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The Common Room

Come hang out with us in The Common Room! We will be sound-tracking each week with four CDs that span musical genres, and we'll be finding common themes across them all and sharing the stories behind them. Long live Physical PhMedia Phridays

# of Episodes

60214

Host

DJ Ed

First Aired

March 11th, 2005

Last Episode

February 27th, 2026

Previous broadcasts

The Setlist

Sprain, Björk, Nothing, Tom Waits, and more.

Sassybug Theater 9000

Elias Rønnenfelt, Slint, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis Sextet, and more.

g1rlpl4y

Baccara, Furacão 2000, DJ Taz, Robin S, and more.

g1rlpl4y

Smooth Touch, Crystal Waters, and more.

Almost Famous

Blur, Pulp, Oasis, Rocketship, and more.

Almost Famous

Blur, and more.

Quintessential Classics

Everything But The Girl, Herbert Von Karajan, Jean Sibelius, Mount Eerie, and more.

An Apple an Audio Hour 2!!!!

Conan Gray, Leith Ross, The La's, Mitski, and more.

Ep. 5: What's the Score?

Boston Pops Orchestra, Mark Orton, Michel Legrand And His Orchestra, Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard, and more.

Ep. 5: What's the Score?

Julee Cruise, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard, Sing Street, and more.

Growing Out of It

Clairo, Sixpence None The Richer, Lenny Kravitz, The Cranberries, and more.

Acutely Alternative

MJ Lenderman, Pinback, Codeine, Alex G, and more.

WRBB 104.9FM Boston 2/27/26, 4:02 AM

Air, Isabel's Dream, Tom Waits, Vígh Mihály, and more.

WRBB 104.9FM Boston 2/27/26, 3:02 AM

Linda Perhacs, The Crying Nudes, The American Analog Set, The Cure, and more.

alternative realities

Sufjan Stevens, Morphine, Vashti Bunyan, Double Virgo, and more.

Laughs and Loops

Title Fight, Pinegrove, Alison's Halo, Unwound, and more.

Did you hear about Pluto?

Nina Simone, Jeff Buckley, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, and more.

PET ROCK

LCD Soundsystem, Slowdive, Echo And The Bunnymen, Radiohead, and more.

Laughs and Loops

Joey Cash, Mazzy Star, Lucy Bedroque, A-3, and more.

tapedeck

BROCKHAMPTON, Andy Stott, Earl Sweatshirt, Nile Rodgers, and more.

E.T.'s Golden Record

Pavement, Nourished by Time, The Cure, Magdalena Bay, and more.

stupider jupiter

girls go to college

Doble Vida

Rubén Blades, Fania All Stars, Willie Colón, Héctor Lavoe, and more.

Doble Vida

Portishead, and more.

Farewell Transmission

Dermot Henry, Magnolia Electric Co., Dutch Interior, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, and more.

Grit & Grooves

Megadeth, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Suicide, Van Halen, and more.

Grit & Grooves

Ozzy Osbourne, and more.

cornerstone

Inhaler, The Molotovs, The Silverados, Pulp, and more.

PLAYBACK

Braid, Jeff Buckley, The Breeders, Nirvana, and more.

Dream Blue Haze

Johnny Cash, The Cardigans, The Raveonettes, The Strokes, and more.

death practices

with Alex Page from QUALMS

All Dogs go to Heaven

Yo La Tengo, The Smashing Pumpkins, Difference Engine, bar italia, and more.

Just Playing 7.5

Dijon, The Sugarcubes, Arthur Hill, LCD Soundsystem, and more.

Just Playing

Naoki Zushi, Bleachers, and more.

Hush Hour

Ronnie Lane, Fleetwood Mac, Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners, The Be Good Tanyas, and more.

Sunny Side Up Next

Autumn's Grey Solace, The Neighbourhood, Club 8, World Brain, and more.

Regions of Rhythym

Modest Mouse, Songs: Ohia, Cornelia Murr, C-Clamp, and more.

epi 5

Bon Iver, Sufjan Stevens, Novo Amor, Fleet Foxes, and more.

WRBB 104.9FM Boston 2/26/26, 4:07 AM

Yusef Lateef, Isabel's Dream, Sam Phillips, Women, and more.

WRBB 104.9FM Boston 2/26/26, 3:01 AM

Boards of Canada, Sprain, Origin Unknown, bar italia, and more.

WRBB 104.9FM Boston 2/26/26, 2:00 AM

Dry Cleaning, Nick Drake, Destroyer, Fleetwood Mac, and more.

Real Emo Consists Of...

Macseal, Carpool, Texas Is The Reason, Jawbreaker, and more.

thats hectic

Hayley Williams, Neggy Gemmy, Ninajirachi, Tracy Chapman, and more.

4x05

at midnight instead of noon. we get crazy around here sometimes

girl, whatever

Beach House, No Doubt, Dijon, Malcolm Todd, and more.

Get Me Out Of Here: Time to Get Crankier

iceage, Blue Smiley, Difference Engine, toe, and more.

5. Beach (Spring)

Clairo, SuaveTheJedi, Thee Sacred Souls, Club 8, and more.

THE BEST!

Cocodance, Solitaire, Snow Strippers, Alcazar, and more.

WRBB Sports

Julee Cruise, Morphine, Failure, and more.

Season 5. Episode 5.

Jackson C. Frank, Blood Orange, The Cure, Sinnerella, and more.

spring break

spring break

COVAHSSS

Florence + the Machine, Duster, The Civil Wars, chloe moriondo, and more.

Ski Jamz

Johnny Cash, America, The Strokes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and more.

flipside

Billie Marten, PinkPantheress, Alvvays, Russo, and more.

what is sem2 even about

life is very scarily resembling cheese in the trap and i refuse my fate

Welcome To The Forum

The Philly Specials, Gigi Perez, Vegyn, Nuttkase, and more.

The Detox

Nao Yoshioka, America, Baby Keem, The Alan Parsons Project, and more.

Tripping The Light

Tune in for an audio history of the trip hop genre, tracing it's evolution from a Bristol underground scene to worldwide sensation!

Sugar Pill

Metronomy, David Thomas Broughton, Daft Punk, 1tbsp, and more.

is yo fruit frozen???

Japanese Breakfast, 1tbsp, Daft Punk, Gabriel Jacoby, and more.

ep 5

Tanya Davis, Al Green, Norah Jones, The Cure, and more.

Monkey See, Monkey DJ

Lou Reed, Julee Cruise, mark william lewis, and more.

String Theory

bar italia, Prefab Sprout, Unwound, Yo La Tengo, and more.

discipline is throwing up outside the harvard boathouse

Anita Ward, Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and more.

Branded

Radiohead, Keni Titus, JAY-Z, MICHELLE, and more.

WRBB 104.9FM Boston 2/25/26, 3:01 AM

The Sugarcubes, Animal Collective, LTJ Bukem, Chet Baker, and more.

The Great Sundae Waltz

Kaustradamus, Squarepusher, The Durutti Column, C-Clamp, and more.

4th episode!!

Red House Painters, Grateful Dead, Horse Jumper of Love, Rocketship, and more.

The Heartline Highway

Burrrn, Blonde Redhead, Bob Dylan, bar italia, and more.