Programs

Some of the noteworthy shows on air
during Spring Semester '07:

The Global Cafe

The Global Café airs weekdays from 6 to 12 a.m. This is a show that casts ethnocentricity aside by featuring the arts from a world perspective, focusing on music, film, television and literature.

Trevor Stottlemyer, WSYC operations manager and long-time fixture of the station put this show together with a lot of hard work and help from several dedicated co-hosts and contributors. Visit the web site for more information and lots of reviews and other great content.

The Jet Set

Tune in each weekday from noon until 5 p.m.
for a sampling of the latest and greatest of college radio.

Big Albums For January and February:

The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Bloc Party - Weekend in the City
The Good, the Bad, and the Queen - S/T
Sondre Lerche - Phantom Punch
Menomena - Friend or Foe
The Apples in Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

Kill the Switch

Punk rock, indie rock, metal, metalcore, hardcore, thrash, sludge, doom, grind, grindcore, experimental, noise, EBM, gothic, industrial; no genre will be ignored.

If it's dark, heavy, emotional and/or passionate, you'll hear it on this show.

Listen to Kill the Switch every Friday from 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Musical Chairs

What is Musical Chairs? It's more than just a game you played when you were back in elementary school. It's a two-hour mix of music broadcast on Monday nights from 8:00 to 10:00 for your listening pleasure. Tune in, and you can hear your youthful, vibrant, albeit rambling DJ, The Vossman, spin the difference. Anything goes in terms of the genres, but this show is especially for fans of:

• Rock you won't always find on the major labels
• Classic rock, Funk and,soul from before he was even born
• Old-school (1980s) and Independent hip-hop
• Straight cold smooth jazz
• Anything related to progressive rock whatsoever
  (yes, progheads will enjoy)

About 90 minutes into the show, you will get a peek at the albums coming out the very next day, and possibly hearing songs in advance if Vossman can get his hands on them. Granted, this is the chance to break from tradition and encompass a great chunk of music to produce a refresher from the usual, especially when you think it will be a long week ahead. So tune in to Musical Chairs Monday nights at 8:00 p.m. for new quality music. Drop him a message or request during his show on AIM at vossmancometh.

You can also visit him on Myspace.

The Show Formerly Known
As Beautiful Beatz

Over the 2006-2007 holiday break, I found myself listening to copious amounts of early punk music and its progenitors, namely The Modern Lovers, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Dead Kennedys, and Television.

Upon returning to school, I realized my love for this stuff could be channelled into my year-old radio show, Beautiful Beatz. After a time-slot and format change,the end result was The Show Formerly Known as Beautiful Beatz (the title being an homage to a post-punk hero of mine whose name I'll let you figure out).

Anyway, for a healthy dose of 60s Garage Rock, Early Punk Rock and a bit of new wave or "alternative" music, tune in every Thursday evening from 8-10 on 88.7 WSYC FM and listen to me, Brian McDermott kick out the proverbial jams.

Preserving Peel

Radio One disc jockey John Peel was a broadcast legend, spinning the widest collection of music that went against the grain. With a Peel broadcast, there were no agendas or even any set plans. Peel was simply a fan of music, perhaps the biggest that this planet has ever seen. Sharing his favorites with the world allowed for those graced with the pleasure of listening to discover incredible music that could be heard absolutely nowhere else.

On Preserving Peel, Bill Morgal will spin a wide-ranging spectrum of music with an emphasis on tracks from England and across the sea, perhaps only best described as "chunnelcore." There will be obscure tracks, infinitesimal bands and a healthy dose of catchy songs. The music will be renegade and the broadcast will be genuine. There is no replacing John Peel, but there is most certainly a chance to pay respect to a wonderful man.

The show currently airs during The Global Cafe on Thursday mornings
from 10 a.m. to noon.

Lady Plays the Blues

Blues music doesn’t bring you down, it just makes you feel good.

Lady Plays the Blues touches all eras and styles of the greatest blues music available. Everyone is here from BB to Muddy to Slim.

