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KIT – Live on KXLU

One of the most wonderful bands in the world came up to KXLU to play some rock music for us recently. I’ve been a fan of these kids and all their many other endeavors (too many to list/all of them fantastic) …

Steve McLaughlin

The only way to listen to the Beatles. At hyper speed! Wow. Just uncovered this gem from Steve McLaughlin called “Run For Your Life” which compresses the entire discography of The Beatles into one hour-long track of hyper bliss. Surprisingly …

Male Bonding – Live on KXLU

These fine Brits stopped by KXLU right before the last show of their massive 7 week US tour. I was really excited to see them, having known Kevin and John from their previous band, PRE (and for full disclosure, Kevin’s …

Goooooo LIONS!

When faced with the choice between taking down all my podcasts from my privately owned website or losing my radio show, the choice was easy.

Hopefully one day KXLU will be able to allow podcasts or streams of everyone’s show. …

Best song ever about Magic Johnson!

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A half spoken-word, half “We are the World” type epic ballad. Niki Rios, a 9 year old girl narrates and sings. From a cassingle (1991).

I found it on a compilation called “Celebrity PSAs” which has some terrible gems. It’s …

Head and Leg

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This record always makes my day. I first heard it a couple of years ago, entirely on accident. I don’t know where it came from, but there it was on my computer. Gotta love when that happens. The first track …

Bill Hicks (censored)

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Bill Hicks is my personal Lord and Savior. Anyone not familiar with his wonderful comedic preaching should check out these live sets from Egg City Radio. That should be sufficient to blowing your mind wide open.

I love to play …

Fun With Animals

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I am crazy obsessed with this song. It’s catchy as hell, gets stuck in my head all the time.

I really, really, really want to cover this song, I suppose I need to learn an instrument that makes actual music.…

Ume

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I saw Ume a long time ago (2002???) and fell in love. I told the (incredibly adorable) lead singer/guitar player that she reminded me of Kurt Cobain, not sure she took that as a compliment.

They’re still around, from the …

Scorpion

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This record is crazy good. I was playing it a few weeks ago and Marty McSorley was listening and told me to post it here for him. Garage rock, 1970. Not the band The Scorpions. This is Scorpion, singular. Swedish!…