radio radio

here’s the skinny:

when:  8am, 12pm, 5pm
where:  KCSN 88.5 (http://www.kcsn.org/)
what:  Nic Harcourt’s Daily Connection

Here in the breakups we’ve made it a tradition for our achievements to be random in both occurrence and timing.  Remember when our EP reached number 1 at KEUL in Girdwood, AK and WUIC in Chicago?  And remember when we reached number 66 on the CMJ Top 200?  And remember when we placed a demo of “i don’t want to know” on Psych before there was any way for people to know who the song was by or to buy it?  The list goes on and on.

Well it’s happened again.  Forty-five months after the release of our smash EP, eat your heart out ep, we’ve finally squeezed through the cracks in the walls of the Los Angeles radio fortress.  Nic Harcourt has played “after the fact” three weekends in a row on his Saturday show, Connections, on KCSN 88.5, here in L.A.  And, as if that isn’t crazy enough, he has made the song his Daily Connection this week, which means the song will play three times a day all week, at 8am, 12pm, and 5pm, with little bumpers by Nic.

We do realize that it is Wednesday, which is just another example of our impeccable timing.  So the song has already been played seven times, but that leaves eight more remaining, so there’s plenty of time to turn on, tune in, and drop out as Beverly Cleary said… or was it Denis/Timothy Leary?  Or maybe it was Siri.  I’m sure she would say it if you asked her nicely.

We’ve gotta say, even in this day and age, where radio seems like the most archaic thing in the world, if feels pretty darn good to be sandwiched between Fountains of Wayne and Dire Straits on a Tuesday afternoon.


Radio is a sound salvation,
the breakups