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Friday nights on WBOM are getting edgier.

Is “edgier” a word?

We don’t care.

It’s that kind of in-your-face attitude that you can find with Stu Patterson’s new show, Cafe Zed. He plays punk music, but – as he puts it – “only the good stuff”.

Starting with the sixties proto-punk of The Stooges and MC5, Cafe Zed plays the classics from the likes of the Sex Pistols and The Jam, the lesser-known but no-less-respected bands like Nomeansno and Pegboy, and much much more from the last six decades.

You can tune in and rock out to Cafe Zed Friday nights at 10:00.

If you’d like to request a song, you can e-mail radio.wbom@gmail.com, but – be warned – it better be a pretty f^&*ing good one (Air Supply need not apply).

WBOM plays music primarily in English throughout the day, but our new show – Lingua Franca – features the best music from around the world.

We’ve been having a lot of fun programming the show and we are trying to add music in as many languages as possible. So far, the playlist includes music in Albanian, Arabic, Ashanti, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Pinoy, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sami, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, and Zulu. It’s interesting to hear the “hit” sounds from around the world. We’ve also been surprised to discover familiar songs in English in other languages – whether they originated in another language or were covered later.

Tune into Lingua Franca Saturday and Sunday nights around 8 pm – immediately after The Inner Groove on Saturday, and Performance on Sunday.

If you have a song you’d like us to add to the mix, let us know about it. Email us at radio.wbom@gmail.com with the language it is in.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the last two months of the MPAC season were canceled, and financial pressures forced the Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center to put two of its buildings up for sale.  One of the buildings was 406 N. Main Street, where the WBOM studios were located. 

Over the last two months, WBOM has been moving to its new studio located in the Starr Center (415 N. Church Street).  The move has been difficult – both physically and emotionally – but it is now complete.  The new studio is now up and running.

WBOM began at 406 N. Main Street as a pair of empty rooms.  It completed its run there as four studios, filled with equipment and many, many memories.  The new studio – named “Studio V” to celebrate and continue the legacy from the old building – has the equipment now.  New memories will be forthcoming.