KRUI is pleased to announce a new program that will launch on Tuesdays at 7:00 PM. We have recently teamed up with Daytrotter, a website that posts live recorded sessions of independent bands, to give you a full preview of a session that will be posted to download for free the following day on their website. Daytrotter.com, started in 2006 by Iowa Alum, Sean Moeller, is based out of Rock Island, Illinois. Every day, these live recordings, containing previously released or unreleased tracks, are unveiled to the public. Tune into Daytrotter Radio on KRUI 89.7, Your Sound Alternative where we will give you a first listen to a recorded set in its entirety.
Fflur Dafydd
A duo of in-studios for this fine Monday evening.
DJ John Schlotfelt (yours truly) will be sitting down for an hour of talk and music with Fflur Dafydd. Dafydd is in town as part of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, and along with being an acclaimed author and lecturer, Dafydd is also a fairly prolific singer/songwriter. Listen to Corn-Fed Music from 5-6 pm for that.
For Dafydd’s Myspace, click here.
F0llowing that, Ian MacMillan’s normally brutal metal show will be hosting Rene Hall a/k/a Jeff Wischer (Marble Sky, Trash Dog). According to Ian, for the latest Witscher moniker “expect sci-fi influenced synths layered with tape loops and other noises.” Catch that at the bottom of the 6 o’clock hour on 89.7 FM KRUI
Richard Buckner will be playing at The Mill in Iowa City tomorrow – Friday, September 17th. Norbert Sarsfield – from KRUI’s Yew Piney Mountain – had an opportunity to do a brief interview with Buckner. Discussion below.
It’s great to have you make a return visit to Iowa City. What is your current touring situation? Are you doing solo shows or band shows?
Thanks for having me back. I’ll be doing a solo show.
I’ve seen you put on incredible shows, both solo and in a band context; how do you approach the different kinds of shows, and do you prefer doing one over the other?
I approach the shows with whatever instruments are working at the time. This time I’m only bringing three or four guitars and an amp. I like bringing other musicians too, whenever it’s possible, but it also takes a toll (money, privacy…).
Earlier this year Merge digitally re-released 3 of your albums that had gone out-of-print: Bloomed, The Hill, and Impasse. They’re all great records (The Hill in particular is one of my favorites) and it’s hard to believe they actually went out of print in the first place. How does it feel to finally have these available again? Are there any plans to do CD re-releases of these titles? Are there any plans to re-release your other out-of-print stuff, in particular Devotion & Doubt?
Click for the rest of the interview…
Tonight Corn Fed Music continues it’s series on Iowa City and Iowa City-related labels by sitting down with representatives from Mission Freak Records. The same dudes behind booking, promoting, producing Iowa City’s Mission Creek Midwest Music Festival also have themselves a record label. If you listen to KRUI and frequent the blog, you’re no stranger to that fact. However, if you’ve slept on the labels that our fertile music scene has to offer, you’ve missed out on some great releases. Hear about the label’s fairly busy summer as well as what’s on the docket for MFR as we head into the last quarter of 2009.
Tune in from 5-6 pm this evening to the the 4-1-1 on Mission Freak Records.
*full disclosure: as a fellow producer and hype machine for the annual festival, I’ve got a connection with these gents, so don’t expect me to punk ‘em or anything.
