College Radio 89.9 fm
College Radio 89.9 fm
KBGA 89.9 FM hosts its annual fundraiser, RadioThon, February 8 – 14. During the pledge week, we are raising the bar from our goal of $10,000, to $13,000, a thousand dollars for each year that we’ve been around. The KBGA staff, as well as volunteers, will be in the office from 8 AM – 8 PM every day accepting calls from the KBGA listening community. The number to call is 243-KBGA. In return for donations, premium packages will include KBGA merchandise, as well as gift certificates, merchandise, and services from many local and regional businesses.
We will celebrate a successful week with our KBGA benefit concert, EndofThon, at the Badlander and Palace Lounge on Saturday, February 13. We have 5 bands and 3 DJs for the show, as well as screen printing, drink specials, and giveaways. At our last event in September, we had over 900 people come out to support the station.
Upstairs in theBadlander, The Hood Internet come all the way from Chicago, giving Missoula what they want, even if they don’t know it yet. Marauding pop, rap and R&B landscapes like a laptop-armed alchemist, DJ STV SLV (Steve Reidell) drops the unlikeliest elements into the pot and make gold-from Dirty South rap to Canadian indie rock to “French Touch” electro, to pretty much everything else. Think Girl Talk with integrity and a prescription to Adderall. The Hood Internet has toured North America, sharing bills with Diplo, the Hold Steady, GZA, Matt & Kim, Blackalicious, RJD2, Kid Sister, and played at Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Monolith Festival, SXSW, and CMJ. The Hood Internet racks up over 300 original mash-up tracks, four full-length mixtapes, remixes for bands like Blitzen Trapper, The Rosebuds and El Perro Del Mar, a 10-track collaboration with Bay Area rappers The Pack, and a 7-song EP melding raps from Aesop Rock and cohorts with the aural wizardry of Black Moth Super Rainbow’s Tobacco. Paste, HypeM, Pitchfork, Time Out Chicago, Stereogum, Chicago Reader, and New York Magazine have given them considerable attention.
Local favorites Black Velvet Elvis reunite for one show only (!), with the original lineup and a new drummer. They’re influenced by Nascar (the activity of hating it), taco-serving non-taco restaurants, sunglasses at night, lipstick, mustaches, robots made out of lettuce, and PBR. The bill is the rounded out by the soon-to-be legendary DJ Kris Moon, the most versatile and talented DJ in Missoula.
In the Palace, Seattle’s Visqueen return to Missoula. After garnering countless fans, reviews, and playing shows with everyone from Guided By Voices, to Cheap Trick, Visqueen appeared to be on the verge of conquering the world. All that changed when band leader Rachel Flotard’s father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She has been busy the last few years, splitting her time caring for her father and working with Neko Case, lending her original voice to Neko's recent albums. Here, Ms. Case returns vocal favors on Visqueen’s new album, Message to Garcia, joining a spectacular cast of unusual collaborators from pedal steel wizard Jon Rauhouse, to The Fastbacks and The Long Winters. Rolling Stone, NPR, Spin, All Music Guide, MSNBC, and LA Weekly have taken notice.
To round out the Palace, local one-man-bands Shahs and Capricorn Vertical Slum open up the night. Shahs was once described by a blog as the antithesis of Animal Collective, or bedroom tropical disco, while Capricorn Vertical Slum describes himself as if disco-era Rolling Stones were jamming in the closet of R. Kelly's spaceship. Petracorp bring their experimental, rock-tinged trip-hop, and DJ Fleege closes out the night with a not-too-late night dance party, mixing progressive and tech-house dance music.
