KUCI Fund Drive
Tonight is the 321st show I've hosted and produced on KUCI. In case you're new around these parts you may not know that I schemed up this 3hive project while posting my playlists online. Both KUCI and 3hive are projects near and dear to my music-geeked heart. If you've ever tuned into my show or to KUCI in general, please consider supporting a dying breed: locally produced, freeform, commercial-free radio. Click here to support KUCI
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KUCI is now celebrating its once-a-year fundraising drive — Saturday, April 26th to Saturday, May 10. Please support us in our continuing mission to bring the best in new music and public affairs to Orange County and the world.
This year we are offering an amazing array of premiums and gifts to show our appreciation for your donations. (See right column.)
You can donate to KUCI by calling 949.824.5824 (949.UCI.KUCI).
You can also donate online now to KUCI by visiting UCI's egiving site.
Or you can write a check payable to KUCI and mail it to:
KUCI 88.9 FM Fundraising
PO Box 4362
Irvine CA 92616
The non-profit ID of the UCI Foundation, which handles KUCI’s fundraising money, is ID# 95-2540117.
Donations to KUCI are tax-deductible to the full extent permitted by law.
Stream the new Portishead
Just in case you haven't heard, Portishead's long over due Third album will be available next Tuesday. You can stream the whole album thirty second clips of the new album now at last.fm. Just so you know I've danced with Beth backstage at the hors d'œuvre table. Yes, it was one of the highlights of my music geek life. That moment is diametrically opposed to the time Suzanne Vega sicked her manager on me—this after her label had asked me to interview the prima donna. Did I say that out loud? Good.
The Mary Onettes Head to USA + MP3
My wife's got me reading one of the Tuesday Next lit-fantasy-mystery-comic-thing-a-ma-bob by Jasper Fforde. In it characters travel through the earth's core via a "gravitube" that quickly drops passengers to the other side of the world. I'd love to have access to that contraption so I can see my favorite Swedish bands like every weekend. But in this case truth is better than fiction and the Mary Onettes are traveling "over-mantle" for their first ever tour of the U.S. Sweetness.
Void [MP3, 6.3MB, 256kbps]
Tour Dates:
05.07 Los Angeles, CA - Vertigos
05.08 San Francisco, CA - Popscene
05.09 Reno, NV - Satellite Lounge
05.10 Seattle, WA - Sunset Tavern
05.12 Denver, CO - Hi Dive
05.13 Kansas City, MO - Recordbar
05.14 St Louis, MO - The Bluebird
05.15 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen
05.16 Indianapolis, IN - My Old Kentucky Blog Presents @ Radio Radio
05.21 Washington, DC - DC9
05.23 Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall
05.24 Boston, MA - Middle East