Every Wednesday night from 10pm till midnight, your host Miss JD Blues guides you through your midweek blues with the greatest music genre put on compact disc. Listen on Wednesday nights for the Feature 5 right after 11pm. This brings you a specific artist, album or theme essential to great blues.

If you can’t stay up that late catch Lady Plays the Blues Global Café edition, Tuesday mornings from 10am till noon.

For the playlists of both the shows visit my MySpace site. For the best blues show found on college radio listen to Lady Plays the Blues.

Ill-legitimate DJ's

Every Saturday night from 8 to 10 p.m. the ill-legitimate DJ's bring you the best in rock and hip-hop from artists you know and some you don't. From Manson to Jay-Z we got all the bases covered and then some.

Your Saturday Night party starts at 8 p.m. with us, only on WSYC.

The Lauren & Hayley Show

Close out your Friday night with The Lauren and Hayley Show,
every Saturday from 1 to 3 a.m.

Wind things down with a variety of music and occasional commentary with just the right relaxed and chill feeling.

It's the perfect thing to put on the radio after a party or a great way to help you fall asleep and get ready for the whatever else the weekend has in store.

The Fifth Street Flush

The Fifth Street Flush is every Monday night from 5 to 8 and features
rock, punk, emo, 90s, acoustic, and more.

On every show there is a live musical guest.

Musician? Contact js3312@ship.edu if you're interested in being on the show.

The Metal Asylum

Calling all you Shippensburg metal-heads.

Tune in each and every Friday night from 8:00-10:00 to the Metal Asylum to hear the best in thrash metal, power metal, death metal, black metal, and everything in between.

Hosted by Matt Pauly. 

The Guided Tour of Chicago

Okay, so you were born in the mid-eighties, and you're frustrated. Most of us are. But "punk rock" was over. The hipster trend of the late seventies and early eighties faded fast and the world forgot about punk rock. However, in a remote place of the globe known as Southern California, rural unrest was growing. Conservative American policies coupled with the drunken stupor of youth lead to the development of the new punk rock.

Bands like Bad Religion, NOFX and Social Distortion grew out of this squalor, and the sound was fresh. Featuring harder and faster music and more intelligently-written lyrics than their punk forefathers, this new punk is simply better than what most regulars know as punk rock. As the material wealth of America and the world grew, but somehow we found it necessary to fight even more wars, similar frustrations grew in areas such as Chicago, Illinois. Suburban Chicagites founded a glorious band known as Slapstick.

These were just kids, and as kids do, they broke up. But these kids went on to form over half a dozen bands, and they are all amazing. If this new style of punk rock is what makes you turn, tune in to my show.

I call it as it see it. During my show, you won't hear any crap I don't think is 100% amazing. I hate the Ramones, and, accordingly, you'll never hear them on my show. You'll also never hear any of this new trend of AP Magazine pop-pussy-image white rich suburban kid music. It's not about diversity of sound. It's about what is best. So, I'll sum up this rambling tirade.

My show has a very liberal slant. Sometimes, I'll play a lot of music. Sometimes, I'll do a lot of talking. You better like the Alkaline Trio and the Lawrence Arms, cause I play a crapload of them. I call it like it is. I have very little tact, and I'm not politically correct. I do contests sometimes. I'll take requests. I might not play them, but I'll take them.

All right, I think you got the idea of my show. It's pretty friggin' awesome, so please tune in and enjoy it. It's on every Tuesday night, from 10 p.m. until 1 in the morning. Okay, I'm out. Peace.

Rockin' the Ship

From the 60's to today, from the rocking to the smooth, from Seattle to England you can jam to it all for three rocking hours every Tuesday night.

Tune into Rockin' the Ship from 8 to 10 for a healthy, eclectic mix of rock and roll.

Enjoy themed shows like our "Salute to Rock Chicks," "Vocals from the Locals" and "Grunge: Where art Thou?" Call in for requests or AIM requests at RocktheShip06.

Dog Will Hunt

Join DJ Rick Coon for a collection of music that combines power metal with 80's, 90's, and psychedelic rock (think Pink Floyd, Yes... etc.) Show highlights include Video Game of the Week, World of Warcraft Addicts, and What's on Wikipedia?

Tune in every Saturday night, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.