Music

From established performers like Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, Radiohead and Wilco to up-and-coming acts like Ingrid Michaelson, Langhorne Slim, Monsters of Folk and Fleet Foxes, KXT provides unmatched variety and a rich tapestry of sounds and voices on the North Texas radio dial – and worldwide at kxt.org.

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Music Programming on KXT
Gini Mascorro

Gini Mascorro

KXT Morning Show

Gini Mascorro is the morning host and music coordinator for KXT. Prior to KXT, she worked for nearly a decade at sister station KERA-FM as producer, midday host and arts calendar coordinator. Each weekday morning, she’ll bring you a wide variety of music, music news and features and even live performances from the KXT studios.

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Joe Kozera

Joe Kozera

KXT Afternoon and Evening Shows

Joe Kozera is in the KXT studios weekdays for five hours of music during the Afternoon and Evening shows. Joe has worked in radio in the Dallas/Fort Worth area since 2004. At KERA-FM, Joe has worked as a board operator, announcer, operations assistant, production coordinator and co-producer. Joe will also host live performances from the KXT studios, which you’ll hear about first here at kxt.org.

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Paul Slavens

Paul Slavens

Paul Slavens

Paul Slavens may be hosting a new show on a new station, but his Sunday night presence is familiar to North Texas listeners, having previously hosted a Sunday night music show on KXT’s sister station KERA 90.1 since 2005. He brings to the program a diverse, seemingly random mix of styles, genres and time periods. Paul is also well known in the North Texas area for his work as a multi-instrumentalist with bands like Ten Hands, the Baptist Generals and Robert Gomez.

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David Dye

World Cafe

The World Cafe with host David Dye serves up an eclectic mix of music from blues, rock, and world, to folk, and alternative country with live performances and interviews with celebrated and emerging artists. This acclaimed program, distributed nationally to over 185 stations across the country through NPR Music, is produced by WXPN in Philadelphia.

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Gregg McVicar

Undercurrents

Rock, Blues, Folk, Native, Americana, Funk, Electronica, Reggae, World, Dub, Roots and Alternative Country. UnderCurrents is intelligent, fun and easygoing – diving deep to reveal your past and future favorites. Undercurrents, hosted by radio veteran Gregg McVicar, is enjoyed around the nation on 55 stations and around the world via the Internet.

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Rob Reinhart

Acoustic Cafe

Each week, listeners around the globe tune in to Acoustic Café and host Rob Reinhart to hear the latest from today’s great songwriting talents. It’s hard to put a definitive label on Acoustic Café’s music selections. After all, a good song is a good song. Any individual set of music could contain a bit of country, rock, blues, folk, pop and more! In addition to classic songwriters like Dylan, Mitchell, Young, Cash, Browne, Prine and others, Acoustic Café wants to bring as many newer talents to the table as possible.

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Fiona Ritchie

Thistle and Shamrock

One of NPR’s most popular music programs is created in the foothills of the Scottish Highlands. When you turn your radio on, you’re there too. On The Thistle & Shamrock, award-winning radio host Fiona Ritchie explores evolving music from Celtic roots in Europe and North America. You’ll hear well-established and newly emerging recording artists along with in-studio guests, all surveying familiar territory and leading you to more distant landscapes and genres.

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Larry Groce

Mountain Stage

Mountain Stage is a two-hour music radio show that showcases very diverse music, from the traditional to the modern. It is recorded on Sundays before a live audience, usually at the Cultural Center Theater or the Clay Center in Charleston, West Virginia. The program, hosted since 1983 by Larry Groce, also frequently travels to other venues elsewhere in the United States and Canada.

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Dan Storper

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Rosalie Howarth

Putumayo World Music Hour

The Putumayo World Music Hour is an internationally syndicated radio show that takes listeners on a weekly journey through the music of many different cultures, now heard internationally on more than 170 commercial and non-commercial stations around the world. Playlists include well-known names like Bob Marley, Sting, Loreena McKennitt, and Santana, along with exceptional, underexposed international artists.

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Nick Spitzer

American Routes

American Routes is a weekly two-hour public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music, including blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical. The songs and stories on American Routes describe both the community origins of our music, musicians and cultures — the “roots”— and the many directions they take over time — the “routes.”

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Jim DeRogatis

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Greg Kot

Sound Opinions

Take two nationally respected rock critics, the latest music news, personal commentary, and exclusive interviews and performances, add a huge pile of records old and new, and the result is Sound Opinions, the world’s only rock and roll talk show. Every week, Sound Opinions fires up smart and spirited discussions about a wide range of popular music.

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