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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.
“Defrocked my tail end!”