yeah, pun intended.

getting you up to speed!

2009-08-27T13:50:00.000-07:00

here are the last summer semester shows if you totally wanna know...

AUG 13th - word of the day - "HEAVEN TO HELL" playlist
AUG 6th - word of the day - "FAMILY"playlist
JULY 30th - word of the day - "REMIX"playlist

kat and kellen are finally together again, bringing you wordy tunes all semester long! we're kicking it old SCHOOL style tonight with a themed-back-to-class act. even if you arent a student, youll enjoy cuz of course we like to take you back to the past and bring you to future hits as well.

RECENT NEWS before our lovely fall semester starts:
....we are still looking for actors/ models (and not the other way around) for our music video. inquire @ ktswwordplay@gmail.com and get YOUTUBE KTSdub FAMOUS!
....we're also always accepting word of the day suggestions @ ktswwordplay@gmail.com as well, and believe me if you contribute a word of the day suggestion and a couple of song ideas or something, we'll compensate greatly (hint hint PRESENTS!!!)
......we're also going to be discussing out BAND OF THE SEMESTER and will reveal it on tonight's show! YEAH!
..........looking for a live show, like TONIGHT? the wailing walls are playing at the triple crown and as i hear it, its theyre last show together ever... until you know, they have a toadies-esque "reunion" tour, over and over! and i believe the couch is playing this weekend at bar 141?
...................other than that? send us your favorite listens and adds for the end of the summer and beginning of fall TWO THOUSAND AND NINER!

we love you and miss you listeners and are going to RAWK OUT with our collars out tonight!
listen 6-8 PM !
love,
kellen and soon to be katerina!!! once again! JOCK JAMZ FOREVZ

DAWN TO DUSK

2009-07-25T09:43:00.000-07:00

july 23rd - word(s) of the day - "dawn to dusk!"
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alls i gotta say this week is...

KAT COME BACK AND CO-HOST WITH ME BEFORE YOU TURN TO PHOTOSHOPPED STARDUST!!

haha....
well.. all is well on the word play front. we're taking applications / resumes / demo reels for our newest youtube promo, which WILL BE A MUSIC VID chock full of crazy stunts and spits!! lets just say... there will be crazy hula hoopers and a couple of drag queens and probbbbably like 8 dachshunds (if i can round em all up) in this vid.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR (but are not limiting ourselves to this list) :
-fire breathers
-vaudeville flappers
-GRANDMAS
-monster costumes
-astronauts
-someone as david bowie in the labyrinth
-ravi shankar sitar riffs in the back
-SOMEONE WHO CAN PLAY SOME MAD SYNTH
-stunt drivers
-as well as :

-ET CETERA

once kat comes back, we will start this shiz (scuse me, ranch dressing) UP. get in on the word play gravy train!

hope you enjoyed the morning-afternoon-evening-night set this week! as always thanks for the support !
word play adores you,
kellen

MOON

2009-07-21T08:48:00.000-07:00

july 16th - word of the day - "moon"
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happy 40th anniversary, apollo 11!

too many youtubes, not enough time YOUS GUYS

i just want to salute that round disc in the sky that gives us light on days when it's shinin' bright. tonights a new moon, so we'll have to bow to it all yoga-style once it comes back.

THE best thing i can recommend to any of you who love short stories is this:

italo calvino's cosmicomics. the first chapter is a tiny story about the moon's gravitational pull being so close that humans used to climb ladders to the bottom of the moon and catch moon milk. its a fantastic read and one of my all-time faves, especially pertaining to this word of the week we call "moon."

i dont exactly have a song o' the week, but ill leave you with the sculpture of the week?! same thing... purdy much...

this is by bruce nauman, titled my name as though it were written on the surface of the moon, 1968. neon sign. how appropriate, since apollo 11 was just a year later!

and, so wait, we did have an artist of the week on word play-- RAHIM QUAZI! he's a singer/songwriter from the DFW area, and he actually suggested the word of the day be "moonlight." little did you all know that rahim himself has some songs with material covering the ole satellite in the sky, so i hope you all enjoyed the "apollo" and "she talks to moonlight" songs! check him out if youre ever in the dallas / grapevine area-- it is HIGHLY highly wordplay-recommend. stamp of approval GRADE A MEAT.

thats alls i got for this week,
keeeeeeeeelleeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

( ) & ? !

