99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 2004! That year we saw YES hit the road to celebrate its 35th Anniversary. We were thrilled to welcome them to Connecticut, not once but TWICE! The band play at Mohegan Sun Arena on May 12, 2004 and then…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 2004! In 2004 we saw Van Halen hit the road for the first time since 1998 and saw the return of singer Sammy Hagar, who left the band in 1996 after differences with Eddie Van Halen. The band was…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 2004! By 2004 there weren’t many options for concerts in New Haven. The Coliseum closed two years earlier and the old Palace Theater on College Street was boarded up. Sure clubs like Café Nine, Rudy’s and BAR were bringing…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating another great year in our history: 2004. WPLR and The Grateful Dead have had a long history together. From the shows at New Haven Coliseum and Yale Bowl right up until Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995, we have been grooving with our fellow Deadheads all…
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 2004. Every day, we will dip into…
Every Friday at 1pm Mike Lapitino plays 4 songs off a classic album from the past 50 years. This week we’re celebrating 2004 and we want you to pick the album! This week’s picks are: Green Day – American Idiot U2 – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb Velvet Revolver – Contraband Vote on Twitter at…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating our ninth year on the air: 1980. Remember the old Pinecrest in Shelton? Sadly the venue no longer exists, but before its closing, many of classic rock’s greatest bands played there. Acts like The Allman Brothers Band, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Journey, Chicago, Meatloaf,…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating our ninth year on the air: 1980! That year Queen came to Connecticut and rocked Hartford’s XL Center (then called the Hartford Civic Center). Queen was supporting its eighth studio album, “The Game,” which featured hit songs “Another One Bites The Dust” (which Queen played…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating our ninth year on the air: 1980. Today we look back at one of the biggest concerts to ever come to Connecticut: Eagles with special guest Heart and Little River Band at Yale Bowl in 1980. Nearly 68,000 people came to The Bowl on a…
99.1 PLR celebrates 50 years! This week we are celebrating our ninth year on the air: 1980! WPLR’s studio at the time was on Chapel Street, which was a short drive to New Haven Coliseum. WPLR and The Coliseum had a long history of presenting some of the biggest rock acts to New Haven. In…