KXLU
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| City of license | Los Angeles, California |
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| Broadcast area | Los Angeles, California |
| Frequency | 88.9 (MHz) |
| First air date | 1957 |
| Format | Eclectic |
| ERP | 2,900 watts |
| HAAT | 3 meters |
| Class | A |
| Owner | Loyola Marymount University |
| Website | www.kxlu.com |
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KXLU (88.9 FM) is an FM radio station broadcasting out of Loyola Marymount University in southwest Los Angeles, California. It was first on the air in 1957, and recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. It is a non-commercial college radio station that plays many styles of music broadly classified under rock, specialty, fine arts, and Latin jazz. There is also some Public Affairs programming. KXLU has a small, but cult following among music fans in Southern California.[citation needed] The station's specialty shows include "Alma del Barrio" (since 1973), "She Comes in Colors" hosted by the Minister Elvin X and Dr. Frederick Phases, "Stray Pop" hosted by Stella, "Music For Nimrods" hosted by Reverend Dan, "Mcallister's Hostile Makeover" hosted by Mcallister, "The Bomb Shelter" hosted by Uncle Tim, "Livation" hosted by Robert Douglas & Eric Stringer, "The Molotov Cocktail Hour" hosted by Cyrano & Señor Amor, "Neuz Pollution" hosted by Chris Candy and Maki, and "Demolisten" hosted by shameless self-promoters Fred and Octavius.
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[edit] KXLU Demolisten history
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The show began in 1984 when "DJ Agent Ava" took a couple reel-to-reel tapes of Jane's Addiction and Faith No More, and decided to start a radio show of nothing but demo tapes. Once word got out about the show, she soon acquired demos from The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guns N' Roses, The Jesus and Mary Chain and others.
Perry Farrell, in the book Whores: An Oral Biography of Perry Farrell and Jane's Addiction said, "The cool thing about KXLU's Demolisten show was if you were a local band you could just call in, request your song and if you went down there, they would interview you... I was listening to KXLU all day long because that's where all the good music was. The rest of the world was out of it."
The early 1990s DJs featured Fred Kiko, Chad, and Tony Kiewel. They've often been credited with the discovery of Beck, who donated a track to "Demolisten: Volume 2" CD, and also played music by Jimmy Tamborello (The Postal Service, Dntel), who was a friend and fellow KXLU DJ at the time.
Tony Kiewel left the show for an A&R position at Sub Pop Records in 2000.
The early 2000s continued to feature Fred, with Devin Valdesuso and Doug Jones (label owner of Kittridge Records).
Hosts have included the International Voice of Reason AKA IVOR, and others.
In 2002, Fred was joined by co-host Octavius Poirier (former guitarist for Artichoke and Chewing Foil). Audio archives of KXLU Demolisten have been saved online since 2003.
Since 2011, Demolisten has been hosted by Fred and Sean Carnage of Sean Carnage Monday Nights @ Pehrspace in Historic Filipino Town in Echo Park.
[edit] Interviews and reviews
The members of KXLU Demolisten were on a TV show in Canada where they were interviewed by Laurie Pike circa 1995. There is a writeup of the show in LA Weekly Feb. 24, 1998. They were nominated as best radio show in Los Angeles by the LA Weekly: published June 2, 1999. They were mentioned in Slate Magazine as an influence on the author's music taste on Nov. 29, 2004. Also mentioned in The Los Angeles Alternative, an independent newspaper, when KXLU won one of the top 5 radio stations in the city in the people's choice awards: Published June 30, 2006. Demolisten was featured in an independent film, Destroy the Rocker, about the Los Angeles music scene.
[edit] References
- Whores: An Oral Biography of Perry Farrell and Jane's Addiction by Bendan Mullen
- LA Weekly, Feb 1998
- LA Alternative, June 2006
- LA Weekly, 1999
- Slate Magazine, June 1999
- Beck: The Art of Mutation, by Nevin Martell; published Simon and Shuster, 2001
- Destroy the Rocker, Film by Jason Muller; 2007
- Daily Bruin Article, Nov 1997
- LA Weekly, 2009
[edit] External links
- Listen Live to KXLU
- KXLU Demolisten
- Stray Pop with Stella
- Music For Nimrods with Reverend Dan
- Query the FCC's FM station database for KXLU
- Radio-Locator information on KXLU
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for KXLU
- KXLU's page on StylusCity
- Molotov Cocktail Hour
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