WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

New Jersey's Only Radio Station

WPRB is a community-supported, freeform radio station. Our FM signal (103.3) serves central New Jersey, Philadelphia, eastern PA and the northern tip of Delaware. We reach a global audience at wprb.com.

Circuits

Jul 14, 2026 7:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Music

Freeform radio for creative weirdos and deskbound dreamers. A sonic one-stop for Acid Dub, Beardo Bhangra, Micro-Folk Turntablism, Krautdrone, Cambodian Synthwave, Glam Pop, Art-Damaged Metal, Electro-Stoner Jazz, Proto Soul-Punk, DIY Hip-Hop, Psychedelic EDM, Minimalist Power Violence, Pre-Hipster NYC Weirdcore, and Afro-Hillbilly Futurism. Up and down this goddam dial since 1992.

Here is my DJ Bio.

I've quit all the corporate shitbro social media, but I'm on Mastodon if you want to follow me there.

Skulking Around Town

Change is in the air at WPRB. As I sit here at my desk in the Barge (WPRB’s off-campus satellite studio, where many of us have been siloed for the last few years), I marvel at the challenges we’ve had to endure in recent memory: a major tech meltdown at our transmitter site, the planet shatteringly-loud construction of a giant apartment building right next door, a crushing heat wave that’s forever threatening our fragile broadcast equipment. And did you really think I was going to skip over that whole global pandemic thing? Any of those events might be enough to make another organization pack up and quit, but our thickheaded determination is the stuff of legend.

These problems are not eternal. History teaches us that things often stay the same for a long time, and then change radically all of a sudden. Right now is one of those times at WPRB. The station is at a crossroads of identity and purpose, and we’re setting our sights on a much more ambitious future that will free us from the shackles of circumstance. WPRB can no longer be a place where the outside world happens to us—we need to write our own ticket for the future we want, together.

And to see that future realized, we’re facing the biggest hill we’ve ever had to climb: WPRB is looking to buy a new space to call its forever home. The once-quirky notion of operating a radio station split across a campus and community space has hit the end of its life cycle, and with new University policies preventing us from restoring the kind of shared accessibility we enjoyed for decades, WPRB is going fully independent by actively seeking a 3500+ sq foot commercial space near downtown Princeton. This isn’t a goal for which we expect a solution to fall out of the sky without any effort, so to that end, I hope we’ll be seeing you at some of the public events we’re lining up in the coming months. I’m talking record store DJ nights, Sun Ra Arkestra gigs, local arts events... Heck, we might show up at your stoop sale to play the new Alien Nosejob record and spread the word of these lofty ambitions. (Please consider that a threat.)

We’re also interested in hearing from you, the dedicated members of WPRB’s donor base. Do you have connections with a commercial real estate broker who’s worked with non-profits? Do you have a relative who’s selling property in or near Princeton that they swore a blood oath to never see converted into ugly condos? Time and time again, I have been astonished by what’s possible when WPRB rallies its troops and simply ASKS. Please send any hot tips to mike@wprb.com, and thank you for keeping us in your hearts. Stay hydrated.

