Tune in to 88.1 FM WBGU Falcon Radio for this monthly radio series exploring the fascinating connections between popular music, culture, graphic design and history. Each episode takes a different theme and brings it to life through music, archival recordings and conversation.

WHAT YOU'LL HEAR

Each show features sound recordings from the BGSU Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives, spanning more than a century of popular music history. Hear rare and memorable recordings alongside context and commentary from the show's hosts. Each month features a new theme.

The series offers a unique way to explore the history of popular music while discovering recordings from one of North America's largest academic collections of popular music.

Suggest a theme or song

SHOW DATES AND THEMES
First Friday of every month! 

Oct. 2 | Bicycles pt. 2 🚲🚲

We're going to keep the bicycle parade rolling, continuing to talk about the bicycle in popular music from the 70s onward. Hear rare promotional versions of Queen and Kraftwerk songs, and even more songs that depict and describe the joys of cycling.

Nov. 6 | Día de los Muertos

Most often celebrated on the 1^st and 2^nd of November, Día de los Muertos is a Mexican holiday, celebrated also in Southwest America and across the US, where we come together to remember and celebrate our dead loved ones. This radio show will be both about the holiday, as well as the popular music habit of memorializing the dead in song.

Dec. 4 | TBA 

Jan. 1 | No show. (Happy New Year! 🎉)

Feb. 5 | TBA 

PAST SHOWS

Sept. 11 | Bicycles 🚲

With bicycles rolling across campus as students return for the semester, September's show takes a ride through the history of bicycles in popular music.

Hear featured recordings from 1852 through 2020 and discover how the bicycle became an enduring icon in popular music. 

YOUR LIVE FROM THE ARCHIVE HOSTS

Valerie Lines
Sound Archives Librarian
University Libraries
Contact Valerie

Peter Lusch
Assistant Teaching Professor, Graphic Design
School of Art
Contact Peter