"The Velvet Room"'s own Randy Ferguson has written a heartfelt album analysis of Prince's album "Sign 'O' The Times" which was released 30 years ago. Here is the link to read the article! http://www.bandedbox.com/2017/03/sign-times-30-years-later/

by Trevor Christian

Texas seems to be working for Whitney Rose. Before writing and recording her latest EP, South Texas Suite, the Canadian country songstress moved from her native Canada to Austin, a city that seems more suited to her brand of music.

Her brand of music has moved closer to Austin, too. Her last album, which was produced by Raul Malo, leaned as heavily on vintage pop as it did traditional country. This time around, the pop is almost gone. Rose explained that her year and a half in Texas had more of an effect on her that just a chance to experience some warmer weather.

“It’s probably a reflection of living in Austin for the last little while,” Rose said of her sound during an interview for Country Pocket.

Rose’s lyrics have also been heavily influenced by her time in Texas. “Lookin’ Back on Luckenbach” plays on the name of a quirky town famous for its dance hall in order to wax nostalgic. “Three Minute Love Affair” is also based on something uniquely Texan.

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The course includes a one-hour weekly tech training which is hands-on in one of our studios in the Stony Brook University Student Union and one longer classroom session that goes over FCC and station policies and protocols. Trainees are also paired with a seasoned DJ who can give them a taste of what it is like to program a show on the air.
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At 7:30pm tonight, WUSB will be broadcasting a talk by Michael Rezendes. Full details below:

The SOJ’s next speaker in its My Life As series is the journalist Michael Rezendes. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and political writer for The Boston Globe. Since joining the Globe he has covered presidential, state and local politics, and was a weekly essayist, roving national correspondent, city hall bureau chief, and the deputy editor for national news.

For more than a decade Rezendes has also been a member of the Globe’s Spotlight Team, where he shared a 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for investigating and reporting the cover-up of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. For his reporting and writing on the Church, he also shared the George Polk Award for National Reporting, the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting, the Selden Ring Award for Investigative Reporting, and numerous other honors.