KBGA’s annual RadioThon happens February 8– 14. We’re attempting to raise $13,000. To celebrate, we’re hosting our annual EndofThon party at the Badlander and Palace Lounge on Saturday, February 13. Chicago’s The Hood Internet, Seattle’s Visqueen, Black Velvet Elvis (reunite for one show only), Kris Moon, Shahs, Fleege, Capricorn Vertical Slum, and Petracorp are set to play. The doors open at 9 PM and the show starts at 10 PM. This is an 18+ event and only costs $5. 5 bands, 3 DJs, 1 Night: KBGA’s EndofThon. For more information, visit www.kbga.org
Badlander:
DJ Kris Moon - 9:30 - 10:10 PM
http://www.myspace.com/
Black Velvet Elvis (PDX/MSLA) 10:15 - 11 PM
http://www.myspace.com/
Kris Moon 11 - 12:05 AM
www.krismoon.com
The Hood Internet(Chicago/Mash Up) 12:05 - Close
http://www.myspace.com/
www.thehoodinternet.com <-- FREE Music
Here is a link to The Hood Internet's latest Mixtape:
http://www.mediafire.com/?
Palace:
Petracorp (Msla/TripHop) 10 - 10:30 PM
Capricorn Vertical Slum (Msla/DiscoGarage) 10:40 - 11 PM
Shahs (Msla/Mlps/Gyspsy)11 - 11:20 PM
http://www.myspace.com/
Visqueen 11:35 - 12:35 AM
http://www.myspace.com/
Fleege 12:40 - 1:45 AM
http://www.
KBGA College Radio, 89.9 FM is thrilled to announce our biggest show in our 13 year history: New York City’s Vampire Weekend return to Missoula on Tuesday, March 16, at The Historic Wilma Theatre. The show is all ages.
XL Recordings’ Vampire Weekend has played Missoula twice before, both at The Badlander. Because of the band’s popularity and success of their first self-titled debut album, they’ve reached the level of the Historic Wilma Theatre. On Tuesday, January 12, Vampire Weekend releases their second album, Contra.
Some bands stay in a holding pattern their whole careers. Others jerk the steering wheel hard and fly off the road. On their second album, Vampire Weekend does neither. Or maybe they do both. "I think we sound more like Vampire Weekend than we did on the first record," says drummer Christopher Tomson.
Contra pulls off a series of impressive feats: It's bustling with fresh ideas, and yet it sounds immediately familiar; it's heavily layered but taut and kinetic; it chews ravenously through sound palettes and rhythms, and yet it's nimble and assured; it's still breezy, and yet it smolders with a newfound emotional heft. "It's sadder than the first one, a bit more sentimental," says singer Ezra Koenig. The songs are catchy, fast, twinkling, clattering the darker themes of loss, doubt and regret accumulate almost imperceptibly, but they land a powerful blow.
Ideas for this record had been bubbling since before the release of their debut. The band started recording in January 2009, only two weeks after finishing an 18-month world tour supporting their first record. They had initially planned to work in California, feeling that the new record's spiritual home was the West Coast. The decision to work in New York, however, ultimately provided the freedom and perspective to properly realize their vision.
That March, the band toured Mexico for the first time. They recorded new material blocks away from Frida Kahlo's house in the Coyoacán neighborhood of Mexico City. In Monterrey they found a kindred spirit in DJ/Producer Toy Selectah, exchanging ideas and philosophies over days spent listening to records in his home studio. They returned to New York energized.
All of these influences are incorporated with subtlety and sophistication, woven together into a seamless fabric of references that, heard in full, resembles nothing so much as itself. Vampire Weekend's music and lyrics serve to both construct and deconstruct a world around them. Like the word "contra" itself, the songs are layered with meaning and invite interpretation. With this album, Vampire Weekend have staked out an alien territory literate, crackling, alive that's unmistakably their own.
Vampire Weekendhave played Lollapalooza, All Points West, Pitchfork Music Festival, Bonaroo, and toured all over the world. They return to Missoula, MT on Tuesday, March 16 at The Wilma Theatre. The show is all ages, and the doors open at 8 PM and the show starts at 9 PM. A special thanks to UM Productions for being an essential part to making this show happen.
Contact us:
University Center Room 208
Missoula, MT 59812
Phone: (406) 243-6758
Studio Phone: (406) 243-6226