-Mike Lupica

WPRB Executive Director

7:01 AM		Kira Roessler Jim N Enigma 2026
7:05 AM		King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Shanghai (feat. Scientist) Butterfly 3001 2022
7:09 AM		The Budos Band Long in the Tooth Long in the Tooth 2020
7:13 AM		Muwha Tienes Algo de Eso N Tiene un Espejo 2026
7:15 AM		Joseph Kamaru Twathiaga Tukenete N Further Combinations (Remastered) - EP 2026 Recorded 1986
7:19 AM		The Flirtations How Can You Tell? 7" 1969
7:22 AM		Bush Tetras Cutting Floor Rhythm and Paranoia: The Best of Bush Tetras 2021
7:26 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
7:30 AM		The Slits FM Cut 1979
7:34 AM		The Harry J All Stars Liquidator Liquidator 1969
7:36 AM		Umut Adan Khayyam N Başka Bahar 2026
7:40 AM		Silver Jews The Poor, the Fair, and the Good Tanglewood Numbers 2005
7:44 AM		Florry Waiting Around to Provide N Sounds Like... 2026
7:48 AM		Bee Gees Marley Purt Drive Odessa 1969
7:52 AM		Sweet Knives Fruitcake Spritzerita 2022
7:55 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:01 AM		Preston Epps Bongo Rock 7" 1959
8:03 AM		Suburban Speed Jesus Leash N Concrete Rock 2026
8:07 AM		The Gruesome Twosome I Am the Light Candy from Strangers 1993
8:11 AM		Rosko Peace Maker 7" 1973
8:14 AM		L’Rain Borderline N Fata Morgana 2026
8:18 AM		Die Shadocks Disco-Liebe N Sowas von Egal 3 (German Synth Wave Underground 1981-1986) 2026
8:21 AM		Anton Maiden Run To The Hills Anton Maiden 1998
8:24 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:29 AM		Death of Samantha Coca Cola & Licorice Strungout On Jargon 1985
8:32 AM		Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Who Do You Think You're Fooling? Diddy Wah Diddy EP 1971
8:36 AM		LEENALCHI Hihi Haha N Here Comes That Crow EP 2026
8:38 AM		Trá Pháidín An Béal Bocht N Cloch's Claí 2026
8:41 AM		Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Ohio 7" 1970
8:44 AM		Hackedepicciotto Zeitenwende N Lichtung 2026
8:48 AM		Blacksheep The Choice is Yours (Revisited) 12" 1991
8:52 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
8:58 AM		The Fall Das Katerer The Unutterable 2000
9:00 AM		Socalled Ich Bin a Border N Ghettoblaster 2026 Re-issue, orig. 2005
9:03 AM		Young Pioneers Downtown Tragedy Free The (Young) Pioneers Now! 1998
9:05 AM		Maťkovia Este N 1982-1986 2026
9:10 AM		Wussy Aliens in Our Midst What Heaven Is Like 2018 Twinkeyz cover
9:13 AM		The Chills Rolling Moon Kaleidoscope World 1986
9:17 AM		Tim Carroll Grandpa's Got the Marshall Out Again If I Could 2016
9:18 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
9:28 AM		Spectrum How You Satisfy Me Soul Kiss (Glide Devine) 1991
9:32 AM		Shirley Ellis The Clapping Song 7" 1965
9:35 AM		Captain Sensible It's Hard to Believe I'm Not A Day in the Life of Captain Sensible 1984
9:38 AM		Julia Jacklin I Was Neon PRE PLEASURE 2022
9:41 AM		Fishbone ? (Modern Industry) Fishbone - EP 1985
9:45 AM		TV on the Radio Wolf Like Me Return to Cookie Mountain 2006
9:50 AM		Shocking Blue Send Me a Postcard Scorpio's Dance 1970
9:52 AM		Hans Platzgumer Sunshine A Portion of Genuine HP Sauce 1989
9:56 AM		Pete Rock Fakin Jax Center of Attention 2003

Chat is archived.

Good morning, humans.

My Skull Wasn’t Around Town. TL;DR ☠️

I’m can has jokes. That’s a fascinating read.

We live in fascinating times.

Greetings & Salutations, DJ/ED MikeLupica

Hard to keep track of my roles here. I will be executive directing the records around the studio this morning. And then later on I will DJ my way through meetings with a commercial real estate broker and some French grad student who's researching community radio for her thesis.

🔀 fippity flop that please

There are no Princeton U buildings on adjacent properties to the campus to put WPRB?

It’s starting!! It’s STARTING!!

Greetings!

Salutations!

ENIGMA 🩶💗🤎

good morning. i hope the station can buy an empty radio shack for a studio and leave the signage alone on the storefront.

