Host Spotlight

by: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett First tell me about your DJ name and your show name—what inspired them? My DJ name is Sweet Jane, after The Velvet Underground song called “Sweet Jane.” I love that band and I absolutely adore Lou Reed. My show’s name is In the Meadow. My last name is Flores, which means “flowers” […]

by: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Tell us about the genesis of your show, Get Notified. Ever since I came to UCI, I was always a fan of KUCI as a college radio station. It was a goal of mine to get a show, but I went a few years without really figuring out how to do it. […]

by: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Tell me about your show, Shut Yo’ Metal Mouth, and how it came to be. The name for the show came out of a really lame catchphrase I had in high school. I modified it to fit the music I wanted to showcase on the show: death, black, and folk metal. My […]

by: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett BDB: While I of course know how you found your way to KUCI, in your own words tell our readers and listeners how you found your way here. It’s been what, two years almost? NN: After I met you, eight years ago or so, I began listening to the show. Then I […]

by: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Tell me about Space Cowgirl. What was the inspiration for your show? Space Cowgirl is the crazy, melodramatic, retro-futuristic space party that exists in my mind. Originally, I was thinking Jet Set Radio Future meets Cowboy Bebop meets Alien meets something pink and tropical. Definitely a lot of influence from video games […]

by: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett Tell me about your show at KUCI. Neon Daydreaming originally started out last year as all synth-pop music, but has transformed into something much larger, covering more genres and taking more and more influences from my personal life. Whatever songs that I’ve had stuck in my head in the past week usually […]