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Necktie Optional episode 13 (7/9/2026)

Episode 12 brings new music from The Mountain Goats, Dogwood Tales, Slow Runner, and Hovvdy alongside Iron & Wine, Frou Frou, Penny and Sparrow, and Wippy Bonstack. Handpicked, as always. Neckties remain optional. It's pledge drive week — keep radio weird at kpcr.org/join.

Necktie Optional 4th of July Special (7/4/2026)

A very special episode of Necktie Optional to celebrate and reflect on 250 years of American independence, and reflecting upon the good, bad, and ugly - and embracing protest music as a desire for positive change. Setlist: The Menzingers | America (You're Freaking Me Out) Greta Van Fleet | A Change Is Gonna Come Conner Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band | Roosevelt Room Descendents | 'Merican John Prine | Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore Bright Eyes | When The President Talks to God Carsie Blanton & The Burning Hell | Private Equity Mon Rovia | Heavy Foot Jesse Welles | Masks Off David Dondero | Pre-invasion Jitters Forest Sun | America, I Love You Micah Schnabel | Nuclear War KennyHoopla | NEW AMERICA// Ozomatli | Pa Lante Edwin Starr | War Brendan Hines | Guillotine Carsie Blanton & The Burning Hell | Hoist the Guillotine Bad Religion | Let Them Eat War Rage Against The Machine | Testify Dead Pioneers | Tired Pearl Jam | Fortunate Son Bruce Springsteen | Born in the U.S.A.

Necktie Optional episode 11 (7/2/2026)

Episode 11 brings fresh cuts from Michigander, Kelley Stoltz, and Carver Commodore alongside The Beths, The Long Winters, Dismemberment Plan, and FIGHTMASTER. Handpicked, as always. Neckties remain optional. It's also pledge drive week — if you like what you hear, visit www.kpcr.org/join and help keep radio weird!

Necktie Optional episode 10 (6/25/2026)

Episode 10 casts a wider net than most — Iceage, Inundaremos, and Wippy Bonstack bring some international and angular flavor to a set that also makes room for The Killers, Tegan and Sara, and The Beths. More math, more edges, more passport stamps than your average Thursday. Known quantities holding the door open for ones worth knowing. Handpicked, as always. Neckties remain optional. Setlist: Stars | Fixed Braids | Evolution Boyish | Legs FIGHTMASTER | Bad Man Carver Commodore | Never Know What To Say Cold War Kids | Louder Than Ever Inundaremos | 3300 Ra Ra Riot | Ghosts Under Rocks Wippy Bonstack | Dancing with the Monks Mei Semones | Rat with Wings Minus the Bear | Knights The Velvet Teen | Eclipses Kenny Hoopla & Albert Hammond, Jr. | NEW AMERICA// Moving Units | Between Us & Them diet lemon | fool Trestles | Babylon King Tuff | Invisible Ink sueter7 | Confluencias susquatch | Spin The Words P.E.E. | IHOP Feed Me Jack | Knight Fork Maggie Gently | Horrible Oracle Weird Nightmare | Might See You There Iceage | The Weak Editors | The Rush Twen | One Stop Shop (For A Fading Revolution) Teagan and Sara | Hell The Von Bondies | C'mon C'mon The Beths | Expert In A Dying Field The Killers | Dying Breed

Necktie Optional episode 9 (6/18/2026)

