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Local Motives

Local Motives is WMPG’s long-running, mostly-live, always local music show. For three decades Local Motives has been nurturing and documenting area music communities with a historic archive representing local music in its many expressions. Below is an ever-growing selection of complete broadcasts, interviews, live performances and outtakes from the WMPG vaults. Please remember that radio is an ephemeral medium. What you see listed here is not meant to be a complete list - but that's the dream!

Broadcasts from 2008 2008

Bob McKillop 04/04/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Boombazi 03/21/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Chriss Sutherland 02/22/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Covered in Bees 06/27/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Dead End Armory 05/02/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Diamond Sharp 03/14/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Dominique Lise 02/15/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Elaine and Rick Colella 04/25/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Hatchetface & the Vipers 08/15/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Highland Soles 06/06/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Jeff Shaw, Faster! Faster!, 03/07/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

July 4th Special 07/04/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Leap Day Special 02/29/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Local Motives 05/09/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Local Motives 06/13/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Local Motives 06/20/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Local Recordings 08/08/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Marie Moreshead, Ellen Tipper 08/01/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Perpetual e-Motion 07/18/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Portland Scene Report 04/18/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Putnam Smith 05/30/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Samuel James 04/11/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Sorcha Merrill, Gordon Bok 05/16/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

South China 05/23/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

The Outsiders 03/28/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Vince "Alric" Nez 07/11/2008, 90.9 WMPG FM

Weedwhackers 07/25/2008, 90.9 WMpG FM

Recordings from 1998 1998

Zulu Leprechauns, Performance, Congress Square, 08/27/1998, 90.9 WMPG FM

Recordings from 1996 1996

Window Road, Performance, WMPG Studios, 06/14/1996, 90.9 WMPG FM

Zulu Leprechauns, Performance, Congress Square, 07/11/1996, WMPG 90.9 FM