WHFR News
This Just In: Episode 50
Episode 50 of This Just In, WHFR's pre-recorded new music showcase, airs June 16th, 2025 from 8-9pm and June 17th, 2025 from 3-4pm.
This week's playlist:
Tangents - Forge [Experimental Rock]
YME - Game Boy [Electronic]
Theo Evan - Shh [Trance / World]
Overdrive Orchestra - Written In Sand [Local Prog / Hard Rock]
Ko're - Shaye [Afro Beat / World]
Paper Lady - Silt [Dream Pop / Indie Rock]
Sofi Tukker & Seu Jorge - Bread (butter version) [Bossa Nova / World]
Verraco - Total [Electronic]
GrayBeat ft. Hookdiggy - Diamond Mic [Electronic / Hip Hop]
Delphine ft. Kubix - Patience [Roots / Reggae]
elbow - Timber [Art Rock / Indie Rock]
54 Ultra - No Tengo Valor [Alternative Indie / World]
Adrian Quesada & Hermanos Gutiérrez - Primos [Alternative Indie / World]
Noiseheads - Hey [Garage Rock / Grunge]
Rodney Block ft. Roosevelt Deshawn Harris & Thememusiq - 1X/OneTime [R&B]
Tune in to This Just In each week as we feature a unique playlist of music recently received at the station, in a variety of musical formats.
To submit your music for airplay consideration, please visit the Contact Us tab on our website: https://whfr.fm.
"WHFR PRESENTS": Spotlight On Strata East Records PART THREE
WHFR PRESENTS will conclude its feature on the legendary independent record label, STRATA EAST, with a three-hour feature of their jazz recordings from the mid '70s and into the '80s. More music from the founders Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell as well as the Heath Brothers and the Brass Company (which included Detroit's own Bernard McKinney aka Kiane Zwadi).
Tune in this Sunday, June 15, from 4:00-7:00pm EDT as we conclude our exploration of music from the STRATA EAST label that has now been remastered and reissued by Detroit's Mack Avenue Records. The program can be heard locally (Dearborn/Detroit) on 89.3 fm and worldwide via the internet at whfr.fm.
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WHFR PRESENTS airs every Sunday beginning (usually) at 4:00 pm with a rotating cast of WHFR DJs, taking in-depth looks into the many genres of music that WHFR has to offer. Tune in at 89.3 on the FM dial in Dearborn/Detroit and surrounding communities, or listen anywhere via our online streamer.
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WHFR Journal Special Juneteenth Program - Friday, 6/13/25 at 1pm
Join us on tomorrow's WHFR Journal when we share a fun debrief of Pawchella 2025. We'll also share a special PRX program from the series I SEE YOU on Juneteenth, which originally aired July, 2022. Many view Juneteenth as a celebration for those slaves in Texas who finally received word on June 19th, 1865, that they were free. In 2021, Juneteenth was made a national holiday. Some scholars are now questioning that move. Host Eddie Robinson chats with the woman who was the driving force behind Juneteenth becoming a national holiday, Miss Opal Lee, and more.
PAWCHELLA THANKS!
WHFR thanks our Loyal Listeners for helping to make PAWCHELLA 2025 such a great event this year!
Twenty-one animals were adopted over the weekend thanks to the extra visibility this event brings to Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit.
The two-day, feel-good festival celebrated the joy of animals, community, and second chances. Hosted at the newly expanded MaryAnn Wright Animal Adoption & Education Center, 383 attendees helped PAWCHELLA raise critical funds needed to help care for the nearly 2,500 animals cared for by Friends for Animals each year.
Many thanks to all who made this event a success, and especially to our listeners who stopped up to our WHFR tent to say hello!
This Just In: Episode 49
Episode 49 of This Just In, WHFR's pre-recorded new music showcase, airs June 9th, 2025 from 8-9pm and June 10th, 2025 from 3-4pm.
