Come down to Mojo’s to see Surfer Blood, one of college music’s most buzzed about bands touring in support of their first release, Astro Coast. While you’re there, be sure to stop by the KCOU table and pick up your very own (FREE!!) KCOU t-shirt!

Doors at 8:30.

Tickets are $8 in advance, $10 day of show. Tickets are available at the Blue Note Box Office or by calling (573) 874-1944.

See you there!

Be sure to check out this and other KCOU Presents shows:

Deer Tick w/ Malone Monday, March 15 at Mojo’s

Portugal. The Man w/ Port O’Brien and the Dig Wednesday, March 24 at Mojo’s

Japandroids w/ Avi Buffalo and Coward Monday, April 12 at Mojo’s

Final score of 92-63.

Tune in to our special online broadcast of your Mizzou Men’s Basketball as they take on Colorado this Wednesday (2/24). Tip off is at 6:30pm CST and you can tune in for the game right here. KCOU - your station, your tigers!

Join us at the Blue Note this Thursday night (2/4) and be ready to bring da Ruckus! We’ll be handing out free stuff and DJ BWAHA will be kicking out the Mashups/indie dance/electro jamz! RSVP on Facebook now and spread the word!

For currently enrolled Mizzou students only.

See this page for more information or apply online by going here.

Come out and help KCOU support the efforts in Haiti by Doctors without Borders this Wednesday, January 27th, at Room 38.

The night kicks off at 7 p.m. with alumno salvus spinning until 1 a.m. and there will be great food & drink specials throughout the evening.

$10 donations will be accepted at the door and all proceeds will be going to Doctors without Borders (aka Médecins Sans Frontières - doctorswithoutborders.org / msf.org).  You can also donate right now, online, by going here.

The event will be broadcast live from 10-midnight over the air and online right here at kcou.fm.

So, please come out and provide your support to help the efforts of MSF in Haiti.

RSVP to the facebook event here and spread the word!

As with the start of every new year and semester, you’ll get to hear more of your favorite KCOU shows/personalities AND also get a chance to catch the launch of some new specialty programming that has been in the works over the past month or two!

Another bit of excitement that will be coming your way are piping hot, fresh KCOU t-shirts!  Not just a few either… we’re talking the equivalent of a large baby elephant - roughly 250 pounds worth of the most rockin’ t-shirts you could hope to have in your wardrobe this year. We’ll be giving them away every which way from Sunday starting later this month, so stay tuned to find out where and how you can get yours…

There’s a lot more that we’ll be bringing your way in 2010 so keep listening and supporting your station, your voice - KCOU.

PS
If you are currently an enrolled student at Mizzou and are interested in joining the staff at KCOU, go here for more info!

“Ever since Cursive burst onto the music scene with their 1997 debut album, the band has consistently and continually churned out heady albums heralded by critics and fans alike. Wrestling with life’s miseries and mysteries, Mama, I’m Swollen is an album brimming with the universal, questioning the human condition, social morality, and the “Peter Pan Syndrome” of grown men.

After the underground success of their third album, Cursive’s Domestica, in 2000, the band followed up with what would prove to be their breakthrough album, The Ugly Organ, in 2003. A self-aware conceptual record about artistic constraints (or lack thereof), relationships, sex, and the intersection of all three, it landed them on the Arts section cover of The New York Times and accolades from Rolling Stone, Alternative Press, Blender, Magnet, Esquire, and Spin – as well as a place on many year-end best lists. Cursive spent the next year and a half touring the album relentlessly, headlining the Plea For Peace tour and playing Coachella before being handpicked by The Cure for their Curiosa tour in late 2004.

Exhausted and admittedly daunted by the task of following up a hit record, Cursive went on an indefinite hiatus before reemerging with the adventurous Happy Hollow in 2006. Lauded as a triumphant comeback and evolution of the band by publications such as Alternative Press, Spin, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and Blender, the album examined small-town angst, American dreams, and religion. Midway through touring in early 2007, original drummer Clint Schnase amicably departed the band. After a short break following a national tour with Mastodon and Against Me! and feeling somewhat conflicted about proceeding forward without him, Tim Kasher (vocals, guitar), Matt Maginn (bass, vocals), and Ted Stevens (guitar, vocals) decided to begin writing – only without the ambitions of necessarily turning it into the next Cursive record. Shortly thereafter, Cornbread Compton (formerly of Engine Down) officially signed on as drummer by this time and what musically unfolded from this newly realized foursome was indeed…Cursive.

Kasher is a storyteller, a weaver of songs that can read more like short stories or fables than the standard verse-chorus-verse. Mama, I’m Swollen finds him at his literate, lyrical best, where references to both Poe (“Going To Hell”) and Pinocchio (“Donkeys”) are intertwined seamlessly within his own tales of characters grappling with the moral quandary of being human, adult, and playing a role in ‘civilized’ society. Musically, Cursive is as smart and sophisticated as ever, the songs’ rousing, cerebral content complemented by moments alternately hushed and exhilarating (the cathartic “From The Hips,” the noisily melodic romp “I Couldn’t Love You”), eerily moody and jaunty (the almost prayerlike “Let Me Up,” “Mama, I’m Swollen”) – moments that often occur within the very same song. From the charging bass lines of album opener “In The Now” to the quiet first chords of confessional closer “What Have I Done?”, Mama, I’m Swollen is a natural progression that remains distinctively Cursive: a fluid amalgamation of the band’s sound past, present, and future – a band that both your punk kid sister and English lit grad student best friend can call their own.

Whew. Mama, I’m Swollen is also one very simple thing: an amazing Cursive record, proving yet again why–after all these years–the quartet remains one of the most exciting and inventive rock bands today.”

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KCOU and the Student Union Programming Board (SUPB) present Rock the Wrench - the biggest Mizzou student music competition of the Fall Semester.

After over 28,000 votes were cast during the online voting portion of Rock the Wrench, the original field of 13 has been narrowed down to the final five bands - Bad Dog Stay, Envy the Cookbook, Nick and the Fireflies, The Red Resistance, and What Machines Were - who will compete on November 17th at Jesse Wrench Auditorium (Memorial Union - South Side) to win it all!

Admission to the event is FREE!

The top band will walk away with $500 and a killer trophy! Be part of the audience that will decide…

Doors open at 7 p.m. and the first band goes on at 7:30 p.m. The first 222 will receive voting wristbands that will also qualify them to win prizes throughout the night. The queue for wristbands will begin as early as 5 p.m. in the MU South lobby. First come, first served. Only those who are in attendance from start of show until the end of the night w/ wristbands will be able to vote.

Check out info about each of the groups and listen to their music!

KCOU and the Student Union Programming Board (SUPB) present Rock the Wrench - the biggest Mizzou student music competition of the Fall Semester. The online voting portion has begun and the acts will need your support to make it to the main event!

Check out info about each of the 13 groups and listen to their music to help you decide who you think should make it to the final five!

Those who make the top five based on your votes will perform live at Jesse Wrench Auditorium on November 17th and compete to win it all. The top band will walk away with $500 and a killer trophy! How do they win? The audience will decide…

Click HERE to go check out the bands

UPDATE: Voting has closed and after over 28,000 votes cast the final five musical acts are:

Bad Dog Stay
Envy the Cookbook
Nick and the Fireflies
The Red Resistance
What Machines Were

See them Tuesday at Jesse Wrench Auditorium preform LIVE and then vote for the one who will win it all!

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