Show Review – Wilco @ INB PAC

by DJ Nae, Co-Host of Common People

Best known for their heavily influential album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco exemplifies the genre of Alt-country but also takes it to a weird place. This is all conveyed from the view of fan-girl that idolized the group during her most musically influential years. After a confusing latter chapter of the bands career (see post A Ghost is Born years), I had not paid attention to their newest release. Sky Blue Sky, featured in various car adverts, marked a decline that would culminate in a self-titled album that even Wilco super-fans didn’t really like. You really have to take a moment to reflect when you’re buying the newest album of your indie-heroes in a Starbucks, even if they have been on a major label for years. Yet, the new album The Whole Love marked a regression to what worked for the band. With a re-sparked interest and a tiny grudge against ticket prices, I headed to Spokane on February 6^th to witness a band that I had once idolized age gracefully before my eyes.

Shades “Clear Motions” Review

Album review by KUOI DJ Lindsay, host of Constructive Interference.

Boise band Shades released their debut album Clear Motions to an excited collection of local and regional fans last Tuesday. They’ve been buzzed about by the likes of the Boise Weekly and The C.O.T. for good reason. Featuring echoey vocals, dreamy synths and gratuitous amounts of bass, Shades makes dancehall ready tunes with laser-like precision.

Anticipation 2012

Here are some picks from KUOI staff and DJs for releases we’re looking forward to in the coming year.  We are quite excited.

Kentaro Murai, Program Director

Dirty Beaches – Zoo Music LP 2
Fuxa – Electric Sound of Summer
Chrome Cranks – Ain’t No Lies In Blood
Crocodiles – ?
Dirty Three – Toward the Low Sun
Black Breath – ?
Frankie Rose - Interstellar
Gallon Drunk – ?
King Elephant – ?
Plateaus – Elefant 7″
Boy Friend – Egyptian Wrinkle
Spiritualized – Sweet Heart Sweet Light
Cheap Curls – 7″

Already Out

Porcelain Raft – Strange Weekend
Heavy Hawaii – Super Bowl XXIX 7″

Interview – Jesse Sykes

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Photos by Program Director Kentaro Murai.  Taken at the Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter Marble Son album release show on August 4, 2011 at the Showbox Market in Seattle.

Here’s the interview that Captain Ron Blow did with Jesse Sykes here in the KUOI studios last October.  Enjoy!

Listeria AKA Yearendingitis 2011

Here it is again, the year end-stravaganza.

As ever, right out the gate, we have some KUOI DJ lists of music. Everyone here was or is a DJ and every entrant was given as much breathing room as they desired in constructing their lists. These lists are chock-full of fantastic music from a fantastic year, hand picked by people who know and love their music. Thanks for reading, enjoy, and stay tuned for at least one more holiday gift from your awkward uncles that only show up around the holidays here at KUOI Blog.

Ethan Arave – (KUOI Music Director)

Tracks:

1.  Colin Stetson – Fear of the Unknown And The Blazing Sun
2.  Dimlite – Metal Snake
3.  Fourtet – Locked
4.  Modselektor – Blue Clouds
5.  Keith Fullerton Whitman – 101105
6.  Oneohtrix Point Never – Replica
7.  Shabazz Palaces – Free Press & Curl
8.  Siriusmo – Idiologie
9.  James Blackshaw – Holly
10.  Jai Paul – BTSTU (Edit)
11.  Daphni – Ahora (Or pretty much anything Caribou remixed this year, he killed it with his remixes and his cuts as Daphni)
12.  Colin Stetson – Clothed in the Skin of the Dead
13.  Bill Orcutt – How The Thing Sings
14.  Bill Callahan – America!
15.  Telebossa – Eu Sonhei Que Tu Estavas Tao Linda

A Fucked Up Station ID

Photo taken by KUOI Program Director Kentaro at ATP NY 2010 at Kutsher’s Country Club Monticello, NY in September 2010.

As if further proof was need that Fucked Up’s Pink Eyes is a chatty fellow and an all-around nice guy, here’s a station ID that Program Director Kentaro got at ATP NY 2010.  Enjoy!

Fucked Up’s “David Comes To Life” is on the New Music Shelf.  Request line: 208.885.6392

Northwest Rockin’ Road Trip

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Program Director Kentaro went out to the coast earlier this month.  Here’s his report:

10.8.11  Olympia, WA.  NUTS! #8 Release Party.  There was a myriad of bands playing at this all-day festival held in a roofless building.  Hysterics were fierce and played an excellent cover of “Institutionalized.”  Christian Mistress (not pictured) delivered a much-needed headbanging soundtrack.

In Station Roundup 10/17/2011

Well hello there.

Much has happened, midterms have come and gone, College Radio day followed suite. Now it’s quiet for a bit, which means blog posts can be made! I think Ken has some interesting content in the pipes, but for now I’ll just speak to new stuff we’ve received lately.

College Radio Day 2011, In Cue Fall 2011

October the 11th was college radio day! The In Cue is fully available on-line for any to check out along with last In-Cue. Enjoy.

www.collegeradioday.com/

In Cue Fall 2011