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Evan L. Hanlon ’08, a DJ for WHRB’s underground rock show Record Hospital (RH), has no pretensions about the station’s campus listenership. “At Harvard, we don’t have a great following,” he says. “Also, the bulk of our programming is classical and you’re not going to get 6,000 kids tuning into classical...
However, Stona shies away from this quick-and-easy characterization, claiming that it does not embody the whole listenership. Such a conclusion, it seems, would discount a younger audience which, at least anecdotally, listens to programs like Record Hospital (RH) or The Darker Side (TDS), a hip-hop show that broadcasts on Saturdays and Sundays...
Although a show like RH may be incredibly popular inside its niche, it does not have the potential to support the station financially. To understand what makes the station tick, one must look to WHRB Classical...
David A. Rios ’07, a DJ for RH, WHRB’s underground rock program, has an opinion about the station’s mission that is as large (but not nearly as fuzzy) as his wildly-unkempt hair: “All the departments have the same goal: to play music geared to a niche…to have people listen to good music that they won’t hear somewhere else...
...played their EP—which I recovered from the garbage can in the Record Hospital room at WHRB. Yes, it’s completely accessible, completely Swedish pop of the first order, and I’m not ashamed at all to say I adore it. While RH threw this one in the dumpster, I can assure you that this is the next big thing in “No, I heard of them first” indie rock: you heard it here first. The video for their best song, “Very Loud,” fits...