This week's playlist:
Wrekmeister Harmonies - Flowers in the Spring [Metal / Drone]
Transaphonic - Stay [Electronic / Trance]
Fancy - Lady Of Ice (Bekim! Remix) [Electronic]
BK Duke - Bass What [Electronic]
CIVIC - The Hogg [Indie Rock]
CIVIC - Gulls Way [Indie Rock]
Watchhouse - Rituals [Folk / Americana]
Yann Loisel & Roots Republic - Fire A Go Burn [World / Dub]
TRÍADA - Bésame Mucho [World / Indie]
TRÍADA - O Pato [World / Indie]
aron! - i hate it [Jazz / Singer-Songwriter]
Alison Krauss & Union Station - The Wrong Way [Bluegrass]
Sveið - S3łk!3 [Experimental Jazz / AI]
Tune in to This Just In each week as we feature a unique playlist of music recently received at the station, in a variety of musical formats.
To submit your music for airplay consideration, please visit the Contact Us tab on our website: https://whfr.fm.
This Sunday on "WHFR Presents"...
WHFR Presents a Quiet Storm, Sunday with MissyJ. Please tune in from 4pm until 7pm for a melody of slow jams.
Spreading love and positive vibes in our community, we are WHFR Dearborn!!
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WHFR PRESENTS airs every Sunday beginning (usually) at 4:00 pm with a rotating cast of WHFR DJs, taking in-depth looks into the many genres of music that WHFR has to offer. Tune in at 89.3 on the FM dial in Dearborn/Detroit and surrounding communities, or listen anywhere via our online streamer.
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WHFR Journal This Week -- Friday at 1pm -- All Local and All for the Cause
Join us on this week's WHFR Journal, Friday, June 6 at 1pm as we share info on some fun events that will benefit our local community and add excitement to the start of the summer season. We'll talk with Dearborn Area Chamber of Commerce President Kelli Vanden Bosch about the upcoming Taste of Dearborn and how to sample over 40 restaurant in one night a this hometown event. We'll chat with the Epilepsy Foundation of Michigan's Development Director Alyx Newton about the upcoming Summer Stroll for Epilepsy taking place next Saturday at the Detroit Zoo.
WHFR Supports PAWCHELLA 2025... THIS WEEKEND!
PAWCHELLA is back—and better than ever! This two-day, feel-good festival celebrates the joy of animals, community, and second chances. Hosted at the newly expanded MaryAnn Wright Animal Adoption & Education Center, PAWCHELLA raises critical funds needed to help care for the nearly 2,500 animals cared for by Friends for Animals each year.
Being held just down the road from our WHFR studios right here in Dearborn on June 7 & 8 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day, there will be something fun for the entire family: contests to test your pup’s agility, activities for kids, live music, shopping, raffles galore and so much more!
WHFR is proud to support PAWCHELLA…. Be sure to stop by the WHFR tent this weekend!
Further details about the event and admission info at: metrodetroitanimals.org/event/pawchella-2025
"The Crypt" Premieres This Tuesday, 4-6 p.m.
Pull up a coffin and "tomb into" The Crypt, every other Tuesday from 4-6p.m.
Digging up the gravest mix; two haunted hours of doom, gloom, death, metal, punk, horror themes, and campy Halloween tunes, full of witches, monsters, and ghouls.
Tune in this Tuesday, June 3rd for the premiere episode!
This Just In: Episode 48
Episode 48 of This Just In, WHFR's pre-recorded new music showcase, airs June 2nd, 2025 from 8-9pm and June 3rd, 2025 from 3-4pm.
This week's playlist:
The Callous Daoboys - Schizophrenia Legacy [Post-Hardcore]
Yuno - Worst of Times [Indie Pop / Alternative]
Jaime Ospina & The Hubbub Makers - The Vessel [Afro-Jazz / World]
McKinley Dixon ft. Blu & Shamir - Could've Been Different [Hip Hop]
Tropa Magica - Y3K [Cumbia / Psychedelic]
Oklou ft. underscores - harvest sky [Synth Pop]
Arc De Soleil - Riders Of The Moon [Soul / Funk]
Femi Kuti - Journey Through Life [Afrobeat/ Jazz]
Atlanta Space Quartet - Moons of Saturn [Chamber Rock / Synth]
GRÓA ft. Blanco Teta - beauty tips! [Alternative/Indie Rock]
Flesh Produce - It Gets Better [Punk /Dance]
Blacklight Beat Patrol - Fun With Ray Guns [Alternative / Chill Wave]
Uwade - Clearer Through You [Alternative / Indie]
Tune in to This Just In each week as we feature a unique playlist of music recently received at the station, in a variety of musical formats.
