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Left Of The Dial #569 - Tweeborn

When metal songs are about playing metal as one's destiny: Left of the Dial airs Friday nights from 9-11 and Saturdays from noon-2 on KRCU. Thanks, Pete!

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Left Of The Dial #571 - Covers, Pt. 3

It's membership week here at KRCU so I am once again featuring the most fun type of song to listen to: the cover. It's like almost recognizing something. We’ll hear songs by Leonard Cohen, Pulp,...

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Left Of The Dial #577 - It Reaches The Treetops

Adrian Younge is a producer and composer whose credits include the incredibly tasty score to the Netflix series Luke Cage (alongside Ali Shaheed Muhammad). Younge's latest album, Adrian Younge...

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Left Of The Dial #587 - Little Features

There are a lot of outlets pointing out that Kendrick Lamar receiving a Pulitzer for DAMN. is not only the first rap album to receive the distinction, but it's the first non-classical non-jazz album to...

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Left Of The Dial #593 - Nowhere Or Las Vegas

This week we feature new music from Kamasi Washington. The saxophonist and composer has appeared on albums from Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar. His past compositions include a nearly three-hour long...

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Left Of The Dial #599 - A Stream Within A Stream

This week on Left of the Dial, KRCU’s independent music program, we hear the latest hook-filled offering from indie rock band Speedy Ortiz, new music from Stephen Malkmus that features Kim Gordon on...

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Left Of The Dial #607- Beneath The Yanny

This week we hear new music from Nightmares on Wax. That’s the moniker of DJ and electronic music producer George Evelyn. Nightmares on Wax was among the very first artists to be signed to the...

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Left Of The Dial #613 - Noms De Plume

Shara Nova, aka My Brightest Diamond has done opera, both as a composer and singer , brought power and terror to a Decemberists' rock opera and has made some strait ahead plain old good songs . Her...

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Left Of The Dial #617 - Engine Fly

This week on Left of the Dial, KRCU’s independent music program, we hear from Khruangbin, a Houston trio who are influenced by the sounds of ‘60’s-era Thai funk music. Plus new music from Neko Case,...

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Left Of The Dial #619 - Radio Is Happiness

This week we're playing the bonkers collaboration between Jean Grae and Quelle Chris. Everything's Fine is not merely an intricately produced funky jam featuring the MCs deftly dropping truth-bombs,...

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Left Of The Dial #631- Radio & Food

Cigarettes After Sex have a new song, "Crush," recorded at the same time they recorded their outstanding self-titled album released last year, and it's so good that it could have been the standout...

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Left Of The Dial #641 - Haywire

This week we've got new music from The Jayhawks. Singer/songwriter Gary Louris over the years has collaborated as a songwriter with a number of high profile musicians like Jacob Dylan and The Dixie...

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Left Of The Dial #643 - Whorl

Behold, the new Alice Glass video. Left of the Dial airs Friday nights from 9-11 and Saturdays from noon-2 on KRCU. TYPA

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Left Of The Dial #647 - Oscillate

Fit of Body is the moniker of Ryan Parks, an Atlanta musician who makes this kind of underground hip-hop and R&B put through a chillwave filter. His latest, titled Black Box No Cops is about a...

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Left Of The Dial #653 - The Bowsprit Of The Airwaves

This week we've got new music from a St. Louis band, Lightrider, and it's a fine example of well-executed post rock. Their debut EP is self-titled, and they're holding a release event on Friday, August...

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Left Of The Dial #659 - Windows Down

Have you heard of The Shipyard Music Festival? This week we've got music from the Kansas City band The Greeting Committee, who are among the seven bands scheduled to perform. Like, in Cape Girardeau....

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Left Of The Dial # 673 - Cut Me O

This week we've got new music from Punch Brothers. They brilliantly merge the sounds of bluegrass with that of modern classical. Listeners of Live from Here will recognize the deft mandolin playing and...

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Left Of The Dial #677 - The Sound Of Settling

This week we've got new music from Christine and the Queens, the project of French musician Héloïse Letissier. She adopted that moniker from the local drag queen musicians who formed her backing band...

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Left Of The Dial #683 - Smothered & Covered

It's membership week here at KRCU so every song on this week's show is a cover. We even have an hour entirely comprised of '80s songs. We’ll then acknowledge other decades as Speedy Ortiz covers Liz...

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Left Of The Dial #691 - NU2 u30s3

This week on Left of the Dial, KRCU’s independent music program, we hear from the Norwegian musician Farao. As a fan of Soviet disco she’s amassed a collection of Soviet-era synthesizers which she uses...

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