Keeping your day upbeat with tracks by The Chemical Brothers and LCD Soundsystem. Twangy satire comes to Sac as Roselit Bone plays The Starlet Room. Locals Lee Bob Watson, Fashionista Boyfriend and DEFEM all on deck too! Click in for the playlist!
MAN is it nice to be back post-COVID. From random run ins to new tracks from Sharon Van Etten, Kevin Morby and !!! (covering R.E.M.?!?!) + a tribute to Andy "Fletch" Fletcher - it's an all new playlist of Modern Music Discovery. Click in.
Nick is out with COVID, so while he plans a banger new show for next week, please enjoy this Batman-laden playlist from earlier in the spring. Local Tiny Deskers, new tracks by Jack White, Matiel, Father John Misty, Ibibio Sound Machine and more!
Tune in as Andrew Garcia attempts to carry water for Nick Brunner while he is away this week. This soggy, water themed episode of Hey, Listen! includes tracks from the like of Big Thief, illuminati hotties, Soccer Mommy, Modest Mouse and more!
Catch new music from Arcade Fire and Ibibio Sound Machine. Local artists Citizen Snips new record & Camilla Covington gets us Caffinated. A few songs out of time by Father John Misty, Beck & Blondie - all on Internat'l Indie Bookstore Day! Click in!
Sacramento is on display all over this weekend's playlist: DEFEM debuts its first ever full length! Harris Rudman and Nate Curry croon us day and night! Avivia le Fay & Jakhari Smith from their Tiny Desks alongside new Jack White, Calexico & Mattiel!
More music from local Tiny Desk contest entrants alongside new tracks by Jack White, Matiel, Father John Misty and Ibibio Sound Machine. Click in!
Let's catch up with stellar new releases this week, why not? Ibibo Sound Machine and Aldous Harding; Calexico and Jon Spencer are on deck. Elvis Costello, Radiohead and locals DEFEM and Valley Wolf are all on board too. Click in for the playlist!
Most weeks two local artists per hour is good. Not this week. NINE new local and local-adjacent songs coming in hot on this weekend's show. They stand shoulder to shoulder with the likes of Talking Heads, Ween, SAULT and Dinosaur Jr. Click in!
Going back to the vaults for a conversation with guitar phenom Marnie Stern (Kill Rock Stars, Late Night With Seth Meyers). All the way from NYC she'll tell us about her undying love of Sacramento pizza among other topics. Bowie, Millie & Spoon too!
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