Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category
Saturday night at Dada, Akron/Family, Pinkish Black, and M. Geddes Gengras took the stage for what turned out to be one of the most criminally undercrowded and breathtaking shows to come to Dallas in the recent past. The show began with modular synth wunderkind M. Geddes Gengras playing to 10-15 lucky »
Chad Valley is the work of Oxford native and Jonquil frontman, Hugo Manuel. It was in the midst of Jonquil releasing a record and getting signed to Dovecote Records in the US that Chad Valley emerged. Best described as indie pop/electronic, Chad Valley has been compared to the likes of »
Caveman is a five-man indie pop/rock band based out of Brooklyn, New York. The band includes Matthew Iwanusa (lead vocals, guitar, drums), Jimmy Carbonetti (guitar), Stefan Marolachakis (drums, vocals), Sam Hopkins (synthesizer, vocals), and Jeff Berrall (bass, vocals). The band’s first album, CoCo Beware (2011) has created a significant buzz »
The Second Annual Deep Ellum Big Folkin’ Festival is happening this Saturday at the Prophet Bar. Before the festival got rolling, Jeremy Drake, one of the minds behind the festival and the lead singer and guitarist of local bluegrass band Parallel Play, called in for a few minutes to chat »
The Fullerton, California based independent record label Burger Records recently wrapped up their Burger Caravan tour that led them through New Mexico and Arizona, en route to South By Southwest 2013. Before they reached their Austin festivities, the label hosted a number of shows in North Texas, including a couple »
Tabatha Patterson Station Manager 2010-2011 Favorite albums while at Radio UTD? Two of my favorite albums during my time at Radio UTD were Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus and Tom Waits’ recent retrospective Glitter & Doom. Of course, some days you need some really »
Leyla Aksu Music Director 09-11 What made you first want to join Radio UTD? Just being given the opportunity to play music for other people blew my mind. Someone actually let me do that. What more could you wish for? What were your favorite (or most memorable) events during your »
Stu McAfee Programming Director 2007-2010 What made you first want to join Radio UTD? There was a pretty rad booth at orientation with some dudes that tooootally didn’t care about anything. It was Shil and a dude named Brandon (I think) that I never met again. They were probably the »
Natalia Zúñiga Music Director 2006-2007 Station Manger 2007-2009 What made you first want to join Radio UTD? I met Shil Patel and Ben Vaughn at some sort of welcome event the summer before freshman year. They seemed like the kind of people I’d been waiting to meet all through high »
In celebrations of our 10th anniversary this week, we set to find the radio-warriors who helped make all this magic happen. First up is Keegan Knittle and Justin Appleby, the founders of Radio UTD. Keegan Knittle Founder/Programming Director 2003-2004 Station Manager 2004-2005 What made you first want to join »