2009-07-10T10:54:00.000-07:00

july 9th- word of the day : " ? & ( ) ! "
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THE AMPERSAND : &
check out that treat for all you type nerds out there! shoutout to my friend claude, a fantastic graphic designer who loves the ampersand like anyone else.

i hope you guys dug the symbols/punctuation word of the day! it was a different way of working here at word play since ive never found songs in the caliber i did for the ?!&() show!

an UPDATE!
the octopus project is incredible live. just wanted to put that out there-- what a great 4th of july that was seeing them and wooden birds (EXCELLENT too ps) and explosions in the sky. no fireworks though, austin texas. come on!

the word play song of the week is YEASAYER's "TIGHTROPE" -- it is tiiiiight! i found it on sirius's XMU channel but realized, well hey its on that one Dark Was The Knight compilation album. check it outtttt!! im gonna try to make a song of the week since its exciting to put up new stuff youre dying to tell everyone about.

DAN DEACON and DEERHUNTER are taking a collaborative tour right now (as of late, they're only in the east coast and new york area) where they are playing eachothers' songs and singing together. HOLY COW. those two are two of the best live shows ive seen, EVER, so together? who wants to hop a plane and go see them play in chicago in august?? im sure there will be some ACL action since the both of them are lined up for the festival, but.... theres never a time when the windy city sounds like a bad idea!

kat, my fellow co-host who is on leave for the summer and NEEDS TO COME BACK ASAP, and i are going to start up a video blog on this here site pretty soon, so in a couple of weeks be ready to see some hilarious off-air action with your word play gals. continuing on the music and words are what we at word play are here for, SO!

other than that, i got nothing. enjoy the ampersand / exclamation / question mark / parentheses show!
ill leave you with this: SONG O THA WEEK BALLERS!

much love and sweat,
kellen

come in captain, server's down.

2009-07-07T08:15:00.000-07:00

uh....
sorry everyone.
its been almost three or four weeks or something like that since our streaming server has been shot down. MOTHERLINE.
so if youve been one of the many listeners that cant stream off our site and are pulling your hair out-- just be comforted in the mere fact that IM RIGHT THERE WITH YOU and that we are holding comforting group sessions every thursday after the show until this mega cajunga uber glitch in our webmastery department gets its hiccups out. ill bring the ginger ale if you bring some croissants and or cookies :)

pero,
until then, i will still be posting the shows in mp3 format after the fact, so you can still get your word play fix on FRIDAY, just not live with all the fun and shenanigans on the 89.9 air wave.

anyone know a guy who could do a thing with my main guy, tony?
cheers worders,
kellen

repeat

2009-07-02T15:45:00.000-07:00

july 2nd - word of the day - "repeat"
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SO CATS AND DOGS!
its word plays COVER SHOW part deux.

kat and i had a marrrrvelous covers show in the spring (if that strikes your fancy, listen here). i, of course, HAD to repeat the word of the day "repeat" since, to be frank, there are so many covers out there floating in cyberspace. i hope you all enjoyed, are enjoying, or will enjoy.

what was the first cover song in your memory? my father (who, as i will write time and again, schooled me in music appreciation from the time i could hear music) revealed to me that the one aerosmith song i knew so well in the 80s was IN FACT a beatles song orignally on abbey road. when i was a yee young gal growing up in the suburbs, trying to make 4-track mix tapes of my newly-acquired guitar skills, i first covered "hide your love away."

covers are such a great sub-category of the music universe! here's a fun one-- ben folds covering "bitches aint shit" by dr. dre. i saw this live myself and definitely should share.

and speaking of live, there are some GREAT live shows coming up! i myself will be seeing the octopus project and explosions in the sky on 4th of july and will for sure come back here to give a little review of the show. ALSO!
-next wednesday, july 15th -- tortoise is playing at the mohawk THEN the dirty projectors are playing at red 7 -- CHECK IT OUT if you can since red 7 is such a tiny place and im sure dirty projectors will rock that space out!
-next thursday, july 16th -- the blue hit and the river hymn will be playing at san marcos's triple crown. let me tell you, i had the blue hit play in my own backyard last year and was blown away by this 3-piece band with a cello and amazing lady vocalist. ive yet to see the river hymn but know the female vocalist and know her pipes are fantastic also, so all you san martians should absolutely check that out.

thats all i got for this week!
thanks for tuning in, and dont forget that next week's word of the day is up for suggestions! email me your ideas for a word at ktswwordplay@gmail.com and you might get your word played!

