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JPR Music is a place that celebrates music discovery. It's a place that collects what we think is exciting on the contemporary music scene, in the State of Jefferson and beyond. JPR Music features exclusive Live Sessions, reviews by JPR music hosts, NPR Tiny Desk concerts and First Listens of new releases. Visit often ... and re-discover music!

Retro Lounge Celebrates 20 years

On Saturday night at 9pm, The Retro Lounge with Lars & The Nurse celebrates twenty years of JPR broadcasts!  

Since 1993, Lars and the Nurse have been weaving together truly eclectic (read: quirky, unusual, often weird) music with a slowly unfolding mythical tale of the Lounge and it's vast array of characters.

Hosts Lars and Traci Svendsgaard met as students at then-Southern Oregon State College in the 1980s. Traci had been working on an award-winning radio program called Chatterbox, and Lars was brainstorming a show that could incorporate music from the "fringes" in a way that would entertain and captivate audiences.

The show was The Retro Lounge, launched in October twenty years ago, and it has been a Saturday night staple ever since on the Rhythm & News Service.  JPR is proud of their achievement, and dedication to the station.

Happy Birthday guys, and thank you for all you've done!

As FM Network Program Director and Music Director, Eric oversees many aspects of JPR's broadcast day. He still hosts the occasional Open Air or classical music shift, and is the driving force behind JPR Live Sessions - our popular series of live in-studio music performances and conversations.