KXT 91.7 : On The Music Blog

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Oct 22 NPR’s First Listen: Cody ChesnuTT, ‘Landing On A Hundred’

Full disclosure: this CD hasn’t left my player since the review copy landed on my desk. And now you can check it out for yourself, thanks to our pals at NPR Music. Love at first listen guaranteed!

Gini.

#Cody ChesnuTT #NPR's First Listen #Gini

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Oct 16 KXT Guest DJ’s

Fundraising campaigns are a great way to bring cool people from all over the North Texas area to share with us some of their favorite songs and their appreciation of a station that will actually play some of their favorite songs. Below is who is confirmed (so far) for the Fall Fundraising Campaign. If you like what KXT is up to in the community, please make a contribution right now!

Wednesday, October 17 - chef Chad Houser is on at noon.

Thursday, October 18 - pop music critic Preston Jones from the Fort Worth Star Telegram and DFW dot com is on at noon.

Friday, October 19 - musician Chris Johnson, Telegraph Canyon is on at noon.

Saturday, October 20 - 8th grader musician and artist Eva Semrad is on at noon. The rest of the day is listener-generated 3-song sets.

Monday, October 22 - DJ Lucy Wrubel is on at noon.

Tuesday, October 23 - the band, The Sheepdogs are on at noon.

More TBA!

Past Guest DJ sets can be found here. Image above of Portugal. The Man by Stanton Stephens from Index Festival.

#GUEST DJ #Fall Fundraising Campaign

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Oct 12 Live From the Artists Den : Season 5

Airs on KXT’s sister station, Channel 13 in North Texas. Enjoy!

October 11: Grammy Award-winner Norah Jones at the Green Building in Brooklyn, NY.

October 18: Multiplatinum rockers The Wallflowers at Bimbo’s 365 Club in San Francisco.

October 25: Vocal virtuoso Rufus Wainwright at the Church of the Ascension on New York’s Fifth Avenue.

November 1: Soul phenomenon Mayer Hawthorne at the historic Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.

#Live from the Artists Den

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Oct 12 Roi Lavi & The Good Guys

A cover of a cover. In Hebrew. Enjoy.

#Gotye #Cover

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Oct 11 A KXT Proposal

Jim G., a KXT Member proposed to his girlfriend of 6 years, Cheri. Jim bid on an auction item last fall for a year’s worth of admission to KXT’s in-studio events. He chose the Milo Greene in-studio yesterday to propose.

Jim is on one knee with a lovely sparkler.

She said yes!

The happy couple.

Milo Greene

#Milo Greene

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Oct 10 KXT Presents : Sharon Van Etten

KXT is pleased to present Sharon Van Etten at Trees on November 3. Tickets and more info. See ya at the show.

#kxt presents #Sharon Van Etten #trees

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Oct 9 KXT Presents : Allen Stone at Trees

photo by Jason Tang.

Join us Sunday, October 14 at Trees as KXT Presents Allen Stone. Tickets and more info. Ready yourself with his performance on Letterman back in July.

#kxt presents #Allen Stone #Trees

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Oct 8 KXT Presents : Keane at House of Blues January 18

photo by Alex Lake.

Save the date for January 18 as KXT Presents Keane at House of Blues in Dallas. Tickets on sale Friday, October 12 at 10am. Youngblood Hawke opens.

#kxt presents #Keane #House of Blues

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Oct 8 Index Fest in Pictures

Index Festival in Deep Ellum last weekend was amazing! Thank you to everyone who came out. Thank you to Trees and Spune for a great partnership. Even MORE pictures over on Art&Seek. Enjoy!