TAG: KCRW

Jan19

Funky Sole gets Down For More Soul In Los Angeles

When the funk and soul was unplugged a few months ago, the citizens of Los Angeles cried out: Please dont stop the music…their Angelino prayers have been heard – Funky Sole lives again.

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LA’s longest running funk party will relocate to The Echo this Saturday night, marking it’s return to it’s East Side roots. That’s right. Sole is back – still free and still funky.

Back in 2001, Funky Sole was started at Rudolphos in Silverlake by Music Man Miles (Miles Tackett), founder of the band Breakestra and promoter of the popular LA night Root Down. Joined by DJ Egon of Stones Throw records, Tackett says they created the night as a place to ’share the raw funk music crawling out of their crates with the folks of LA.’

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Aug31

KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic DJ picks! (exclusive)

This Monday, Los Angeles public radio station KCRW celebrate 30 years of it's highly influential flagship show, Morning Becomes Eclectic. URB asked the three DJs who have helmed MBE over the last three decades to pick their favorite songs from the program.

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Aug27

Jason Bentley + ULTRA =

As you May know, this legendary DJ, whose hustle never ends, is an URB OG, having served crucially as this mag's first managing editor.

His then-nascent radio show on KCRW in the early 90's gave DJs like Paul Van Dyke and Giles Peterson their first US airtime, years before they became global superstars. I've seen him hustle equally hard playing to near-empty rooms as well as full-on massives ('always remember his set at Organic '96) and he's the kinda cat that can do underwater drum and bass as easily as heart-tugging house, with a good dose of rave history and whatever else in between.

I remember hearing him play Donovan alongside The Orb while also my handling request for “Cosmic Slop” during his earliest days on KCRW. His sets back then turned me on to …

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Jun20

Nothing on the radio-literally

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KCRW 89.9 FM/Santa Monica and their accompanying website KCRW.com team up with fellow webcasters and Savenetradio.org next Tuesday, Jun 26th for a day of silence. In protest against increasing music royalties for Internet radio, the station will squash regular programming on all of its major three webstreams. Additionally, KCRW will showcase a program called D-Day for Webcasters featuring, Live365, Yahoo, Accuradio, Bagel Radio, Pandora, SomaFM along with KCRW’s General Manager, Ruth Seymour will discuss how the rates effect listeners and streaming radio sites. Currently these and other names are supporting the Internet Radio Equality Act asks that the royalty rates remain at 7.5 percent, the same as Satellite radio. Instead, these new fees would require webcasters to pay per song they stream, which gets pricey. The battle against the Copyright Royalty Board begins, one that could …

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Jun12

PB Wolf DJ Diary: 777: Day One

Day 1

Well, it finally started. The tour I've been waiting for. I appreciate the fact that I'm going back to Europe in 2 weeks and that I was in Japan again last week, but this is the tour I've really been anticipating. Day 1 was definitely an interesting start. To begin with, I got to share the decks with my main homeboy DJ Sweet Steve (AKA Baron Zen) who I've been friends with forever and started my DJing with when we were kids. (Check out the DJ Chris and DJ Steve best of 1983 mix that we did back then if you get a chance.) Steve flew out for the weekend cuz we did a Baron Zen music video for a track of his I remixed yesterday. That's another story altogether though.

So today, …

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