Wednesday, from 10-12 pm, subject yourself to Spiritual Exercises put on by Cass Balzer ’16 and Spencer Michaud ’16.
This radio show is one of a kind in this day and age. They play some of the heaviest music they can find, just for you, every week. The music is raw and open-ended. And is only for those true music lovers that seek to gain something from their listening experience.
They also play other types of music like folk and what have you, but they want people to truly listen to the lyrics of the songs and all the other aspects of it. “We play challenging music because we want listeners to be pushed out of their comfort zones and give them a “ new experience that they learn from.” – Cass.
The show is called The Spiritual Exercises because they hope you gain some kind of enlightenment through their show. They also look for you to learn from the many subcultures of metal they play: like drone, slug, and crust.
When it comes to metal, they have an endless amount of choices to pick from because the sub- cultures of metal are constantly growing and new ones are always popping up, so one never knows what they will play for their listeners.
“I still listen to them,” Nate Sousa, a Lake Forest College alum, had to say despite being graduated for almost a year now.
Cass started off as an archivist for WMXM before taking over the Metal MC position, and now she runs the club and does stuff like organizing things, filling positions, and the usual paperwork.
Her show is only going to be around for the rest of this semester because both of the DJs in charge are graduating this spring. Be sure to try and listen to a couple of the shows they offer before they go off the WMXM air for good.
