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Destroyer: Artist You Should Know

Sunday, February 12th, 2012
(Since Destroyer’utes show at the Troubadour tonight comes out, those who missed out on seat tickets can enjoy a couple tunes and some choice words from KCRW Disk jockey Raul Campos)I have to give credit where credit is due. Eric J Lawrence, each of our trusty KCRW Music Librarian and human music encyclopedia, turned me on (read more...)

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Support Japan with The Morning Benders

Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
By Betsy Moyer, Interactive Producer and also Social Media ManagerI have a massive music crush on The Morning hours Benders. Naturally after reading the asking from TMB front man Chris to support Japan, his host to birth – I have to pass along the message.Donate and download the Japan Echo EP such as some great (read more...)

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Badly Drawn Boy, Toro ful Moi, Sharon Van Etten and More on KCRW

Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Future Live Performances on Morning hours BECOMES ECLECTIC with host JASON BENTLEYTuesday, March Twenty-two, UK singer Badly Drawn Boy has a knack coming from storytelling, weaving his thoughts and suffers from into intimate songs hefty with emotion. He’ll conduct new tracks when he joins Morning Becomes Contemporary .Wednesday, March 23, Chaz Bundick, most widely known (read more...)

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DJ Valida’s SXSW Wrap Up

Monday, January 23rd, 2012
From Disk jockey Valida:This having been my very first SXSW, I am happy to say it had been one of the best experiences ever and I can’t wait for next year. All of my expectations were met triple-fold — the amount of amazing music I got to hear, the new people I fulfilled and the (read more...)

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SXSW Preview: DJ Anthony Valadez’s “Bands to Watch”

Monday, January 23rd, 2012
Below are a few of the bands on my radar with regard to SXSW 2011:1) Foster & People — They have a great fun pop audio.  I have listened to a few of their information so it will be really enjoyable to see them live!Supply Foster the People’s “Helena Beat”Audio clip: Adobe Expensive Player (version (read more...)

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SXSW Preview: DJ Dan Wilcox’s “Bands in order to Watch”

Saturday, January 21st, 2012
From KCRW DJ Dan Wilcox:This year will mark my In 7th place sojourn to Austin for the SXSW Audio Conference.  Around this time, I commence the painstaking process of checking the SXSW site, MySpace web pages, invite e-mails and blogs… all to be able to formulate the ultimate SXSW schedule, in the hopes of discovering (read more...)

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SXSW Preview: The Vaccines

Monday, January 2nd, 2012
Don’t think that all of the praise The Vaccines are getting at the moment is going to go to his or her heads.One of the most buzzed-about bands associated with 2011, the UK quartet already has got the “Hottest Record In the World” jerk from BBC’s Zane Lowe, an Nick Best New Band nominee, an (read more...)

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SXSW Preview: DJ Valida’s Artists to see at SXSW

Friday, December 30th, 2011
Foster The People: I have been enamored with all the band ever since I observed it on Eclectic Twenty four a few months back. Their songs are so well crafted in rhythm and melody along with the mood they create makes me personally want to jump up and also down…They have that iesistible groove that (read more...)

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The Kills, Raphael Saadiq, Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr and More

Saturday, November 26th, 2011
Upcoming Live Performances on MORNING BECOMES Diverse with host JASON BENTLEYFriday, March 14, Hailing from the Electric motor City, indie pop breakout band Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. produce a pit stop to share stay tracks from their upcoming full length for Morning Becomes Contemporary listeners . (Hear their brand-new track!)**Special Programming LIVE via SXSW in (read more...)

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SXSW Preview: James Blake (Playing in Prefix)

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
(Our regular blog audience will know that KCRW DJ Anthony Valadez previously wrote a post on this performer earlier this year, but it never damages to have a second perspective. Especially on an artist with so very much buzz! )Playing on Prefix is often a feature on KCRW’s Music Weblog in which writers from the (read more...)

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