88.5 KURE (Ames)

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Alternative Electronic Entertainment Hip-hop Jazz Rock Sports

88.5 KURE is a student-produced and student-managed radio station, broadcast at 88.5MHz to Iowa State University, the Ames community, and online. The station features a variety of programming, including most genres of music, talk shows, and coverage of ISU sporting events. Hip-hop, electronica, rock, americana, classical, and jazz are just a few of the music genres played by KURE's constantly rotating staff of student DJ's.

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Phoebe Bridgers - Kyoto

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Claud - Guard Down

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My New Band Believe - Love Story

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PinkPantheress - Passion

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A Tribe Called Quest - Can I Kick It?

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Fugazi - Waiting Room

1989

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The Helio Sequence - When The Shadow Falls

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Palace - Bitter

2016-11-04

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Belly - Gepetto (Single Remix)

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Waa Wei - Close Friends

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The Sundays - My Finest Hour

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LITTLE BEAVER - Party Down (Pt. 1)

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Junior Mesa - do your best nicholas

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The Jazz June - The Phone Works Both Ways

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Soul Coughing - Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago

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Lex Walton - Adrian Borland Will Have His Revenge On London

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Soccer Mommy - Rings Of Saturn

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Starflyer 59 - We're The Ordinary

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Yo La Tengo - You Can Have It All

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Clairo - Bags

2019-08-02

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Jill Scott & JID - To B Honest

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Bladee - Love Is A State

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Courtney Barnett - Site Unseen (feat. Waxahatchee)

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Sweet Pill - Shameless

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Smerz - Spring summer

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Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Nosedive

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Remember Sports - Across The Line

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First heard 8 months ago

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Contacts

Address: 1199 Friley Hall 212 Beyer Ct Ames, IA 50012

Email: info@kure885.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/885kure

Phone: +515-294-9292

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kure885

Website: http://www.kure.stuorg.iastate.edu/

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KURE

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