From director Bobbi Jo Hart (REBELS ON POINTE), FANNY: THE RIGHT TO ROCK, winner of the Rogers Audience Choice Award at Hot Docs, charts the group’s formation, their rise, fall, and more recent reformation 50 years after their founding with a new album release, and covers the misogyny, bigotry and other roadblocks they faced along the way. Featuring incredible archival footage of the band's rocking past intercut with its next chapter releasing a new LP today, the film includes interviews with a large cadre of music icons, including Def Leppard's Joe Elliott, Bonnie Raitt, The Go-Go's Kathy Valentine, Todd Rundgren, The Runaways' Cherie Currie, Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian, The B52's Kate Pierson, Charles Neville and David Bowie guitarist and bassist Earl Slick and Gail Ann Dorsey. Fighting early barriers of race, gender and sexuality in the music industry, and now ageism, the incredible women of Fanny are ready to claim their hallowed place in the halls of rock 'n' roll fame.

The program airs Thursday, June 2 from 6-8 PM.

a-ha THE MOVIE director, Thomas Robsahm, Up Next on Tom Needham’s SOUNDS OF FILM

The film was a recent selection at the Port Jefferson Documentary Series.

Celebrate WUSB's 45th anniversary with us. 

Wednesday, June 29th. 

WUSB TRIBUTE CONCERT

To attend any of the events and make a donation, please email Isobel at WUSBdonations@stonybrook.edu or call 631-632-6828.

Staller Center Recital Hall | *8pm

Join us for a WUSB benefit concert, featuring national recording artists and touring musicians who have supported WUSB throughout its history!

*VIP tickets include a pre-show reception at 7pm with guest musicians!

Full list of Musicians:

Performers:

Ahmad Ali*
Bill Lifford
Bryan Gallo
Buddy Merriam*
Cassandra House
Claudia Jacobs
Danny Miranda of Blue Oyster Cult
Jack Licitra
Jules Radino of Blue Oyster Cult
Kerry Kearney
Mario Staiano*
Mark Carpentieri
Mary Lamont
Miles To Dayton
Pete Mancini
Quarter Horse
Randy Jackson
Rorie Kelly

*current WUSB DJ.

Monday, June 27th

ON-AIR ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL

All Day

Reminisce with us as we share our original 1977 broadcast, as well as an interview with founding General Manager, Norman Prusslin. We will also feature music, sports and historic specials all day long. Listen online at www.wusb.fm or live on 90.1FM and 107.3FM

Sunday, June 26th

ANNIVERSARY BRUNCH CELEBRATION

Stony Brook Union ballroom | 11:30am

Help us celebrate 45 years of radio broadcasting! A delicious brunch reception, awards and service recognitions, music, prizes and more! Check out our original stomping grounds in the Union and connect with WUSB team members, old and new. 

Saturday, June 25th

WUSB STUDIO TOURS

1pm until 6pm 

Light refreshments and a tour of our new radio home in West Side Dining. Hosted by WUSB volunteer staff. To request visit at a specific time, contact us at WUSBdonations@stonybrook.edu or (631) 632-6828

Friday, June 24th

SHOW + OPEN MIC

Katie's Smithtown | Doors open at 8pm

A night of music and mingling with WUSB DJ's and live bands, featuring Aqua Cherry , hosted by Jackie and the Equilibrium Radio Show. Step out of the train and into Katie's backyard! 

To attend any of the events and make a donation, please email Isobel at WUSBdonations@stonybrook.edu or call 631-632-6828.

 

In his newest film, Dinesh D'Souza takes the audience on a fascinating journey deep into the 2020 election. Although courts have never found any evidence of massive voter fraud, the film alleges that there was widespread illegal vote harvesting under the guise of "increased voter access," ultimately changing the course of the election.

The program airs Thursday, May 12 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

WUSB FM Live at Staller Center in the Recital Hall WUSB 45th Anniversary Concert Sophisticated Interpretations Songs that Shaped the Sound of College Radio 1977-2022.

To reserve a seat and make a donation, please email Isobel at WUSBdonations@stonybrook.edu or call 631-632-6828.

Performers:

Ahmad Ali*
Bill Lifford
Bryan Gallo
Buddy Merriam*
Cassandra House
Claudia Jacobs
Danny Miranda of Blue Oyster Cult
Jack Licitra
Jules Radino of Blue Oyster Cult
Kerry Kearney
Mario Staiano*
Mark Carpentieri
Mary Lamont
Miles To Dayton
Pete Mancini
Quarter Horse
Randy Jackson
Rorie Kelly

*current WUSB DJ.

Director Raquel Cepeda & Activist Lorine Padilla Talk Showtime’s LA MADRINA: THE SAVAGE LIFE OF LORINE PADILLA on Tom Needham’s SOUNDS OF FILM.

Tune in on Thursday, April 28 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

Please Give Now Any Tax Deductible Amount helps keep WUSB on the air for another year !

https://tinyurl.com/WUSB22 Donate Directly here right now please.

And feel free to call us at 631-632-6901
or

email WUSBdonations@stonybrook.edu

Thank you !

THE AUTOMAT Director Lisa Hurwitz Up Next on Tom Needham’s SOUNDS OF FILM

It is on Thursday, April 21, 6-8 PM.

CYPRESS HILL: INSANE IN THE BRAIN director Estevan Oriol was on Tom Needham's SOUNDS OF FILM on Thursday, April 14.

The SOUNDS OF FILM program airs every Thursday from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM.

A Note from Emmanuel Goldstein of Off The Wall

Kyle and I are filling in for Finn and we put together a special on the proposed Gyrodyne project, right next door to campus.

Gyrodyne is adjacent to the Stony Brook Research and Development Park and they want to build a hotel, nursing home, and all kinds of other things on the land which is now mostly open space.

It will be a traffic nightmare as well as a devastating blow to preservation of open space in the area.

We'll have experts from a recent Town of Smithtown planning board hearing where a number of people from the neighborhood spoke out against this. For the second hour we'll have some live interviews with some of the people trying to stop this project.

Among the opponents are the mayor of Head of the Harbor Douglas Dahlgard, New York State Representative Stave Englebright, and Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine.