DJ Mel Z hosts a special live appearance at KVCU Radio 1190's Carlson studios with Jacob T. Simons in advance of his performance with Palamara at eTown Hall!

Jacob T. Simons is a songwriter with a gift for fearlessness. He is not afraid to make himself vulnerable as he reaches into his soul and puts to the page whatever he might find there: beauty, ugliness, truth, untruth. Whether drawing on folk, blues or experimental music, his understated guitar work and plainspoken candor strip the compositions down to their raw essentials and leave nothing hidden. He is the former leader and impresario of the Michigan-based collective Moon Orchids, with whom he released a pair of acclaimed records prior to their dissolution in 2025.

A special in-studio appearance and performance of audio art by Kamari Carter and Gladstone Deluxe in partnership with CU Boulder's Media Archaeology Lab, during Carter's artist residency at the MAL!

Kamari Carter is a New York-based artist primarily working with sound, video, installation, and performance. His practice critically engages with materiality through a variety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance. Carter’s work has been exhibited at such venues as Automata Arts, MoMA, Mana Contemporary, RISD Museum, Flux Factory, Lenfest Center for the Arts, WaveHill and has been featured in a range of major publications including ArtNet, Precog Magazine, LevelGround and WhiteWall. Kamari Carter is represented by Microscope Gallery in New York City.

Gladstone Deluxe is a New York based artist working with percussion and electronics. As a percussionist, Gladstone is interested in how conceptions and politics of time are embodied, and can bleed into the social topography of a culture through rhythmic performance. As a technologist, they develop systems for the augmentation and amplification of percussive messages. Their experimental approach towards composition and interface design is a collision of the spiritual and the cybernetic. They've appeared in galleries like The Warhol Museum, Rubin Foundation, Chashama, the Carnegie Museum of Art, and clubs all over the country.

Boulder singer-songwriter Logan Proffitt in a special live appearance at KVCU Radio 1190's Carlson studios! Logan chats with Iris Berkeley about his latest music, what it's like going from being in a band to performing as a solo artist, and what's next on the horizon.

Radio 1190 music director Gavin Orth hosts singer-songwriter Bryan Bielanski, of the Bryan's Super Happy Fun Time Series, for our first-ever Local Shakedown appearance in our new studios!

Gavin Orth, Radio 1190 Music Director, interviews Len Brown, Senior Manager of Hip-Hop, R&B, and Reggae at the Recording Academy, in April 2026 during Brown's visit to the University of Colorado Boulder campus.

Radio 1190's Iris Berkeley and Sam Sarma speak with Rodrigo Ríos Zunino and Fernando Godoy of Chilean online radio station Radio Tsonami as part of their visit to CU Boulder’s College of Communication, Media, Design and Information, in the Department of Critical Media Practice’s VAST Series. Learn more about Radio Tsonami at https://radiotsonami.org/.

KVCU Radio 1190's Gavin Orth discusses non-musical influences, newfound accessibility, and more with guitarist and producer Scott Fair of Mandy, Indiana, a Manchester-based band who released their second studio album in February 2026.

Photo: Steve Appleford via https://www.spin.com/2024/04/mandy-indiana-interview/

In January 2026, Television frontman Tom Verlaine's personal archives were acquired by the New York Public Library. Radio 1190's Gavin Orth interviews New York Public Library Music Archivist Kevin Parks about the archive's acquisition, what processing a musician's archive looks like, and how Verlaine's work fits into the larger history of New York music.

Students from Denver's Manual High School take over the Radio 1190 airwaves on Dec. 5, 2025 to showcase their productions in collab with CU Boulder's Laboratory for Ritual Arts & Pedagogy (RAP LAB). Learn more at www.colorado.edu/lab/rap/

Live from Wax Trax Records in Denver, CO — it's a special all-vinyl DJ set from Sons of Sevilla in advance of their live shows with Skinshape Sep. 25 and 26 at Meow Wolf! Enjoy this laid-back, loungey, soulful hour from the band.