Episode 9 lets Rilo Kiley, The Beths, and The Linda Lindas hold the door open for Kashus Culpepper, Hikes, Eastern Souvenirs, and a few others worth remembering. Good curatorial instincts tend to work that way. All killer, no filler. Handpicked, as always. Neckties remain optional. Setlist: Man/Woman/Chainsaw | Nosedive Francis of Delirium | Damned Great Grandpa | Bloom Rilo Kiley | The Execution of All Things The Beths | When You Know You Know Minus the Bear | Hold Me Down The Verve Pipe | Barely (if at all) Jesse Welles | The Ballad of Big Balls Kashus Culpepper | Jenni Luc Swift, Kacie Jewel Hill | Still Life 2x2 Dermot Henry | My Favourite Book Is One I've Read A Bunch Vansire | Rinkside Mae Powell | Contact High Dogpark | Don't Lie Ian Sweet | Criminal Kissing Hikes | Vulnerable The Velvet Teen | Forlorn Mei Semones | Tegami Emma Harner & Henry Jamison | The Lake The Linda Lindas | Burning Out Valley | Vending Machine Michigander | Superglue Eastern Souvenirs | Spinning Post Sex Nachos | Been Somebody Morcheeba, Django Django | Hold It Down - Django Django Bump & Run Remix Gryffin f. Julia Church | Spin Me Slowly Temples | Jet Stream Heart

Necktie Optional episode 8 (6/11/2026)

Episode 8 is stacked with new music: EGOISM, Pamela., Pete Yorn, JW Francis, Arcy Drive, Beaming, Feeble Little Horse, Wes Parker, Kevin Morby, Babehoven, Mikaela Davis, Wild Pink, The Mountain Goats, Michigander, Westside Cowboy, and Francis of Delirium all bringing fresh material. Handpicked as always. Neckties remain optional. Today's set: EGOISM | Time for the Needy Pamela. | Better Than Before Twen | Tapdance In Limbo The Velvet Teen | Sonreo Pete Yorn | All The Beauty JW Francis | Radio Tower Arcy Drive | one'n a million beaming | say goodbye yeemz | TSA feeble little horse | Rewind Sufjan Stevens | Should Have Known Better Mei Semones | Wakare No Kotoba Wes Parker | Bad Doggie Kevin Morby | Javelin Babehoven | Blue Around You Mikaela Davis | Nothin's On The Radio The Royston Club | The Patch Where Nothing Grows Minus the Bear | Monkey!!! Knife!!! Fight!!! Brigitte Calls Me Baby | Slumber Party The Gnomes | Magic Man Wild Pink | Round Of Applause At The End Of The World The Mountain Goats | Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds Michigander | Over Before You Know It Westside Cowboy | Kick Stones (The Boys) Dari Bay | We're Gonna Be Okay Hater | Landslide Loquat | Swingset Chain Francis of Delirium | Higher

Necktie Optional episode 7 (6/4/2026)

Episode 7 spotlights new releases from Wildermiss, Joyce Manor, Cody Jr, and Francis of Delirium, with a healthy local contingent — Often Easy, Trestles, Luke Sweeney, Indigo Elephant, Sweet Lew, Slow Coast, and The Velvet Teen — rounding out a set that also finds room for Frightened Rabbit, Snail Mail, and Friko. Handpicked, as always. Neckties remain optional. This week's setlist: Matt Pond PA | Specks Modest Mouse | Japanese Trees Often Easy | The Devil in You Wildermiss | Kiss The Weeds Stars | Ageless Beauty Snail Mail | Feeling Like I Do Trestles | Bones Joyce Manor | I Used To Go To This Bar Luke Sweeney | Sum'r Nights (Radio Edit) Michigander | I'll Be Ok oso oso | all of my love Indigo Elephant | Rat Race SWEET LEW | sicily Slow Coast | Not Alone Cody Jr | End of the Arts Tapes 'n Tapes | Freak Out Francis of Delirium | Out Tonight Ghost Work | Erase the Morning We Were Promised Jetpacks | Roll Up Your Sleeves Frightened Rabbit | Swim Until You Can't See Land Mei Semones | Animaru Softcult | Pill To Swallow The Beths | Future Me Hates Me Friko | Still Around The Velvet Teen | Gyzmkid Minus the Bear | Summer Angel U.S. Royalty | Monte Carlo

Necktie Optional episode 6 (5/28/2026)

