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SLC.edu / Student Life / Student Involvement / WSLC Radio / WSLC Staff

Meet the WSLC Staff

Kelsey ShawKelsey Shaw

General Manager

  1. Best concert you've ever been to (and why, of course)?
    Bright Eyes a couple of years ago with Feist . . . it was in a beautiful theater. I forget most of the concerts I've been to. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Modest Mouse, Nada Surf, Feist. I lost my tickets to Sufjan Stevens.
  2. 5 albums that would get you through the year that you will be stranded on a desert island?
    • Wilco - A Ghost Is Born
    • Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home
    • Joan Baez - Any Day Now
    • Elliott Smith - Either/Or
    • Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender
  3. Word Association!
    • College Radio: Entirely Necessary
    • WSLC: Protest
    • Most Important Music Genre: Folk
  4. Any other influential music memories you want to share?
    I heard Neil Young for the first time when I was three or four. My dad played "After the Gold Rush" on the record player every night after work.

Nina DonghiaNina Donghia

General Manager

  1. Best concert you've ever been to (and why, of course)?
    The Cramps. The crowd was full of former reformed punks getting loose, young punks; but everyone danced like the songs had become part of them over the years.
  2. 5 albums that would get you through the year that you will be stranded on a desert island?
    • Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
    • Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club
    • Iggy & the Stooges - Lust for Life
    • Toots and the Maytals - Reggae Greats
    • Astrud Gilberto - Beach Samba (if I'm going to be on an island, might as well have some samba right?)
  3. Word Association!
    • College Radio: Unity
    • WSLC: Love-child
    • Most Important Musical Genre: Experimental Post-Funk
  4. Any other influential music memories you want to share?
    Meeting Puff Daddy at the age of 12 in East Hampton, NY changed my entire musical perspective. My mother still has the photograph of this taped on the fridge.

Echo HopkinsEcho Hopkins

Music Director

  1. Best concert you've ever been to (and why, of course)?
    I don't know if I can really pick my favorite concert. My first concert was U2 when i was a small child, and that was pretty epic. But recently my favorites have been Illinois (for all of the fun raucous they cause), Beck (he has a puppet replica of himself that dances around on stage), The Flaming Lips (because of all of the balloons and confetti) and The Blow (Khaela can dance like no other).
  2. 5 albums that would get you through the year that you will be stranded on a desert island?
    In no particular order:
    • Air - Moon Safari
    • Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
    • Beatles - White Album
    • Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
    • Department of Eagles - From their forthcoming album that doesn't exist yet, except for on my island
  3. Word Association!
    • College Radio: WSLC
    • WSLC: Schneck
    • Most Important Musical Genre: Max Neely-Cohen
  4. Any other influential music memories you want to share?
    Having young parents who listened to killer music influenced the music I've come to know and love.

Annie SogaAnnie Soga

Publicity Manager

  1. Best concert you've ever been to (and why, of course)?

    Every summer, the Rock and Roll Camp for Girls Showcase in Portland, Oregon.

  2. 5 albums that would get you through the year that you will be stranded on a desert island?
    • Raveonettes - Chain Gang of Love
    • American Hardcore soundtrack
    • Le Tigre - Feminist Sweepstakes
    • Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control
    • Virgin Suicides soundtrack by Air
  3. Word Association!
    • College Radio: Free Speech
    • WSLC: W's are east of the Mississippi River, K's are west!
    • Most Important Musical Genre: Punk Rock
  4. Any other influential music memories you want to share?
    There hasn't been an instant in my life that music hasn't been around. My father was a big influence on me early on. We used to listen to Patti Smith's Radio Ethiopia and The Dandy Warhols first album in the car on the way to school when I was eight. The other main musical influences in my life were/are attending/voluteering at the Rock & Roll Camp for Girls, finding out about riot grrrl and amazing female musicians, and a tumultuous relationship that introduced me to old school and hardcore punk.

Trevor StoutTrevor Stout

Publicity and Promotions Director

  1. Best concert you've ever been to (and why, of course)?
    TV on the Radio and Grizzly Bear at Irving Plaza, late 2006. Grizzly played, and then TV on the Radio played, and THEN they all came out for the encore, and THEN all the roadies and guitar techs and distant cousins of the guitar techs came out. There were about 25 people on stage, all playing some sort of homemade percussion instrument (cellphone on plastic bucket, wire clothes hanger on whiskey bottle, etc.), most without any sense of rhythm at all. It was mind-meltingly confusing and exceptionally fantastic.
  2. 5 albums that would get you through the year that you will be stranded on a desert island?
    • Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
    • The Avalanches - Since I Left You
    • Mark Mothersbaugh - The Royal Tenenbaums
    • The Bad Plus - These are the Vistas
    • Philmor - Thor 4 Shor
  3. Word Association!
    • College Radio: Ahhh.
    • WSLC: Teddy Pendergrass
    • Most Important Musical Genre: Epic Ambient Norsk Troll-Doom (look it up)
  4. Any other influential music memories you want to share?
    John Mayer used to date one of my friend's ex-babysitters (he's really tall).

Lindsey KemptonLindsey Kempton

Webmaster

  1. Best concert you've ever been to (and why, of course)?
    The Bauhaus because it was crazy to actually get to see them after they had been on hiatus for so long, and because they put on an amazing show/their music is so much more amazing live, I can't even describe.
  2. 5 albums that would get you through the year that you will be stranded on a desert island?
    • Call Me - Al Green (no, not our dean even though I wish it was)
    • Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
    • Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
    • Tea for the Tillerman - Cat Stevens
    • The Teaches of Peaches - Peaches
  3. Word Association!
    • College Radio: Progressive
    • WSLC: Awesome
    • Most Important Musical Genre: Classic Rock
  4. Any other influential music memories you want to share?
    My first concert was AC/DC and I didn't really know any of their songs and went because my dad wanted me to come but of course it was awesome and ridiculous!

Elle JordanElle Jordan

Facilities Director

  1. Best concert you've ever been to (and why, of course)?
    I've seen my favorite band nine times; they all pretty much tie for the best.
  2. 5 albums that would get you through the year that you will be stranded on a desert island?
    • The Blood Brothers - Burn Piano Island, Burn
    • Bright Eyes - Lifted or The Story is in the Soil, so Keep Your Ear to the Ground
    • The Manchester Orchestra - I'm Like a Virgin Losing a Child
    • The cover songs mix cd I made for the Teahouse my freshman year
    • The beatles - 1
  3. Word Association!
    • College Radio: Free Speech
    • WSLC: Rock Out
    • Most Important Musical Genre: Trip Hop Cabaret Dancepunk
  4. Any other influential music memories you want to share?
    I don't listen to good music. I don't know how I got this job.