Dear WUSB Listeners and Supporters,
This month’s WUSB newsletter focuses on a 'Healthier U'! Personally, I did not do my usual 2-5 miles per day of walking for the past 4 months and I am paying for it now. But I joined the University's Healthier U 'Ready, Set, Move" challenge and am walking each day for at least 30 minutes. My bike is also tuned up to get moving!
WUSB is proud to be the broadcast partner for Stony Brook University’s Healthier U program. Healthier U is an educational motivational program that encourages you to maintain a healthy lifestyle through movement and exercise. As an incentive for our listeners, if you listen to WUSB while walking and hear our DJs mention 'Healthier U' on-air, call in to our listener feedback line at 631-632-6901, and you can win special WUSB listener prizes!
Every listener who also donates $10 or more to WUSB radio station during the Healthier U Challenge (ENDING TODAY, August 31st!) will receive a pair of WUSB Stony Brook earbuds in a carrying case! Now get ready, get set-- and MOVE! Donate to WUSB online at stonybrook.edu/wusbgiving or call 631-632-6901
This newsletter will highlight some of the great healthy lifestyle programs WUSB presents on air weekly or monthly. These programs encourage healthy eating, thinking- even healthy buying! We hope you enjoy!
Virtually,
Isobel Breheny-Schafer
WUSB General Manager
Assistant Director for Student Media
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Special Thanks and Intros |
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WUSB would like to take time to thank and introduce you to a few of our administrative team members: |
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Emily Snyder | Director, Department of Student Community Development
Emily has been instrumental in the production and editing of this WUSB newsletter, and overall support of the station and its operations, in addition to her responsibilities as the head of our Department which includes the Student Media office, the Center for Civic Justice and University Food Pantry, and special population programming including non-traditional student support and Commuter Student Services and Off-Campus Living. Emily is also a musician, herself! She enjoys playing at venues across Long Island with her band, Letters at Dawn!
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Rob Cosgrove | Graduate Coordinator, Student Media and WUSB Radio
Rob is a music percussion PHD candidate and his responsibilities include production, editing, show hosting, fundraising, planning programs, training new volunteers, advising and hosting our table at the Three Village Farmers market every Friday. Rob has been with the department for several years- we've been very fortunate to have him as part of our WUSB team! Check out more info about his music at robcosgrove.com
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Anastasia Philippopoulos | Treasurer and Business Manager, WUSB Radio
Anastasia is a Psychology major. She also works as lab assistant on campus and co-hosts Mixed Nuts radio show on WUSB: “Mixed Nuts is a talk show about contrasting music styles and casual discussion of any topic you can think of! We air every other Tuesday from 2-4pm and post weekly on Spotify!”
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Wellness Program Highlights |
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Rhea Courtney Bozic |
The Environmental Radio Hour
As part of the Natural Alternatives series at WUSB, this show covers recent environmental policy developments at the national and state level, and also seeks to help listeners be more engaged with environmental issues by bringing in local environmental and nature based experts and educators.
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Beth Fiteni | Green Inside and Out
Beth Fiteni hosts Green Inside and Out on Friday nights and is assisted by the show's production editor Tara Kotliarradio, to inform and inspire people towards greener, healthier lifestyle choices. This includes interviews with leaders in the environmental, vegan, and related fields, to share the positive work they are doing, and provide ways for people to engage and become part of the movement.
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Bob Dibenedetto | The Healthy Planet
Bob Dibenedetto hosts The Healthy Planet on Friday nights offering in-depth discussions with top health and environmental experts on the deep connection among all life on Earth, and the powerful effects our everyday choices can have on creating a clean, healthy and compassionate world.
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Tom Needham | Sounds of Film
Tom Needham hosts the show Sounds of Film each Thursday night. The August 6th show highlights James Wilks, the winner of Ultimate Fighter. He will be discusses his movie GAME CHANGERS, a new film executive produced by Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Cameron and Jackie Chan, that documents the explosive rise of plant-based eating in professional sports.
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Dr. Gerry Shephard & Kathleen Valerio |
Taking Care
Airing Fridays afternoons during the academic year, this show focuses on body and mind wellness and health issues. Hosting distinguished guests from Stony Brook University Hospital and the surrounding Long Island Suffolk and Nassau communities.
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Ellen Kamhi & Dr. Eugene R. Zampieron |
Natural Alternatives
The original holistic health program on WUSB, airing since 1990, this program brings you cutting edge educational information from the fields of naturopathic, holistic, functional, and herbal medicine. Airing every last Friday of the month from 6-7 PM, the show features interviews from authorities in holistic medicine and commentary from the hosts, who are accredited holistic health practitioners for 35+ years.
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Tim Smith | The Megapolitan
Musician Tim Smith hosts The Megapolitan program featuring music from the World over, often of a meditative and healing nature. Tim also occasionally reviews books about similar topics. He welcomes listener feedback, requests and suggestions at [email protected].
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New Music in the Age of COVID-19 |
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By Phil Merkel, Captain Phil's Planet
(Alternate Thursdays on WUSB)
As musicians and concert venues begin to retool and rethink live and recorded music in the age of COVID-19, Captain Phil's Planet has featured two important contributions.
