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This Song: Tycho

Scott Hansen, the main producer and songwriter for the ambient electronic project Tycho, is a master of using sound to evoke emotional responses. But communication, especially verbal communication, didn’t always come easy to him. Listen as he describes how “ROYGBIV” by Boards of Canada helped him understand that his most effective form of expression was instrumental electronic music.

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Check out Tycho’s Tour Dates

Listen to Sylvan Esso’s This Song Episode where they talk about Soul Coughing, Boards of Canada and more

Listen to Songs from Episode 88 of This Song

This Song: JR JR

JR JR has been making catchy indie pop music for the better part of the decade. But where did this hook-laden infectious music come from? Listen in as the band members recount how their experiences with live shows by The Grateful Dead, a mysterious glow at a Tonic concert, a case of Led Zeppelin misidentification, the love of Mars Volta noise and playing jazz at a nursing home helped the band find their musical selves. It all wraps up with Josh, Daniel, Bryan and Mike having a moment talking about the real reasons they make music. Protip — listen all the way to the end. It’s worth it.

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Check out JR JR’s fall tour dates

Listen to JR JR’s new song “Same Dark Places.”

Listen to Songs from Episode 87 of This Song

This Song: Matt The Electrician

Matt the Electrician describes how seeing Michael Penn’s video for “No Myth” changed his life and gave him the permission he needed to pursue a life in music

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Listen to “Live to Fight,” Matt the Electrician featuring The Deer

Check out Matt the Electrician’s singles project

See Matt the Electrician with the Deer Friday June 10th at 3Ten at ACL Live

Listen to Matt the Electrician on “how did I get here”

Listen to Songs from Episode 86 of This Song

This Song: Palo Duro

When a young Michael Winningham (of Palo Duro) got into the back of a Land Rover going to the Gourds show he had no idea the song he was about to hear would change his life. The song, “A Mihna Menina” by Os Mutantes, blew his mind open to a whole world of new influences and showed him that when you’re making music, you can do whatever you want.

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Listen to Benjamin Booker talk about how he’s influenced by William Onyeabor (Thanks Sam Cohen!)

Check out Palo Duro’s Bandcamp Page

Listen to Michael’s My KUTX Guest DJ Set

Listen to Songs from Episode 85 of This Song

This Song: The Strumbellas

The Strumbellas aren’t afraid to make music that pulls from folk, rock, pop and country. Hear singer Simon Ward, guitar player Jon Hembrey and drummer Jeremy Drury explain how a Ryan Adams’ song, an Offspring record and a sped up version of Twisted Sisters’ “Burn in Hell” led to the band’s creation and sound.

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Check out the Strumbella’s Tour Dates

Listen to Songs from Episode 84 of This Song

This Song: Conor Oberst

Conor Oberst is having a hard time reconciling his conflicting emotions about America. Luckily his friends and frequent collaborators the Felice Brothers make music that helps him cope. Listen as he tells you why he thinks the Felices are “the best American sounding band” out there and explains how their song “Jack at the Asylum” soothes him during these troubled times.

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Check out Conor Oberst’s Tour Dates

Listen to Jim Jame’s This Song Episode

Listen to M. Ward’s This Song Episode

Listen to Songs from Episode 83 of This Song

This Song: Temples

Could it be that listening to Fats Domino’s “Blueberry Hill” at age 9 headed Temples’ James Bagshaw down a path that lead to recovering a lost PDA, school yard black market exchanges, revelations about the low fi aesthetic of the Strokes, a love of Frank Sinatra and a life of music? We’ll let you decide.

? : Ed Miles

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Check out Temples Tour Dates

Check out Temples set from KUTX Live at the Four Seasons

Listen to Songs from Episode 82 of This Song

This Song: Sound Opinions

Everybody’s a critic! Well, actually, according to Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot, the two critics who host the talk radio show “Sound Opinions, everybody is and should be and that is a good thing. On their show they spend a lot of time talking about music they love — and don’t love. Hear them talk about how “Walking on the Moon” by the Police and Patti Smith’s version of “Gloria” changed their lives and got them listening (and critiquing) music in a completely new ways.

