05.30.13

WRUW IS NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR THIS YEAR'S STUDIO-A-RAMA!!!
Neal Dare Waves

WRUW is now accepting submissions from local and regional bands who wish to play this year's Studio-A-Rama.  The deadline to submit for this year's Studio-A-Rama is July 14th.  Seven to nine bands will be chosen to share the stage with a national headliner.  Recent headliners have included Cloud Nothings, A Place To Bury Strangers, The Black Angels, Mission of Burma, Guided By Voices, Enon, the New Bomb Turks, and Naked Raygun.

WRUW will review all submissions received by July 14 from local and regional bands who wish to play and have not participated in the past 4 years. All types of music will be considered, and musicians that have submitted music in the past, but weren't chosen to play, are encouraged to do so once again.

Interested bands should send a CD consisting of 3 or more songs to: WRUW-FM, Attention: Studio-A-Rama, 11220 Bellflower Road , Cleveland OH 44106.

Submissions should also include a band line-up (full names please) and bio, band photo, website address, and contact information. All submissions become the property of WRUW.  Questions can be sent via e-mail to studioarama@wruw.org.

Studio-A-Rama is WRUW's annual FREE, outdoor, day-long rock concert, and it's a great opportunity for local and regional bands to showcase their talent and have their music heard. This year's show will take place on Saturday in early to mid-September, just outside the WRUW studios on the campus of Case Western Reserve University .  WRUW is proud to simulcast Studio-A-Rama over its 15,000 watts air signal, as well as on the internet at www.wruw.org.

Since 1982, WRUW has staged this free annual concert designed to thank listeners for their ongoing support throughout the year, and especially during WRUW's annual telethon.  An enthusiastic audience response during the annual on-air fundraiser enables WRUW to continue hosting Studio-A-Rama as well as fund live webcasting and support local music and live music.  Studio-A-Rama is one part of WRUW-FM's commitment to broadcasting local bands live. The "Live From Cleveland" show broadcasts bands from the WRUW-FM studios every Thursday evening from 10 until 11pm, and WRUW also simulcasts numerous live music from events such as the Cleveland Museum of Art's "Summer Solstice, Weapons Of Mass Creation, and the Hessler Street Fair".

As always, Studio-A-Rama will take place in the Mather Memorial Courtyard outside the WRUW FM studios on the Case Western Reserve University Campus. The Mather Memorial Courtyard is located at the corner of Ford and Bellflower Roads, one block north of the Mayfield/Euclid intersection and one block east of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

05.19.13

Hessler Street Fair Tech Difficulties
Nick

WRUW is currently experiencing an internet outage. Therefore, the broadcast of the Hessler Street Fair is not going out over the air. The broadcast relies on the ability for the Internet to be working at the station.

08.24.12

CLOUD NOTHINGS w/ special guest DEATH OF SAMANTHA TO HEADLINE WRUW'S 31ST ANNUAL STUDIO-A-RAMA SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 8TH
Neal Dare Waves

Now in its 31^ST year, Studio-A-Rama is WRUW's annual FREE, outdoor, day-long rock concert.  This year's headliners are Cleveland's own Cloud Nothings. Hot off a hugely acclaimed album, "Attack on Memory", a performance on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon", and international touring and festival appearances, Cloud Nothings will headline this year's Studio-A-Rama. Led by Dylan Baldi (who performed at Studio-A-Rama in 2009 with Neon Tongues), and featuring members of local bands such as Swindlella, Mole People, and Spacer Ace, Cloud Nothings run the gamut from bright power-pop to abrasive, searing post-hardcore. Catch them in such an intimate local setting while you still can!

Since last year's "special guest" pre-headlining performance by Ohio's Scrawl was such a hit, we're featuring another historic Ohio band as this year's special guest - Cleveland's own Death of Samantha. A staple in the local circuit of the 1980s, Death of Samantha are back from a 22-year long hiatus. After a sellout Beachland Ballroom performance last December, and an appearance at this year's South By Southwest, Death of Samantha will be returning to Studio-A-Rama - it's been a long time coming.

Studio-A-Rama, WRUW's annual free, outdoor 10 hour rock show, is both a thank you to WRUW listeners and a testament to WRUW's commitment to live (and free) music.  The concert begins at 1:00PM in the Mather Memorial Courtyard (11220 Bellflower Rd., Cleveland OH, 44106), outside the studios of WRUW.  The full concert line-up is as follows:

1:00PM - The Lawton Brothers (rootsy guitar rock)

2:00PM - R. A. Washington and the Family Dollar (9-piece R&B outfit with rock influences)

3:00PM - Gossip Culture (electro synth suave rock)

4:00PM - Library Time (upbeat indie rock)

5:00PM - Pleasure Leftists (post-punk inspired leftist rock)

6:00PM - Village Bicycle (all female indie pop)

7:00PM - Dreadful Yawns (guitar rock)

8:00PM - Herzog Yawns (catchy power pop/rock)

9:00PM - Cleveland legends Death Of Samantha

10:30PM to Midnight - Headliners Cloud Nothings

The entire show shall be simulcast over 15,000 watts (Ohio's most powerful college radio station) on 91.1 FM, and also webcast around the world on www.wruw.org.

07.01.12

Fairport Harbor Celebration on August 19th
Neal Dare Waves

Mark your calendars because for the first time EVER, WRUW will be hosting a day of music from genres not normally found on our annual Studio-A-Rama ticket. That's right: we're talking about folk, bluegrass, polka, celtic, and that sweet, sweet jazz. And of course, we'll be giving it to you all for FREE.

The event will take place on August 19th from 1-5 p.m. at Fairport Harbor Lighthouse and Marine Museum, located at 301 Huntington Beach Dr. in Fairport Harbor, OH.

The event will feature Polka Revolution, Sheela and the Others, Seafair, and Fior Gael, all bands from Northeast Ohio who will be playing polka, country, bluegrass, and Irish music respectively.

Feel free to bring blankets, lawn chairs, and a picnic lunch, just please don't bring any glass bottles!

You can be sure of one thing this summer: WRUW is 45 and we're doing more than ever to celebrate our station and thank our listeners for almost half a century of beautiful music on the airwaves and streaming online. Join us for music and hotdogs, FOR FREE this August. We appreciate all of our diverse listeners!

01.24.12

WRUW FM turns 45 years old!
Rachel

Did you know that WRUW FM 91.1 signed on the air, broadcasting at 10 watts in mono sound back in February of 1967?

That's right... February is our birthday month here at WRUW and we have plenty to celebrate this year. Not that we need all that extra cake...

Learn more WRUW trivia here and keep up to date on the events and ways that you can participate in our 45th birthday year!