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After completing my interview with WHRB Program Director Darius P. Felton ’08, I was stopped on my way out of the station by one of his radio colleagues. This associate—presumably also a staffer of The Darker Side (TDS), WHRB’s hip-hop department—wanted to make sure I was aware that Felton is the man to know when it comes to independent hip-hop, citing the fact that Felton’s cell phone contains the contact numbers of several Boston-area hip-hop artists...
...drum kit. There actually were, but...Harvard couldn’t point me to them.” Instead, Hufstedler decided to create a community for musicians who did not play “Harvard traditional fare.” She joined Record Hospital, the underground rock department of WHRB, and focused on playing alternative music and female artists. It was through radio that Hufstedler joined Plan B for the Type As, Harvard’s only non-boy punk band, with fellow radio compers Amy R. Klein ’07, the founder of the band, and Irene...
...radio station—and all the shenanigans were organized by Harvard arts magazine Present! and funded by the Drug and Alcohol Peer Advisor program. Over 100 students gathered at 9:30 p.m. in the Adams House Courtyard, where they received handheld radios and tuned into 95.3 WHRB-FM, Harvard’s student-run station. Serene classical soon gave way to a lively dance beat, at which point headphone-sporting students cheered and ran down the streets dancing, receiving directions on where to go over their headphones. The dancers got it on everywhere from the John Harvard statue...
...Harvard’s alternative crowd grooving in silence in various places around the Square on Friday night, don’t worry: it doesn’t (necessarily) mean that you’re wasted. Building on the original Dance Conspiracy of two years ago, WHRB will pass out portable radios and start blasting sweet tuneskies over the airwaves on 95.3 FM. This is the dance party that can “go anywhere,” so be prepared to shake your groove thing all over campus. Remember to bring your own headphones...
FRIDAY A birthday party was held in Quincy for Jon Q. Macmillan ’08, not to be confused with Quincy Resident Tutor John C. McMillian. At WHRB headquarters in the basement of Pennypacker, the indie crowd mourned the loss of Reese & Ryan’s golden marriage with plenty of slam-dancing and skanking...or whatever that kind of awkward “dancing” that usually happens when one is drunk and listening to the Clash is called. FM suspects the lack of parties on Friday night was because everyone was out watching the Borat movie...