Welcome to Album 88

Welcome to Album 88's homepage. We're at the beginning of your FM dial at 88.5 FM in nearly all of north Georgia. At 100,000 watts, WRAS is the largest completely student-run station in the country.

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WRAS Announcements

Last Shifts for Graduating DJs

Tuesday April 29, 2008
It's the end of the semester here at Georgia State and many of our DJs are graduating and moving on from WRAS. Make sure you catch your favorite DJ’s last show and wish them farewell and thank them for all their hard work with keeping our station awesome!
Here is a list of all the graduates and their final shifts:

Bobby Power: Thursday, May 8th 4pm until the final song of Postscript at 10pm with special guests and former hosts of Postscript Farbod and Beau.

Kevin Holder: Friday, May 9th 6am - 8am

Adam Martin: Friday, May 9th at 8am-10am

Jazz Hands James the Z: Friday, May 9th 2pm- until the final song of Pop Goes the World at 8pm with j-j-jenny.

The Reverend Andy: Monday, May 12th 10am until the final song of Psychobilly Freakout at 10pm with special guests.

VOTE FOR YOUR WRAS FAVORITES!

Sunday April 27, 2008
It's the end of the semester here at Georgia State University and we at WRAS are asking listeners to help WRAS honor its own! E-mail 88vote@gmail.com to give us your selections for the Best WRAS DJ as well as the Best WRAS Speciality Show. The window for voting is open until Friday, May 9, 6pm and listeners can also select a runnerup for each category. The winners will be announced on-air on Sunday, May 18 at 6pm and online at www.wras.org.

For a list of current WRAS DJs, go to our DJ section here.

For a list of speciality shows, go here.

Happy April Fool's Day

Tuesday April 1, 2008
If you were confused by today's programing, please rest assure that it was only an April Fool's joke. Thank you for being apart of WRAS Atlanta's April Fool's Day. I hope you had as much fun as we had altering our format for the day.

WRAS Atlanta is back on the Air

Sunday Mar 16, 2008
Due to the damage on the Georgia State campus from the tornado, WRAS Atlanta was temporarily off the air for most of the weekend. We are currently back on the air. Thank you for your patience.

Morning Lights Live at the University Plaza 3-11-08

Local atmospheric rock band Morning Lights will be playing the Library Plaza during freetime on Tuesday, March 11 at 12:15 pm. For info on Morning Lights, check out their website at morninglights.org

WRAS Top 50 Albums of 2007

WRAS would like to thank everyone who celebrated our 37th birthday with us and tuned into our Top 50 albums of 2007. To see the full list of albums Go here.

THANKS TO OUR LOYAL FANS

The staff at WRAS-Atlanta sends a big shout out and an overwhelming "Thank you!" to everyone who attended WRASFest at the Eyedrum on December 14.

The lineup featured Janelle Monae, Cadillac Jones, Random Rabbit, Kids with Codenames, ClanDestined, Chopper and b-boy expositions from the Madclout crew. Every single act in the lineup put everything into entertaining the crowd and we appreciate each and every one of their efforts. Keep an eye out in the coming weeks for some additional photos of the event in the WRAS Gallery.

Again, thanks to everyone and we'll do this again real soon!

Bryce McNeil
General Manager, WRAS-Atlanta

Black Lips Video Up on DAEL'S YouTube Channel

For everyone wanting to see highlights from the Black Lips memorable Library Plaza performance, the Digital Arts and Entertainment Lab has put up the rousing finale on its YouTube channel. Check out the madness here.

Black Lips Liven Up the University Plaza

WRAS presented the Black Lips at the Georgia State University Library Plaza on Tuesday, January 22. They played a raucous set during the lunchtime break that gathered a crowd, had them on their feet and even had them enjoying a pizza soaked finale. The GSU Digital Arts and Entertainment Lab was present filming the event and have uploaded some pictures from the event here.

Thanks to all the students and fans that turned out!

Album 88 Builds to WRASFEST with Special Programming and a Big Finale!

WRASFest Friday is almost upon us and Album 88 will be ringing it in with style with a college radio look back, a special Georgia Music Show and a big farewell from One Step Beyond.

Over 8 hours on Thursday and Friday will be dedicated to "88 1's from the Oughts."

Part One: Will air on Thursday from 2-6pm with Bryce from the Quintessential College Show




At 6PM with Adam and Danielle from the Georiga Music Show, where they will be presenting interviews and music from many of the great artists at WRASFest.




Part Two: Brandon will say farewell to his loyal WRAS following with a special four hour finale of "One Step Beyond" from 4-8pm--with all the best from his library of ska music.

WRAS Nominated for CMJ Awards

On Sept 17, 2007, WRAS, 88.5 FM, the student radio station of Georgia State University, was nominated for three national radio awards from CMJ (College Music Journal), in these categories:

--Station of the Year
--Best Specialty Programming
--Most Team Spirit

Click here to read more!

Click here for the CMJ Nominations page.

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