KCPW’s Sounds From The Lounge features local and national bands playing in our member lounge at KCPW’s Library Square studios. May 2012’s featured artist is The Devil Whale “Anyone who has heard the music of Brinton Jones will agree that his songs are literature of the heart. Like a book bound by melody, harmony, and…
Joel Brown released his first solo record, “In Retrospect” in May, 2011 under the Spy Hop Records label, a non-profit independent label in Salt Lake City. “In Retrospect” is a collection of deeply personal and autobiographical songs about Brown’s childhood-involving the divorce of his parents and becoming paralyzed from a car accident at age nine.
Segment 1: For Jamie Nabozny, the bullying started in 7th grade, progressing for verbal harassment to physical abuse. Only after the beatings landed him in the hospital and he had to move from his home town did he decide to fight back. He sued the school for failing to protect him and won a landmark…
Segment 1: The American West is certainly defined by its deserts and wilderness areas, but its rivers make life in these rugged areas possible. A new KUED Channel 7 documentary captures the essence of five major rivers from the Canadian border to the Rio Grande. On Monday, we’ll talk about the importance of these rivers,…
Note: Due to an unfortunate computer failure, a podcast of this episode of CityViews is unavailable. Segment 1: As critic at Rolling Stone, Paul Nelson made many a musical career, championing Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, the Sex Pistols and Rod Stewart. But in 1982, he left it all behind. Author and Salt Lake native Kevin…
Segment One: The Solitude-Canyons SkiLink plan has been praised by Utah’s GOP Congressional delegation and skewered by environmentalists. And in this election, year the proposal is becoming a political litmus test. On Wednesday we’ll talk about the push for and opposition to SkiLink. Guest: Mike Goar – Canyons Managing Director Segment Two: Forget the doggy…
During the finale of the 2012 Nature of Things Lecture Series, RadioLab hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich took listeners behind the scenes, sharing some of their secrets for taking the complex and confusing and turning it into the profound and memorable.
March 2012’s featured band is The Trappers The Trappers play a gritty brand of rock-n-roll that emphasizes the roll over the rock, all with a generous shot of woodsy country. But where those luminaries pointed south, the Trappers face west, like a summer zephyr (or the California Zephyr) pushing up against the setting sun. On…
Sharon Begley is Senior Science and Health Correspondent for Reuters. Listen as she shares an astonishing story with implications for health, disease, and emotional balance.
Scientist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson delivered the opening lecture of the 2012 Nature of Things Lecture Series at the City Library on Thursday, February 9. Listen to a podcast of the lecture.
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