Left of the Dial on WQAQ.com

Well the first show came and went QUICKLY! I was a bit rusty having not been on the air in a while but I enjoyed it and played some good tunes!

Here’s what you heard (or what you missed!)

The Replacements – “Left of the Dial” (from Tim)
TV on the Radio – “Wolf Like Me” (from Return to Cookie Mountain)
Bloc Party – “Always New Depths” (from Silent Alarm Remixed)
The Jesus & Mary Chain – “Head On” (from 21 Singles)
Husker Du – “Love is All Around” (from Eight Miles High / Makes No Sense at All EP)
Pearl Jam – “Interstellar Overdrive -> Corduroy” (from Santa Barbara 2006 Bootleg)
Ted Leo / Pharmacists – “Dial Up” (from The Tyranny of Distance)
Portastatic – “Bobby Jean” (from Autumn Got Dark EP)
Sonic Youth – “Incinerate” (from Rather Ripped)
The Jam – “Town Called Malice” (from The Gift)
Teenage Fanclub – “Radio” (from Thirteen)
Guided By Voices – “Game of Pricks” (from Human Amusements at Hourly Rates: The Best of Guided By Voices)
The Rapture – “Pieces of the People We Love” (from Pieces of the People We Love)

See you next week!
[BW]

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So my first show begins less than 13 hours from now! Here’s how you can listen to the return (or perhaps the beginning) of Left of the Dial

Go to WQAQ.com and click on the “listen to WQAQ” button at the bottom of the page.

Click here if you need directions on how to listen to the broadcast.

Personally, I connect to the stream through Winamp (by selecting “other MP3 player” in the “choose your connection” menu.)

Listen between 11 AM and noon tomorrow and get in contact with me the following ways:
AIM: WQAQDJ
Phone: (203) 582 – 5555

I can’t wait!

[BW]

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I know this is the millionth incarnation of this blog but I hope this will stick this time.

If you know me, you know that one of my passions in college was college radio (WDOM 91.3FM Providence College Radio!) and since graduating it’s one of the things I’ve missed the most.

Now that I’m in grad school at Quinnipiac I’ve found my way back to college radio on WQAQ 98.1FM. I’ll be hosting my Left of the Dial show Saturday mornings from 11:00 AM to noon where I’ll be playing both current bands (and desperately avoiding the overused “i” label) and classics of the alternative rock era.

What I hope to do with the show is illustrate how the history of alternative/college rock is a living mosaic. Often we read about all of these old, influential bands but never hear them. Furthermore, sometimes we’re a bit quick to declare that music was better “back then” and sell short some of the amazing bands out right now.

So this will be the online home for my show – a place where you can hear Pavement, Big Star, and the Jam right next to TV on the Radio, Broken Social Scene, and Sufjan Stevens. Come here for playlists, links I might mention on the air, and perhaps even for a “podcast” version of the show if I can figure out how to do that. Also, feel free to leave me feedback or just say hi!

And to my friends, old and new, I offer you these words:
“If I don’t see you in a long, long while
I’ll try to find you left of the dial”

[BW]

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