NYTimes Profile on Nick Harcourt and KCRW

[DudeAsInCool]

The Starmaker of the Semi-Popular

'Morning Becomes Eclectic,'' and KCRW as a whole, are renowned for purveying the contemporary music equivalent of art-house films or literary fiction, a genre the rock critic Robert Christgau calls ''semipopular'' music, marked less by style than by a certain base-line intelligence and tastefulness. (As the station's music director, Harcourt also oversees the rest of its music programming.) Harcourt, whose show is broadcast daily from 9 a.m. to noon, has a knack for finding interesting new music ahead of everyone else: he was the first in America to play Norah Jones and Coldplay on the radio; like Jesca Hoop, the platinum-sellers Dido and David Gray were unsigned artists whose demos Harcourt originally spotlighted on his show; and more idiosyncratic unsigned acts like Damien Rice, Sigur Ros and Jem have all also become the object of record-company bidding wars as a result of Harcourt's championing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/magazine/26HARCOURT.html?

[Malicious Intent]

You mean we should actually be clicking the millions of KCRW links?

I'll take a look in future. Just thought you were fanboying some random radio station!

[DudeAsInCool]

You mean we should actually be clicking the millions of KCRW links?

I'll take a look in future. Just thought you were fanboying some random radio station!

KCRW and Coca-Cola should put me on retainer ;) Seriously, you will be happy to click those links...