Leslie Mandoki of the Mandoki Soulmates and Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull have collaborated on the new track "#WeSayThankYou as a tribute to the essential workers who have kept us all safe during these difficult times
"We need to bring our music back to socio-political relevance. We must once again sing and play together, against division and for cohesion. That is, and must be, the philosophy of our music. We musicians often think with our hearts. Our songs are created with an unwavering belief in the connecting power of music. Let’s change the world with our music! We are walking in the footsteps of the Woodstock generation—let us mount a new challenge to the world of similar proportions.
My most devout hope is that we will overcome these crises and live out our passion for life again with our audience." Leslie Mandoki
Leslie was interviewed on the June 18th, 2020 episode of Captain Phil's Planet and was rebroadcast on the Jim Dexter show on June 23rd. Listen to "#WeSayThankYou".
And out of Chicago in the midst of current protests all across America comes We Are the People performed by the Steak House Mints and featuring District 97's lead singer Leslie Hunt as music becomes the voice of the unheard and unseen across our country. This track is in current rotation on Captain Phil's Planet, tune in alternate Thursdays 3pm to 5pm to check it out
"We Are the People was written and recorded as an act of protest against the oligarchic government that now controls our country. It is meant as call for unity between people on all sides of the political spectrum, who believe that the American way of life is under attack. The out of work coal miner has much more in common with inner city single mom than he does with any of the billionaires, who who squander our shared resources so that the corporate elite can maintain their opulent lifestyles." Listen to "We Are the People".
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The Annual Live Bradstock festival which benefits many local charities will be virtual on WUSB this fall.
Virtual Bradstock 2020 “COVID’s got nothing on us … the show will go on!” will air on Sunday, 9/6/20 (Labor Day weekend) 12pm-10pm - 10+ hours total! The show will kick off right after The Charlie Backfish “Sunday Street” show.
Over 27 artists and bands compiled from our 2004-2019 live master recordings archive including: Ed Travers, Ken “The Rocket” Korb, Miles to Dayton, David Amram, David Bromberg, Tornado Alley, Buddy Merriam, Gathering Time, Taj Weekes, Shecky and the Twangtones, Funk’n A, Noah’s Ark, The Waterstreet Blues Band, KC Cowan and Tributes, Easy Chief, The Electrix, and Jerry McDonald. Please help support Camp Paquatuck and all your favorite local charities to keep the Bradstock spirit going.
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Want to feature your company or non-profit here and become a part of our WUSB Business supporter family? Let us know! Please email [email protected] or call (631) 632 - 6828
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(631) 909 - 3432
Covid-19 has been a really strange hit for all of us, in this time we have all had to make various adjustments to our daily routines. As many of us at WUSB are strongly involved in music, we’ve decided to ask Lantern Sound Recording Rig, a beautiful recording studio in Manorville, NY about how they’ve adapted to the “new normal”. WUSB Supporter and Community Partner Mick Hargreaves is interviewed by Jackie Guma, radio host of Equilibrium Radio on WUSB, alternating Mondays from 3-5pm!
“THE LANTERN SOUND RECORDING RIG - Only area recording studio located inside county park preserve land; LI NY's "Big Pink" - In a beautiful 1910 farmhouse - daily / hourly bookings. Full day rates include overnight accommodations. Two floors modern, vintage, analog gear, live drum room, ambient spaces, isolation chambers, baby grand, full kitchen. Logic, ProTools, Trident, Focusrite, Ampex, 24 inputs.”
Q: What kind of work do you usually do at lsrr?
Full length albums/ singles/ live performances?
A: The Lantern Sound Recording Rig is known for being a comfortable recording environment where bands can perform and record as a unit, to get that magic "take". Once that's accomplished, I go to work on more engineer/producer type stuff, to help flesh out arrangements while overdubbing additional parts, and I pay particular attention to vocals. I'm a good vocal arranger. These days an artist's recording effort can mean anything from singles to full albums to things in between, including live performances.
Q: Are there any adaptations you've made during the past few months that you see yourself continuing into the future?
A: It comes down to this: First, Masks. Second, separate spaces. I formulated a plan for keeping the studio split in two, and it was George Howard that suggested it to me first. Of course! I stay in the control room, and the performers never come in the control room. Today, the Crushing Violets were in doing vocals for their new record. I put up two vocal mics in the front parlor, which is two full rooms away from the control room where I am, and they sing away. We communicate over the headphones, and I have a talkback mic of course. There's separate front and back entrances to the house, so that permits more space for all. Third, cleanliness. That room is theirs for the four days they're here for the record, too. There's guitar amps, bass amps, and a baby grand piano in there, and it's got a dead corner for acoustic interment treatments. Many artists have their own microphones, and I leave time between sessions for cleaning. Like, two days.
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WUSB thanks our local business supporters who are a part of our station's family. Businesses like those highlighted above help keep WUSB on the air by providing gift certificates for you, our donors. In exchange, we thank the businesses on the air (and here !) throughout our fundraising campaigns.
Please help us support our local businesses.
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Check out some of our favorites this month, curated by the our WUSB team: |
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Have You Lost
Your Mind Yet?
Fantastic Negrito
Submitted by: DJ Trevor
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Flaming Pie, Remastered
Paul McCartney
Submitted by:
DJ Scotty O
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Ships in the Night
Courtney Marie Andrews
Submitted by: DJ Trevor
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Not our First Goat Rodeo
Submitted by: DJ George Rudolph
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Willie Nile Uncovered
Willie Nile
Submitted by:
DJ Charlie Backfish
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Small Jumps (Faster)
Søren Bebe
Submitted by:
From DJ Bella
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Listener Experience Survey |
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