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.