KCRW Music Library Is Reborn with Special June Programming

First off, thanks to ALL of you who donated a little extra to the Music Match -- more than 24,000 KCRW subscribers contributed to the effort!

Now for an update -- the station launched the Music Match last June to raise the funds needed to restore and preserve the more than 60,000 albums and exclusive live performances in the Music Library and create a system that would give our DJs easy access to each and every track.  

The campaign is now coming to a close and we are celebrating throughout the month of June -- KCRW DJs will delve into the music archives featuring rare tracks and performances, newly preserved in state-of-the art digital format.

Listen in to your favorite shows and you will hear gems from the archives. Also, visit KCRW.com for a special selection of streaming tracks from the archives each day.  Music Librarian/ DJ (Sun, Mid – 3am) Eric J Lawrence will choose one song a day from the archives to feature streaming on the site including; exclusive live performance tracks from My Morning Jacket, Badly Drawn Boy, Dori Caymmi, and the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, as well as rare and unusual recordings from Peter Gabriel, Serge Gainsbourg, Baz Luhrmann, legendary Los Angeles Lakers announcer Chick Hearn, and more.
 
More from Eric:
“This new digital library will be an amazing tool for our DJs to be able to delve even deeper into any musical genre imaginable.  By making every track in our library available for the KCRW programmers to immediately access from any of our studios, we hope to bring a new sense of spontaneity to our music shows.  And I believe our audience will be able to hear the difference and will appreciate the even-greater diversity we’ll be able to bring them over our airwave and on our online streams.”

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