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WMBR Fall/Winter 2025 Program Schedule:    Return to Main Schedule
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Monday Programs:
5-7am Nonstop Ecstatic Screaming
Hosted by: Thao
Two hours of sound designed to split your skull open, break your brain, and pop your funk. Bloopity bits and bobs, plinkety plonk, drone, skronk, assorted noise, a bumping beat here and there, etc.
Listen to past shows: Mon Sep 29 5:00 am Playlist
Mon Sep 22 5:00 am Playlist
Thu Sep 18 8:00 pm Playlist
7-8am
Alternates Weekly
Can of Worms
Hosted by: Jake K
Repeating variations of songs you didn't even want to hear once.
Upcoming shows: Oct 6, Oct 20
Listen to past shows: Mon Sep 22 7:00 am Playlist
7-8am
Alternates Weekly
Ceangal Ceilteach
Hosted by: Kit Kelt
Come explore the diaspora in Celtic music with Ceangal Ceilteach -- a Celtic Connection. Hear hip-hop, rap, jazz, and more in Celtic languages.
Upcoming shows: Oct 13, Oct 27
Listen to past shows: Mon Sep 29 7:00 am  
8-10am Breakfast of Champions
Hosted by: Fred, Ted, Becca, Amanda, Erik, and Jon
Start your morning off right with a bowl full of sugary sweet pop goodness, sprinkle on some tasty punk influences, and help yourself to the buffet of sumptuous soundscapes, melancholy melodies, quirky cadences and raucous rock.

Twitter Feed: @bocwmbr
Listen to past shows: Mon Sep 29 8:00 am Playlist
Mon Sep 22 8:00 am  
10am-Noon Late Risers' Club
Hosted by: Joanie, Mark, Mook, Nick, Brandon, Tapedeck Tommy, & the Tuesday Rotation
Your punk rock alarm clock since 1977.

Twitter Feed: @laterisersclub
Listen to past shows: Mon Sep 29 10:00 am Playlist
Mon Sep 22 10:00 am Playlist
Noon-2pm Lost and Found
Hosted by: Lawrence Azrin, Mark Francis, Bob Dubrow, Brother Wayne, Christopher Vyce, Alex McNeil, Rick Roth
Rock, pop, soul, psych, prog, girl groups -- from the 50s into the 70s and beyond, but not the same old songs you hear every day on commercial radio.

Listen to past shows: Mon Sep 29 12:00 pm Playlist
Mon Sep 22 12:00 pm Playlist
2-4pm Research & Development
Hosted by: Charlie Kohlhase
Forward-looking Jazz from from the 40's to the present. Occasional Birthday features. Classic Tenor Corner. Jazz Calendar Highlights.

Listen to past shows: Mon Sep 29 2:00 pm Playlist
Mon Sep 22 2:00 pm Playlist
4-5:30pm Not Brahms and Liszt
Hosted by: Alley Stoughton
Classical music of the 20th and 21st centuries, from Reich to Nyman to Wolfe to Higdon and onward.

Listen to past shows: Mon Sep 29 4:00 pm Playlist
Mon Sep 22 4:00 pm Playlist
5:30-6pm WMBR Nightly News
Hosted by: WMBR News Department
News and analysis focusing on under-reported issues, marginalized communities, and struggles for social change. Our weekly line-up includes progressive independent national programs as well as locally produced reporting on Cambridge and Greater Boston.

Listen to past shows: Mon Sep 29 5:30 pm  
Mon Sep 22 5:30 pm  
6-7pm
Alternates Weekly
Snapshots
Hosted by: Alejandro Rodriguez
Click. Click. Click. That's what these playlists will do for you. Catch a very specific vibe each time you tune in, could be a sunset in 1980s Tokyo, or a packed club in Y2K-era Barcelona. My picks, your surprise, including the hits and deep cuts.
Upcoming shows: Oct 6, Oct 20
Listen to past shows: Mon Sep 22 6:00 pm Playlist
6-7pm
Alternates Weekly
Box of Maniacs
Hosted by: Tapedeck Tommy
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but first, the tunnel. Proto-something, post-other, mostly incongruous noise and uneasy listening with hints of melody. Of maniacs, by maniacs, for maniacs.
Upcoming shows: Oct 13, Oct 27
Listen to past shows: Mon Sep 29 6:00 pm  
7-8pm
Alternates Weekly
The Willows
Hosted by: Jay Sitter
And when I turned my eyes again from his ghastly face to the river, the current had done its work, and the body had been swept away into mid-stream and was already beyond our reach and almost out of sight, turning over and over on the waves like an otter.

Upcoming shows: Oct 6, Oct 20
Listen to past shows: Mon Sep 22 7:00 pm Playlist
7-8pm
Alternates Weekly
Beats by Sapa Inca
Hosted by: Matt Quispe
DJ Sapa Inca takes you on a journey through the world of electronic music, from trance to house to techno to garage and back. Deep cuts galore.
Upcoming shows: Oct 13, Oct 27
Listen to past shows: Mon Sep 29 7:00 pm Playlist
8-10pm Bats in the Belfry
Hosted by: Mistress Laura
Enter the sanctuary... revel in gothic and ethereal music from all over the world, USA, and Boston. Moody,dark, atmospheric...starting with ancient music and chant to the newest gothic rock, deathrock, darkwave,coldwave,neo-classical,and dark ambient.
Listen to past shows: Mon Sep 29 8:00 pm Playlist
Mon Sep 22 8:00 pm Playlist
10-11pm The SurreaList
Hosted by: Gillian Roeder
To the ear, the track may sound like a stream-of-consciousness jumble of genres, but songs are all united by a common bond. Listeners are encouraged to try to guess the overarching theme, which will be revealed at the end of the hour
Listen to past shows: Mon Sep 29 10:00 pm Playlist
Mon Sep 22 10:00 pm Playlist
11pm-Midnight Shadows of the Common
Hosted by: Grey (Winston) Orr
Welcome to Shadows of the common. A show where we observe through narrative the fantastic, strange, and fabricated stories of the greater Boston area. Hello mom I am safe from the mole people uprising For now
Listen to past shows: Mon Sep 29 11:00 pm Playlist
Mon Sep 22 11:00 pm Playlist
Midnight-1am Death Car for QT
Hosted by: Claire Wang
#things i bet you didn't know about jack antonoff, and other things. (or: ear candy music from all the genres!) featuring: weekly music connections.
Listen to past shows: Tue Sep 30 12:00 am Playlist
Tue Sep 23 12:00 am Playlist
1-3am Radio Ninja: Long Play
Hosted by: L-Train
Radio Ninja has been bringing you car commercial music since 2003. We've heard your feedback - one hour leaves you wanting more! Meet Radio Ninja: Long Play, airing Tuesday 1-3am. The Thursday 6-7pm show is the second hour - head to the archives for the first hour and the full flow. #radioninjasince2003

Twitter Feed: @l_train
Listen to past shows: Tue Sep 30 1:00 am  
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