Station Chatter

02.09

In-Studio: Kississippi

Here’s a blast from the past! On March 22, 2017, Philadelphia’s own Kississippi joined us in the V89 studio to perform a few tracks live on-air before playing at V89’s Spring Show, along with Prince Daddy & The Hyena and Cough Drop. Kississippi’s latest record, Mood Ring, is out now on Triple Crown Records. kississippi.bandcamp.com/ […]

01.03

WVFS Tallahassee’s Top 50 Albums of 2021 (& Top 25 Albums of 2020, Too!)

2021 was a fantastic year for music! Here are our Top 50 Favorite Albums of 2021, as voted on by our V89 DJs: Dry Cleaning – New Long Leg (4AD) black midi – Cavalcade (Rough Trade) Lingua Ignota – SINNER GET READY (Sargent House) Japanese Breakfast – Jubilee (Dead Oceans) Black Country, New Road – For […]

12.20

Once Great Estate on Hootenanny!

Tune into Hootenanny tonight, December 20th, at 10 PM for an in-studio interview with Once Great Estate!

10.25

WVFS Celebrates 34!

CDU and WVFS present the V89 34th Birthday Bash Friday, November 5, at the Bark Featuring Rohna, Kanise, and Maan D. Swaan

01.07

Here Are Our Individual DJs’ Best Of 2017 Lists

V89 may be magic, but our year-end Top 50 chart isn’t.  It’s an aggregate of individual ballots submitted by our DJs, wherein they list their Top 10 albums and up to twenty other albums they enjoyed. These are then weighted and used to create the station’s Top 50. For the fourth year now, DJs have […]

03.27

V89 & The Great Give!

WVFS Tallahassee is excited to be part of FSU’s Great Give! If you aren’t already familiar, FSU’s Great Give is a 36-hour online giving campaign in support of academic programs, scholarships and student activities at Florida State University. Supporters can make donations 9 a.m. on Thursday, March 30 until the campaign ends at 9 p.m. […]

01.01

Here Are Our Individual DJs’ Best Of 2015 Lists

V89’s year-end Top 50 Chart is an aggregate of individual ballots submitted by our DJ’s, wherein they list their Top 10 albums and up to twenty other albums they enjoyed. These are then weighted and used to create the station’s Top 50. For the second year now, DJ’s have been given the option to have […]

12.22

V89 Rotation: 2015

Every year, around this time, V89 polls our DJs to find out what their favorite albums of the year are. The DJs vote from a list of every album that was added to our rotation, and the results are then pooled together to make a Top 50 list, which is revealed in a big, on-air countdown. This […]

12.15

Interview: Guru & Solar [Unedited]

Your Browser does not support the new HTML5 Audio-Tag, sorry! Fresh from our archives, here we have a rather interesting interview conducted by V89’s Undaground Railroad program (specifically DJ Acrojam and Amond Jackson) with rapper Guru (formerly of Gang Starr), as well as producer Solar. It took place in 2008, a mere two years before Guru tragically […]

11.12

In-Studio: Roamer X

Your Browser does not support the new HTML5 Audio-Tag, sorry! Here we have a live in-studio performance from former local artist Roamer X. A longtime Gainesville and Tallahassee resident who was also a member of Dead Legs, Roamer X recorded this prior to a show at The Charles Mansion with Woset, Langtry, and Woodthrush on December […]

11.05

In-Studio: Woozy

Your Browser does not support the new HTML5 Audio-Tag, sorry! Last week, V89 was incredibly excited to hold our 28th birthday bash at Club Downunder, with performances by Ex-Breathers, Crocodiles, Woozy, and Dark Tunnels. Co-presented with FSU’s Union Productions, the show was a huge success for us, and we were particularly happy to be able to do it with bands we like, […]

10.12

Call-In: Krill

Your Browser does not support the new HTML5 Audio-Tag, sorry! On Sunday, October 11th, V89 ran a feature on the Boston band Krill, who recently announced that they will be breaking up. In honor of the group’s legacy, we played Krill’s music for two hours during our Artist Feature program, which runs every Sunday night from 10pm […]

09.24

In-Studio: Yautja

Your Browser does not support the new HTML5 Audio-Tag, sorry! Here we have an in-studio performance from Nashville metal trio Yautja, who were gracious enough to stop by our studio before a show at Liberty Bar on May 8th, 2014. Featuring members of Gnarwhal, Coliseum, and Sallow (who we’ve also hosted in-studio), Yautja was on tour […]

09.20

In-Studio: The Spirit Of The Beehive

Your Browser does not support the new HTML5 Audio-Tag, sorry! On August 17th, 2015, WVFS Tallahassee was excited to host an in-studio performance from Philadelphia shoegaze band The Spirit Of The Beehive. Named after a Spanish film from the 1970’s, the band was in town for a show with fellow Philly band Amanda X, as […]

09.12

Interview: KRS-One

This past week, V89’s Undaground Railroad program had the honor of interviewing the legendary MC KRS-One. Prior to his performance at The Side Bar, the man also known as the Teacha spoke to our very own DJ A To The L for over an hour about his past, present, future, and more. The interview is among the most […]