Drew McManus of Satsang talks with KBMF’s Matt Boyle about the groups upcoming return to Butte at the Covellite Theater on Wednesday, April 20th.
Desperate Electric will pl;ay at the Covellite Theater on Saturday March 26th with Dante Elefante. The band, based in Walkerville, Montana, sat down with Daniel Hogan to talk about their upcoming tour, putting together a new album and releasing their latest single Karaoke
Listen in to this one-hour special documentary production about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the entertainment industry in Butte and across the nation. Montana Art Beat’s Gary Mandau is your guide.
Dawn Anderson chats with Toronto-based musician Luka Kuplowsky, whose new album 'Stardust' is out on Mama Bird Recording Company.
Clark Grant interviews Chicago-based electronic musician Brett Naucke about his residency at EMS Stockholm and his new record EMS Hallucinations. For fans of the Buchla synthesizer and sonic exploration.
The decades-old Australian music group The Necks have just released their 21st album, titled Three. Tune in to hear Clark Grant chat by phone with the group’s bassist, Lloyd Swanton.
Dark Sevier made a CD for the very first test of the KBMF transmitter, which took place on June 3rd, 2015. The disc has been in storage at the Carpenters Hall and was recently unearthed! Take a listen to the first sounds that emitted from the antenna of KBMF oh so long ago.
Charlie Parr, the itinerant Minnesota based songwriter, stopped at the Carpenter’s Union Hall on his way to play a show in Bozeman and visited with Dawn Anderson, host of KBMF’s Coordination Committee Thursdays 8-10 a.m. In their interview, Charlie talks about his new self-titled album, his love of the road and making friends through music.
Blood Meridian follows the adventures of the the kid, a teenage runaway from Tennessee who is recruited by the Glanton Gang, a group of mercenaries employed by the Chihuahuan governor to hunt Apaches in 1849 and ‘50. Loaded with depravity and violence Blood Meridian depicts the wild west in its truest and most raw form. There is no romantic ideal. McCarthy rewrites western history in it’s most graphic articulation. The description is cinematic, the diction, the prose, the dialogue are unparalleled in modern American literature.
Members of an anonymous music collective spent a month in a yurt outside of Anaconda, Montana collecting sounds and artists for a new installment in what they refer to as a “trance trilogy.” P & C, the recording arm of this collective, visited the KBMF office to explain their unique approach to music.
Mark Hayden is the outgoing director of the Butte Symphony and in this episode of Montana Art Beat he talks with Gary about his time with the Symphony and the upcoming “Symphony Under The Stars” at the Original Mine Yard.
John Conlan, host of Rocky Road to Dublin on KBMF on Tuesday mornings, interviews Dublin-born Irish folk musician Ken O’Malley, who will be performing at An Ri Ra this weekend in Butte.
Julia Jacklin has been enjoying well deserved acclaim for her sophomore album “Crushing,” and while on a break from her tour in Butte, Montana sat down with KBMF’s Daniel Hogan to talk about her music and her life.
Clark Grant has an extended conversation with composer, artist and musician Damon Locks about his new record Where Future Unfolds, recorded live in Chicago with the Black Monument Ensemble.
In this installment of Montana Art Beat, Peg and Ursula interview Bill Koch of the Virginia City Opera House about the goings on there.
In this episode of Montana Art Beat, artist at large Dark Sevier Talks about the many mediums he works with.
Written, recorded and produced in a small living room in the center of Centerville, it’s the Cletus and Slim Variety Show! Find all the episodes here.
Montana Art Beat takes a look at the Covellite International Film Festival in this episode.
Take a listen to the newest addition to KBMF productions, a program focused on artists, art and the arts in and around Montana. Hosted by Gary Mandau, Peg Amtzis and Ursula Kalwa, Montana Art Beat is upbeat, informative, and engaging. Check it out.