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Check out Sound Opinions Website

Subscribe to Sound Opinions on iTunes

Listen to Songs from Episode 81 of This Song

This Song: The Black Angels

When Alex Maas from The Black Angels heard avant garde electronic pop band Silver Apples’ first record in a bar in Cincinnati he had what he describes as a spiritual experience. Listen as he describes the effect that Silvers Apples had on The Black Angels music and how their new record “Death Song” has been an exercise in trying to understand the world we live in now.

Do you have a song or a record by an obscure band that you want to let the world know about? Give us a call at 512-766-9066, send us an email at ThisSong@kutx.org or tweet us @ThisSongKUTX. We’d love to share your favorite, but maybe not so well known band with the world!

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Check out The Black Angels new record “Death Song”

Check out The Black Angels Tour Dates

Check out Silver Apples Tour Dates

Watch the video of Kayla Harrison winning the Gold Medal in Judo

Listen to Songs from Episode 80 of This Song

This Song: Oh Wonder

In 2005, Death Cab for Cutie released their CD “Plans.” In 2017 Anthony West from the alt-pop duo Oh Wonder picks that CD as having been responsible for changing and guiding both his and songwriting partner Josephine Vander Gucht’s writing styles. Listen and learn.

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Check out Oh Wonder’s Tour Dates

Check out Death Cab for Cutie’s Tour Dates

Listen to Songs from Episode 78 of This Song

This Song: Spoon

Spoon pretty much owned the SXSW Music Festival this year and during that week Britt Daniel and Alex Fischel stopped by and talked with Elizabeth McQueen about from where they drew their inspiration for their new release “Hot Thoughts.” During the conversation they touched on Bruce Springsteen’s elevating sax solos, the guitar energy of The Wipers, Dr. Dre’s synth sounds and how audio — and not necessarily lyrics — can transmit powerful emotions.

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Listen to Songs from Episode 75 of This Song

Team This Song’s SXSW Wrap-Up

Team This Song is still processing SXSW, and we’ve decided to process with you. Listen as the interviewers, editors, audio engineers and interns who make this show happen bring you their favorite sparkly festival moments from artists like Lizzo, Spoon, OJR, Temples, Cool Kids, Otis the Destroyer and 6lack.

Listen to KUTX On Air Host Jody Denberg’s SXSW Wrap Up with Rolling Stone’s David Frick and Robyn Hitchcock

Check out Music and Videos from KUTX Live at the Four Seasons 2017

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Listen to Songs from Episode 74 of This Song

SXSW This Song Artist Spotlight

There are a lot of amazing things about being in the music industry here in Austin, Texas; getting to interview fantastic artists that live here and some that are just passing through is great, but seeing them all in one place for a week of music-making magic (and madness) has got to be one of the best. Here’s a list of our This Song artists that played 2017 SXSW official,so even if you can’t see them, you can hear them talk about music that changed their lives!

Benjamin Booker // SXSW

Big Thief // SXSW

Calliope Musicals // SXSW

Gary Clark Jr. // SXSW

Hard Proof // SXSW

Jane Ellen Bryant // SXSW

Kevin Morby // SXSW

Leopold and His Fiction // SXSW

Lizzo // SXSW

Misimplicity // SXSW

Mobley // SXSW

Molly Burch // SXSW

M. Ward // SXSW

The Octopus Project // SXSW

OSHUN // SXSW

Ringo Deathstarr // SXSW

San Fermin // SXSW

The Shelters // SXSW

White Denim // SXSW

*Wu-Tang Clan // SXSW (*RZA from Wu-Tang clan collaborates with Paul Banks as Banks & Steelz)

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This Song: Hard Proof

Austin’s Hardproof is extra special to us at Team This Song. Their song “Mahout” begins and ends every episode of our podcast so we consider them part of the family. They have just released their new record “Stinger” on Modern Outsider Records and when they came to KUTX to talk with Elizabeth about it, band members Joe Woullard, Stephen Bidwell and Jason Frey described the magic they found in the music Fela Kuti, Bad Brains and saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings.

