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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Radio / Conflict of Interest / Upcoming Greg Vandy's Spring Soul Jamboree Invitational on KEXP April 4
Posted by Dave Segal on Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:13 AM
KEXP DJ Greg Vandy is holding his annual Spring Soul Jamboree Invitational Wed. April 4 on 90.3 FM and at kexp.org (6 pm-9 pm). Every year, the host of The Roadhouse asks five DJs to spin their all-time top 5 soul songs and to briefly discuss them. This year, Vandy’s invited Triple Door talent buyer Scott Giampino (aka Self-Administered Beatdown, former impresario of the Soul Hole monthly), Garrett Lunceford (Sophisticated Mama), Marc Muller (Emerald City Soul Club), Christian Science (DUG), and, uh, me. (Greg probably wanted a dilettante to add some “quirky” surprises to the mix.)
The guidelines: all songs must be from 1965 to 1975 and under four minutes. The latter restriction is kind of a bummer, because it eliminates potential selections like Funkadelic’s “What Is Soul” and Dr. John’s “Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya Ya.” Nevertheless, there are plenty of immortal gems to be found that run under 240 seconds, and I hope to dig through my stash and do the show justice. Those other guys are guaranteed to bring the heat, as many possess 45s that individually cost more than your monthly rent payment. Tune in, turn on, drop trou.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Radio Getting Your Music Played On the Radio Isn't As Hard As You Might Think
Posted by Megan Seling on Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:31 PM
- It might be best to not send a cassette tape to the radio station.
To start:
Before you send anything, know who you're sending it to.
If you're a metal band, don't send your music to the hiphop show. If you're a funk band, don't send your music to a heavy metal radio station (also, don't be a funk band). It sounds like obvious advice, right? Nope. I've been hosting Locals Only, the Pacific Northwest music show, for years, and I often receive press packages from bands out of New York and California with clueless letters promising "the Locals Only audience will love us!" Not only is it a waste of time and money, but you look stupid.
Do a little research and find out if the stations in your area have local music shows and start there. If your favorite radio station has specialty shows, as many do, find out which hosts play which genres and reach out to them instead of just blindly sending a package to the programming or music director. "KEXP DJs have the freedom and responsibility for programming their own shows, to curate the music mix," says Cole. "In addition to programming their shows, they're on a quest to discover new music and suggest new releases to be added to the library."
Even more good advice—including what to include in a press kit—can be found right here.
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Drinking / Nightlife / Party! / Radio / TacocaT Look at this Disgusting Wall of Mucus! (And Other Secrets You Should Know About the Seattle Music Scene)
Posted by Megan Seling on Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:38 AM
MUSICIANS! Look! This week's paper features the Rock-and-Roll Survival Guide, where we shine a light on some of the grimiest, darkest, and most confusing corners of the music industry.
Want to know how to tour without killing a bandmate? Emily Nokes of Tacocat tells you!
Want to hear about all the shitty jobs you might have to endure in order to eat while trying to make it as a musician? Lars Finberg of the Intelligence shares his stories!
Need some tips for drinking at shows without completely ruining your life or reputation? Kelly O knows all the secrets!
Want to get your music played on the radio? DJs from 107.7 the End and KEXP have some tips for you!
There are also informative interviews with record producer Erik Blood, Grammy winner Ishmael Butler, and the Crocodile's talent buyers Melissa Darby and Hunter Motto.
But that's not all: Bree McKenna invades three local practice spaces and uncovers a Seattle landmark even more disgusting than the infamous Wall of Gum. It's a WALL OF MUCUS:
- Timothy Rysdyke
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Right Now / Radio Don't Talk to the Cops! Talk About the Cops With Steve Scher on KUOW
Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:24 AM
My Philosophy columnist, Don't Talk to the Cops! hype man, and general hell raiser Larry Mizell and Seattle singer Choklate Moore are about to talk about issues in the SPD while Steve Scher bumbles over his words and alternates that with asking follow-up questions that were already answered with the first answer. Tune in right over here to hear the magic.
Monday, March 5, 2012
Right Now / Radio Barry Adamson Guests on KEXP Right Now!
Posted by Dave Segal on Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:12 PM
DJ El Toro (Stranger freelancer Kurt B. Reighley) is hosting Barry Adamson on KEXP right now. Tune in at 90.3 FM or at kexp.org and hear our Kurt interview the phenomenal bassist/composer who's played with Magazine and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, among others. Adamson will also be playing songs off his new album, I Will Set You Free.