To submit your music for airplay consideration, please visit the Contact Us tab on our website: https://whfr.fm.
TOP TEN BLUES for May 2025
Please join Highway 61 for the best in new Blues releases and local area Artists' music every Friday, 2:00 – 6:00pm, with host DJ~KittyLuv;) 'making~waves'.
Here is our latest Top Ten Blues new releases being aired at WHFR-FM 89.3:
1. CAROLYN WONDERLAND: Truth Is (Alligator Records)
2. CHARLIE MUSSELWHITE: Look Out Highway (Forty Below Records )
3. JOHN PRIMER: Grown In Mississippi (Blues House Productions)
4. POPA CHUBBY: I Love Freddie King (Gulf Coast Records)
5. TOMMY CASTRO AND THE PAINKILLERS: Closer To The Bone (Alligator Records)
6. TAD ROBINSON: Soul in Blue (Delmark Records)
7. JOHNNY IGUANA: Johnny Iguana – At Delmark (Delmark Records)
8. ALLY VENABLE: Money and Power (Ruf)
9. ALL THINGS SWAMP: Dressed (Little Village Foundation)
10. SOUTHERN AVENUE: Family (Alligator Records)
DJ~KittyLuv;)
WHFR Blues Music Director
WHFR Premiers New Jazz Program "Live at the Bop Stop" Sunday, June 1
WHFR is proud to present a new radio program featuring recordings of live jazz from Cleveland's Bop Stop. Tune in every Sunday from 2-4pm EDT for some great sets with many of today's jazz artists recorded in concert. Each show will feature two separate hour-long sets recorded over the past couple of years, focusing on some of today's outstanding pianists in solo, trio and quartet settings.
Live at The Bop Stop will air every Sunday from 2:00-4:00pm EDT on WHFR 89.3fm locally in the Dearborn/Detroit area and worldwide streaming at whfr.fm via the internet.
WHFR Journal Looks at the Big Picture this Friday at 1pm
On this week’s show, May 30, we’ll celebrate the Detroit Grand Prix with the Big Picture Science episode titled “Vroom”. Self-driving cars, once a thing of science fiction, have become a reality in a handful of cities across the country. As our vehicles gain autonomy, they may provoke a profound shift not unlike the introduction of the first car in the late 1800s.
For a glimpse into the future of self-driving cars, we take a spin through the history of the automobile, from the Model T to the driverless taxicab. Along the way, we explore the rise of American manufacturing and the unmistakable but unexpected way in which we have bonded to our four-wheeled companions.
Join us for this special episode from PRX on the WHFR Journal, Friday, May 30, from 1pm-2pm only on WHFR.
This Just In: Episode 47
Episode 47 of This Just In, WHFR's pre-recorded new music showcase, airs May 26th, 2025 from 8-9pm and May 27th, 2025 from 3-4pm.
This week's playlist:
Velvet Moon - Catch The Wave (Live at Brinova Arena) [Alternative Rock]
Zack Feinberg - What Happened [Rock / Blues]
Adam Melchor - Change of Heart [Singer-Songwriter]
James Cook - Texican Velvet [Americana / Latin]
Paulo Moura & Raphael Rabello - 1X0 (Um a Zero) [World / Jazz]
Quarteto Negro - Folôzinha [World]
Vander Lee - Românticos [World / Singer-Songwriter]
Nelson Sargento & Beth Carvalho - Agoniza Mas Não Morre [World]
Pena Branca - Correnteza [World]
Xangai & Quinteto Paraíba - Curvas do Rio [World]
Wishy - Fly [Indie Rock]
Warm Sound - Safe [Chill Pop]
Zeds Dead - Vertigo [Electronic / Indie]
young friend - loose [Indie Rock]
Red Garland Trio - I Heard You Cried Last Night (Remastered 2025) [Jazz]
Tune in to This Just In each week as we feature a unique playlist of music recently received at the station, in a variety of musical formats.
To submit your music for airplay consideration, please visit the Contact Us tab on our website: https://whfr.fm.
