Left Of The Dial #523 - How To Withdraw From Society & Listen To Music Alone
Stimulator Jones is perhaps the only artist from the Appalachian Mountain region to be signed to the oddball West coast hip-hop label Stones Throw . He’s an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, from...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #541 - A Way Cooler Name
Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards spoke with Mary Louise Kelly at The Mothership . In it they spoke about the new album, growing out of face-paint, and they tackle the topic of white privilege. There's new...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #547 - This One Time, On Bandcamp
There's a new release from Car Seat Headrest out, and a lot of people, myself included, had not heard the quirky wit of Will Toledo until he started putting out music on Matador. Turns out the guy is...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #557 - It Will Just Be The Start
My absolute favorite thing on the show this week is this song right here. So good. Also, if you want to seek out some chill vibes and have a machine-fascination with things that make noise this feature...
View ArticleLeft Of The Dial #563 - Make Me Hear
This week we'll hear new music from a couple of '90s-era bands, the underappreciated Belly, and Eels. I can't ever think about Eels without thinking about an episode of the PBS program Nova that I...
View ArticleLeft 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 #541 - A Way Cooler Name
Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards spoke with Mary Louise Kelly at The Mothership . In it they spoke about the new album, growing out of face-paint, and they tackle the topic of white privilege. There's new...
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