Grab your black eyeliner and break out the lace. Tomorrow night WBAR presents Goth Prom 1986, a free concert featuring an intoxicating brew of hardcore, garage-rock, and beats by Balam Acab, Purling Hiss, Leather, and RL Grime in the Diana Event Oval from 7 to 11:30 pm. The event is open to the public, so feel free to […]

If Live at Lerner is Lollapalooza, this is Coachella. In a miraculous coincidence of students coming together around genuinely cool, good music, “Ambassador of Boogie Funk” Dam-Funk is playing an in-studio session at WBAR right now. You can tune in via www.wbar.org (or stop by Sulz Basement, if you’re really enterprising) and jam out. “My voice sounds like […]

WBAR is giving away two passes to the annual CMJ Music Marathon! This year, the line-up totals “a hair under 900 musicians,” and the festival will going down from October 18th to the 22nd. DJs will be giving away one pass tonight between 6 pm and 8 pm during Rian Rooney and Sam Schube’s show, “Pope or No […]

Pitchfork—the website whose album reviews have a Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease score on par with your student loan agreement—stopped by for WBAR-B-Q last Friday. They posted some snazzy pictures here and here. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to like these pictures before they were cool. 19 people already like the album on facebook.

Our friends at WBAR threw together this awesome mix featuring tracks by each of the ten bands scheduled to play at this upcoming Friday’s annual WBBQ. Some Highlights: Real Estate earned Pitchfork’s prestigious best new music with their self-titled album. The Crystal Ark, lead by Gavin Russom, counts two of the former members of LCD Soundsystem among […]

Barnard College Radio WBAR has just announced the lineup for WBAR-B-Q, the 18th edition of its annual concert and outdoor barbecue! The staff are pretty hyped about it, calling it “the most spectacular WBAR-B-Q ever.” From 3 to 11 pm on Friday, April 15, you can expect lots of free food, games, and giveaways on […]

Break out of your pre-finals slump and head over to Hewitt Dining Hall for WBAR’s Winter Formal for free unidentified giveaways, in addition to the free music and fun. Featured artists include Amen Dunes, Sweet Bulbs, Sleepies, Mr. Dream, and Midnight Magic. The Facebook event promises lots of dancing, so for all those tired of […]

Friday night at the Diana Event Oval, Bwog joined pleasantly not-that-sparse ranks of WBAR fans to see its showcase of campus bands. It was fun! The line-up featured a mix of styles, and included both undergrads and grad students: Puppy Cops Mike Ferraro & The Young Republicans Cloudlicker Dr. Blount Tetractys If your band is […]

The festivities continue tomorrow at 12 p.m. in LeFrak Gymnasium in Barnard Hall for WBAR Barnard College Radio’s 17th Annual WBAR-B-Q! Originally, the WBAR-B-Q was meant to take place on Lehman Lawn but has moved inside due to ominous weather reports.  This free event lasts until 10 p.m. so make sure to stop by for […]

Barnard College Radio WBAR has posted the lineup for their annual outdoor BBQ and concert! On Sunday April 25th­­ from noon to 10pm on the Lehman Lawn, you can look forward to hearing: Cold Cave Blues Control Liturgy Burning Star Core Jana Hunter Twin Stumps U.S. Girls Thing About Life (They’re playing early, so get […]

Second breakfast, charcoal, and quaintness – it’s yours on Sunday morning. It’s all thanks to a school spirit organization, a women’s college, and an outdated, ye-olde-style philosophical debate group. First on the agenda this morning, WBAR has their annual WBAR-B-Q on Lehman Lawn at 11:00 AM.  It’s free, several bands are playing, and there are […]

If you’re not at the WBAR-B-Q right now, you’re missing seeing… approximately thirty thousand bands. While Bwog was only able to get out there briefly and is now safely locked up in class, there’s no excuse for you not being there. It’s free! (Except the food.) Now playing: Wizards of the Coast, featuring Bwog’s own […]

Not 24 hours after WBAR’s annual WBAR-B-Q lineup was announced (replete with promises of a “special guest” and instructions to check WBAR’s website at a later date), insiders have revealed to Bwog the identity of the “special guest.” Despite questionable rumors of Led Zeppelin and Daft Punk, which appeared exclusively in Bwog comments, the mystery […]

The lineup for Barnard Radio’s annual outdoor BBQ and concert has been announced in an email from Milano Chowkwanyun, the Co-Promotions Director of WBAR. The show will take place on Friday, April 25th (on Barnard’s lawn, Nexus be damned) and will feature the following:  Wizards of the Coast Bear Food Will Win the War Liturgy […]

Bwog’s not sure what it thinks about noise music. After all, what separates it from, well, normal noise? Music correspondent Jamie Johns tries to get at the mystery in this e-mail exchange with Carlos Giffoni. Since the early 2000s, Carlos Giffoni has been at the center of a burgeoning noise scene in New York as […]