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Even if you know nothing about the Portland-by-way-of-L.A. band's long and tortured history…
- ↑ "PopMatters Short Takes: Brief Reviews of New Music". October 1, 2003. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
Watsonville Patio have a sound that is truly theirs and rock creatively over the course of the five songs on this disc [...] The secret may very well be vocalist Janice Grube, one of those leading ladies that any guy would love to have fronting his band.
- ↑ "WK Radio Portland". Shots (115): 31. June 2009.
Janice Grube [...] who heads up the station as a programme director, says the idea for WK Radio came to her when the job of music supervisor opened up at the agency
- ↑ Laura Oppenheimer (April 15, 2009). "Wieden+Kennedy gets real with online radio". The Oregonian. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
What: WK Radio, in-house station at Wieden+Kennedy
- ↑ "WK Radio : Coming Soon". Archived from the original on September 8, 2009. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
WK Radio/T.V. We're Remodeling.
- ↑ Christine Clarke (July 6, 2009). "Aaron Rose hits the road for Wieden+Kennedy". Boards Magazine. Archived from the original on September 27, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2009.
...the project is only a small slice of what Rose was brought into Wieden to do. His primary job is to help the agency develop an online media channel, which will debut September 1. The channel will air original content produced by W+K