The Morning Beat

09/01/2025

Playlist from Wed 27th August - Guest Anita V Croft

Anita came to The Morning Beat ready, with thoughtful show notes and personal reflections on each song.

About Anita Verna Crofts
Anita lives above a bookstore in Portland’s India Street Historic District and teaches in Maine and Seattle. She’s on faculty at UW and Maine Media, writes about memory, food, and design, and is the author of Meet Me at the Bamboo Table. She loves auctions, lakes, and great chairs.

Listen at wmpg.org/wed0630 (find the date)
Playlist in the image below
Read Anita’s notes here

Show notes:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13xmMhUf9fAeF2ouYH9FmaUVyXh9QZQw0QcwWDoPBqIQ/edit?usp=sharing

09/01/2025

Yes, it's finally here - National Skyscraper Day! The day we look forward to all year round! And we couldn’t be more excited!
Join us this Wednesday at 6:30 on The Morning Beat with Lana & Annella as we celebrate the tall, iconic, weird, beautiful, ugly buildings that show up in songs. Do you know any or will we have to resort to Google?

Maybe it's Empire State of Mind, or preferably something a little more niche? Drop it in the comments or DM us. Waiting in anticipation…

08/27/2025

07/30/2025

A conversation with Aimsel Ponti (first hour)
Listen back here: https://www.wmpg.org/show/wed0630/
Playlist: below

07/23/2025

Had fun on WMPG FM this morning. New tracks from Samantha Crain, Shovels and Rope, Ella Hue, Kid Gulliver, Anna Erhard, The Bug Club, Joshua Idehen, Mal Blum (playing at SPACE this week) and more...

Playlist below. Listen back here: https://www.wmpg.org/archive-player/?show_key=wed0630&archive_key=0

Carl Orff Carmina Burana, Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi: No. 1, O Fortuna
Innerspace Orchestra One Way Glass
The Damned Eloise - Single Version
Nick Lowe Cruel To Be Kind
The Truth Confusion (Hits Us Everytime)
Samantha Crain Bloomsday
ELLA HUE Magnet
Samantha Crain Ridin' Out The Storm
Nancy Sinatra Summer Wine
Eileen Ces bottes sont faites pour marcher
White Lies To Lose My Life
Viola Beach Swings And Waterslides
Mystery Jets Official Two Doors Down
Mal Blum I'm So Bored
Habibi Sweetest Talk
Ladyhawke Back Of The Van
Samantha Crain B-Attitudes
ELLA HUE Fear Is a Rose
Gemma Rogers music The Great Escape
The Concretes You Can't Hurry Love
Anna Erhard Not Rick
Shovels and Rope Hopes & Dreams
Tunde Adebimpe Magnetic
The Bug Club Lonsdale Slipons
Liz Brady PALLADIUM THE HIP
Earl Grant House Of Bamboo
The Housemartins Get Up Off Our Knees
Oasis Half The World Away
Kid Gulliver 24 Hours
Joshua Idehen Mum Does the Washing

06/25/2025

Playlist and archive link for this mornings show:

https://www.wmpg.org/show/wed0630/

05/28/2025

Playlist from this morning's show.
Archive link: https://www.wmpg.org/show/wed0630/

05/15/2025

Playlist and archive link:
https://www.wmpg.org/show/wed0630/?srsltid=AfmBOoqC5S8yCR6QIB1G5FFowYeir9qYCt37JMVwqdlA_63_U5hh5Pd1

04/02/2025

Playlist from April 2nd.
Listen back: https://www.wmpg.org/show/wed0630/?srsltid=AfmBOoqebEv_lGizpSlY0uRnkRkcu7MPSJVpRQsKyJ2lIQ7SwmZq16tz #

Elastica's self titled album is 30 years old!
New (ish) songs from Self esteem, Hifi Sean, Miki Berenyi, Tiger Bomb, Ronney Clement music, The Raveonettes, Perfume Genius, GANS, Magdalena Bay

03/16/2025

Think St. Patrick was Irish? Nope. Think he chased snakes out of Ireland? Never happened. And who in Ireland has actually eaten a boiled dinner?!

Tune in to The Morning Beat with me and Gráinne on WMPG at 6:30 AM as we bring you the morning’s craic and bust all the St. Paddy’s Day myths including the one that irks us both the most - it is not St. Pat’s or St. Patty’s—enough of that nonsense!

We'll be playing our favourite tracks from the north and south of Ireland.

Sláinte and see you then!

03/03/2025

Coming up this Wednesday, March 5th, Nora Flaherty (Maine People's Alliance) is my guest. Nora will join me at 7.30am.

02/19/2025

Sad news

The musician, along with band members Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton, had many hits in the 1970s and 1980s, including four UK No 1s