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!
View ArticleLeft 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,...
View ArticleLeft 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...
View ArticleLeft 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...
View ArticleLeft 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...
View ArticleLeft 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...
View ArticleLeft 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...
View ArticleLeft 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...
View ArticleLeft 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,...
View ArticleLeft 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,...
View ArticleLeft 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...
View ArticleLeft 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...
View ArticleLeft 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
View ArticleLeft 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...
View ArticleLeft 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...
View ArticleLeft 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....
View ArticleLeft 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...
View ArticleLeft 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...
View ArticleLeft 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...
View ArticleLeft 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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