Good morning Mike and all.

Yes, Dale -- There's a dry cleaners in town with an old school sign which I would totally keep if we were to ever occupy that space.

@MrM, alas, we need to decouple from the U completely if we're going to see the future realized on our terms

Yeah. Can you elaborate?

Hi Mike and caffeinated people!

Hello everybody!

Because some of my other thoughts and questions are tied to the University.

The vinyl and CDs alone take up a lotta room.

Keep private whatever needs to be private.

MrM -- all shall be explained but it's too long and labyrinthine for a mic break. I am happy to jump on a call with you sometime (as I have with other listeners) to go into the nitty gritty.

Loving tuning in for my morning Circuits commute

Genuinely makes tuesdays a little less existentially terrible

@Pengy! Great to hear that -- I will now consider the day a success.

No problem. Appreciate you, DJ/ED MikeLupica

@Pengy, is your commute walking/driving/mass-transiting?

Call 8675309 for further info.

Ahaha

Also KL5- WPRB.

Eight SixSeven Five Three Oh Nihheeyeeine

Are all the details available in Morse Code??

THIS

Joyous, right?

Yes! …from which label?

Unrelated: Earlier this week, I decided that "playful" is the absolute worst adjective which people sometimes use to describe music. That's 20x worse than people who describe slowly gentrifying urban neighborhoods as "artsy" or "funky".

@ •ᎷяMΔᏞᏨØИᎢΞNᎢ•, probably, also ASCI character code.

@MrM: Disciples, outta London

* ASCII.

Indeed @Number6️⃣

as good as 'nothing but a heartache' yet i've never heard this one.

@Dale, it's the B-side!

@Mike I drive; almost an hour up 295 or 206 for a commute so WPRB is my main copilot.

@Pengy, right on -- glad to be your copilot.

6 is still six in octal and hexadecimal.

the purchaser of that 45 got their money's worth in toe tapping alone.

Is upgrading the user interface on the new Ex Dir agenda? He asked like a nonna with another helping.

I'm a huge advocate for developing better mass transit though. I think we as a state would be better if people danced in the streets more. Bring back whimsy!

Thanks for always being so Playful, Artsy & Funky @DJ/ED MikeLupica!

(sorry, had to find nickname - evil www) great ride into work this morning - excellent choice of tracks. THANK YOU.

Keep listening online, LiMoNa! There's 2.5 more hours where that came from!

@ pengy. Picturing Sing cast having epilepsy in my parking lot now

if nobody is in the office! :-)

MrM, if you keep up the DJ/ED thing, I will go back to calling you "Malc". I am, after all, a gentleman of a certain age.

LOL Alex

Hey, I would have chosen a different title for that exact reason. I’ll just stick with DJ cause I’m nasty.

Like Miss Jackson.

There it is 💃

also (and sorry most other wprb djs) love how you don't whisper your way into my life - it's wake up time (and LOTS of coffee)

BUSH TETRAS❣️

Bush tetras 4eva

always with the YELLING❣️

You people.

Solid as a Rock

THE SLITS 🩷

@LiMoNa, there is work to be done here. No sense in whispering when there are roofs to be climbed upon and unending vistas to shout into.

Ill take you there

@Alex, indeed

All respect to Pops Staple, but I still prefer the original texts.

Liquidator!

Hey hey all. Fun chat going along with excellent cuts!

Good morning Mike and everyone, we've been quietly listening though we are about to Do Things and disappear. Quite the news you dropped at the top of the playlist (and in yesterday's email)!

Imike- m in it for the dancing GI Joes

@BikeR glad you are here for the early morning shenannigans

Thanks @Rob. I am a big fan of Doing Things and Disappearing, but that is not on my dance card today. Enjoy wherever the day takes you!

I would be glad to give out more information, but I am not authorized to do so, and that would be telling.

