Every Friday at 1pm Mike Lapitino plays 4 songs off a classic album from the past 50 years. This week we’re celebrating 2002 and we want you to pick the album! This week’s picks are: Audioslave – Audioslave Foo Fighters – One by One Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the Way Vote on Twitter at…
PLR is 50! All of 2021, we are celebrating our 50th Anniversary. Check out the PLR archives here and check out some of the station’s great history. Listen daily at 11am, 1pm, 5pm and 9pm as we highlight some of the great music from all 50 years. This week is 2002. Every day, we will dip into…
Some fun events this summer celebrating our PLR 50th! We’ve been loving our orders of circle stickers from Sticker Mule. Check them out!
Chaz talks to Bruce Barber, half of the legendary Smith and Barber Morning Show which was heard on WPLR from 1985 until January of 2003 (minus one year for a job at a station in Tampa). Bruce takes us through everything from his start in radio, what caused the show to come apart and what…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1978! That year PLR presented RUSH at New Haven Coliseum. Joining them in New Haven were fellow rockers Blue Oyster Cult. Rush hit the road in 1978 to support their fifth studio album “A Farewell To Kings,” which featured…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1978! Remember the old Shaboo Inn in Willimantic? The venue lasted a little over a decade and it closed its doors forever in May 1982. Before its closing, The Shaboo Inn was one of the premier concert venues in…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1978! That year PLR presented Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band at New Haven Coliseum. Springsteen hit the road in 1978 to support the “Darkness on the Edge of Town” album, which featured such hits as Prove It…
Every Friday at 1pm Mike Lapitino plays 4 songs off a classic album from the past 50 years. This week we’re celebrating 1978 and we want you to pick the album! This week’s picks are: Van Halen – Van Halen The Cars – The Cars Rolling Stones – Some Girls Vote on Twitter at 991PLRFM Visit…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1992! That year PLR welcomed the Steve Miller Band to New Haven Coliseum. This was Steve Miller’s first time playing at the Coliseum and his first time playing a show in New Haven since 1968’s performance at Yale’s Woolsey…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 1992! That year PLR welcomed RUSH with special guest Primus to New Haven Coliseum. RUSH hit the road in ’92 to support their fourteenth studio album “Roll The Bones,” which featured such singles as Dreamline, Ghost of a Chance,…