Commencing at midnight August 29th and concluding at midnight September 3rd, WKCR-FM (89.9 FM, wkcr.org) will present the Charlie Parker Centennial Festival, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of a colossal figure in American music with a 120-hour marathon broadcast.
On Saturday, January 25th, from 2:00 am to 11:59 pm, WKCR celebrates the music and life of Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim, or "Tom," on what would be his 93rd birthday. Composer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer, Jobim's contributions to music in Brazil and worldwide are immeasurable.
Hello all! As of midnight, Bach Fest has officially kicked off!
For the eight-day period from 12:00 AM on December 24th through 12:00 AM on New Year’s Day, WKCR (89.9 FM and wkcr.org) will dedicate all broadcasting to the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
We are excited to share with you the schedule for the week, which can be seen below.
Starting today at 9:15 am ET, WKCR will be asking its dedicated listeners to support us in our fundraising efforts!
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Join us Tuesday, January 17 during our Out to Lunch programming from 1-2:30 pm EST for an interview with New York-based jazz pianist Emmet Cohen regarding his most recent project "Masters Legacy Series featuring Jimmy Cobb." Cohen began Suzuki method piano instruction at age three, and his playing quickly became a mature melding of musicality, technique, and concept. He placed first in both the American Jazz Pianists competition (2014) and the Phillips Piano Competition at the University of West Florida (2011).
WKCR regrets its actions with regard to a guest who had recently been scheduled to appear on our program Studio A. Specifically, WKCR's editorial policies and University policies regarding speech were misrepresented in our communications to this guest. To be clear, WKCR and Columbia University strongly believe in robust freedom of expression, especially about challenging ideas. Likewise, WKCR’s content is curated by student and alumni programmers and reflects their own individual self-expression.
Schuyler Rabbin-Birnbaum's post-game report from the Yankees 10th inning walk off win against the San Diego Padres on 5/7/2025.
Schuyler Rabbin-Birnbaum's post-game report from the Yankees 4-3 win over the Kansas City Royals on 4/16/2025.
Isabelle Fishbein and Avi Litvak's post-game report from the Mets 10-5 win against the Miami Marlins on 4/8/2025.
Rooted in the creative subcultures of the Lower East Side, Hprizm’s practice spans a wide array of genres, including music, performance and multimedia installations. His current installation at Pioneer Works in Red Hook is exemplary of this very characterization.
Centered on a sonic score that moves between abstract noise and melodic interludes, Sound of the City collapses vinyl records, tape loops and granular synthesis with audio footage captured by Hprizm over the past few years.
Tune in at 4pm on Monday 3/31 for an exclusive interview with the two newest members of the Kronos Quartet Gabriela Díaz and Ayane Kozasa. The Kronos Quartet, founded in 1973 by David Harrington, is a legendary new music group that transcends boundaries, revolutionizing what it means to be a string quartet.
Schuyler Rabbin-Birnbaum's post-game report from the Yankees 4-2 Opening Day win over the Milwaukee Brewers on 3/27/2025.
Preview of Yankees 2025 season concessions. Reporting by Schuyler Rabbin-Birnbaum.
Taiwanese composer Shiuan Chang talks his debut composition "Earthing" with Ted Schmiedeler on 1/27/2024
Mississippi Records presents a wide-ranging overview of their 20+ years in existence, featuring sounds saved from the dustbin of history.
The New York War Crimes is a free newspaper, produced by and for the Palestine solidarity movement in New York City. This conversation will discuss the evolution of the project, the latest issue, and the larger history of agitprop, counterpropaganda, and radical publications in NYC.
The mean book review is enjoying a renaissance. Every time a new epic takedown drops, literary New York stops working to join the pile-on. What’s the function of this ritual? To get to the bottom of this new culture of hostility, Pioneer Works Broadcast sits down with two author-critics who’ve experienced both sides of the violence: Lauren Oyler and Brandon Taylor. Moderated by Hannah Baer.
Spend time with the cassette release "too low/too far," from Palestinian musician Dakn's nine-track journey of post-trauma soundscapes. Released by Bilna’es, this haunting collection blends harmonic textures, dissonant layers, and pulsing rhythms, evoking sensations that feel as if they’re emanating from within the body or the land itself.
Hanuman Editions gathers a poetics of contemporary avant-garde culture from key voices of our times. In the spirit of the cult series of pocket-sized volumes published by Hanuman Books in the 1980s and 1990s, their editions invite playful criticality, unexpected parallels and unique pairings within a diffuse planetary context.
A deep dive into the latest issue with special guests and a chance for letter-to-the editor-style feedback and questions. Call during the broadcast or submit in advance to thewhitneyreview@gmail.com / @thewhitneyreview
Artist collective and label PTP host a conversation between YATTA and GENG PTP, moderated by timmhotep aku. Together they will discuss sampling, sound, and how expressions of memory can subvert language, space, and ownership.
Les The DJ spins an all-vinyl set of Manila Sound and Original Pilipino Music from the ’70s and ’80s—the uplifting sounds that carried Filipinos during the nation’s most challenging times. Les's work and vinyl archive are collected in a new publication by Passenger Pigeon Press.
The hosts of the Celebrity Book Club with Steven & Lily podcast, Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta, are joined by Laura Albert, the author behind the J.T. LeRoy phenomenon, to discuss self-destruction vs. self-acceptance, how to challenge the literary status quo, and her forthcoming memoir. A special introduction by artist Leigh Ledare.
Where to go when you’ve got to go? Bathrooms are a place for business, pleasure, and unsurveilled breaks—little wonder, then, that our access to toilets is so restricted. A conversation about the right to public bathrooms with Lux, Hell Gate, and New York Review of Architecture.
Topos Press hosts a listening session of Sonifying the Sun: The Mass Emergence of Brood XIII and XIX Periodical Cicadas, Volume 1, in which sound artist Patrick Quinn captures the rare sounds of periodical cicadas emerging after 13 and 17 years underground
Wendy’s Subway presents a reading of Dafne Phono, artist Nour Mobarak's experimental translation and reimagining of the first opera, Dafne, composed and written in 1598—a story of unrequited love, patriarchal possession, conquest, and transformation, inspired by the myth of Daphne and Apollo from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Attention independent musicians! Join an expert panel—including Moses Sumney, Fabienne Leys, Brandon Sánchez, and Robbie Gong—Ben Rafson––for a discussion on the financial realities of releasing music independently. Presented by The Rising Artist Foundation and UMAW as part of the "Office Hours" educational series.
Playing selections from their upcoming album (via Bayonet Records), Kinlaw will disclose the process behind making selected tracks, getting stuck and unstuck, and how her thinking around performance and choreography helps the artist get closer to words.
Schuyler Rabbin-Birnbaum's report from Max Fried's introductory press conference with the New York Yankees on 12/18/2024.
Sun Ra visits WKCR! Is he eating ice cream? Yogurt? Who knows?
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