Marley purt drive is a great song can't

100% Space Cowboy

Well done @DJ•Number6️⃣

Jose feliciano does a killer version

bee gees at their the band-est.

BEE GEES ❤️❤️❤️

Wow, I need to hear that!

Sounds a bit like The Band.

Good morning..glad to have the show as part of my Tuesday music rotation

Hey Carlos, glad to hear it!

This fruitcake is a great track

Worsh everything!

Krista's show yesterday had a lot of info about cyclospora!

This has been great. The Bee Gees was a really nice morning treat

@Mike Lupica, i will be sure to admire a view and if the moment calls for it, will yell into the void

All WPRB Listeners: Big Announcement from MikLupica after the 9 o’clock hour! Tune in! Listen up!

Bear with. Bear with. Bear with. 🐻🎶🎵🤎

No one can accuse me of using Spotify, that's fer sure.

Good now! 👍

Also, warsh yer rekkids!

If I remember correctly Bongo was the name of one of the band members who landed on gilligans island …The Mosquitoes

I’m more dead ☠️

Ya got that email recently... Great news for WPRB Mike!!! Good writeup there. Brickies and mortars! It is so time to cut that cord. Been a good time. But time to move onward.

Nothing wrong with old scratcy record s

Thanks Brian. I am ready to slash that cord with a machete.

I heart the Pop Snap & Crackle of vinyl❣️

Smash, slash, dash, mash, crash, haberdash that one cord (or jack?) that kept failing and putting one channel of the stereo into both left and right rendering any wide separated vocal tracks of yore into crazy karaoke moments.

I am totally fine with scratchy records. As with life, music is imperfect. No need to pretend otherwise.

I figure that if the artists wanted contamination on their music, they would release it that way.

Eumir Deodato's arrangement of Also Sprach Zarathustra gets a lot of mileage. Love that Rosko spoken word one.

@Brian, I remember that -- was actually an engineering misstep made by our engineer, but yeah, I remember an incredible Ink Spots karaoke moment on-air during that period.

Ya happened in the 2000s or 2010s. Then it happened again in the strange 2020-2023 Covey One Niner times. Thought I was hearing some Beatles bootleg with the backing tracks and not all the vocals put on there yet...

The one that really tested the listeners (station motto) was Velvet Undergroun's "The Gift". I heard it during 2 different channel fail eras. I think one time with just John Cale spoken word, no band. And one time with the band churning away, no vocals.

Oh wow, so in one reality Waldo Jeffers DOES get the last word!

I wonder if that was me, I used to play that song a lot.

Dan R played that one specifically during the 2020's era fail... maybe after they fixed it as an homage ya know. The old one yeah, could likely have been you

It’s all happening

This really is Playful Artsy & Funky. Oh bother.

Actually, a very few bands have added fake scratches to some of their songs.

Run to Hill. Run for life/

Rest in Power Anton Maiden.

JFC

Scratchy vinyl gives me the Willies.

But Number 6, Mike just gave the perfect reason for vinyl: "Records, like life, are imperfect and we should not pretend otherwise!"

I gave my reasoning prior, and stand by my viewpoint.:)

Switching to lurk mode. Looking forward to the missive. Thanks Mike.

Roger on that, Alex.

I consider myself a hoity toity audiophile, so there!

I'm in the clique.

Sorry for the slow playlist update there. This Leenalchi record deserves all the exposure I can offer.

Good on ya, DJ Number6! Cheers!

good morning mike & le pitcrew

Howdy Andrew.

Did my grad work at Kent -- the bullet hole is still there in a thick steel sculpture...

Doin good, DJ MikeLupica! 📻+🖥️❣️

No doubt, Bike R. Have a friend who was there when It Happened.

✊❣️

Neil makes me want a toilet paper, the neighborhood

@Mike Awful times then -- and happening again, though by a different name :(

Aye.

So much for the enlightened species assumption.

Q: What do you think of Western Civilization? A: I think it would be a good idea.

