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October 2011

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WQAQ Fright Night Delayed

Just a quick update for those who wanted to listen to this year’s WQAQ Fright Night. As you know there has been a massive amount of snow. As a result it has been moved to Sunday at 8pm. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Oct 29, 20111 note
#Wqaq #WQAQ #Fright Night #Tales From the Geekside
The Devil Takes Care of His Own

Band of Skulls: The Devil Takes Care of His Own

Band of Skulls is an amazing band with an awesome raw heavy rock sound. Similar to the white stripes and the black keys. They are currently on tour over seas with the black keys. Check out their album Baby Darling Doll Face Honey, it is one of my favorite albums of all time. This song is a new song from hopefully a new album soon!!

Oct 29, 201118 notes
#Band Of Skulls #The Devil Takes Care of His Own #music #the black keys
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Oct 28, 20116 notes
#this town needs guns #wqaq #college radio #math rock
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Oct 27, 20116 notes
#modern lovers #wqaq #radio #lcd soundsystem #elvis costello
Aloha Hawaii (acoustic)

babanees:

Aloha Hawaii (acoustic) - The Guru

i’m young and i’m able
make the best of what i have 
i’m permanently sharp
i’ll do the best that i can 

We’re all huge fans of The Guru at 98.1 FM, and this song rules!

Oct 27, 20119 notes
#The Guru #Aloha Hawaii #Music #College radio #quinnipiac #connecticut
WQAQ at the National College Media Convention

We sent three members to #ncmc11 and you can follow them, provided the following links:

Kyle Murphy (General Manager)

Gerry D’Apollo (Production Manager)

Scotty Wong (Music Manager)

Oct 27, 20111 note
#ncmc11 #wqaq #college #radio
100 Followers!

We just reached the centennial! Thank you all so much for following us and tell your friends. We will continue to bring you musical news and other fun stuff!

Oct 27, 201110 notes
#100 followers #college #radio #we love you all
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Oct 26, 20114 notes
#black keys #music #college #radio #wqaq #blues #rock
Oct 25, 20112 notes
#corporal punishment #death row #speaker #quinnipiac #wqaq
Burn Alive Trash Talk

Trash Talk - Burn Alive

I’m so excited that Trash Talk killed it with their newest EP Awake. With five songs clocking in around eight and a half minutes, Trash Talk takes the sound they solidified on last year’s Eyes and Nines and improves it; making it aggressive, violent, and uniquely catchy. “Burn Alive” cements why Trash Talk is doing the whole 80’s revivalist hardcore thing better than pretty much anyone else (although Ceremony kills it too): the track is a suicidal anthem that makes you want to burn down a police station and then piss on the ashes that lie in your wake. Get ready to get violent.

Oct 25, 201119 notes
#Trash Talk #Burn Alive #Awake #Trash Talk Collective #Ceremony #hardcore
Wish Fulfillment Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth - Wish Fulfillment

Dirty (1992)

Sonic Youth is pretty much the perfect band. They struggled early on finding their niche, but once EVOL hit something really stuck.  The band continued their success in the late 80’s to pump out solid album at an alarming rate in the 90’s.  1992’s Dirty found the band adding a lot of pop elements, while still retaining their noise rock roots.  ”Wish Fulfillment” is a song nesting in between the calm and chaotic side of the band in the early 90’s.  It embodies what the early alternative scene in the 90’s meant and connects nicely with the showing of The Year That Punk Broke WQAQ will do Tuesday, October 25th at 7p.m. for its own and QFS’s members. 
Oct 24, 201141 notes
#sonic youth #music #noise #rock #dirty #thurston moore #kim gordon #steve shelley
SHOW OF THE WEEK: Sad Clown Happy Hour

BIG UPS TO MICHAEL LEWIS! 

Pictured here!

His show “Sad Clown Happy Hour” was awarded WQAQ’s FIRST(!) show of the week award this semester!  Michael is a stand up comic and QU student who brings his comic friends from around the area into the studio with him and the riff on culture/news/entertainment etc. In between they play some pretty sweet tunes too! So make sure to check out this seriously funny show TONIGHT! (Monday) at 6pm!!

