ perform. Kind of more to take to its logical conclusion a long-running grift of going to the music festival for free,… Continue reading The F in WCFM Stands for FreshGrass
Minnie Lerner, co-organizer: Sometime this summer, I sent Ian a screenshot. Five or six anti-war songs, most with their roots in protest of U.S. violence in Vietnam in the 1960s, side by side on a digital playlist I’d compiled. I think I added a message something like: what if you played these songs, and we… Continue reading Perspectives: Folk + Punk for Peace in Gaza