Episode 6 introduces new tracks from Liana Warren, Sakai, and Hovvdy alongside with some deep dives into the proverbial dusty record bins — Andrew Bird, Beach House, Sufjan Stevens, Gogol Bordello, and Black Country New Road among the highlights. Handpicked, as always. Neckties remain optional. The Linda Lindas | All In My Head Nada Surf | In Front of Me Now Treasvre | Cherry Red The Vaccines | Love To Walk Away Andrew Bird | Make a Picture Gogol Bordello | Pala Tute Everything Everything | Cough Cough Stars | Death to Death Iron & Wine | Woman King Liana Warren | Chance Encounter Kacie Jewel Hill | Jetstream Sakai | Out Black Country, New Road | Happy Birthday Hovvdy | Try Try Try Beach House | Norway terraplana | charlie Mei Semones & John Roseboro | Tooth Fairy Kings of Convenience | Boat Behind Dismemberment Plan | A Life of Possibilities Mae Powell | Where Will Love Go Blitzen Trapper | Black River Killer Little Green Cars | Harper Lee Sufjan Stevens | Decatur, or, Round of Applause for your Step-Mother! The Velvet Teen | Naked Girl Michigander | Peace of Mind Silver Shores | Shadow Artist Minus the Bear | Fine + 2 PTS

Necktie Optional episode 5 (5/21/2026)

Episode 5 features fresh cuts from Spacey Jane, The Gnomes, and Blackhorse Hotel alongside a characteristically eclectic pull — Modest Mouse, The Flaming Lips, Dismemberment Plan, and Ra Ra Riot among them. Mei Semones makes another appearance, which at this point feels less like a coincidence and more like a residency. Handpicked, as always. Neckties remain optional. Set List: Minus the Bear | Throwin' Shapes Fazerdaze | Lucky Girl The Velvet Teen | Radiapathy Fright Years | Stars Dismemberment Plan | Sentimental Man Spacey Jane | I Never See Her Michigander | Giving Up Modest Mouse | History Sticks to Your Feet Future Future | Television Glow Francis of Delirium | Little Black Dress The Beths | Take Enemies | itsallwaves Mew | Introducing Palace Players Ariel Pink | Round and Round The Flaming Lips | Silver Trembling Hands Mei Semones | I can do what I want Pool Kids | Thats Physics, Baby Ra Ra Riot | Dying is Fine Crying | Wool in the Wash Blackhorse Hotel | Treasure Telescreens | Otherside of Town Cold War Kids | Passing the Hat Friko | Choo Choo Petey USA | I'll Wait Ted Leo & The Pharmacists | Me and Mia The Gnomes | Thinking of Me Dark Knights of Camelot | Wanna Be

Necktie Optional episode 4 (5/14/2026)

Episode 4 brings fresh cuts from Michigander and aron! & Mei Semones into the mix alongside a well-stocked roster — Beirut, Spoon, Frightened Rabbit, Kings of Convenience, and The Velvet Teen among them. It closes on the Polyphonic Spree covering Lithium, which is exactly as big as it sounds. Handpicked, as always. Neckties remain optional. Set List: Michigander | Freaking Out Lo Moon | Water Slow Runner | Check out My Myspace Futurebirds | Fly On Dolce Wang | On the Inside Francis of Delirium | It's a Beautiful Life JW Francis | Watery Road aron! & Mei Semones | Macrame Spoon | You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb Eels | Beginner's Luck The Beths | Straight Line Was A Lie Man/Woman/Chainsaw | Only Girl Ginger Root | Loretta of Montreal | The Party's Crashing Us Grand Archives | Miniature Birds Beirut | Postcards from Italy Dermot Henry | Little Rib Kings of Convenience | Homesick Feist | The Redwing Punch Brothers | I Blew It Off Frightened Rabbit | Get Out Silk Road | Space Station Editors | All Sparks We Were Promised Jetpacks | Ships with Holes Will Sink Indigo Elephant & Mare | Don't Wanna See It Minus the Bear | Listing The Velvet Teen | Counting Backwards The Polyphonic Spree | Lithium

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