Tunes For Moderns

WRIU is the gift that keeps giving. This post comes to Arcane Radio Triva by way, indirectly of Neville.In interviewed Neville, the host  of "Noise From Neville" an iconic WRIU program. Kevin reached out to me and filled me in on some more WRIU greatness.

Zahm is a former member of The Philtres, and former member of the Etruscan Loveletters and former WRIU DJ. The Philtres were semi-finalists in the 1987 WBRU Rock Hunt; back in the days that WRIU actually stalked rock n' roll. He is (of course) a  University of Rhode Island alum.  He sent me a number of classic WRIU clips. He has kindly consented to my posting them here. That's the Etruscan Loveletters in the pic below. I think that's Kevin 2nd from the left.

Rather than paraphrasing I'll quote the man directly.  

"I had a show on WRIU called Tunes For Moderns when he was at there, he recorded a promo with my room-mate/"co-star" that I'm attaching.  My room-mate was Igor and Neville was, naturally, The Master."

The Igor Promo

"...the Heartbeat and AD1082 are both me, and the one labeled Duane Severa was Duane Severa (obviously); he was a friend of mine from a year ahead in high school who had the Tunes For Moderns show initially and turned it over to me."

Heartbeat PSA

"For better or worse our policy was to play whatever was unopened in the mail when we came to the studio each week.  I particularly remember Modern English, Let's Active, The Thought, The Incredible Casuals, The Weather Girls (yes, I put "It's Raining Men" on the air without a preview!), and Duran Duran. My band was from Newport - same town as Throwing Muses - so it was cool to play stuff from them when it showed up too."

 Duane Severa

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