On this special back-to-school episode of Music In Time, host Evan McCormick unearths the story of CUTS--Columbia University Tunes and Stuff--a compilation album of undergraduate student bands released in 1984. To tell the story, Evan tracked down Tom Oritt, the student who spent his senior year putting the compilation together, from arranging funding via the student activities fee to generating interest from student acts, overseeing production of the album's 950 copies to arranging the release show at Barnard College's McIntosh Hall. Now 40 years later, Oritt and McCormick discuss the music scene in Morningside Heights in the early 1980s--on campus and even in the tunnels underneath (listen for the story). It's a love letter college rock, sonic creativity, and the possibilities that abound in university scenes.

...all for the inflation-beating price of $2.50!

Featuring choice "CUTS":
1. Token Entry - Listless
2. Boss Tweed - Needless to Say
3. Charlotte's Web - It's Not The Money, Man
4. Leap of Faith - Garden Room
5. The Rave-Ups - Pretty Face
6. The M-1 Alternative - Trapped In My Own Shadow
7. Quiche - Answer Man
8. Jeremy - Love Time

The "WGXC Morning Show" features local news, interviews with community leaders and personalities, a rundown of local and regional events, weather updates, and more about and for the community. The show is a place for a community conversation about issues, with music, and more. Saturday the emphasis is more on radio art, and art on the radio. Unlike shows by individual programmers on the station, the "WGXC Morning Show" is considered partially station-run. Tune in for local news, interviews with community leaders and personalities, reports on cultural issues, a rundown of public meetings and local and regional events, with weather updates, and more about and for the community, made mostly through volunteers in the community through WGXC.

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Tune in for previews of upcoming interesting events in the Hudson Valley with "The Month Ahead with Chosen Family Zine" from Mike Amari, an event organizer for Opus 40, Basilica, and others; and Liam Singer; the owner of The Avalon Lounge in Catskill, NY and a member of Wave Farm's Board of Directors. And for previews of agriculture-related events, tune in "The Month Ahead at Cornell Cooperative Extension with Deven Connolly."

Also featured are movie updates from Jenny Ghetti and Amanda Lees from their show "Dim The Lights" as well as interviews by hosts of the "WGXC Afternoon Show," Justin Maiman from his "Ginger Radio Hour," and other WGXC shows.

Philip Grant and Tom Roe bring you the weekly "WGXC Congressional Report," with reports about the representatives and candidates of New York's 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st Congressional Districts on Mondays, and Tom Roe also cuts up local and national news with songs and sounds for the show.

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