Here We GO

carol crow had a show devoted to hackedepicciotto could of weeks ago. alexander is always a hoot.

https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/166063

Or is it too much caffeine??? 🧐

Please consult a medical professional

Never enough caffeine @MrM

I’m sipping cold coffee rn af

listening and thought “this show is what makes wprb great” totally forgetting it was the god of radio Mike Lupica. I’m not worthy….

A potato 🥔

StitchingPinkDJ# knows great radio❣️ 👖💙 🪡🧵🖤

Microtonal Target

For the MikeMicBreak Announcement: Will WPRB get new call letters???

@mrm you listened! 🥰

@SP in the house!

Big cheers to you, DJ StitchingPink! 🖤💀

this one is Pure Moods 💞

Recurring Theme: 1️⃣9️⃣8️⃣6️⃣ 💝

Totally Tubular❣️

back to work. nice show Mike! 💖

Announcement after next song.

Thanks Pink!

Apparently on cannot pump ones fist in the air

And handle hazardous liquids at the same time.

OhNo

Hazardous?! ☣️ Interrobang ⁉️

PPE to the rescue MrM. Just solvents.

STAY SAFE, AlexFromMedia!

It was the Neil Young yer honor. Totally reflexive.

Thick as a brick.

Independence 4 ever!

Capitol campaign incoming?

Independence from the nostalgia trap!

Capital*

All DadRock was once really cool music

@Alex: Probably soon. We've got some work to do to get there

@ justin and the music that is cool now will eventually be dadrock

(i.e. finding a space, getting some organizational ducks in a row, etc.)

barge rock is the antidote to yacht rock.

Funny @Dale

The "I can't let go" riff.

Clap

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Too much direction here! - O. Welles

this is not playful. don’t get it confused. Clap 👏

Hambone, hambone what's the word. Hambone, hambone, have ya heard.

Clap 👏 Slap 👋

I can put my right arm over my left arm and still clap!

Pretzel! 🥨

Captain Sensibly singing in his accent. Points

What is the sound of one hand clapping?

I remembered it was Tuesday and was immediately rewarded with Julia Jacklin!

She has a new record out later this very year.

That would be fingerpopping time. And from what I hear, it is a really good sign.

Love this Julia Jacklin song

Ya this is a good memory of the 2020s WPRB playlists.

❓❗️

The Cuuuuuuuuuuuube.

DUBYA OH DUBYA DUBYA

I remember back in the day down the low end of the am dial i could catch morse code. Never figure out what was going on.

Did I miss the response to “For the MikeMicBreak Announcement: Will WPRB get new call letters???”❓❓❓⁉️⁉️⁉️

this GEM Rn aF 💎🎵🎶♥️

TV ON THE RADIO ♥️♥️♥️

‘Wolf Like Me’ ♥️♥️♥️

That’s Bonkerz @AlexFromMedia

COOOKIEEEE!!!! COOKIE!!! MOUNTAIN!!! Wow 20 years ago. Good one this'n

So we're just sprinting to the finish, eh?

Thanks for the show this morning Mike, glad to hear there's a roadmap for an even bigger future for the station. I'm all in.

Yes, just threw a seltzer at the wall. Now putting a traffic cone on my head.

SHOCKING BLUE 💙🩵💙

Thanks TAndy!

Fuzz. Geetar.

@MrM no new call letters. Still the ones you know and trust.

Thx for this great show! All in for the new station plans!

Thanks Bike!

Nifty! Big cheers to you, DJ MikeLupica!

Thanks Mike & long live WPRB!

Cheers Yvang!

We'll still be in Princeton or thereabouts.

Great Show! Many thanks & kind regards to you, DJ MikeLupica!

Thanks Mike. On board for the mission.

Thanks for another good hang, BCNU!

Cheers Mike! Onward & upward WPRB 4-evah

Good show there ML. Thanks

TY MIKE!!

Awesome show