Happy New Year! Last year, we shared our top tracks of 2015. Now, in no particular order, we present our favorite indie/alternative tracks of 2016 - check them out on the playlist below and follow us to stay up to date with the freshest additions to KX FM 104.7's...
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Coachella 2017 Lineup Announced
Southern California Haunts Guide – Top 5 of 2016
Pumpkin spice, dark nights, the crisp autumn air 95-degree air - it's nearly our favorite month of the year: October! The KX FM 104.7 staff gets quite excited around Halloween time; not so much for the costumes and parties but for the creative, immersive, and...
Woogie Weekend 2016 adds Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (DJ Set) to its Stacked Lineup
Dust off your dancing shoes and prepare to get Wet n’ Wild n’ Woogied! Just a few short weeks stand between ardent revelers and SoCal’s splashiest summertime affair Woogie Weekend, which makes its way to Silverado, between Los Angeles and San Diego at Oak Canyon Park...
The Strokes: “OBLIVIUS” FIRST LISTEN
Julian Casablancas delivered the Strokes new single "OBLIVIUS" on his new satellite radio show "Culture Void" just after 7:15am PST today. He segued it out of a Chopin piece, and it was unclear whether he was actually still asleep while broadcasting, but we have a...
Bear Hands here to stay with “You’ll Pay For This”
By Wyatt Robertson “Youth is overrated,” sings Bear Hands vocalist, Dylan Rau It’s only been a little over two years since Bear Hands released Distraction and had “Giants” climb to number 8 on the Billboard Alternative Song Chart, and already you can hear the growth...
The Killers new album future uncertain
Drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr. is not sure The Killers new album will come out in 2016, according to our recent interview on KX FM 104.7's Daily Scramble Live. "We probably have 20 or 30 good songs, but whether they're good enough remains to be seen. We're still kind of...
FYF Fest Lineup Announced
Here's the lineup for FYF Fest 2016 at Exposition Park in Los Angeles. Weekend Passes & Single Day tickets go on sale this Friday, April 1st at 12pm PST Details at : fyffest.com
Travis Barker calls new Blink-182 album “best work in a decade”
Travis Barker has been busy. Whether collaborating with artists like Asher Rosh and Yelawolf on new music, inviting his friends Deftones and Snoop Dogg to the MusInk Festival in Costa Mesa in March, or preparing for this Sunday's Grammys performance with Robin...
Bad & The Ugly Artist Nate Hess’s Transition From Punk
“It’s been a very crazy time transitioning from that whole lifestyle. From when I was young, playing punk/thrash music to singer/songwriter stuff," said Nate Hess from the band Bad & The Ugly in a recent interview on KX FM 104.7 FM's "Daily Scramble Live." In the...