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WMBR Spring 2025 Program Schedule:    Return to Main Schedule
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Monday Programs:
6-7am Stormy Weather
Listen to past shows: Mon Mar 03 6:00 am Playlist
Mon Feb 24 6:00 am Playlist
7-8am
Alternates Weekly
Ceangal Ceilteach
Hosted by: Kit Kelt
Come explore the diaspora in Celtic music with Ceangal Ceilteach -- a Celtic Connection. Hear hip-hop, rap, jazz, and more in Celtic languages.
Upcoming shows: Mar 10, Mar 24
Listen to past shows: Mon Feb 24 7:00 am Playlist
7-8am
Alternates Weekly
Connect the Tracks
Hosted by: Laura Landon
A musical puzzle! Each episode, songs fit into hidden themes—can you guess them before they are revealed? Tune in for indie, alt, rock, and folk tracks and find the threads that tie them together.
Upcoming shows: Mar 17, Mar 31
Listen to past shows: Mon Mar 03 7:00 am Playlist
8-10am Breakfast of Champions
Hosted by: Rebecca, Ted, Becca, Abby, Erik, Fred, and Jon
Start your morning off right with a bowl full of sugary sweet pop goodness, sprinkle on some tasty punk influences, and help yourself to the buffet of sumptuous soundscapes, melancholy melodies, quirky cadences and raucous rock.

Twitter Feed: @bocwmbr
Listen to past shows: Mon Mar 03 8:00 am Playlist
Mon Feb 24 8:00 am Playlist
10am-Noon Late Risers' Club
Hosted by: Joanie, Mark, Mook, Nick, Tapedeck Tommy, and the Tuesday Rotation
It's like sewing your ear to a vacuum cleaner.

Twitter Feed: @laterisersclub
Listen to past shows: Mon Mar 03 10:00 am Playlist
Mon Feb 24 10:00 am Playlist
Noon-2pm Lost and Found
Hosted by: Lawrence Azrin, Mark Francis, Bob Dubrow, Brother Wayne, Christopher Vyce, Alex McNeil, Rick Roth
Rock, pop, and soul from the ’60s and early ’70s, but not the same old songs you hear every day on commercial radio.

Listen to past shows: Mon Mar 03 12:00 pm Playlist
Mon Feb 24 12:00 pm Playlist
2-4pm Research & Development
Hosted by: Charlie Kohlhase
Forward-looking Jazz from from the 40's to the present. Occasional Birthday features. Classic Tenor Corner. Jazz Calendar Highlights.

Listen to past shows: Mon Mar 03 2:00 pm Playlist
Mon Feb 24 2:00 pm Playlist
4-5:30pm Not Brahms and Liszt
Hosted by: Alley Stoughton
Classical music of the 20th and 21st centuries, from Reich to Nyman to Wolfe to Higdon and onward.

Listen to past shows: Mon Mar 03 4:00 pm Playlist
Mon Feb 24 4:00 pm Playlist
5:30-6pm WMBR Nightly News
Hosted by: WMBR News Department
News and analysis from independent national journalists as well as local news and events in Cambridge and Greater Boston. Our weekly line-up of programs focuses on under-reported issues, marginalized communities, and struggles for social change.

Listen to past shows: Mon Mar 03 5:30 pm  
Mon Feb 24 5:30 pm  
6-7pm
Alternates Weekly
Sometime After 7
Hosted by: Sara Sime, Christian Cardozo
The right mix of very eclectic musical tastes, nuanced and quirky conversation, and - dare we say - a couple of soothing voices. It will always feel like sometime after 7.
Upcoming shows: Mar 10, Mar 24
Listen to past shows: Mon Feb 24 6:00 pm Playlist
6-7pm
Alternates Weekly
Box of Maniacs
Hosted by: Tapedeck Tommy
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but first, the tunnel. Proto-something, post-other, mostly incongruous noise and uneasy listening with hints of melody. Of maniacs, by maniacs, for maniacs.
Upcoming shows: Mar 17, Mar 31
Listen to past shows: Mon Mar 03 6:00 pm Playlist
7-8pm Background Music
Hosted by: DJ Lipika
Electronic listening music: downbeat electronic, jazz, funk, hip hop, and dub. An hour of interesting but subtle music.
Listen to past shows: Mon Mar 03 7:00 pm  
Mon Feb 24 7:00 pm Playlist
8-10pm Bats in the Belfry
Hosted by: Mistress Laura
Enter the sanctuary... revel in gothic and ethereal music from all over the world, USA, and Boston. Dark, moody, atmospheric...starting with ancient music and chant to the newest gothic rock, deathrock, darkwave,coldwave,neo-classical,and dark ambient.
Listen to past shows: Mon Mar 03 8:00 pm Playlist
Mon Feb 24 8:00 pm  
10-11pm The SurreaList
Hosted by: Gillian Roeder
To the ear, the track may sound like a stream-of-consciousness jumble of genres, but songs are all united by a common bond. Listeners are encouraged to try to guess the overarching theme, which will be revealed at the end of the hour
Listen to past shows: Mon Mar 03 10:00 pm Playlist
Mon Feb 24 10:00 pm Playlist
11pm-Midnight Why Is It Lowkey Monday
Hosted by: Jacob Mercado and Edwin Trejo Balderas
Awesome Electronic Music (AEM) brought to you by JconMerc and EdwinTB! Tune in for a variety of chill and cool vibes mixed with retro synths and maybe even experimental beats far from the typical norm.
Listen to past shows: Mon Mar 03 11:00 pm  
Mon Feb 24 11:00 pm  
Midnight-1am Astral Signal
Hosted by: Haley Hernandez
Astral Signal will host an out-of-this-world experience on Boston radio waves with songs from genres such as psychedelic rock, conscious hip-hop, indie, soul, Latin and more!
Listen to past shows: Tue Mar 04 12:00 am Playlist
Tue Feb 25 12:00 am Playlist
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