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
Radio KISW's Metal Shop Adds a Fourth Hour
Posted by Grant Brissey on Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:30 PM
Congrats to Stranger contributor Kevin Diers and co-host Ian. I had no idea that Metal Shop is "the longest-running metal specialty program on commercial radio in the United States." Stay up with them on Saturday night and thrash your shit until 3 am now instead of just weak little 2 am. Also, LOOK AT THE PICTURE OF KEVIN AFTER THE ABOVE LINK. Press release after the jump.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Radio Kate Bush to Be Interviewed on KEXP at 3 pm
Posted by Dave Segal on Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:49 PM
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Radio / History John Peel's Huge Record Collection Soon to Be Accessible to You
Posted by Dave Segal on Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:33 AM
Via nme.com
The music collection of the late, legendary BBC radio DJ John Peel is going to be turned into an “interactive online museum.” Consisting of a reported 25,000 LPs, 40,000 singles, and several thousand CDs, Peel’s collection (which is almost as massive as Mike Nipper’s) will compose a segment of The Space, a new digital service overseen by the Arts Council England and the BBC. This archive will be available for your online interacting from May to October.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Radio Pat Thomas Talks About Listen, Whitey! on WNYC Feb. 22
Posted by Dave Segal on Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:27 AM
Seattle-based author Pat Thomas will discuss his forthcoming book, Listen, Whitey! The Sights & Sounds of Black Power 1965-1975, Wed. Feb. 22 on the WNYC show Soundcheck (no relation to Trent Moorman's Stranger column). The program airs at 2 pm and 10 pm EST and is archived at WNYC.org. You can also hear it live at 2 pm on Sirius XM channel 121.
That same day, Thomas will also be speaking about his book and the accompanying soundtrack on Light in the Attic on Greg Vandy's KEXP show The Roadhouse (6:30 pm - 7:45 pm).
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Radio Re: Happy Phil Collins Day!
Posted by Anna Minard on Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:23 PM
Thanks, Megan! You reminded me of this: Remember that time Starlee Kine from This American Life decided to try and write a torch song after a painful breakup, and then she decided to call Phil Collins for help, and he actually called back? Hilarity! No better way to celebrate the day after Valentine's/Phil Collins Day than listening to that for free right here.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Radio / Interview Erik Davis Interviews Alan Bishop on Expanding Mind
Posted by Dave Segal on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:11 PM
On the Progressive Radio Network show Expanding Mind, writer Erik Davis explores various states of cultural consciousness and global sound archeology with Seattle-based musician/Sublime Frequencies label co-owner Alan Bishop (formerly of Sun City Girls, Alvarius B.). Bishop reveals that some of the SF projects on the horizon include a Malaysian comp, a collection of Moroccan folk, and something unspecified on Malian music by co-honcho Hisham Mayet. He also discusses dealing with grim, suspicious Burmese (Myanmarese?) police searching his room at 3 am.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Tonight / Radio DJ Self-Administered Beatdown on KCBS's Uncle Meghabhuti Show
Posted by Dave Segal on Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:44 AM
One of the city’s savviest spinners of funk and soul jams, DJ Self-Administered Beatdown (aka Triple Door talent buyer Scott Giampino), will be subbing for regular hosts Lila Kitaeff and Antoine da Funkscribe on KBCS’s Uncle Meghabhuti show from 7-9 tonight. You can tune in at 91.3 FM in the Seattle area or via www.kbcs.fm. Expect to hear dope, rare cuts like the one below.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Radio Sandrider Play KEXP Tonight at 8 pm
Posted by Grant Brissey on Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 12:31 PM
If you don't know Sandrider by now, your rock cred is officially revoked. The jet-propelled Seattle heavy rock trio is comprised of Jon Weisnewski and Nat Damm of Akimbo and Jesse Roberts of The Ruby Doe/Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds. Their self-titled debut sports streamlined, steamroller chord progressions and tig-welded riffs that take turns driving and flying over Nat Damm’s notoriously unflappable beat. It’s hard rock, but you can write to it. (Which is nearly impossible with most rock records.) You could do lots of things to this forceful and sophisticated avalance of sound: World domination. Fortress building. Ruling your kingdom. Fishing. Turn on KEXP tonight at 8 pm to hear the business.
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Lists / Radio KEXP DJs' Top-10 Albums Lists
Posted by Dave Segal on Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:25 PM
Because you’ve not yet had your fill of year-end lists this month, we present to you the top-10 albums lists of Seattle radio station KEXP’s programmers. If there’s one conclusion we can arrive at from this, it’s that KEXP's on-air talent (nine of 'em) loves Shabazz Palaces’ Black Up. (By the way, this is the only album that my top 10 has in common with KEXP’s DJs.) Black Up—along with James Blake’s self-titled full-length—are the great uniters among the station’s jocks. Peruse the lists here.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Hey You Fucking Kids! / Crap / Radio This Damn Song
Posted by Anna Minard on Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:59 AM
After hearing a song for at least the third or fourth time over the Thanksgiving weekend (in grocery stores, in commercials), I sent my brother a text about it. When it comes to contemporary popular music, I often prefer picking his brain to googling.
To: [Little Brother]
Sent: Sat, Nov 26, 7:34 pmWhat is this “something something in the house tonight/everybody gonna have a good time” song? “Every day I’m shufflin’… wickawickawheeewheeeeeee” etc. ?
The song, he immediately informed me, was “Party Rock Anthem,” by LFMAO.
