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Riding with Champions: An Appreciation of the 2012-13 Mountaineer Women Basketball Team

Posted by on Mar 18, 2013 in Community, EOU, Features, La Grande Highlights, La Grande News, Leaving La Grande, Life, Sports

Riding with Champions: An Appreciation of the 2012-13 Mountaineer Women Basketball Team

kid yoshida travels to Sioux City Iowa to watch EOU women compete in NAIA national basketball championship...

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kid yoshida’s rabble rouser hour: January

Posted by on Feb 2, 2013 in Features, Local Musicians, Music, rabble rouser hour, Visiting Musicians

kid yoshida’s rabble rouser hour: January

kid yoshida hosts the "rabble rouser show" at KEOL in La Grande. The show focuses on tributes to stars of days past and reviews current and historical events. The music covers all genres and eras, but has a decidedly local bias to sounds from La Grande and around the Pacific Northwest.

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kid yoshida’s rabble rouser hour: December

Posted by on Dec 19, 2012 in Features, Local Musicians, Music, rabble rouser hour, Visiting Musicians

kid yoshida’s rabble rouser hour: December

Happy Holidays from the rabble rouser hour podcast… The rabble rouser hour with host kid yoshida helps keep folks around La Grande and beyond up to date on bands coming into the region as well as to expose folks to music they may not get to know otherwise. kid yoshida hosts the “rabble rouser show” at KEOL in La Grande. The show focuses on tributes to stars of days past and reviews current and historical events. The music covers all genres and eras, but has a decidedly local bias to sounds from La Grande and around the Pacific Northwest. Stream it Below: Audio clip:...

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Listomania Week 7: Christmas songs that don’t make me want to stab my eardrums

Posted by on Dec 7, 2012 in Features, Listomania

Listomania Week 7: Christmas songs that don’t make me want to stab my eardrums

I hate Christmas music. More than 95% of it is garbage that was only recorded to make money while contributing nothing musically. Plus it is crammed down our throats every year, at an increasingly early date I might add. Maybe it is because I spent many years of my life working in a place that played the same 30 or so Christmas songs on a loop starting the day after Thanksgiving, maybe it is because as a teenager I was a bit of a punk and hated almost anything mainstream or maybe it is because I am a super judgemental jerk that can’t just enjoy things for what they are. Either way,...

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Listomania Week 6: One hit wonders that should’t be

Posted by on Nov 26, 2012 in Features, Listomania

Listomania Week 6: One hit wonders that should’t be

#5: Fountains of Wayne “Stacy’s Mom” is not a bad song, in fact I am a fairly big fan of it. It sounds kinda like a cross between The Cars and Cheap Trick, which sounds like a way I might describe the worlds greatest band. It also has fun fun lyrics about about wanting to bone the girl next door’s mom. Combine all of these things with a video that appeals to all men everywhere and pays homage to “Fast Times At Ridgemont High” (still Sean Penn’s best role) and you get an easy hit.  But then you start listening to the rest of thier music.  And then...

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kid yoshida’s rabble rouser hour for November

Posted by on Nov 17, 2012 in Features, Local Musicians, Music, rabble rouser hour, Visiting Musicians

kid yoshida’s rabble rouser hour for November

It’s time again for the rabble rouser hour podcast… The rabble rouser hour with host kid yoshida helps keep folks around La Grande and beyond up to date on bands coming into the region as well as to expose folks to music they may not get to know otherwise. kid yoshida hosts the “rabble rouser show” at KEOL in La Grande. The show focuses on tributes to stars of days past and reviews current and historical events. The music covers all genres and eras, but has a decidedly local bias to sounds from La Grande and around the Pacific Northwest.   This month’s...

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