Locals Only: The Black Pacific, Fitz & The Tantrums, Young The Giant – Vote Now
Locals Only 9/12/10 #1 Black Pacific
#5 Red Cortez – Virgin Ideas
#4 Voxhaul Broadcast – Leaving on the 5th
#3 Local Natives – Airplanes
#2 Fitz & The Tantrums – Money Grabber
#1 The Black Pacific – Living with Ghosts
The Black Pacific – Living with Ghosts
Red Cortez – Virgin Ideas
Local Natives
Fitz & The Tantrums – MoneyGrabber
Voxhaul Broadcast – Leaving on the 5th
If you don’t see your favorite local artist on the list above, feel free to write them in the comments below.
DJ Wingard
September 12, 2010 11:16 pm
I realize you are playing records of local bands. But, most of the time, they are bands people already know on a nationwide, if not worldwide level.
Local music used to mean local artists who are starving for their art and running up their credit cards on studio time.
Fitz and the Tantrums? Come on. Call this show The Bands That Are Known Already From Southern California.
Go underground a little more. Sift through what is being sent to you, please.
Local shows cannot be about ratings but about what is emanating from down your street.
-The Wingard Manor
Jason
September 13, 2010 1:47 pm
Hey man Im with The b Foundation, touring the country, playing large local shows, and we’re still broke as f**k….I think you’re vision of the underground is a little slanted.. thats it..
ConcertConfessions.com
September 13, 2010 11:35 am
Write In Vote – USELESS KEYS – White Noise.
Rocket Man
September 13, 2010 12:38 pm
AGREED DJ WINGARD!
fisherman
September 13, 2010 1:58 pm
i wanna here some more of them Red Cortez guys. Virgin Ideas is on the mind.
thanks.
Lorna
September 13, 2010 4:16 pm
Yes !! Red Cortez
Meg
September 13, 2010 5:36 pm
LOVE LOVE LOVE Walking Sleep!
dave k
September 13, 2010 7:22 pm
I really like the song “white noise” you’ve played a couple of times
neda
September 13, 2010 11:13 pm
FITZ AND THE TANTRUMS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jim
September 15, 2010 2:14 pm
Voxhaul Broadcast is everywhere I look, nice to see local bands making it out of LA!!! Good job KROQ Nice to hear something other than same old songs last 5 years on set list.
RB
September 15, 2010 4:18 pm
Missing the great sound of Subliminal Trip, Heard them on your show a couple of weeks ago as your closing song. Be Set free is Sick!
Fenris
September 15, 2010 5:46 pm
I’ll swap places with you DJ Wingard, so that I can say Fitz and the Tantrums are local – You come on, wake up, smell the coffee and get tuned in to the coolest sound around – FATT
Come and spend a week here in the UK and see what commercial drivel is pumped to the masses – Ive nothing against songs and bands that are talented and can make a great living from it, but so much sounds the same its embarressing – Fitz brings the new sound, shakes it up with those soulful riffs and drops the blues just when you need it most. The best of whats known, and yet, so alive in comparison to other stuff. They are the movers and shakers, they are the dreamers of dreams (can you guess where my vote went – lol)
Lamar
September 16, 2010 2:04 am
Fitz & The Tantrums please!
George
September 16, 2010 12:18 pm
fitz is the sh*tz!
No Values
September 17, 2010 1:16 pm
The Black Pacific… This stuff is insane!
heinekendude
September 18, 2010 8:07 pm
In response to DJ Wingard:
In some respect I do agree with your commentary of the selection of “local music”. BUT with that said, I must defend Kat in this regard, she plays, daily, music that is sent to her for the locals only show, although this is not part of the normal play rotation, she does broadcast live on ustream. On behalf of my fellow Ustreamers, I must say that Kat has played, and made us listen to some HORRIBLE music to find that one diamond in the rough. So to say she doesn’t “sift” through what was sent to her, is a mis-statement at best. check in one day and have listen.
Regards-
The Ustream community
Savita
September 18, 2010 10:15 pm
LOVE LOVE LOVE Red Cortez
chachi
September 18, 2010 10:22 pm
Red Cortez all day!!!!
Jacinta
September 18, 2010 10:28 pm
Painting the town ReEdDr!
; – )
Lorna
September 19, 2010 9:09 am
Lets hear more from Red Cortez
crystal
September 19, 2010 2:03 pm
I agree with DJ Wingard. The only band from this list are “starving for their art and running up their credit cards on studio time” are Red Cortez. Sure they may have followers from different states but they are a true local band that deserve to get more recognition.I have seen them twice and they were freakin’ awesome!
Em
September 19, 2010 5:36 pm
DJ Wingard,
Maybe if your band’s music wasn’t trite it would deserve a place on this countdown. Stop starving for your “art” and get a real job, because I don’t think music is for you.
Sorry.
DJ Wingard
October 18, 2010 5:34 pm
I respect and appreciate your opinion, EM. I think that the day I wrote that I was already taking for granted how great the show is, how great the host is, and how refreshing it is to even have a chance to be played just because I’m local.
That said, constructive criticism is and always should be welcome in America. Your opinion of our music is that it is trite. You suggest I should quit altogether anything that is related to music.
I can’t. It kills me! I’ve tried.
I’m sorry you think our music is not for you.
Thanks for your recommendations,
DJ Wingard
Caitlin
September 19, 2010 5:54 pm
I love me some Fritz & the Tantrums!
steven
September 19, 2010 8:02 pm
Fitz!!!!