• Mailing Address
• Submitting Music for Airplay
• Phone & Instant Messager Contacts
• Live Music booking
• Driving Directions
• E-mail Contacts
• Executive Board Meetings

Send postal mail to:

WBRS 100.1FM
( Department Name or Genre )
Brandeis University
Shapiro Campus Center
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02453-2728

Please allow one to two weeks for delivery & for recipient to read it. If you need to reach a staff member more quickly, e-mail is preferred.

Overnight mail services, like FedEx and UPS, do not deliver directly to our station; all mail goes to the Student Activities office regardless of the carrier. If it arrives before 12 noon Eastern on a weekday it usually will make it to our mailboxes in the station that same day. However, the recipient still may not be there to immediately open it. Again, if you need to reach a member quickly, e-mail is preferred.

Submitting Music for Airplay:

WBRS accepts all unsolicited music submissions, and we will attempt to give some airplay to everything we receive. Send your music to our music department, and make sure to indicate the genre so that we can get your package to the appropriate genre coordinator more efficiently. Addressing music to a specific staff member by name is okay but you must include the genre as well.

Use the mailing address to the left, but make it:
Attn: (genre) music coordinator

In place of genre put the genre that indicates what show you want your music played on. Since we are a block format station, no music will get played across every show, so please specify a genre; it makes our music directors' lives much easier.

Genres include: folk, country, rock, jazz, blues, celtic, klezmer, gospel, techno, electronic, bluegrass, classical, Latin American, European, Asian, Middle Eastern, Hebrew, metal, hardcore, punk, ska, reggae, etc. If the music is in another language besides English, please indicate that as well.

Telephone Contacts:

• All numbers can be dialed "6-XXXX" if calling from a Brandeis Campus phone.
• If you need to reach a live person in a hurry, call the DJ Line. But if you call is music related - please call the Music Office and leave a message on voicemail; it will reach the music staff much faster than leaving a message with a DJ.
• WBRS does not accept unsolicited FAXes and therefore we do not give out our FAX number. Please do not call us and ask for it - we don't give it out. Either scan in the document and e-mail it to us, or send it via postal mail.

AOL Instant Messenger - Make Requests in real time!

Download the AOL Instant Messager software
...or...
Download Trillian, a universal IM software client

Send an IM to the regular DJ (WBRS FM)

• Not all DJ's prefer to use IM, so you might not always be able to send a message to the DJ this way. If your message is ignored for a long time, don't take it personally - the DJ might just not be monitoring IM's during their show. Try giving the DJ a call instead.

Live Music Booking:
WBRS welcomes bands and performance artists to play live on our airwaves. Each week on The Joint and WBRS Coffeehouse we have the best in local (and not-so-local) artists live on the air. Coffeehouse primarily focuses on acoustic performances, whereas The Joint welcomes regular bands, non-regular bands, solo artists, performance artists...any artist that makes noise is welcome! We have a complete recording setup in the Brandeis Multi-Purpose Room (see webcam) and all performances are recorded to Audio CD. We've had a wide variety of folks visit us at WBRS, including The Allstonians, Rich Mackin (Corporate Defense Consumer Poet), Lisa Loeb, Moxy Fruvous, Liz Nickrenz, Juniper's Daughter, Heidi and Five O'Clock Shadow. Booking for each semester tends to fill up pretty fast, so if you want to play, follow the instructions below and do it today!

(over the summers we usually have "Archived Joints" and "Iced Coffeehouse"; archived shows from the previous semesters)

• Send e-mail to
• Make sure to put WBRS Live Music in the Subject line, use plain text only. Otherwise your e-mail may be ignored.
• Do not send postal mail. We no longer do any booking via postal mail. Please E-MAIL ONLY instead. However, if you have a recording you'd like WBRS to play, send it to the music department, c/o the appropriate genre coordinator.
• Folks on or near campus are welcome to come see artists play live as well - see Directions below!
• If you're booked to play live music at WBRS, please read the Live Music FAQ

Getting to Brandeis University and WBRS:
WBRS is in Shapiro Campus Center, 3rd floor. Usually there's a big WBRS banner hanging from just outside our door. Take the stairs or elevator to the third floor, head for the corner opposite the elevator and follow the signs.

If you're coming to see a band play live, take the elevator up to the second floor, turn right, go across the walkway and straight into the Multi-Purpose Room.

Getting to WBRS via Public Transit
Brandeis University has its own MBTA Commuter Rail stop on the Fitchburg Line, which conveniently runs out of North Station (Green/Orange Lines, downtown Boston) & Porter Square (Red Line, Cambridge). The commuter rail stop is at the southwest corner of campus - see the campus map for where to go to get to Shapiro Center. The MBTA #553 Bus Line passes right through Brandeis, and the MBTA #70 Bus Line passes not too far from it as well.

Complete Driving Directions to Brandeis
(QUICK DIRECTIONS) From I-90/MassPike exit 14/15 & I-95/Rt.128 exit 24.....Take the exit for Route 30. Look for signs saying "Brandeis University", or signs saying "Mass Pike entrance" (the entrance is off of South St.) Turn north onto South St. and you'll immediately pass the Mass Pike entrance on your right, and also Norumbega Rd/Duck Feeding Area on your right as well. Go about two miles. Cross over the commuter railroad tracks, go up the little hill and the entrance to Brandeis's campus is on your left. Click here for comprehensive directions

Brandeis University Campus Map
Parking on campus is admittedly not easy, but it's easier if it's after business hours or during school vacation/holiday. Easiest is to make a hard left as you turn onto campus and then make the second left into the Admissions Parking lot. Across from this lot is a field and the Shapiro Campus Center is across the field. Click here for a campus map

If you're a band who's playing live, there is a way to get your car/truck a lot closer to unload your gear! Instead of making a hard left as described above, angle right up the hill once you get on campus. Take the first left (at the crosswalk) and snake around the parking area (it's a winding path of one-ways) going under an overpass that connects Friedland and Kalman buildings. After the overpass follow the parking lot to the right and there's another parking lot next to the Observatory. Angle to the left and down the hill - you're finally at Shapiro! There's some visitor parking on the left but you can safely park closer to the door for a few minutes if you're unloading gear. When done, if there's still no visitor spaces, go back up the little hill and park in the Observatory lot.