WPKN Celebrates... Music from Stage & Screen... Your Radio Station... Your Soundtrack! A special fundraising event Monday and Tuesday, Feb 13 and 14. Get a great gift with your donation! Your contribution helps WPKN, a 501(c)(3) organization. Choose a great subscription with your sustaining donation to WPKN! I have been on the ‘PKN airwaves thirty years (yikes!) - feels like a few lifetimes - and I also served in several positions on the station’s board of directors. In my other life, I have worked as a clinical social worker for way too many years, am a longtime resident of New Haven, ...

Join WPKN on the air on March 18 for a special day of programming and fundraising that will feature the women of WPKN’s on-air staff. We will be raising spirits and funds for WPKN from 7 a.m. until midnight on March 18. Get a great gift with your donation! Your contribution helps WPKN, a 501(c)(3) organization. Choose a great subscription with your sustaining donation to WPKN! WPKN Board of Directors, Program Director WPKN has been an essential part of my life for more than thirty years. I feel lucky to have moved to an area with such great radio ...

The Carl J. Frano Show with Carl Frano - 26 years playing compiled mixes of Billboard 100’s ranging from the 1950’s through the 1960’s at WPKN! 26 years playing compiled mixes of Billboard 100’s ranging from the 1950’s through the 1960’s at WPKN! Learn More

Preservation Sound Radio with Chris Ruggiero is a monthly all-vinyl program created by composer/producer Chris Ruggiero. The show airs from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Ruggiero uses each program to highlight a particular genre or theme, with most selections being obscurities and cult-favorites from the 1970s. There is a frequent focus on ex-US prog, psych, psych-folk, soul, and post-punk. Round-robin shows with guest selectors are a common feature as well, with Ruggiero and his collaborators choosing tracks on-the-fly, each one a response to the track played immediately prior. Notes on the shows can be found at Ruggiero’s blog PreservationSound.com. Chris ...

Johnny Be Good with host John Corvino “…tryin’ — sometimes succeeding” 9 AM – 12 Noon: 1st, 3rd, & 5th, Monday’s of the month. John Corvino hosts Johnny Be Good at WPKN. Learn More Listen on Soundcloud

The Jazz Sound is hosted by Rick Petrone who plays mostly Jazz recordings from the ’40s to the present. He also presents interviews with Jazz Artists. A professional musician for 50+ years, Petrone was in charge of Stamford station WJAZ 96.7 from 1980-92. It was a 24/7 Commercial jazz station with all programming by Petrone. Today, Petrone can be heard from every Monday afternoon from 1 to 4 pm. Rick Petrone is a bassist who has been active in jazz since the 1960s. Learn More Listen on Soundcloud

Connections with Eric Cocks airs on the 1st & 3rd Friday’s of the month, from 4 – 6:55 PM; and sometimes an occasional fill-in. Eric Cocks is an artist, & part-time astronaut (mainly on weekends), hosts Connections on WPKN. 2nd Facebook page. Learn More

IMAGINE by John Lennon Imagine there’s no heaven It’s easy if you try No hell below us Above us, only sky Imagine all the people Livin’ for today Ah Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too Imagine all the people Livin’ life in peace You You may say I’m a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world You ...

BRILL BUILDING A two-day fundraising special – September 9-10! The Brill Building is located at 1619 Broadway and 49th St. in New York City. The 11 story building was built in 1931 and is famous for housing music industry offices and studios where some of the most popular American songs were written. It dominating the pop charts in the early 1960s. The “Brill” name comes from a haberdasher who operated a store at street level and bought the building. Composers and Lyricists at the Brill Building Burt Bacharach, Jeff Barry, Bert Berns, Bobby Darin, Hal David, Neil Diamond, Luther Dixon, Sherman Edwards, Buddy Feyne, Gerry Goffin, Howard Greenfield, Ellie ...

Binwanka broadcasts various types of electronic music from the past, present, and future. Tune into WPKN 89.5 FM every third Friday from 2:30 am to 6 am, every second and every fourth Monday 11 pm - 2 am to hear a variety of genres including chiptune, vaporware, house, ambient and other experimental compositions. Binwanka is a generalist experimenting with art, design, and technology and has been a programmer at WPKN since 2018. Learn more about Binwanka by visiting his website. Learn More

Railroad Dave Radio, 10 PM – 12 AM, on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd & 5th, Sunday of the month. Dave Schwartz hosts Railroad Dave Radio and appears on The Car Bob Show. You can learn more about Dave by visiting his website. Learn More

Off-Beat! with Rich Kaminsky airs Saturdays, 2 a.m. – 6 a.m. Off-Beat is a late-night celebration of the best in underground and international rock, pop, punk and more. The weekly Off-Beat New Music Review examines and exposes the latest releases, followed by the Off-Beat Spotlight Artist of the Overnight, where the discographic history of transcendent artists are mined for gold. Rich has been on the airwaves at WPKN for nearly 30 years. Learn More

Sugar Magnolia Radio with Kyle M. Starkey brings listeners a mix of blues, classic rock, country, folk, gospel, world, jazz, oldies, reggae, soul & funk, singer-songwriter, and the Grateful Dead, of course. Airs on the second and fifth Thursday of the month, 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. My passions are music, food, flowers and gardening, dance, golf, bicycling, reading, volunteering, live entertainment, and the arts. Favorite band is the Grateful Dead but inspired by all genres. I have been doing radio at WPKN since 2010 and love being around creative intellectuals who are passionate and supportive of community radio and non-for-profits. Learn More ...