Vote WJCU for Best of Cleveland!

May 16, 2025 by Jasen Sokol

WJCU is nominated for Best College Radio Station in Cleveland Scene‘s Best of Cleveland Awards. Now we need your votes to help us win!

You can vote once per day now through May 21 by going to https://vote.clevescene.com/people-and-places/best-college-radio-station.

While you’re voting, make sure to vote for John Carroll University for Best College/University.

Wordplay

Wordplay is an offbeat mix of poetry, comedy, and an ongoing exploration of the possibilities of the spoken word. Wordplay's opening monologue blends music and language (and sometimes sound effects) into a surreal, funny, often darkly serious meditation on the state of one man's struggles to live in the bewildering world of contemporary America. The show also features guest appearances by local poets and nationally known writers. But the real strength of Wordplay is the interaction between co-hosts George Bilgere and John Donoghue. The two poets read short, interesting poems by important writers. They banter about poetry, argue about it, and generally give each other a hard time. A Plain Dealer article about Wordplay called the show "the Click and Clack of poetry." Not a bad description.

w/George Bilgere and John Donoghue - Poetry

Leo Kottke William Powell @7:31

Big Time Rush Big Time Rush @7:00

Taylor Swift Karma @7:00

Ella Jenkins Hammer Song (If I Had a Hammer) @6:58

Taj Mahal Fishin' Blues @6:54

Dom Flemons It's A Good Thing @6:51

Pink Anderson Meet Me in the Bottom @6:48

Eric Bibb Mornin' Train @6:43

Fannie Lou Hamer Woke up This Morning @6:41

Fife & Drum Bands My Babe @6:36

Stefan Grossman Mississippi Blues @6:31

Elizabeth Cotten Buck Dance @6:29

Corey Harris Bumble Bee Blues @6:25

Cephas & Wiggins Mamie @6:21

Mississippi John Hurt Avalon Blues @6:18

Bukka White Special Streamline @6:13

Roy Book Binder Kentucky Blues @6:08

John Jackson Red River Blues @6:05

Stefan Grossman Pony Blues @6:02

Pete Seeger If I Had a Hammer (Live) [Remastered] @6:01

Kind of Like Spitting Dostoyevsky Gets Mugged Outside A Donut Shop In Jersey @5:59

Sufjan Stevens The Henney Buggy Band @5:56

Death Cab for Cutie No Sunlight @5:53

Frightened Rabbit Good Arms vs Bad Arms @5:48

Nekromantix Nekrofelia @5:45

LCD Soundsystem Daft Punk Is Playing At My House @5:45

Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins Melt Your Heart @5:41

Damien Rice Volcano (Live from Union Chapel) @5:36

Cold War Kids Hang Me Up To Dry @5:32

The Long Winters New Girl @5:30

The Notwist Where In This World @5:25

Annuals Sore @5:21

Lenin Izaguirre América Lachina @5:21

Saves the Day Jukebox Breakdown @5:17

Lackthereof Fire Trial @5:15

The New Amsterdams My Old Man Had a Pistol @5:12

Elliott Smith Pretty Mary K (other Version) @5:09

The Hold Steady Stuck Between Stations @5:08

The Black Keys Brooklyn Bound @4:59

Neutral Milk Hotel Two Headed Boy Part Two @4:54

Mates of State My Only Offer @4:51

The Jesus And Mary Chain Just Like Honey (Demo) @4:48

Girlpool 123 @4:45

Them Crooked Vultures Dead End Friends @4:45

Neon Trees Moving In The Dark @4:41

The New Pornographers The Jessica Numbers @4:38

NOFX Olympia, WA @4:35

Colin Meloy Sister I'm A Poet @4:32

Against Me! Miami @4:28

Tokyo Police Club In A Cave @4:25

The Ray King Variety Show

Spotlighting music of the '50s thru the '70s, with a different theme every week!

@8 am w/Ray King - '50s through '70s with themes

Lake Effect Reverb

Reverb drenched Instro surf music (not the Beach Boys) from around the world. Also some heavy rock. And the occasional scatterbrained rant.

@9 am w/The Rocket - Surf and Guitar Instro