Catch John Legend, the Boss or Joe Doe
By RAYMOND A. EDEL
Is there a better time to go surfing than the middle of July? Channel surfing, I mean.
Grab your tuner, your headphones and catch some gnarly radio waves this week.
Dudes and dudettes, here are just a few of the awesome swells out there:
* Every Friday from 11 a.m. to noon, WGHT-AM’s (1500) Teisha Bader offers up “Flashback Friday.” During the summer, Bader is focusing on music from the movies. Today, she’ll feature music from James Bond/007 films.
* Singer-songwriter Nick Lowe author of the classic rock tunes “I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock & Roll)” and “Half a Boy, Half a Man” will be a guest on “The Leonard Lopate Show” from noon to 2 p.m. today on WNYC-AM (820).
* “Opioid Abuse/Prescription Drug Abuse” is the topic on this week’s “Health in 30″ 5:30 p.m. today on WRCR-AM (1300). The program is hosted by Hackensack University Medical Center nurse Barbara Ficarra.
* Take a stroll along the boardwalk with Bruce Springsteen and Jon Lewis on “The Boss Hour” 11 a.m. Saturday on WNTI-FM (91.9). Each week, Lewis digs deep, deep, deep into the Springsteen catalog to play obscure and live Boss as well as a dose of favorites. This week, Lewis talks about Springsteen’s rumored new album.
* One of the newest voices at WFAN-AM (660) is Lori Rubinson. She started at the sports talk station on Memorial Day and will handle the 7:15 p.m. to midnight shift Saturday. Rubinson is a Brown University graduate and former contestant on ESPN’s “Dream Job” (no, she didn’t win).
* Five-time Grammy winner John Legend will join WQCD-FM’s (101.9) Paul Cavalconte on this week’s edition of “Sunday at Seven.” Legend will discuss his American pop and soul musical influences, his feelings about jazz and his neighborhood, Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The program airs 7 a.m. Sunday.
* Are you being followed by a moon shadow? WFUV-FM’s (90.7) “City Folk Sunday Breakfast” will feature the music of Yusuf Islam from 8 to 11 a.m. Sunday. Islam, who recently turned 65, is the songwriter once known as Cat Stevens.
* How does your garden grow? Get help from garden expert Ralph Snodsmith every Sunday morning 8 to 10 a.m. on WOR-AM (710).
* Pete Tauriello: You hear him all week doing Shadow Traffic reports around the dial; from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and from 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday, hear him on his own show on Classic Oldies, WMTR- AM (1250).
* Drummer Peter Criss of KISS will be a guest on Jim Kerr’s “Rock- and-Roll Morning Show” Tuesday. The program airs 5:30 to 9 a.m. on WAXQ-FM (104.3).
* Joe Doe, leader of the ’80s punk band X, will be a guest on WNYC-FM’s (93.9) “Soundcheck” from 2 to 3 p.m. Thursday.
* No channel surfing would be complete without an appearance by a Beach Boy. Al Jardine who joined the famed band in 1961 at age 19, quit after the first single, then rejoined from 1963 to 1998 chats with Spazz on “Music to Spazz By” from 8 to 11 p.m. Thursday on WFMU- FM (91.1).
* From the famed Concertgebouw concert hall in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Bernard Haitink leads the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in performances of Webern’s “Im Sommerwind”; Mahler’s “Ruckert Lieder” and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 3″ from 9 to 11 p.m. Thursday on WQXR-FM (96.3).
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STATION BREAKS: WAWZ-FM (99.1) will hold “STARstock,” a free all- day festival and concert beginning noon Saturday at the Zarepath Soccer Field House, Weston Canal Road, Zarepath, Somerset County. Featured performers include Sanctus Real, Mandisa and Britt Nicole. Information: 732-469-0991 or star991fm.com … Mike Cocheo and Team WDHA-FM (105.5) will be at Tommy Fox’s, 32 South Washington Ave. in Bergenfield, 9 to 11 p.m. Thursday.
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