On the sidebar of this website and the entrance to the studio, there’s a note describing KRLX (look to the left under the “WELCOME TO KRLX”). I’ve read these two sentences so many times, I barely pay attention any more. But the fact that we’re “independent and completely student-run since [krlx]’s origin” has always appealed […]
On Saturday, April 14th, 2018, KRLX celebrated its 70th birthday! The station continues to be a relevant and exciting part of campus life with 275 DJs involved this term. The board would love to hear about your experience at KRLX, whether it was 70 years ago or yesterday. Send us pictures of yourself or your
A Whole Fucking Lifetime of This — American Pleasure Club Don’t let the name fool you; you might be familiar with this band. Previously known as Teen Suicide, American Pleasure Club is a pioneer in lo-fi semi-acoustic sad boy indie, and their newest album sounds exactly like their other albums, albeit a bit more accessible
MF GRIMM vs. MF DOOM: How did two friends become foes MF Grimm: Percy Carey, known by his rapper title MF Grimm, was born June 11 1970 in Manhattan, New York. He had hefty goals of possibly becoming an NFL player, Boxer, or Actor. He had already achieved the latter in childhood appearing in Sesame
I recently discovered that Carleton’s archives did a great public service by scanning and uploading countless yearbooks onto their database AND that these said yearbooks are accessible to all students. While this might not seem like a big deal, I think it’s really cool! And not just because I wanted to see pictures of my
Issues • Listen Live: The main reason users visit content.krlx.org is to listen to the live radio. Accessing that function is the primary objective of the user and the website design should reflect that. Currently, the ‘listen live’ function is just a tab that users must navigate to and seems secondary to the KRLX blogposts.
Are you a PARENT or ALUM who loves KRLX? Do you want to show it off to the world? Do you love keeping your head warm? Buy a KRLX beanie! KRLX is selling warm, thick, black knit beanies with a lil’ pom pom on top and a white embroidered KRLX logo, designed by our Promotions
This fall I took a nonfiction production course in the Cinema and Media Studies Department. For my final I made a short video about the Record Library because it is a space on campus that means a lot to many members of the KRLX community. The Record Library is a unique space with a lot
October 25th of this year marked the 15th anniversary of former Senator and Carleton professor Paul Wellstone’s death. Wellstone was a mentor and an inspiration to many people, including current Senator Al Franken, who has been one of the most passionate advocates of Wellstone’s “feisty, fearless, and energetic” legacy (Franken). Senator Franken called KRLX on
by Daniel Kupetsky (posted by Julian Szieff) Content warning: discussion of suicidal ideation themes By like my second or third listen of Everything Now, Arcade Fire’s apparently super uncool and out-of-touch newest album, something about it really clicked for me. Even though I didn’t consider many of the individual songs to be all that memorable,
The year 1967 was truly a fantastic year for music. From The Beatles to the Rolling Stones, The Doors, and The Velvet Underground, the music world exploded in the year 1967. 50 years later it only makes sense to reflect on and celebrate this iconic year in music. So here’s to 1967 and a few
If Blue Could Be Happiness — Florist This is a hard review to write. Not because this is a bad album; it’s pretty good. It has lovely vocals, nice instrumentation, a warm-sad mood that fits well with coming of fall. It just sounds exactly like Florist’s last album The Birds Outside Sang, so much so
RIYL: Aesop Rock, Milo, Serengeti, MF Doom, KOOl A.D. Best Tracks of the Album: 2, 5, 7 As Open mike eagle opens he shows us an instrumental section that is as understated as it is beautiful. And he continues with this theme of saying a lot by saying it quietly throughout the album. But if
Arcade Fire’s new single will make you dance, think, and question what has happened to our society. This is their second new single this year with the other being “I Give You Power”. Now I profess that I don’t always love Arcade Fire’s general overly-dramatic stylings or their strange intricacies; but, I fell in love with
Montreal jangle postpunkers, Corridor, released their latest album on May 27th. It’s reallll nice. Check it out here: https://corridormtl.bandcamp.com/album/supermercado
Palm trees, movies, surfin’, and skatin’; symbols of a city of wealth in the oasis that is Los Angeles. From Point Break to 500 Days of Summer there are some images of the city of Angels which forever stuck in the popular consciousness. The combination of year round warmth and the largest movie industry in
No, this post is not about La La Land. Instead, I bring your attention to Sing Street, the third movie-musical directed by John Carney. Following Once and Begin Again, Sing Street has many of the same elements that made the first two films successful, but it’s most noticeable departure is it’s heavy play into nostalgia.
It is with great pleasure that I introduce to the world a newly surfaced track from Deerhunter entitled, “Faded Frontier.”
We all have those moments: when we realize that the iconic song by that classic artist is in fact just a cover. It’s a confusing and devastating time. For me this happened in the fourth grade when my mom casually dropped that Twist and Shout was written by the Isley Brothers and not the Beatles.
