Radio 1190 Blog
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CUration: Stories of Sight & Sound DOCUMENTARY CHALLENGE!
The CU Art Museum, CU College of Media, Communication & Information and Radio 1190 KVCU present the FIRST university-wide documentary short film competition open to all students! Come join us to learn all the details (including information about the prize!), including guest speakers, oppurtunities to network for the compeition and free food! It is a… Read more
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Radio 1190 Valentine’s Week Vinyl Giveaway!
This year, you, our awesome listeners, are our valentines (who else could we possibly need?). In order to prove that, we’re giving away a bunch of cool vinyl and merchandise over the week to YOU! In order to win this cool stuff, you’ve gotta be listening in to the station. Below you’ll find a key… Read more
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Anderson .Paak – Malibu
“I learned my lessons from the ancient roots, I choose to follow what the greatest do.” Anderson .Paak claims that “the dot in my name stands for detail” and his second studio album, Malibu, is certainly full of details. On a lyrical note, .Paak uses his gruff, soulful voice to tell his story of living… Read more
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DIIV – Is the Is Are
If there’s one thing I’d like to get off my chest before starting this review, it’s that I would be lying to you if I said I had an extensive knowledge of DIIV’s work. Among the endless universe of new music, sometimes you miss stumbling upon a group that puts out work that really… Read more
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On Air Next 2.4.16
This week Radio 1190 will be hosting another edition of Local’s Live at Innisfree Poetry Cafe on the hill! Stop by at 6pm this Thursday, February 4th for an awesome improvised set from Boulder-based pop experimentalist Jarocki! Come drink coffee, hang with 1190 and support local music! Halifax-based Nap Eyes may sound sparse and minimal… Read more
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Jarocki @ Locals Live – Thursday 6PM
Radio 1190 is excited to announce that our latest installment of Locals Live will be happening this Thursday February 4th at Innisfree Poetry Bookstore on the Hill! Come kick it with us at 6pm and listen to the experimental workings of local musician Jarocki. Grab some coffee, read your poetry, talk with your friends and… Read more
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Mutemath – Vitals
New Orleans-based alternative rock group Mutemath has made a name forthemselves thanks to their energetic live performances (the lead singer crowd surfs on a mattress wrapped in LEDs) and considerable musicianship. In terms of the progression of their sound, they’ve modified it with each new record. Their self-titled debut album in 2006 was standard… Read more
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Makena Moore Live at Innisfree Thursday
We are excited to have Makena Moore performing at Innisfree Poetry Cafe as part of Radio 1190’s Locals Live. Join us at 5:30pm on Thursday January 28th at Innisfree Poetry Cafe on The Hill. http://www.makenamoore.com/ Read more
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Krewe de Louisianne’s Mardi Gras Party
Let the good times roll with Radio 1190’s Krewe de Louisianne Mardi Gras party, Saturday night, February 6th, at The Attic in downtown Boulder! The Attic will provide food & drink specials while Tony Trahan & the Blue Krewe will provide live Louisiana tunes starting around 9:30pm. The Krewe encourages everyone to bust out purple, green, &… Read more
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On Air Next: 1/13
by James Calvet Welcome back students! It’s cold outside but there are exciting things happening in the UMC. We have a slew of awesome new DJ’s on the AM airwaves. Tune in to hear rad tunes from your next favorite DJ. For a full list of new DJ’s log on to radio1190.org. On January 10th… Read more
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CD of the Month: David Bowie – Blackstar
On January 10th 2016 legendary musician, songwriter, actor and artist David Bowie passed away due to cancer. Through his nearly fifty-year career, Bowie created an unmistakable style that is poised, charismatic, inventive and unabashedly strange. Like a musical chameleon, Bowie utilized genres such as glam rock, electronic, experimental music and beyond. Albums such as The… Read more
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We love you, David. Rest in peace.
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Radio 1190 Christmas Recap
RADIO 1190 CHRISTMAS MUSIC RECAP – This year’s holiday gave us new/unheard music music from LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead, Future Islands and Grimes! Listen to all of our new presents below: Read more
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Radio 1190’s Listeners’ Favorite Albums of 2015
You voted – here are the results! Take a look at your top 25 albums of 2015. Read more
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Tune in this Christmas for our Hip Hop Holidays playlist!
This Christmas we’ll be playing hip hop all day, classic and contemporary, and even some holiday hip hop tunes mixed in! Make sure to tune in at AM 1190 or streaming from right here on our website. Read more
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Concert Review: Graveyard @ Summit Music Hall, 12/8/15
Graveyard is a hard rock/ blues rock four piece from Gothenburg, Sweden. Since the groups inception in 2006 they have been making quality rock in the same vain as groups such as Witchcraft and Kadavar. Graveyard was touring the album Innocence and Decadence which came out on September 25th, 2015 on Nuclear Blast records. Innocence… Read more
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Radio 1190’s 2015 Staff Albums of the Year
Dan Burney (Social Media/RPM)1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress2. Girlpool – Before The World Was Big3. Björk – Vulnicura4. Oneohtrix Point Never – Garden Of Delete5. Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp A Butterfly6. Nils Frahm – Solo7. Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufield – Never Were The Way She Was8. Ought… Read more
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On Air Next 12.10.15
Finals are almost here! It’s the most wonderful time of the year. We are kidding. We hate finals as much as you do. But that also means that it’s list season. We are putting together a compiled listener year-end list. Log on to radio1190.org or visit our Facebook/Twitter and submit your top 10 albums of… Read more
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Submit your Top 10 Albums of the Year for our Listener’s Top Albums List!
We’ll soon be letting you know what we thought of 2015 in music, but we want to hear what YOU think! Submit your top 10 below to cast your votes, and stay tuned for our 1190 Listeners’ Top Albums as well as our Staff Choices and the Official Radio 1190 Top 100! http://goo.gl/forms/kZc6B6HQNz Read more
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Special guest Jerry Granelli on Radio 1190 tomorrow (12/9) at 11 am
Multi-instrumentalist Jerry Granelli will join Elijah Jarocki for an interview Wednesday, December 9th at 11am. Granelli has been a jazz pioneer since the 1960’s, experimenting with electronic instrumentalists and cultivating the San Francisco psychedlic scene alongside Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. A longtime teacher with a passion for education, Jerry will bring his talents… Read more