• Escape from Chicago

    WVKR is proud to present the world premiere EP from Chicago scenestars Yawn.     Don’t let the name confuse you, Yawn’s self-titled EP has plenty of adrenaline staunching beats to set your night spinning at high RPM’s.  The sound is eclectic, mixing West African guitar clefs, junky world loops, sparkling keyboard delays and concussive… Read more

  • 9/15

    Top 30 1    SUBLAMP    Breathletters    Dragon’s Eye 2    GANGLIANS     Monster Head Room    Woodsist 3    THE PINX    Look What You Made Me Do    Not Lame 4    THROW ME THE STATUE    Creaturesque    Secretly Canadian 5    YPPAH    They Know What Ghost Know    Ninja Tune 6    THE CLEAN    Mister Pop    Merge 7    TALBOT TAGORA    Lessons In The Woods… Read more

  • Thanks

      Thanks to all our devoted listeners for stepping up this week and making independent radio possible.  Would it be weird if we said that we love you :) Read more

  • WVKR Live Sets

    Finishing up our “live sets” special pledge week series is an LP length recording of Real Estate: Courtesy www.myspace.com/letsrockthebeach Real Estate’s  ballads sound as if they might have been composed by a piece of littoral driftwood staring off into the sunset.  Perhaps a fitting metaphor considering their lyrics often speak tenderly to the wistful displacement… Read more