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Discover new music! You can listen to WCBN’s student-powered broadcast online anywhere in the world using our new app. Every DJ carefully chooses every song we play; you’re sure to find someone whose tastes help you develop yours. And we’re all real humans, so you can send us an iMessage and ask questions, make requests, and get to know your DJ.

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Freeform — in app form: listen to student-run radio on your phone. Get to know all the DJs: check past playlists and see the show
schedule. Like what you hear? Save it. Discovering new music just got easier. Always know what’s on air: see what you’re missing before you
even tune in. Talk back to the radio: chat with the DJ using the WCBN app.

WCBN Presents Enema Squad

Sat, 01/14/2017 - 9:30pm
Non-Free
music
WCBN-sponsored

Heavy Beat, Screaming Lead & Rythmic Guitars, freaky but structured keyboard lines and joyful yet outlandish vocal stylings with a touch of Hip Hop and Reggae with a P-Funk Twist!

$7/ Under 21 $10

Good Vibes Only

This week we are reminded to keep calm and think positively.

Freeform — in app form: listen to student-run radio on your phone. Freeform — in app form: listen to student-run radio on your phone. Like what you hear? Save it. Discovering new music just got easier. Like what you hear? Save it. Discovering new music just got easier. Get to know all the DJs: check past playlists and see the show
schedule.

U-M Student Night at the Museum

Fri, 11/18/2016 - 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Free
dj
Other

Join us for a Pokémon Themed Night at the Museum featuring a scavenger hunt, planetarium shows, a make-your-own wolverine footprint station, and pizza at 10pm.

Meet some of the DJ's from WCBN and find out what we're all about!

Free to students with M-Card!

Literati Word Squared: Philip J. Deloria

Tue, 11/15/2016 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Free
Writing Program
WCBN-sponsored

Literati is pleased to partner with the University of Michigan's Sweetland Center for Writing in support of their Word Squared: Writer to Writer program. Professor Philip J. Deloria is this installment's featured guest.

Hear directly from University professors about their challenges, processes, and expectations as writers and also as readers of student writing. 

This session will be broadcasted live on WCBN. If there's anything you've ever wanted to ask a professor about writing, Word Squared gives you the chance.

WCBN Presents Clear Plastic Masks

Sat, 10/22/2016 - 9:45pm
Free
music
WCBN-sponsored

WCBN presents Clear Plastic Masks live and free in a university lecture hall! This rag tag band of garage rockers are finishing up a release tour for their sophomore LP, Nazi Hologram, with your pals here at WCBN.

It's all going down in Angell Hall Auditorium B this Saturday night at 9:45 p.m. Students, radioers, vibers, lovers, hoodlums, and rugrats get in free. See you there!

Michael G. Nastos Presents an Interview with Paul VornHagen

On Thursday, August 4 at 1 PM, WCBN welcomes Paul VornHagen, a bandleader in his own right and member of the award-winning Lunar Octet and Tumbao Bravo for an in-studio interview and recorded music feature. Substitute DJ Michael G. Nastos will conduct this talk during the Freeform with Ian radio program.

Some thirty years after they formed, The Lunar Octet reunited two years ago at the Kerrytown Concert House, and in mid-July of this year at the Michigan Jazz Festival. They will be joining together again to play the Flint Jazz Festival Saturday, August 13, and The Ark on Sunday, August 14. Out-of-town residents and former Ann Arborites, leader/drummer Jon Krosnick (Northern California), saxophonist/composer Steve Hiltner (North Carolina) and keyboardist Mark Kieswetter (Toronto) will reconvene in an expanded Lunar Octet with Ann Arbor’s Sam Clark on electric guitar, percussionists Aron Kaufman and Olman Piedra, Mid-Michigan bassist Jeff Dalton, founding bassists Dan Bilich and Dan Ladin, and A2 trumpeter Brandon Cooper for these performances.

Ann Arbor-based multi-woodwind veteran and vocalist Paul VornHagen will be on the airwaves to discuss his solo career, his new PKO label CD, history of the ensembles, the band members various roles, as well as the repertoire of original Latin, jazz, funk and fusion that has served The Lunar Octet well over many decades.

To listen to this broadcast, either tune in to 88.3 FM Ann Arbor or follow the link at the top of this page to stream online. 

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