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WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

The New Abnormal

Jun 19, 2026 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Music

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Exploring multiple facets of jazz-adjacent prog-rock, edgy fusion, Canterbury, Zeuhl, Rock-In-Opposition, avant-prog, Rock Progressivo Italiano, world music, ambient, anything virtuosic.

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The New Abnormal
8:47 AM
Parliament - Chocolate City
Parliament Chocolate City
Chocolate City Def Jam West 1975

Funkadelic's sister band, also led by George Clinton

8:40 AM
Funkadelic - Funk Gets Stronger, Pt. 1
Funkadelic Funk Gets Stronger, Pt. 1
The Electric Spanking of War Babies Warner Bros. 1981

Psychedelic funk band from the 1970s, led by George Clinton

8:38 AM
James Brown - Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud
James Brown Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud
Foundations of Funk: A Brand New Bag: 1964-1969 Universal Records 1996

singer, songwriter, and musician (1933-2006)

8:36 AM
Flying Lotus - Thank U Malcolm
Flying Lotus Thank U Malcolm
Flamagra Warp Records 2019

Flying Lotus is Steven Ellison, an experimental multi-genre music producer, DJ, and laptop musician from Winnetka, California.

8:31 AM
Earth, Wind & Fire - Ain't No Harm to Moan (Slave Song) [Bonus Track]
Earth, Wind & Fire Ain't No Harm to Moan (Slave Song) [Bonus Track]
Open Our Eyes (Bonus Tracks Edition) Columbia/Legacy 1974

American soul & funk band, founded in Chicago, Illinois, in 1970

8:28 AM
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8:22 AM
Miles Davis - Water Babies
Miles Davis Water Babies
Water Babies Columbia/Legacy 1976

Recorded during 1967-68, but not released until 1976.

8:21 AM
L'Rain - What's That Song?
L'Rain What's That Song?
I Killed Your Dog Mexican Summer 2023

Taja Cheek, known professionally as L'Rain, is an experimentalist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, vocalist and songwriter. Born in Brooklyn, she attended Yale and worked as music director of radio station WYBC.

https://lrain.bandcamp.com/album/i-killed-your-dog

8:13 AM
McCoy Tyner - Fly With the Wind
McCoy Tyner Fly With the Wind
Fly With the Wind Milestone 1976
McCoy Tyner (1938-2020) was a pianist, composer, and band leader, born in Philadelphia.
8:03 AM
Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto - Eternal Worlds - Epilogue
Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto Eternal Worlds - Epilogue
Love, Love ECM Records 1974
Julian Priester, born in Chicago in 1935, is a trombonist that has played with Sun Ra, Max Roach, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock among others. An in-demand session musician, he spent most of his career touring and recording with other artists.
8:00 AM
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7:58 AM
Flying Lotus - The Protest
Flying Lotus The Protest
You're Dead! Warp Records 2014
Flying Lotus is an experimental multi-genre music producer, DJ, and laptop musician from Winnetka, California. His great aunt is Alice Coltrane.

https://flyinglotus.bandcamp.com/album/youre-dead

7:49 AM
Gregory Porter - Wisdom
Gregory Porter Wisdom
Water Universal Music Division Decca Records France 2010
Jazz vocalist Gregory Porter was born in Sacramento CA on 4 November 1971.this is his debut release.

https://gregoryporter.bandcamp.com/album/water

7:39 AM
Herbie Hancock - You'll Know When You Get There
Herbie Hancock You'll Know When You Get There
Mwandishi Rhino/Warner Records 1970
Jazz pianist born in Chicago in 1940.
7:34 AM
Gil Scott-Heron - The Needle's Eye
Gil Scott-Heron The Needle's Eye
Pieces of a Man Ace Records 1971
US singer, spoken-word, activist and author (1949-2011)
7:30 AM
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Juneteenth National Independence Day is celebrated annually on June 19th to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States. It was on June 19th 1865 that Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation (signed January 1863!) in Texas at the end of the Civil War.

7:20 AM
Markus Reuter - Melomania
Markus Reuter Melomania
Truce 2 Markus Reuter 2022
Markus Reuter is a prolific German guitarist born in 1972. Besides his collaborations, he creates loop-based ambient/abstract works using his touch-guitar.

https://markus-reuter-moonjune.bandcamp.com/album/truce-2

7:14 AM
Vespero - Crabs Ashore
Vespero Crabs Ashore
Rito VMS 2007

"Веспер" is a Russian psychedelic/space rock band formed in early 2003 in Astrakhan, South Russia.

https://vespero.bandcamp.com/music

7:09 AM
Jon Hassell - Moons of Titan
Jon Hassell Moons of Titan
Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume Two) Ndeya 2020
Jon Hassell (1937-2021) was the creator of a style of music he described as Fourth World, a mysterious, unique hybrid of music both ancient and digital, composed and improvised, Eastern and Western. This was his final release.
7:07 AM
emer & Ugnė Uma - Perfect Strangers
emer & Ugnė Uma Perfect Strangers N
you and me Stroom 2026

Marija Rasa aka emer and Ugnė Uma are originally from Lithuania. New LP to be released July 7th.

https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/you-and-me

7:04 AM
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7:02 AM
Boards of Canada - Memory Death
Boards of Canada Memory Death N
Inferno Warp Records 2026

Electronic music duo from Edinburgh, Scotland.

https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/album/inferno