Host Profile

Adam’s been involved with WYEP since June of 2000. He’s hosted overnights, the Sunday Music Mix, the Tuesday Evening Music Mix, and now does the Saturday Mix weekly from 10a-2pm. Adam’s involvement with radio dates back to the Fall of 1996 with Allegheny College’s radio station WARC.

Adam also is (or has been at one time or another) an actor, director, teacher, barista, secretary, camp counselor . . . and will always be a student of life, a poet, a traveler, and a lover of music.

Music that always moves him (in no particular order): Morphine, Andrew Bird, Tom Waits, Portishead, Modest Mouse, Sarah Harmer, Fiona Apple, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Norah Jones, Josh Ritter, Laura Veirs, Rufus Wainwright, DeVotchKA, The Black Keys, Rebecca Loebe, April Smith, Elizabeth & The Catapult, Counting Crows, The Wallflowers . . . and the list goes on, and on, and on . . . .

Adam’s Top Albums of 2009:
1. The Avett Brothers- I & Love & You
2. Elizabeth & The Catapult- Taller Children
3. Phoenix- Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
4. Portugal, The Man- The Satanic Satanists
5. Jessica Lea Mayfield- With Blasphemy So Heartfelt
6. Wilco- Wilco (The Album)
7. Dan Auerbach- Keep It Hid
8. Brandi Carlile- Give Up The Ghost
9. Elvis Perkins- Elvis Perkins In Dearland
10. Regina Spektor- Far

Adam’s Top Albums of 2008:
1. DeVotchKa- A Mad & Faithful Telling
2. She & Him- Volume 1
3. Ben Sollee- Learning To Bend
4. Death Cab for Cutie- Narrow Stairs
5. Beck- Modern Guilt
6. Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend
7. The Black Keys- Attack & Release
8. Coldplay- Viva La Vida
9. Ben Folds- Way To Normal
10. The Puppini Sisters- The Rise & Fall of Ruby Woo