Nov 26, 2012 | ktru
Welcome to the last week of classes, everyone!
Sure, we know dead days aren’t until next weekend, but when there are so many great shows going on then, why not hold our festivities a little early so you can take in a concert?
KTRU makes for great studying music, anyways.
These contests are open to both Rice students and Houston community members.
We’ve got tickets to the following shows:
Old Crow Medicine Show at House of Blues – Friday 11/30
Given away:
9 PM Monday 11/26 during the Americana show
8 PM Thursday 11/29 during the Chickenskin show
Of Montreal at Warehouse Live – Monday 12/3
Given away:
3 PM Thursday 11/29
1 PM Friday 11/30
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All at House of Blues – Tuesday 12/4
Given away:
10 PM Tuesday 11/27 during the Vinyl Frontier
5 PM Monday 12/3
How do you win? Simple! Tune in to KTRU at any of these times and the DJ will tell you when you can call in to win tickets! Our phone number is (713)348-5878, so be sure to save it in your phone. Some DJs will be hosting other contests as well, so be sure to keep an ear out for any special challenges!
Check out the facebook event!
Nov 20, 2012 | ktru
Mario T. , from Castlewood, won an Insignia Portable HD radio, and can now listen to KTRU on their new radio!
You can win one too by entering our weekly contest.
Nov 19, 2012 | ktru
Thanksgiving might be on Thursday, but we’ve got a musical FEAST for you Tuesday night on KTRU!
To kick things off, The Local Show will be on at 8PM with local three-piece Bed Moves performing live in studio. To top that off, we’ll be giving away tickets to Manichean’s album release show! Be sure to check out their new album, Lovers.
(Unfortunately, Bed Moves had to cancel their appearance tonight. Tickets are still go, though!)
After that, we move into the world of Hip Hop with The Vinyl Frontier. We’ll have a glut of tickets to give out. We’ll be running contests to see Devin the Dude on Wednesday, and ScoreMore has hooked us up with tickets to the ABN Reunion Tour show in Houston on Saturday.
And if that weren’t enough, South East Beast Doughbeezy will be in the station.
All this on KTRU tomorrow night from 8 PM until 1 AM.
Gorge your ears.
Nov 19, 2012 | ktru, local show
One of the unexpected benefits of our cramped studio is that it sometimes convinces bands to strip things down a bit and give us an acoustic performance – Featherface delivered just such a set at this session. Typically a four-piece, these songs performed on acoustic guitar and the occasional keyboard deliver uncommon insight into their raw songwriting talents.
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Nov 14, 2012 | ktru
Tune in today from 1-5PM for your chance to win tickets to see Rusko at Warehouse Live this Friday!
Call in at (713)348-5878, or be sure to listen in for other contest announcements during the show!
Nov 13, 2012 | ktru
Today, from 5-8PM we’ll be giving away tickets to see Dr. Dog at Warehouse Live TOMORROW (Wed 11/14) EVENING! Tune in and listen to Arias & Tori from 5-7 PM, and Joey & Ian from 7-8PM. We’ll be giving away FOUR PAIRS, so be sure to call in at (713)348-5878.
After that it’s the Local Show at 8PM. Come listen to music from Texas with emphasis on Houston. Check out past live performances on The Local Show.
And to wrap up the evening from 10PM-1AM, The Vinyl Frontier will be giving you your weekly dose of underground hiphop. This week, we’ll be giving away tickets to see Devin the Dude at Warehouse live on 11/21!
Nov 13, 2012 | ktru, local show
Say Girl Say are a wholly unique band in Houston right now – dual ukeleles, great harmonies, and a wild percussion variety all sort of combine into an almost tribal sounding set that’s almost as much performance art as it is a show. Bands like this with minimal instrumentation and really articulate vocals are some of my favorite to record, I think this set came out exceptionally well. Right here we’ve got two tracks, Tundra and Sun Flower, listen to these but catch them live for the total experience.
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Nov 11, 2012 | ktru, local show
New York City Queens are a fairly young band – I’m told their name came from a random patch on an old jacket they found (after a brief stint as Ponyboy). They play a pretty charismatic indie pop (they’re pretty charismatic themselves) and won huge points for designing their own poster for the show as well as being able to recite almost a dozen upcoming dates entirely from memory. I hope you enjoy these two tracks as much as I did mixing them, pay special attention to the backup vocals in Roman Candles.
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Nov 10, 2012 | ktru, local show
A Sea Es (pronounced “A-C-S”) is a project by local badass Austin Smith and co. Usually backed by a full band, Austin brought his solo rig up to the studio and showed us how he does things (with a lot of loops recorded on the spot). What we have here are two of my favorites from the session, complete with all the auxiliary bleeps and bloops as he builds the song up from nothing.
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Nov 10, 2012 | ktru, local show
I was really excited to have these guys on the show. Hamamatsu Tom and the Whoevers is a rotating group of local musicians, fronted by the Handsome Hamamatsu Tom Triplett. Most nights their lineup is fairly different (as is their name – rumor is that whoever books the show gets to name the band for that night, but I didn’t name them The Drink Tickets*), but when they stopped by the studio the band consisted of Hamamatsu Tom, K.G. Beasley, Quincy Adams, and Mannie Schevitz. They played a fairly epic twenty minute version of Wild Thing that we can’t post here, but what we can give you are these two excellent tracks, creatively titled “Untitled” and “Boogie Faust.” Don’t forget to always look over your shoulder, kids!
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*They’ve been Hamamatsu Tom and the Bareback Hell Stallions, Hamamatsu Tom and the Montrose Kroger Sushi Counter, Hamamatsu Tom and the Notorious Heights Arsonists, just to name a few.
