Isthmus - School of rock: UW-Madison's student radio kicks off the fall semester

[bigtalkradiofan]

Preface Note - The Isthmus newsweekly ran an article on WSUM's new semester of student-run radio - see link below for more information:

http://www.thedailypage.com/music/article.php?article=23694

School of rock

UW-Madison's student radio kicks off the fall semester

Rich Albertoni on Friday 09/05/2008

She attended high school in Middleton, but Y Mae Sussman's musical tastes span the globe. Most recently, she's been making sonic journeys to exotic pop landscapes like Sweden and Denmark. For Sussman, the names of Scandinavian artists — Jens Lekman, the Figurines and Peter, Bjorn & John — come as easy as John Mayer and Coldplay.

Sussman will be broadcasting an hour of Scandinavian folk, rock and electronic tracks every Friday at 3 p.m. this fall on WSUM, 91.7 FM, the student-run radio station of UW-Madison. At 11 a.m. each Friday, Sussman will be on the air with her roommate, Mary Beth, spinning Bollywood hits.

WSUM is kicking off its fall schedule this week. And if the lineup is a window on campus culture, the view inside looks increasingly global and diverse. ...

[Click link above for the complete newspaper article.]

 

[Barefootom]

Hooray for WSUM! Good luck in the new school year....and good luck with the move to new studios!!