2.28.14 in cue Taste of Treefort ryan franz | kuoi page 10 can’t miss page Interview with page KUOI Schedule 6 treefort acts 8 ann wilson 10 2 in cue 2.28.14 Thanks for playing meet our STAFF Welcome to In Cue, your many Vandals. The people college radio station’s guide I’ve met, the shows I’ve to all things radio related. As seen, and the opportuni- the sun sets on my time at ties that I’ve enjoyed have the helm of KUOI, I’d like to been unreal. Each DJ, with express my undying gratitude their own personality, has to the volunteers, staf, and added to my experience. nae hakala support that have made this Time and time again I see incredibly life changing expe- kuoi our alumni (many of which rience for me. In the past two still doing amazing things years, I’ve tried to make the KUOI FM with music) reminisce through the experience one of learning and self- halls of our music library and remem- expression for all students and com- ber how “QE” made their college days. munity members willing to contribute I look forward to joining these senti- quality programming. I have seen this ments whenever I look down at my station evolve into an operation flled class ring that is engraved “KUOI” and with talent and driven by genuine remember so many good times. Truly, interest, efort, and and joy from so thank you all! photo by jessica greene Nae Hakala Peter Ritter Anthony Saia STATION MANGER Music Director Program Director Paddy Mulligan Ryan Franz Andrew Deskins News Production Director PR Director Director 2.28.14 in cue 3 Disclosure does the knit right carter brandstetter kuoi The UK import brought their sound to Spokane on their US tour following the release of their frst studio album, Settle. Brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence have been driving the UK funky sound since 2010. In the years since Disclo- sure’s launch, they made it to the top of UK pop charts, secured a Grammy nomi- nation, and collaborated with many award-wining artists on a handful of singles and EPs. In Moscow, the closest venue for large electronic shows is Spokane’s Knit- ting Factory, where 1,500 ravers turn up to see the latest electronic artist make their way through the Northwest. Dis- closure brought their house party vibe to knit; a taste of future garage that is rarely seen this far from the UK. The gig opened with T. Williams, an iconic garage Producer and DJ who’s played for Resident Advisor Podcast and BBC Radio One in his 12 years of DJing. Williams’ set the stage for Disclosure, playing his club edit of Disclosure’s sin- gle Latch, alongside many other Garage Funk choones. Disclosure’s set went of in a much diferent fashion than most EDM raves held at the Knit. No one was tearing out hair to intense drops that push the limit of the venue’s system. People were actually dancing, and it felt like a party. The vibes were positive, the drinks were cold, and the hugs were free as they should be. carter brandstetter | kuoi 4 in cue 2.28.14 Daft Punk (isn’t) Dead ryan franz kuoi With an eight-year break out of the studio, Daft Punk defnitely showed that they could “Bring Life Back to Music,” with their album Ran- dom Access Memories. In the KUOI studio the review given to the album says, “They have disco fever circa 1979. Disco should stay DEAD. However, Daft Punk of- fers plenty for the modern dance foor and they continue to straddle the Atlantic Ocean with ease. Both Europe and the States get something to groove to.” This review is a great start to what this album is but it does not grasp all the way what this al- bum means to the music community and to me nae hakala | kuoi as a listener. Let us start with the basics. Everyone knows Daft Punk for their sweet mixture of disco and electronic music starting in the nineties, and that is what people expected from another Daft the age of synthesizer Punk album. This was not the case for RAM, this album is full of disco jams with the sole intent for the robots to show of their musical skill and paddy mulligan streams for Odesza has been 4.7 million Noises and The Kitchen. The stage had work with some of their personal idols. kuoi and producing bands within this hip- what you’d expect of most concerts, Giovanni Giorgio, the grand daddy of synth- hop and electronic genre have been but what had become increasingly disco music and modern electronic dance mu- You may have noticed that this year popping up all across the country. interesting to watch throughout the sic shows up in the album with a song entirely at our first annual Taste of Treefort Just to name a few: Phantogram, evening was the large collection of syn- dedicated to him. If that is not enough for you, concert we’ve had the opportunity Animal Collective, Toro y Moi, Beach thesizers and stomp-pedals that had Nile Rodgers plays in three of the tracks, namely to invite an amazing production duo, House and the list could go on for this corralled the musicians into gridded “Get Lucky,” and Julian Casablancas provides Odesza, to join us at the University of entire article. It’s become more notice- sections of the stage. Musicians would vocals for the track “Instant Crush.” The list of Idaho. Odesza began as a collabora- able, whether you are listening from jump from one hand held instrument collaborators stretches on with big names and tion of Harrison Mills (aka Catacomb your headphones or to a live perfor- to the floor to suddenly kick a pedal none of them disappoint in the songs they con- Kid) and Clayton Knight (aka Beaches- mance, that bands within the Indy and readjust the volume with a toe. tributed their talents. Beaches) when they first met during genre have incorporated a season- The precision these musicians took to This album is the album that the duo has their senior year. As recent graduates ing or a heavy spoon full of electronic make the music that might traditional- probably dreamed of making since they started of Western Washington University they sound into their albums. Bands are ly be cultivated in a studio and allowed making music. The entirety of the album, save came together in the summer of 2012 not just playing guitar, drums, bass or it to burst forth onstage was astound- the electronic jam “Doin’ it Right,” has live instru- to create their first album “Summer’s keyboard, they are asked to make the ing. From the origins of what would be mentation with awesome solos of several dif- Gone”, which was self-released for free next jump to become competent and the Synthesizer, the electronic sounds th ferent instruments. Anyone who tells you that on September 5 of that same year. imaginative producers both offstage played with in the 18th century with the this album is sub-par they are blowing smoke The album itself had reached over 1.6 and onstage. invention of the clavecin électrique, the up your ass. So go give Random Access Memo- million streams on Soundcloud and The last concert I was able to attend use of technology has come along way ries a chance if you have not yet and if you have their popularity hasn’t stopped there. was AAN (Amor Ad Nauseum) at Mikey’s with the experimentation of electronic give it another listen. If you keep all this in mind The SoundCloud record, to date, for Gyros where they played with Desert sounds in the music scene today. I promise you won’t be disappointed. 2.28.14 in cue 5 Nae and Michael, of the Taste of Treefort radio show sat down with AAN-top of Treefort the band AAN to discuss their new al- bum and their Treefort experiences. nae hakala Nae: You guys have been writ- eating a salad… michael cullen ten up recently and referred to as experimental pop. Is that what you Bud: It the only time we actu- kuoi would describe your music as? ally met him-of all the shows and played and he just told it like it was. Bud: It’s hard to brand the sound. There [are] elements of psy- Reese: I received a very terse chedelic rock, there[‘re] elements email. of just straight forward rock and roll, there’s obviously an indie thing Nae: Oh man, I’m having Pave- that going on, which is inevitable. ment fashbacks. So, let’s talk about this cover; it Reese: More ambient in parts. makes me kind of sad for it. I can believe it. It looks like a puppy has Bud: The structures are try- gotten in trouble with a porcupine. Nae: We have an entire show ing to be pop songs, though. But dedicated to Treefort Music Fest everything else that goes around John: Somebody on Arteo and previewing artists that will be it…I think that’s what the word made a playlist full of scary and at Treefort Music Fest. Right now, experimental is, it’s experimenting gruesome album covers and that in the studio, we have the band with song structure, maybe less was on it! AAN, and they are going to talk a than experimenting with noise, little bit with us about their Tree- which I think in this 21st century, Reese: Yeah, that dog was nine fort experiences and what-have- when you hear “experimental,” you when it happened though.