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Everything you wanted to know about the people on the other side of the music... David – Program Director and Sunday Morning Over Easy Host Roo Radio started in the summer of 2004 when David decided he didn't want to get a summer job. The rest is history. David has programmed the station ever since, and played DJ for a number of airshifts. These days you can check him out as host of Sunday Morning Over Easy. In real life, David is a graduate student in history, a passable keyboardist, and an avid music geek. J. – Special Programming Producer and Tech Dude Since joining Roo in the fall of 2008, J. has become the tech handyman around the station. He handles any special on-air events, helps out with Sunday Morning Over Easy, and fixes the blog when David messes it up. In his spare time, he owns a production studio in Boston and dabbles in song-writing. |
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Cowboy Junkies
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The Trinity Session
Recorded in one session with one microphone in a Toronto church. The cover of "Sweet Jane" is a classic, as is "Misguided Angel." This is the album that guaranteed Margo Timmins and her haunting voice a lasting place in modern music.
R.E.M
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Automatic for the People
Hands down, in my opinion, R.E.M.'s best albums. "Man on the Moon" and "Nightswimming" bring back long adolescent drives. For fans of 80s R.E.M., there's "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight."
Counting Crows
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August and Everything After
These guys have lost some of their alt-rock credibility as the genre has moved more in the direction of heavy metal lite (and, I suppose, "Accidentally in Love" didn't help). But this is a classic. Beyond the big hits like "Mr. Jones" and "Round Here," there are lesser known songs that embody the original Crows sound: check out "Perfect Blue Buildings," "Anna Begins," and "A Murder of One."
Tori Amos
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Scarlet's Walk
This was the album we needed after 9/11. Not syrupy patriotism and revenge-filled insanity, but an honest album that took stock of early-21st century American life. We play "A Sorta Fairytale" and "Taxi Ride," but well worth checking out are "Crazy," "Mrs. Jesus," and "Another Girl's Paradise."
What About You?
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What are your desert island albums? Email us at rooradio@gmail.com or leave a message on the Roo Radio Blog.
The Official Roo Radio Site
The official blog. Check it out on-demand videos, music reviews, station news, and more.
Live365
Cool site with thousands of great stations. Assuming you want to find a different one (which you never would, right?).
FiveThirtyEight
Great political analysis.
WERS
At the risk of endorsing the competition, this is a great college radio station.
NPR
Needs no introduction.