word,
kellen

road

2009-06-26T22:27:00.000-07:00

june 25th - word of the day - "road"
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so as you all have heard...
the king of pop died on thursday.
i actually read the news 3 minutes before i went on air, so if i sounded a little out-of-sorts on the show, its just because i was shocked... and saddened.. and never put on the spot like that, ever.

i'm not here to put a personal stance on what i think of michael jackson's personal life. all im here for is the music. i cant tell you one family member, friend or acquaintance i know of who has a record collection without thriller. i grew up with thriller as my first LP in my collection... imagine a 6 year old with bows in her hair, wearing all things purple and putting the needle on "beat it" (my favorite song at that time in my life) with my fisher price record player. no joke... from back in the day of my childhood til now, ive always enjoyed hearing michael jackson's killer voice mixed beautifully by non other than my main man, quincy jones. now, as such a huge fan of dance parties and the like, i cant think of hosting get-togethers involving a dance floor and not hearing "P.Y.T." or "billie jean." michael was a fundamental start in my love for music, and i owe him at least a "get it, MJ" in this here music blog because of him.

besides that, the word of the day was, indeed, "road." it's that time of year where all i want to do is get in my car and drive on the open road. does anyone crave the open road as much as i do? when im having a hectic period in my life, there's always a dire need of a road trip. lately ive been frequenting myself with this idea of going west... whether that be to fredericksburg for a day, to the davis mountains for a weekend, to the pacific ocean on highway 1 in two weeks... the possibilities are as endless as the highways. certain songs bode well with this feeling of endless driving and the road trip, in fact, some songs scream "road trip" so loud that i wonder if the musician recorded in a moving vehicle. the era of the jetsetter is definitely here, and not that i have anything against flying to and from destinations, there is just something magical about slowing down and speeding down I-10 for 8 hours instead of flying it in 1. you take things in differently when you have to drive the entire way. i just got back from a road trip all the way to washington state and portland, and i would have never known about california's delicious cherries and farm-grown avocados had i not seen a sign off the side of the highway and exited. i would have never seen the border of oregon and california with my own eyes-- literally, you cross california's beautiful brown hills and mahogany redwoods and POOF! you're suddenly in oregon, and everything is green. i could go on and on and on....

but, needless to say, road trips and its soundtracks to accompany the moving scenery on the dash are what keep me sane. and to keep you all sane, im sharing the moonwalk with friends, family, and fans:

anyone want to get together and learn the entire dance to thriller? im sure this is being done in the millions right as we speak...

thank you all for listening and reading and supporting radio and music!
keep it wordy,
kellen

vocals

2009-06-18T20:40:00.000-07:00

june 18th - word of the day - "vocals"
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you know, you're at a show in a smoky bar, pint glass in your left hand, and the opening band comes on stage. the first thing you want to hear to gage the band youve never heard is the lead singer...

...or at least, that's how i start off a new band. maybe its because ive been trained in the vocal department-- maybe if i were a professional percussionist, id want to hear the licks of the drums first to see if the band were in my opinion worth listening to. but theres something compelling about the frontman or frontwoman or frontpeople of a musical act. my dad used to quiz me on which band was playing on the LP... "is it led zeppelin, dad?" "are you kidding? thats not robert plant's voice! come on, kellen girl!" i quickly started to get my chops on which band was who, and it was mostly from the vocalist. "wait wait, i know it. let me hear the singer one more time..."

this weeks show was based on some of the most powerful, riveting, and envelope-pushing vocal chords. i wanted to mix up wordplay a bit by including more musicians of back-in-the-day instead of heavily playing what's going on now (as we usually do). what better word of the day than a vocals show?

it was, to say the least, a pretty difficult show to make. how can anyone sit down and try to squeeze in their favorite singers in a time span of 2 hours? there are so many bands, especially in doo-wop and motown and in the 50s and 60s, that are never played on the greatest hits albums in all the jukeboxes over town, but in fact, provide some incredible talent that was overlooked or lost. i wanted to collaborate with one of my dear friends, the owner of the best and well-rounded record collection ive ever met. he used to cook us indian food in his tiny kitchen and play some of the greatest music ive never heard. that experience of having this incredible music-appreciation afternoon was what i wanted to put through the airwaves on ktsw... not a show of me standing on a pedestal giving my votes on who are the best singers in the world.. it was more of an experience of just listening to some powerful vocals all tied together in the growing amoeba that is music.

