Left of the Dial #5 - Left of the Style
That Ryan Adams, a 40-year-old man with a sizable and well-respected discography covered the entirety of Taylor Swift's 1989 has captured a lot of people's attentions. Josh Tillman, otherwise known has...
View ArticleLeft of the Dial #7 - American Football
This week we have the unfortunate occasion to feature a great musician from a great band, Carey Lander, keyboard-player and backup vocalist of Camera Obscura, who died October 11 at the age of 33.
View ArticleLeft of the Dial #11 - The Future
The Friday before Back to the Future Day the band YACHT released an album titled I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler. Not that these things are related, but it does make one think how great a working...
View ArticleLeft of the Dial #13 - I Remember Halloween
It's Halloween this weekend so obviously we've got to break out the weirder tracks in the music library. Some songs are blatantly about Halloween, such as my favorite song of the holiday, The Postmarks...
View ArticleLeft of the Dial #17 - Groovy
This week's show kicks off with the music of Onward Chariots, a project of Ben Morrs, who is also a web developer and is working on a musical adaptation of the children's book series Angelina Ballerina.
View ArticleLeft of the Dial #19 - Beach House
If you're like me, you saw that someone slowed down the music of The Chipmunks and immediately thought that your imagination of what that would sound like was sufficient, and then didn't bother...
View ArticleLeft of the Dial #23 - A Great Place To Visit
You can hear Left of the Dial Friday nights from 9:00 to 11:00, and Saturdays from noon to 2:00 on KRCU.
View ArticleLeft of the Dial #29 - Our Favorite Music Of 2015
We're wrapping up another year which means it's time to share our favorite music from 2015. This year Zarah Laurence, who is managing editor at the Southeast Arrow, has joined us to talk about the...
View ArticleLeft of the Dial #31 - The '88 Sound
This week on the show, every song we're playing is from 1988. It's been a blast listening to all of this music and I love how with so many songs you can tell the sounds of the '90s are ready to burst...
View ArticleLeft of the Dial #37 - Star Wars
This week it's a Star Wars themed show. We've got band named from references to the films, adoration for its main characters, and lines slipped in there to find out who's paying attention. Star Wars...
View ArticleLeft of the Dial #43 - Rockin' Into 2016
It's a new year and as we had so manyawesome"themed" shows at the end of 2015, we're using this week to pick up some things that got neglected at the end of last year, but there's a
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #47 - The Stars Look Very Different
The fact that David Bowie put out new music last week would be reason enough to play it, but of course his death has added a layer to it that’s difficult to ignore, and knowing now that he was...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #53 - тогда было все по-другому
Yeasayer - I Am Chemistry from Mute on Vimeo.
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #61 - What To Do Tonight
Iggy Pop has teamed up with Josh Homme, who is likely best known for his band Queens of the Stone age. Supposedly the two worked in secret on Post Pop Depression and if the lead single "Gardenia" is...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #67 - Not A Valentine's Show
It was tempting to try to do a Valentine's Day themed episode this weekend as the holiday can be rather fun and is ripe for parody and ridicule, but I ultimately decided that pretty much all pop songs...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #71 - I Understand The Fans
Saul Williams is a mutli-talented true artist and his music is passionate, declarative, and intellectual. His latest album is titled MartyrLoserKing and in an NPR interview he shares that it is the...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #83 - All You Need Is Ears
Though the circumstances of why are unfortunate, this week has been aneducationalone.
View ArticleLeft of the Dial #89 - Spring Break
I did not know that ThaoNguyen got ferocious, but I always suspected it. Mitski is a singer-songwriter with a sharp wit, blunt vocabulary, and beautiful delivery. Her latest song, "Your Best American...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #97 - Melancholy And The Infinite Regress
You might say Margo Price is blowing up right now, having released her debut album on Jack White’s record label, her recent booking on Saturday Night Live, and her stand-in appearance on Fiona Apple’s...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #103 - Twee As Funk
There's this video making the rounds, of Prince making a guitar disappear after shredding through "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" in a performance for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. While the...
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