[Swprograms] NYT Mag - John Harcourt of KCRW's "Morning Becomes Electric", "Starmaker of the Semipopular"

[Joel Rubin <jmrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/magazine/26HARCOURT.html

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[quote from long article]
Hoop had no idea who Nic Harcourt was, what his radio show was like or
even that he was in possession of a copy of her CD, but she could
hardly have received a better break. ''Morning Becomes Eclectic,'' and
KCRW as a whole, are renowned for purveying the contemporary music
equivalent of art-house films or literary fiction, a genre the rock
critic Robert Christgau calls ''semipopular'' music, marked less by
style than by a certain base-line intelligence and tastefulness. (As
the station's music director, Harcourt also oversees the rest of its
music programming.) Harcourt, whose show is broadcast daily from 9
a.m. to noon, has a knack for finding interesting new music ahead of
everyone else: he was the first in America to play Norah Jones and
Coldplay on the radio; like Jesca Hoop, the platinum-sellers Dido and
David Gray were unsigned artists whose demos Harcourt originally
spotlighted on his show; and more idiosyncratic unsigned acts like
Damien Rice, Sigur Ros and Jem have all also become the object of
record-company bidding wars as a result of Harcourt's championing.
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