i played and mentioned "water boy" by odetta, and i should definitely share this:

cheers listeners and readers!

sun

2009-06-14T20:06:00.000-07:00

june 11th, 2009 - word of the day - "SUN"
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helloooo..... how are you! have you been alright throughout those lonely, lonely, lonely
loney nights?

i was about to get my E.L.O. ''doo-wop, diddly dooly wop''s on right then and there, ya guys..

the texas hill country is sunnier than ever (yesterday was a piercing 107 degrees), making the san marcos river look like paradise. i swear, last night i was considerably thinking about getting a couple bags of ice and a blow up swimming pool to put in the front yard. with the way its looking now, i think we're going to have to ice bathe come august. but no worries-- we always somehow make it through the hotter-than-hell summers and find tunes in between to cool us off. the wordplay band of the summer is (dun duh nuh NUN!) CHAIN AND THE GANG! i had the privilege to see them perform in portland a couple weeks ago and was blown away by the energy of this band. so the singer, ian svenonius, has been around since the DC punk scene in '88, in bands including but not limited to THE MAKE-UP, NATION OF ULYSSES, WEIRD WAR, and... and!... not to mention he's a talk-show host on his-very-own "Soft Focus." so congrats chain and the gang, you are the summer catch of 89.9's word play.

couple of things in the word play music news of the week :

GRIZZLY BEAR is playing at the parish in austin on tuesday. fantastic band, fantastic venue, and im restless and ticket-less (not to mention a cheap date...). grizzly bear's veckatimest album is one of my all time favorite listens of 2009 and will most definitely be played on this here wordplay show as often as humanly possible.

in more local news, BUZZ 'N BANGS and ZLAM DUNK are playing at the ole triple crown in san marcos on saturday the 20th at 10:30 or so ($5 cover). id highly recommend this one to any who remembers the Clarissa Explains It All theme song and sings along to Michael Jackson's "black or white" ala Justin Dent-style. cheap drinks and easy laaaaaaadies~!

im going to leave you with a video that inspired me to get some sweet backup dancers for my next wordplay rap promo (dancer auditions, coming soon!)...
its a guy outta detriot named esQuire with a song called "brandy and xanax." need i say more

writings on the internets

2009-06-10T23:34:00.000-07:00

hello fellow and future listeners,

WORD PLAY IS IN FULL SWING, swaying to the force of the (sorta) full moon's glow and ready to rock some jock jams! not really... though i really miss those space jam late nights where we'd blast "tag team back again" oh so innocently. our first show back is tomorrow, thursday, 6-8 PM texas time, and its going to kick off this summer correctly. my side partner in crime, kat, will not be joining me in the radio booth until the fall due to her extreme longing to be in lubbock for the summer. no hard feelings on lubbock vs san marcos, hell i was born in lubbock so i cant complain! but the show will go on even though im mourning the (temporary) death of my co-host and not to mention we are still saddened by the death of KTXT 88.1 in the 806. i know the air waves arent as good when you stream over the internet, but lubbockians and others alike, feel free to check up on this here blog for links to our previous radio blocks, especially if you missed a show and are wanting to get a word fix. the good news is: my incredibly internet-saavy brother (residing and listening in ohio, mind you) will be providing me with high-res and better-sounding mp3s of our shows that you can hear HERE! ta-da! i love technology... most of the time.

i, uh, dont want to add to the dots of the hipster-runoff-esque cyberspace universe out there... or maybe i kinda do... but positive things come out of positive people and i am wanting to share the ever-growing positivity of the music and the discussions word play brings into WERD format. so expect some writings on previous music played, random youtube links, live shows feedback, uh.. best of shot in the dark from the chronicle and updates on the DOW, et cetera. and feel free to bring back to the word play community by leaving comments here or emailing me at ktswwordplay@gmail.com ! life stories and favorite-at-the-moment bands are also recommended when writing your opinion on here or over there in email land.

i end with this video, because i think more zach galifianakis characters should make videos like kanye west. NOTE the double piroeutte (get it!) AND DOUBLE NOTE! bonnie "prince" billy is backing him up as the, uh... what do you call the guy on stage that basically just supports the rapper by standing there and occasionally saying "yuh" ?

peace and enjoy the first start of the summer! hasta manana,
kellen