This Just In: Episode 52
Episode 52 of This Just In, WHFR's pre-recorded new music showcase, airs June 30th, 2025 from 8-9pm and July 1st, 2025 from 3-4pm.
This week's playlist:
Chemical Empire - Under My Skin [Metal]
In the Pines - Sunbeam Dream [Indie Rock]
Mitsuo Hagita & Kaoru Ito - Fine del Labirinto - Completion [Video Game Soundtrack]
Mitsuo Hagita & Kaoru Ito - Nebbioso - Into the Fog [Video Game Soundtrack]
TOP TEN BLUES for June 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:
WHFR Presents: The Music of 8bitpeoples - PART ONE
Founded in 1999, 8bitpeoples is a netlabel and artist collective focused on chiptune (or 8-bit) music. Join Robbwith2bees as he shines a spotlight on the "bleeps and bloops" that The 8bitpeoples have released over the last 26 years, spanning a massive library of 140 releases and counting!
WHFR Journal June 27, 1pm -- Summer Heat and Energy Costs -- What Can We Do?
Summer is here, temperatures are rising — and so are electric bills. That also means many Americans are facing a severely overlooked issue: power shutoffs. In 2024, over six hundred thousand American households had their power shut off due to an inability to pay. How do we protect the most vulnerable populations from the dangers of home power shutoffs?
This Just In: Episode 51
Episode 51 of This Just In, WHFR's pre-recorded new music showcase, airs June 23rd, 2025 from 8-9pm and June 24th, 2025 from 3-4pm.
This week's playlist:
Gnod & White Hills - Changesaw [Alternative / Drone]
Charlie Syntari ft. Nosie Katzmann & Tony Dawson-Harrison - Piece of My Heart [Electronic / Pop]
David Byrne ft. Ghost Train Orchestra - Everybody Laughs [Alternative / Art Rock]
Amanda DeBoer Bartlett - Quick Trips [Folk]
Bret McKenzie - All I Need [Singer-Songwriter / Indie Rock]
WHFR Journal Friday, June 20 at 1pm - Summer Reading, Pride, Plants, and the Solstice
Join us this Friday, June 20th on the WHFR Journal as we talk about the Dearborn Public Library's Summer Reading Program, Pride Month and the Ann Arbor Pride Fest, an update on indigenous plants to look out for this summer season, and some insight into exactly what the Summer Solstice brings to this part of the region. That's the WHFR Journal, Friday, June 20 at 1pm only on WHFR-FM and whfr.fm. Happy Summer!
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]
"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).
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.
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]
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!!
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.
"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!