It has now been stuck in my head for three days, and I am slowly losing my mind. I went to Damn You Autocorrect! for unrelated laughs and there was a (comically autocorrected) conversation about having that song stuck in your head. This morning I started uncontrollably humming it. When I googled "party rock anthem stuck in my head" there were over 200,000 hits. Then (because of the googling) I found myself watching approximately a trillion YouTube videos of 10 year old girls' gymnastics routines/marching band performances/little kids sitting on their mom's laps, all doing their thing to this song, and now I really can’t escape it. My new plan is, of course, loudly humming ’50s TV theme songs, the only surefire ohrwurm-removal method. (And double grrrr: LMFAO always serves to remind me of LFO, a band name I would like to forget. Fie!)
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Tonight / Radio / RIP Tizzy T RIP - Tribute @ Skybox Tonight
Posted by Larry Mizell, Jr. on Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 5:42 PM
Late notice: any Line Out readers that are also lovers of local hiphop and want to show support for the late Tizzy T, hit up the Skybox Lounge this evening and sprinkle his family with some help and good vibes.
A couple weeks ago I had DJ Topspin and The Note come through Street Sounds and do an hour-long tribute to their lost comrade, have a listen:
RIP TIZZY T - STREET SOUNDS 10/23/11 HOUR 2 by lar206
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Right Now / Radio SBTRKT Plays Live on KEXP @ 3 PM
Posted by Dave Segal on Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:53 PM
London-based, post-dubstep soul man SBTRKT performs live on KEXP at 3 pm on Kevin Cole's Afternoon Show. Tune in here or at 90.3 FM on the radio dial. Later tonight, SBTRKT does another set at Neptune Theatre. Rumors abound that Shabazz Palaces might make a cameo appearance.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Radio / Upcoming Jackie-O Motherfucker's Tom Greenwood and Others Live on Hollow Earth Radio Saturday
Posted by Dave Segal on Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:48 PM
Local DIY, freeform internet radio station Hollow Earth Radio is hosting a free all-ages show at its HQ Sat. Oct. 8, 9 pm. Headliner and Jackie-O Motherfucker mainstay Tom Greenwood will be improvising his distinctive form of avant-Americana music and showing the film The Salem Singers. Also performing live on the webbage: Dull Knife, My Printer Broke, (Garrett Kelly [WaMü], Rachel LeBlanc [WaMü], and Zack Shaw [Kuru Cult, Prawnyxx], and Portland's Sun Foot, who include visual artist Chris Johanson.
More info here.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Band / Radio Hear Olivia Tremor Control Live on NPR
Posted by Dave Segal on Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:29 PM
Did you miss Olivia Tremor Control at Vera Project earlier this month? Well, NPR has partially made up for that oversight by making OTC’s show at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City last night available for streaming.
Even if you did catch the Athens, Georgia psych-pop nonet’s Vera set, you might want to tune in. These guys didn’t lose any of their fiery inventiveness or whimsical charm during their lengthy hiatus. OTC’s pyschedelia has the rare ability to flirt with madness and also to plunge headlong into shaggy amiability—and sound equally adept at both modes.
(Also, be on the lookout for Chunklet’s reissues of Dusk at Cubist Castle and Black Foliage, out Nov. 15.)
Friday, August 12, 2011
Midday Veil to Play on KEXP's Audioasis
Posted by Dave Segal at 10:52 AM in Radio / Upcoming
Monday, August 8, 2011
Schnitzler Tribute on Hollow Earth Radio Today
Posted by Dave Segal at 11:33 AM in Radio / Teh Internets
Monday, August 1, 2011
Medical Records' Dr. Troy on Hollow Earth Radio Today
Posted by Dave Segal at 12:31 PM in Radio / Teh Internets
Friday, June 24, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Hollow Earth Radio Show Seeks Strange Music
Posted by Dave Segal at 2:55 PM in Radio / Teh Internets
Monday, June 13, 2011
Late Notice: Neighbors Live on Hollow Earth Tonight
Posted by Jason Baxter at 5:48 PM in Tonight / Radio / Tip
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Benoit Pioulard to Play Live on KEXP at 1 am
Posted by Dave Segal at 11:59 AM in Tonight / Radio
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
He Whose Ox Is Gored on Audioasis May 7
Posted by Dave Segal at 12:13 PM in Radio / Upcoming
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Tit Pig Play Live on Sonic Reducer Tonight
Posted by Grant Brissey at 8:23 PM in Radio
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Mary Anne Hobbs Is Live on KEXP at 3 pm Today
Posted by Dave Segal at 11:53 AM in Radio
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Pat Thomas Discusses Black Power-Inspired Music on Hollow Earth Radio
Posted by Dave Segal at 2:06 PM in Tonight / Radio
Saturday, March 26, 2011
No Witchcraft Tonight at Ballard Mine, and Gripes About Student Radio's Rep
Posted by Jason Baxter at 12:41 PM in Tonight / Radio / Tip
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
kikiilimikilii and Nathan Wheeler to Play at Hollow Earth Radio Feb. 23
Posted by Dave Segal at 1:48 PM in Radio / Upcoming
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