Tag: dj
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09: It’s 1987 Again, with 3 Teenage DJs from WIRQ Rochester
Dust off your boombox, pop open a cold Tab, and grab your can of Aqua-Net — we’re going back to Saturdays in 1987 at New Music 93 WIRQ, the new-wave station “serving the universe from the top of Irondequoit High School,” just outside Rochester. After 30+ years I’ve had the chance to catch up live…
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03: This Package Contains Evidence
A package arrives in the mail. Inside, it’s an old copy of the Rochester Times Union — a paper that no longer exists, with a story from 1987 about a small movement that no longer exists. It’s tangible proof that we, the freaks and geeks behind the mic at WIRQ, our high school radio station,…