When Nicole was 5, her grandfather gave her a yellow Mickey Mouse transistor radio. It was old and had been well-loved by somebody. It had an AM/FM switch, one speaker, and a dial with illegible numbers. One of the best things about this radio was the weird sounds it would pick up at night, under the covers, as she'd slowly turn the dial through the AM frequencies. Nicole would pretend she was picking up music from Mars and would host a radio show called "Sounds From Beyond!" with her stuffed animals standing in for extra-terrestrial musicians. Although Ear Candy is her first broadcast show ever--which she launched at the ripe old age of 32--Nicole has been rehearsing for it all of her life. "Sounds From Beyond!" gave way to a love affair with radio stations at the extreme ends of the dial (where you'd hear the best, most interesting stuff) and jobs at various record stores throughout high school and college. Back when people used to make mix tapes, Nicole's were second to none--just like Ear Candy, where she makes a new mix every week. Join the fun each Friday, 9am-12pm here on CHIRP!
You can listen to the most recent episodes of Ear Candy below:
4/5 - 10am hour
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10:33am
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Erika de Casier
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ooh
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Still (4AD)
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10:29am
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Toro Y Moi
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Ordinary Pleasure
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Outer Peace (Carpark)
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10:25am
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Of Montreal
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Gronlandic Edit
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Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
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10:21am
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Chicano Batman
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Notebook Fantasy
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Notebook Fantasy (ATO)
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10:15am
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Thundercat
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Them Changes
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Drunk (Brainfeeder)
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10:12am
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Shabazz Palaces
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Angela (featuring Stas THEE Boss & Irene Barber)
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Exotic Birds of Prey (Sub Pop)
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10:09am
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Missy Elliott
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W.T.F. (feat. Pharrell Williams)
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single (Atlantic)
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Track Notes: Happy birthday, Pharrell Williams!
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10:04am
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Nouvelle Vague
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You Spin Me Round
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Should I Stay Or Should I Go? (PIAS)
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4/5 - 9am hour
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9:59am
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Motel Breakfast Local
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The Call
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I Promise I'm Having Fun (self-released)
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Track Notes: By request for Matthew!
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9:55am
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Modern English
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Out to Lunch
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1 2 3 4 (Mesh & Lace)
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9:51am
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Morrissey
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Tomorrow
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Your Arsenal (Warner Bros.)
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9:46am
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Miami Horror
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I Look to You
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Illuminations (Nettwerk)
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9:42am
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Poolside
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Do You Believe
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Pacific Standard Time (Day & Night)
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9:38am
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Les Amazones d'Afrique
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Musow Danse (Women's Dance)
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Musow Danse (Real World)
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9:33am
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Holograms
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Flesh And Bone
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Forever (Captured Tracks)
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9:29am
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Eagulls
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Nerve Endings
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Eagulls (Partisan)
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9:25am
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Brigitte Calls Me Baby Local
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Palm of Your Hand
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This House is Made of Corners (ATO)
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9:20am
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Tanukichan
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Sundays
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Sundays (Company)
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9:17am
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The Radio Dept.
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Pulling Our Weight
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Passive Aggressive: Singles 2002-2010 (Labrador)
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9:14am
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Cheer-Accident Local
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Beached
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Vacate (Cuneiform)
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9:09am
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Justice
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New Lands
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Audio, Video, Disco (Elektra)
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9:01am
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Prince Rama
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Your Life in the End
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Xtreme Now (Carpark)
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3/22 - 11am hour
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11:54am
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James Brown
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Get It Together
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Star Time (Polydor)
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11:48am
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Chelsea Wolfe
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Whispers in the Echo Chamber
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She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She (Loma Vista)
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11:45am
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Brittany Bindrim Local
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Fever Dreams
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Velella Velella (Metropolis)
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11:36am
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Mark Lanegan Band
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The Gravedigger's Song
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Blues Funeral (4AD)
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Track Notes: By request for Dan!
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11:33am
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Brigitte Calls Me Baby Local
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Impressively Average
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This House is Made of Corners (ATO)
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11:29am
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Warpaint
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Common Blue
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single (Rough Trade)
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11:19am
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Teena Marie
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Square Biz
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It Must Be Magic (Gordy)
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Track Notes: By request! Shoutout to Bliv and Tangerine!
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11:13am
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Madonna
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Future Lovers
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Confessions on a Dance Floor (Warner)
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Track Notes: By request for Matthew!
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