KUR News (4/13/10)

From 88.3 FM KUR's website:

• Thanks to everyone for making KUR's first large birthday party, celebrating 5 years on-air, the raging success it was! Thanks to all our supporters at KU, all the students, & community listeners, all of the KUR members who give the station personality, the decorating crew, to Mike McVicar & Brian Darling for pulling off an amazing remote broadcast, to the Fish Relics for an amazing show, and to anyone else we're missing. THANK YOU!
  
  We're truly amazed at the stellar turnout and having a ton of people we didn't even know knew about us show up to say they are faithful listeners and fans of the station. We're bigger than we even realize and it couldn't be possible without all of you! Thank you!
  
  We'll get some pictures of the great event posted soon.

Also, elections for the 2010-2011 Executive Board were held today during our Tuesday 11:00 AM General Members meeting. Here are the results:

• NEW President: Jim Adair (!) (Senior; Production Director of KUR; Co-host of Never Mind the Mainstream. Congratulations, Big Jim.)
• NEW Vice President: Kevin Rose (Junior; Host of a blues and folk show on Thursday nights.)
• NEW Secretary: Enzo Carrante (Sophomore; Host of an oldies show on Friday afternoons.)
• Treasurer: Blake Kepner (Senior; Co-host of a variety show on Thursday nights.)

Congratulations to all the new leaders. It appears the males in the station will be running the machine next year. I, sadly, will be graduating. But this crew is great and I am expecting big things from them.

Finally, there will be a KUR Car Wash, this Saturday (4/17) at The Kutztown Fire Company, from 9 AM - 3 PM. If you're a local, come by a get your car washed and ready for Spring, all for $5. Hope to see you there!

"If this was the Cold War, we could keep each other warm..."

So, I met Josh Ritter yesterday.

He was at the Big KU, handing out flyers for his uncle, who was running for the House of Representatives in the district we happen to be located in. He came up to me and said "Hey, I'm just handing these flyers out, see if you might want to give my uncle your vote." My response was "you're Josh Ritter, aren't you?" He seemed genuinely surprised and glad to be recognized and was a really nice guy. We talked about voting and music for about ten minutes before I let him go to hand out more campaign materials for his uncle. But in all, it just reminded me to post this.

Josh Ritter is a fantastic songwriter. His 2007 album The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter was near the top of many year end lists, including my own. But enough talk, I'll give you some evidence. If you watch one video today, let it be the fantastic version of 2007's "The Temptation of Adam", which was in my top 5 songs from that year.

"The Temptation of Adam"


"To The Dogs or Whoever"


Covering Springsteen's "The River" (A Must-See)