WPKN Gold Sounds
WPKN Gold Sounds
Podcast Description
WPKN Gold Sounds is a video performance and audio broadcast series featuring global and local talent. Artists and bands perform several songs in the Bridgeport, CT WPKN studios, and are interviewed about their formation, influences, process, and overall approach. The series features emerging and established acts; digging deep into musical artistry.
WPKN Bridgeport at 89.5FM, streaming worldwide at wpkn.org is a 10,000 watt community radio powerhouse entertaining and informing the audiences for 60+ years, cited by The New Yorker as "the greatest radio station in the world," (David Owen, 2021).
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The series delves into musical artistry, showcasing both emerging and established acts, with episodes focusing on topics such as artists' formation, influences, writing processes, and creativity, featuring examples like the acoustic performance and interview with New Haven band Wally.
WPKN Gold Sounds is a video performance and audio broadcast series featuring global and local talent. Artists and bands perform several songs in the Bridgeport, CT WPKN studios, and are interviewed about their formation, influences, process, and overall approach. The series features emerging and established acts; digging deep into musical artistry.
WPKN Bridgeport at 89.5FM, streaming worldwide at wpkn.org is a 10,000 watt community radio powerhouse entertaining and informing the audiences for 60+ years, cited by The New Yorker as “the greatest radio station in the world,” (David Owen, 2021).
Welcome to the debut WPKN GOLD SOUNDS broadcast element, featured here in podcast form. New Haven band Wally, featuring brothers Teo and Lucas Hernandez and lifelong friend Alex Blair, perform in an acoustic trio version of the group, offering original songs like: “Mesmerism,” “Settled,” “We Laughed,” “Golden,” and Neil Young’s “Tell Me Why,” among others. With WPKN’s Brendan Toller, the band also discusses formation, evolution, influences, writing process, and creativity in this debut deep-dive Gold Sounds broadcast and podcast.
GOLD SOUNDS, is a new pilot series of live in-studio video and broadcast sessions, elevating and showcasing Connecticut/tri-state artists and global acts.
Artists and bands perform at WPKN’s Bridgeport Studios, captured on video via Black Rock’s Kicker Pictures, and multi-track recorded by Chris Ruggiero (Preservation Sound), and assistant engineer (and recent intern) Chris Miller. Video sessions are typically 10-20 minutes, paired with a 55-minute broadcast featuring the performance tracks, lead by a band interview focusing on formation, influences, craft etc.
Catch the Wally video session here.
WALLY’s, music is available on all streaming platforms, including Bandcamp:
https://wallymusicusa.bandcamp.com/
Instagram: @wallymusicusa
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