Your First Listen

08/11/2026

Really, really fresh! Our current show is now on Mixcloud....

https://www.mixcloud.com/yourfirstlisten/your-first-listen-81026-eardrum-buzz-radio/

This trip down, you'll hear new and recent offerings from ACTORS, Memory Index, SOFT VEIN, COOL HEAT, Project 27, Ex-Hyena, Dead Voices On Air, Crying Vessel, The Martyr, DETECTS, Palm Ghosts, Cure For Youth, Agatha is Dead, Shades of Violette, Darkswoon, Girl Detective, CASTLEBEAT, Waves Crashing,...

08/08/2026

Pioneer Public Broadcasting hopes to raise $50,000 by Aug. 31 to acquire KKNZ's license, equipment and music library.

08/07/2026

A brand new Your First Listen is on the way!

This trip down, you'll hear new and recent offerings from ACTORS, Memory Index, SOFT VEIN, COOL HEAT, Project 27, Ex-Hyena, Dead Voices On Air, Crying Vessel, The Martyr, DETECTS, Palm Ghosts, Cure For Youth, Agatha is Dead, Shades of Violette, Darkswoon, Girl Detective, CASTLEBEAT, Waves Crashing, THE MAZE CAB, Seasurfer, Zed Point , WYWY, PIECES, Sun Shines Cold, Chlorine Eyes & Strayline., Soft Science, Japanese Heart Software, Newagehealers, Vida Eterna, Sunstinger, The blue herons, Grazer, Beach Vacation, rain cloud nine, Veda Rays, Torturetwinn, Vlimmer, Vioflesh, chemical waves & The Spoiled remixed by Propter Hoc, Modele, The XRAY5, and Alex Okami.

You can find us Friday night at 9:00 PM US CT on Ken's FM 89.1. Listen via the radio.garden app or stream at http://108.59.11.81:8315.
We get a replay there on Tuesday afternoon at 1:00.

On Monday, August 10th, we head out west to Eardrum Buzz Radio at 6:00 PM US PT. Listen at www.eardrumbuzz.net.

You can listen whenever you like at www.mixcloud.com/yourfirstlisten/. Our shows are uploaded there after airing.

Original photo credit: Douglas County Minnesota Historical Society.

07/09/2026

The road from point A to B is sometimes long and filled with potholes, detours and left turns, but I think we finally got there.

Your First Listen is back with a new show!

Tune in to hear new and recent offerings by Antipole & Pedro Code, Nightcrawlmusic, Apnea Into The Radio, Mouth Ulcers, Midi Memory, Dead Astronauts, Propter Hoc, BlakLight, No-Montreal, Social Station, Postlooperish, Seasurfer, Magic Wands remixed by Glass Chapel, ghost days, R. Missing, Lowsunday, A Shoreline Dream, Ancient Channels, Sun Shines Cold, Mary's Restless Dream, Butterfly Explosion, Moonwards, 𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫, Loom, Twin Bloom, Indoor Voices, Soft Science, Newagehealers, Desario, Lone Seagull, With Brevity, Sleeps Under Beams, CASTLEBEAT, atmos bloom, Cloud Studies, Emerald Comets, Palm Ghosts, Lovers Love Haters, Black Boiler, The Mystic Underground, Laz Flores and Lunar Paths.

Where and how to listen:

Friday, 7/10:
Wax Radio, Indianapolis at 3:00 PM US ET. Listen at waxradioindy.com.

Friday 7/10:
Ken's FM 89.1 at 9:00 PM US CT. Listen at http://108.59.11.81:8315 or by using the radio.garden app. We get a replay there on Tuesday afternoon at 1:00.

Monday 7/13:
Eardrum Buzz Radio at 6:00 PM US PT.

At your convenience:

Visit www.mixcloud.com/yourfirstlisten/. Our shows are uploaded after airing.

06/24/2026

The current show is now up on Mixcloud!

It didn't take a month this time...Your First Listen is back with a new show! This time, hear music by SOFT VEIN, Fragrance., COOL HEAT, L'Avenir, Antipole & Pedro Code, Carrellee, ZT1, Seasurfer, The Birthday Massacre, The secret french postcards, Neo Dimes, The Foreign Resort, Modele, Postlooperis...

06/18/2026

It didn't take a month this time...Your First Listen is back with a new show!

This time, hear music by SOFT VEIN, Fragrance., COOL HEAT, L'Avenir, Antipole & Pedro Code, Carrellee, ZT1, Seasurfer, The Birthday Massacre, The secret french postcards, Neo Dimes, The Foreign Resort, Modele, Postlooperish, pedalo, Tennell, Maud Anyways, Veda Rays, Kindsight, Dirtyspangles, Kallsup, brightmoon, Loom, they are gutting a body of water, Glimmer, Sungaze, Attic Ocean, Grazer, The blue herons, Minuit Phosphène, Found Space, My Raining Stars, Abandoned_Buildings, Tymbro & Dear Company, ILA Palm Ghosts, Secret Attraction, Night Rivals, Modern Ideas, SJÖBLOM, Velatine, 32 Ohm and Larsovitch.

Where and when to find the show:

Friday 6/19:
Wax Radio, Indianapolis at 3:00 PM US ET. Listen via waxradioindy.com.

Friday 6/19:
Ken's FM 89.1 at 9:00 PM US CT. Listen using the radio.garden app or stream at http://108.59.11.81:8315.
We have a replay there on Tuesday afternoon at 1:00.

Monday 6/22:
Eardrum Buzz Radio at 5:00 PM US PT. Listen at www.eardrumbuzz.net.

At your convenience:
www.mixcloud.com/yourfirstlisten/. Our shows are uploaded after airing.