Listen to Hardproof’s Studio 1A session here.

Listen to Hardproof’s My KUTX

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Listen to Songs from Episode 69 of This Song

This Song: Andrew W.K. // The Star Spangled Banner

Professional Partier Andrew W.K. explores one of the most deeply embedded songs in American culture — The Star Spangled Banner. As he breaks down how this lyrically archaic a technically difficult song works as a stirring National Anthem, you may realize that you have your own connection to the song.

We want to hear YOUR stories about the national anthem! Did you see it, did you sing it, is funny or inspiring? Comment, tweet, message, email, or even leave a voicemail with our excellent intern Kelly Seale for a chance to hear your story on the podcast!

Twitter: @ThisSongKUTX
Email: thissong@kutx.org
Voicemail: (512) 766-906

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Listen to Andrew WK’s MyKUTX Guest DJ Set

Watch Andrew WK sing the National Anthem live and in Concert

Watch Andrew WK sing the National Anthem live and at another concert.

Listen to Songs from Episode 73 of This Song

This Song: Rhett Miller of Old 97s

Rhett Miller, lead singer and songwriter of Old 97’s, explains how seeing a Jewish Lesbian Folk Singer named Phranc sing Bob Dylan’s “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” helped him realize how music connects and saves us all.

Check out Old 97’s new record Graveyard Whistling on iTunes

Watch Old 97’s Studio 1A Performance

Check out Old 97’s Tour Dates

Watch Old 97’s on VuHaus

Check out Phranc’s music on Bandcamp

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Listen to Songs from Episode 72 of This Song

This Song: Molly Burch

Molly Burch always knew she wanted to sing, but she just needed to find the right song. Hear how Billie Holiday’s “God Bless the Child” has helped her find her way as a singer from the first time she heard it in middle school.

Check out Molly Burch’s Tour Dates.

Listen to Molly Burch’s MyKUTX set

Check out Molly Burch’s Artist of the Month Page

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Listen to Songs from Episode 71 of This Song

This Song: Local Natives

Local Natives Kelcey Ayer and Nik Ewing have been thinking a lot about how to balance darkness and light, art and activism. Listen as Kelcey describes how Fleetwood Mac’s “Sara” is a “sad song that makes you feel good,” and why he needs those kind of songs in his life. Then Nik Ewing explores why he’s come to appreciate Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” in the past year, and how that song inspires him and others in the band to think expansively about their roles as artists.

Check out Local Natives Tour Dates

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Listen to Songs from Episode 70 of This Song

This Song: Andrew Bird

Andrew Bird knew “For The Sake Of The Song” by Townes Van Zandt already, but when he re- listened to it recently he realized how much he related to the lyrics on a personal level. His conversation with Elizabeth touches on how much the song affected him, how it inspired him to write in a less encrypted manner and some of the downfalls of exposing his most intimate experiences in his work.

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Watch Andrew Bird perform “Left Handed Kisses” live backstage at ACLfest.

Check out Andrew Bird and Margaret Glaspy performing live from the Green Room

Listen to Songs from Episode 68 of This Song

This Song: Raury

Occasionally in the course of a lifetime we experience songs that open our lives, change our lives and sometimes even save our lives. Raury, a singer and songwriter whose work blurs the boundaries between Folk, soul, r & b, hip-hop and pop, describes to Elizabeth how, as a young teenager, his hearing “My World” by Kid Cudi did all that for him. The young artist then sends his own message of support and love to his hero, who has recently experienced some dark days.

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Listen to Songs from Episode 67 of This Song