Oct 24, 201113 notes
#radio #funny #show of the week
Everybody Loves You Now Billy Joel

You Might Have Missed…

Billy Joel - Everybody Loves You Now - Cold Spring Harbor (1971)

    Being a Long Island boy, I’m biased heavily toward Billy Joel. No matter what music you normally like, if you’re a Long Islander, you likely have at least one Billy Joel song and know all the words to one of his songs for an in-traffic sing-a-long. But it’s not just Long Island, though. Show me one person that doesn’t like the sound of Billy Joel, and I’ll show you a half-million that love his music, or at least that won’t turn it off it comes on.
 Billy Joel’s first album was appropriately named after the Long Island town of Cold Spring Harbor. His trademark combination of jazz, ragtime, classical and rock music is present all through the album, but most of all in the LI name-dropping track “Everybody Loves You Now.” You can’t help but move to his music and sing along if you know the tune. In his early years, and still today, Billy Joel has songwriting capabilities to rival Paul McCartney in his prime.

Oct 19, 20117 notes
#billy joel #long island #everybody loves you now #cold spring harbor #awesome #music #rock #album #review
Listen glocca morra

Glocca Morra - “them”

In terms of the current Kinsella-esque emo revival that’s been happening over the last few years, Glocca Morra is a band that doesn’t come up in conversation nearly as much as they should. Their first release was an effort in the vein Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate). It was a solid debut, but then the band decided to play faster and harder and everything changed.

They released a fantastic split 7” with The Greek Favourites and two weeks ago they put out a 6 song cassette entitled “Ghoul Intentions” and it rips. Instead of dwelling on the whole “twinkly” (forgive me for the term) trip, the band plays a combination of noisey garage punk with a nice touch of emo. The lyrics are bitter, confrontational, and self-deprecating, but not in an indulgent manner. I think (hope) that they’ll be referenced as an influence when a new wave of emo emerges years from now. Until then, they are hopefully putting out a new LP soon, so keep an eye out for that!

Oct 18, 20115 notes
#emo #empire empire #garage punk #garage rock #ghoul intentions #glocca morra #make out party records #the greek favourites
For Want Of Rites Of Spring

Rites Of Spring - For Want Of

Rites Of Spring (1985)

Rites Of Spring is a band that can’t be measured by the extent of their discography, one LP and one EP, but by the influence they had. Pinned with creating the emo/hardcore bridge, the band was comprised of members that would go on to create Fugazi with, then producer for the band and member of Minor Threat, Ian MacKaye. They were recently featured in an AV Club article about artists who had short, but highly influential careers. Without Rites Of Spring, I think punk, hardcore and emo music would have developed an interloping relationship much differently. 

Oct 17, 201120 notes
#minor threat #fugazi #rites of spring #for want of #hardcore #punk #emo #music #college radio #wqaq #av club
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Oct 16, 201146 notes
#Barr Brothers #folk #music #Quebec #Blues
Oct 14, 20118 notes
#Laura Stevenson and The Cans #Great Caesar #High Pop #Conor and The Stone Hill Kids #Music For Meals #The Space #November 12
We have a HUGE announcement tomorrow

So you better be EXCITED!

Oct 13, 20111 note
#music for meals
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Oct 13, 2011
#hostage calm #rock #connecticut #music #college #radio #wqaq #I am the avalanche
She Cares Styx

You Might Have Missed…

Styx - She Cares - Paradise Theater (1981)

    Styx, particularly the Paradise Theater album, is what got me into rock music. f you just look around the internet, Styx tends to take a lot of crap from people for one reason or the other, were the ones who essentially created the sound of the 80s. Their catchy melodic hooks, soaring guitar riffs, beautiful keyboard work, and of course powerful harmonies are what set them apart from so many bands.

    She Cares is the seventh track off of Styx’s fourth consecutive triple platinum album, “Paradise Theater.” The song was written by guitarist Tommy Shaw as a filler in their sweeping concept album. You won’t find any other reviews about this song, nor will you ever hear Styx play it live in concert, but She Cares is one the band’s best, and my favorite. Simple lyrics, balanced out by the guitars and keyboard. The twin solos of guitar and saxophone. And the harmonies. Perhaps people mock Styx so much simply because they can’t be matched.

Oct 12, 201118 notes
#styx #music #she #cares #harmonies #paradise #theater #review #80s
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