Larry Rose: brother bird, Dehd, Catching Flies

In Our Headphones

KEXP

Music, Music Commentary

4.4 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Janice sits down with Larry Rose to discuss his DJ beginnings 30 years ago and how he’s seen radio evolve. Then they get into the stories behind three new song recommendations and a 1980’s “Pride” classic that holds special meaning for Larry.

Plus, KEXP’s Associate Music Director Alex Ruder shares a song that brings him back to what he appreciated about early- 2000s “indietronica” sounds.

Songs featured:

brother bird - “State of Mind”
Dehd - “Light On”
Catching Flies - “GLY”
Bronski Beat - “Smalltown Boy”
Jens Kuross - "Savage Lullaby"

Listen to the full songs on KEXP's "In Our Headphones 2024" playlist on Spotify or the “What's In Our Headphones” playlist on YouTube.

Catch Larry Rose’s latest shows on his DJ page on KEXP.org.

Hosted and produced by: Janice Headley and Isabel Khalili
Mixed by: Emily Fox
Mastered by: William Myers
Editorial director: Larry Mizell Jr.

Our theme music is “好吗 (Hao Ma)” by Chinese American Bear

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0:00.0	You're listening to In Our Headphones.
0:05.0	Your chance to discover the songs KEXP
0:09.4	DJ's don't want you to miss.
0:12.0	I'm Janice Hedley and I'm Isabel Kelly and this is your
0:16.1	never-ending source for new music discovery from listener-powered K-E-X-P. Hello and welcome to In Our Headphones.
0:26.6	I'm your host Janice Hedley.
0:29.4	Every week my co-host Isabel Kalelei and I chat with a different K-E-X-P DJ and find out what's been playing in their headphones lately.
0:37.6	And this week I am delighted to be chatting with Larry Rose.
0:41.9	Hey Larry! Hey Janice, hey thank you for having me. Oh my gosh my pleasure and
0:47.5	Larry was the longtime host of Larry's lounge which, metaphorically closed its doors last year.
0:55.8	But you can still catch Larry on the air filling in for other DJ's.
1:00.8	That's right.
1:01.8	Yeah, I'm filling in on a fairly regular basis, so hopefully
1:04.5	they'll catch me on one of these shows coming up. And Larry, you have been a
1:09.0	DJ pretty much all your life. What first drew you to DJing? I don't know you know like when I was a
1:16.1	kid I just for some reason I always wanted to be a DJ I always wanted to be on the
1:20.4	radio and I had a cat and I named my radio station K-A-T and I started playing
1:27.3	music and then having my cat record or meow into the microphone. Yeah and it just kind of went from there. And then I went to University of
1:36.0	Washington and back then we were KCMU and I volunteered and ended up with an overnight show and that was it's hard to believe 30 years ago.
1:47.7	So you have been involved with K-E-P for 30 years.
1:52.0	What are some of the biggest differences from then to now?
1:56.0	Because you've really seen it evolve.
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