after learning that the sale and distribution of chickpeas was legal in the united states, its owners sold what would soon become kcou's lavish studios to a group of enterprising and very stoned college students, who had just come across some expensive electronic equipment left inside of an old radio station. soon, after their only other competition in town was forced off the air due to a financially debilitating burglary, kcou arose in 1970s columbia as a vital alternative to the blase atmosphere of top 40 and trendy boogie rock stations. the years following the late '70s new wave explosion and '80s alternative rock scene solidified kcou's reputation as a bastion of underground (read: authentic) rock culture. kcou has played host to and helped promote many future rock legends far before they ever became rich and famous, such as concrete blonde, lone justice, cracker, chumbawumba, and big audio dynamite. kcou helped reform the reclusive cult rockers black oak arkansas for a one-time reunion show at the boone county fairgrounds in 1992, and the station is even thanked in the liner notes to the soup dragons' breakthrough album lovegod ("spanx 4 the memories, kcou").
today, kcou is still out there, somewhere, spewing its anti-capitalist screed to the masses. our student djs work around the clock with absolutely nothing given to them in return except for handfuls of bespoiled chickpeas. if ever you should be in columbia with nothing better to do, and you have one of those old-timey radios, turn the knob down a bit, to 88.1, and if you hear static, just shake it a little, or, if that doesn't work, listen for a while, because the dj might be playing one of those hip noise records. or maybe we just got shut down.
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online ------------------ http://kcou.missouri.edu/
aim -------------------------------'kcou 881 fm'
studio phone -----573.882.8262
office phone -------------------573.882.7820
location -----------------101f pershing hall
send cds, demos, promotional material to ---------
kcou c/o meredith lovelace / 101f pershing hall / columbia, mo 65201
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SUPPORT THE STATION! BUY OUR BRAND NEW T-SHIRTS!!!
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$8 each. available in female ( SMALL and MEDIUM ) and unisex ( YOUTH LARGE , SMALL , MEDIUM , LARGE and EXTRA-LARGE ). if you'd like a t-shirt, check out the Brady Commons Ticketmaster Box Office on the University of Missouri campus. They are also available at maude vintage , slackers and apop records , all located in downtown Columbia.
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