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The Roberta Roberts Power Hour

The Roberta Roberts Power Hour

The Roberta Roberts Power Hour is back for its final season and absolutely no one is happy about it. Not Northeastern, not WRBB, not the community - hell - Roberta doesn’t even want to be here. But in all seriousness, this is the end of an era. In a few short months, you will never ever have to hear the Power Hour ever again. At this point you know the drill, Roberta, DJ Harvey, punk, post-punk, and garage rock, blah blah blah. Join us for a last few weeks of f*cking up the airwaves every Wednesday at 10 pm only on WRBB 104.9 fm Boston.

# of Episodes

118

Host

Roberta Roberts

First Aired

August 4th, 2023

Last Episode

April 24th, 2025

Previous broadcasts

April 24th, 2025

Chris Spedding, Jonathan Richman, The Fall, LCD Soundsystem, and more.

April 17th, 2025

The Peechees, Parquet Courts, Entral, Blondie, and more.

April 10th, 2025

1-800-Mikey, The Detroit Cobras, The Fall, Minutemen, and more.

April 3rd, 2025

Public Image Ltd., Blondie, Smirk, TEXARKANA, and more.

March 27th, 2025

Buzzcocks, Matthew Gurlitz, Tommy Tutone, 22º Halo, and more.

March 20th, 2025

Squid, The Detroit Cobras, Blondie, Devo, and more.

March 13th, 2025

Minutemen, Uranium Club, Shonen Knife, Blondie, and more.

March 6th, 2025

Guther, David Grisman, Two Lone Swordsmen, Hudson Freeman, and more.

March 6th, 2025

shame, feeble little horse, Doechii, and more.

February 27th, 2025

Pink Turns Blue, Pixies, Delta 5, Blondie, and more.

61: Miss Nelson

Habibi, Chain and The Gang, Life Without Buildings, The White Stripes, and more.

February 13th, 2025

They Might Be Giants, The Velvet Underground, Father John Misty, The Strokes, and more.

February 6th, 2025

Sheer Mag, King Khan & the Shrines, Germs, Parquet Courts, and more.

January 30th, 2025

The Fall, The Velvet Underground, Blondie, Death From Above 1979, and more.

January 23rd, 2025

Gang Of Four, The Rapture, Iggy Pop, LCD Soundsystem, and more.

December 13th, 2024

Al Green, Erykah Badu, Maggie Rogers, Ravyn Lenae, and more.

December 6th, 2024

Prison Affair, The Concretes, Snõõper, Minutemen, and more.

November 29th, 2024

Leo Dorsey, Patsy Cline, Aretha Franklin, Sonny & Cher, and more.

November 22nd, 2024

Andy Williams, Jimmy Dean, Al Green, Ruth Brown, and more.

55: Watch me eat a hot dog

nov 14 2024

54: I do what I want to

nov 7 2024

November 1st, 2024

The Drifters, Glass Animals, Charli xcx, Pom Pom Squad, and more.

53: Scary Good

Oct 24 2024 - HALLOWEEN EPISODE

October 25th, 2024

Pylon, Genesis Owusu, The Coffinshakers, The Alley Cats, and more.

52: New York City

MJ Lenderman, Blondie, The B-52's, LCD Soundsystem, and more.

October 18th, 2024

The B-52's, Devo, and more.

October 11th, 2024

Big Black, Bratmobile, James Brown, Television, and more.

50: Can't Stop

French Vanilla, Artificial Joy, Wimps, Twelve Cubic Feet, and more.

October 4th, 2024

Gang Of Four, Eyes, Nubya Garcia, Richard Hell, and more.

June 20th, 2024

Charles Trenet, The Beatles, Allen Toussaint, The Zombies, and more.

49: Secrets

The Ronettes, Stereolab, and more.

49: Secrets

Black Tambourine, The Shop Assistants, Gramme, Reigning Sound, and more.

June 6th, 2024

Suki Waterhouse, Twenty One Pilots, Tony Orlando, Coldplay, and more.

48: Night Time is the Right Time

Hunx & His Punx, The Detroit Cobras, Twin Caverns, The Langley Schools Music Project, and more.

May 23rd, 2024

The Linda Lindas, Kleenex, The Shop Assistants, PJ Harvey, and more.

46: Think of You

Landline, Wimps, Hunx & His Punx, Lung Leg, and more.

April 24th, 2024

The Strokes, N.E.R.D, English Teacher, Sleater-Kinney, and more.

April 17th, 2024

The Books, Thee Oh Sees, Habibi, Interpol, and more.

April 10th, 2024

King Crimson, Broadcast, Powerplant, Jorge Drexler, and more.

April 3rd, 2024

Black Tambourine, Forsaken Autumn, Shonen Knife, shame, and more.

41: Woo Hoo

Oumou Sangare, Parquet Courts, and more.

March 27th, 2024

Sleater-Kinney, Shonen Knife, LCD Soundsystem, David Byrne, and more.

40: The Work Week

Nine Inch Nails, The Dils, Mr. Wrong, Priests, and more.

March 13th, 2024

The Gun Club, The Fall, Units, Mannequin Pussy, and more.

38: Untitled

Bloc Party, Gang Of Four, Half Japanese, Yard Act, and more.

37: Fit and Working Again

Alvvays, Bikini Kill, The Sound, Le Tigre, and more.

February 28th, 2024

Sleater-Kinney, and more.

36: Warm Moving Bodies

Mary Monday, The Dirtbombs, The Fall, X-Ray Spex, and more.

February 21st, 2024

Ween, The Dirtbombs, and more.

35: Lovers' Lane

The Dead Milkmen, The Glands, LCD Soundsystem, Pixies, and more.

February 14th, 2024

Roberto Musci, The Atlantics, and more.

February 7th, 2024

The Tights, Shocking Blue, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Squid, and more.

33: small cities

April March & The Makers, Interpol, Ludus, The Fall, and more.

January 31st, 2024

Jorge Ben Jor, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Poison Girls, and more.

32: Drunk Tank

Ludus, The Pogues, The Spits, Pylon, and more.

December 14th, 2023

Fugazi, French Vanilla, and more.

last day of class vibes

Nicki Minaj, Jhene Aiko, Vince Staples, Frank Ocean, Solange, and more.

December 7th, 2023

Coi Leray, Björk, and more.

31: Time Out

Family Fodder, Heaven 17, Cimafunk, Kleenex, and more.

November 30th, 2023

French Vanilla, and more.

30: Rude!

The Cranberries, Fiona Apple, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Royel Otis, and more.

November 23rd, 2023

P.E.A.C.E / War, Mika Miko, and more.

November 16th, 2023

Interpol, The Birthday Party, Diana Ross, Les Georges Leningrad, and more.

November 9th, 2023

CLUBZ, Cory Henry, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, and more.

28: what am I gonna do?

with billy and henry!

November 2nd, 2023

The Slits, King Harvest, and more.

27: Don't Be Afraid

Angelyne, the coneheads, Essential Logic, French Vanilla, and more.

October 26th, 2023

Moonchild, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, 45 Grave, and more.

26: Break The Ice

Bona Dish, Powerplant, Priests, The Magnetic Fields, and more.

October 19th, 2023

Sly & The Family Stone, Bona Dish, and more.

25: ya ya

Blurt, Suburban Lawns, Talking Heads, Devo, and more.

24: I Drank What!?

DEVO, Lung Leg, The Misfits, The Raincoats, and more.