Ivy Winfrey updates listeners on new COVID-19 resources in Colorado, updates to Poudre School District’s hybrid learning plans, and the future of Hughes Stadium. Then, Jonathan Gillham updates listeners on changes in sports and Maddy Erskine speaks to local band the Crooked Rugs about their newest album. After that, Kota Babcock updates listeners on changes in the White House, a history-making book award and new changes in COVID-19 locally before speaking to Samantha Ye from The Collegian about CSU’s changes to COVID-19 screenings and vaccinations. Babcock discusses changes in Apple’s staff, Facebook’s new oversight committee, and Twitter’s new fact-checking program. To conclude the show, Ivy goes over weird news, including a woman impersonating a prosecutor to drop her charges.
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In this very special local music segment, Maddy Erskine interviews the one and only Intergalactic Funk Cowboy! The Intergalactic Funk Cowboy is a one man band from Steamboat, Colorado that has been creating syntheziser funk operas since the early 2000s. Get ready to blast off into a world of funkiness, and learn more about how the Intergalactic Funk Cowboy battles the various elements of anti-funkiness, both in music and in real life.
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As 2020 winds down, KCSU Podcast Director Matt Gusmerotti and KCSU Local Music Director Maddy Erskine collect and highlight the best of the International Local Music Exchange, including some of your and our favorite bands and musicians that made it onto the podcast. Stay tuned next year for ways to get involved with the ILME!
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KCSU is so thankful for all the wonderful local musicians who reach out to us and work with us. This holiday season, we had 3 incredible holiday songs submitted to our station from local artists!
The first song is a down to earth tune by local songwriter Zach Crider. “Back Home” is about going back to your roots and seeing the people you love this holiday season. Following that is a complete switch of gears, with Sugar Britches honky tonk song “All I Want for Xmas”. This hilarious song is right up your alley if you have some people you are not so excited to see this week. And to end this fun little celebratory segment, is People in General’s “Oh Skanukkah”. This ska version of a hanukkah classic is sure to lift your spirits and get you dancing.
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In the last in-studio of the semester, local music director Maddy Erskine chats with Sarah Slaton about her newly released single “Get Up”, and her love towards the music industry that has been struggling so much during the pandemic. Her new song “Get Up” is about finding the inspiration to keep on going during hard times and is sure to help you keep your head up. Additionally, Sarah chats about the importance of Save Our Stages, and an upcoming project she has been working on to highlight the devastation the music industry has faced with COVID-19, and the need to keep music alive despite this.