Programming

This Wednesday, January 13th at 9am, our guest was New College professor Brendan Goff. He talked about his soon to be published  book, Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism. It’s a new history showing how the organization reinforced capitalist values and cultural practices at home and tried to remake the world in the […]

Singers La Lupe in Havana and New York, Hector Lavoe, Lucrecia in Barcelona and New York’s Conjunto Libre! Plus a few other surprises on the second LATIN EXPLOSION of the new year, this Friday. LATIN EXPLOSION, Friday, 7-9am, WSLR 96.5 FM Sarasota, listen live at https://wslr.org/ or listen anytime by typing WSLR LATIN EXPLOSION in […]

This Wednesday January 6 at 9am our guest was Sandra Goldmark, Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Director, Campus Sustainability and Climate Action at Barnard College. She’s the author of the new book Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet. Her website is FIXUP.  To watch a great twenty-minute video about the problems we talked about watch […]

  HOWDY,    Well campers I hope everyone survived New Years Eve?  I didn’t do bad if you consider that there wasn’t anywhere to go!  That was strange.     This is my first show of the new year so I thought I would clean house. At the end of every show there are a […]

“It is said that, if you lined up all those who have ever been to a Grateful Dead concert head-to-toe, the line would stretch around the moon, and about halfway back. And nobody would complain!” WSLR is slowly coming back with a very sparse number of live studio programmers, albeit with very specific instructions as […]

Let’s welcome the New Year in a big way with the exciting sounds of Big Band Jazz on The Blue Groove, Sunday from 7:00 pm -9:00 pm on WSLR 96.5 FM or stream WSLR.org. From the sophisticated sound of Duke Ellington and the swingin’ Count Basie Band, to vibraphonist Terry Gibbs and his Big Band, […]

Kick off 2021 with LATIN EXPLOSION. Kako y Totico, Irakere, Larry Harlow, Enrique Jorrin, and of course, Eddie Palmieri’s “Champagne”. LATIN EXPLOSION, Friday, 7-9am WSLR 96.5 FM Sarasota, stream live at WSLR.org or listen anytime by typing WSLR LATIN EXPLOSION in your browser! Happy New Year/Feliz Ano Nuevo! “Se Las Nenas Me Dejan, Que!”

A special Tuesday Drive Home looking back and paying tribute to some of the American musical artists who have passed away over the last 12 months. We’ve lost some true icons: Little Richard, John Prine, Eddie Van Halen and Bill Withers to name a few. There have been some others that we’ll miss as well, […]

This Wednesday December 30, at 9am, our guest will be Kathy Kelly, an activist and writer who has helped co-coordinate Voices for Creative Nonviolence. VCNV has done great work over the years, In 2021 they’re moving to a new phase of organizing. Read their final print letter HERE. And here’s a letter Kathy wrote recently about […]

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