The English piano-rock band Keane formed back in 1997, but it wasn't until 2004 that the group's album Hopes and Fears took off on the strength of the smash single "Somewhere Only We Know." A Best New Artist Grammy nomination followed, and in the years since, the group has released three more albums: 2006's Under the Iron Sea, 2008's Perfect Symmetry and this year's Strangeland.

Eclectic music programming with news and interviews on local arts and events, CD and concert ticket giveaways and live in-studio performances. BROADcasting is the operative word here. You can hear just about any form of music on the program ranging from Old-Timey and Bluegrass to classic and contemporary songwriters, Pop, Blues, Soul, Rock, Jazz, Poetry and the Avant Garde.

Classic and contemporary hard core punk and oi!

Holy mackerel, it's the holy site edition of the podcast. NPR's Ron Elving and Ken Rudin look back at the memorable — and controversial — moments of Mitt Romney's foreign trip, and then look ahead to the upcoming Republican and Democratic conventions.

Also, a new Tea Party star is born in the Lone Star State.

SOUNDS UNUSUAL transmits an hour of Musical Mayhem, Audacious Audio Cataclysms, Xperi-mental Electronic Endeavors and Excretions - the Bold and the Boring. New Age for Abominable Snowmen. The Bark & Bite of the Tree of Knowledge. Unlistenable to 'Normals'. In other words: new and vintage recordings that lean toward the bizarre, odd, noisy, loungey, psychedelic, poetic or pathetic. An hour of some of the strangest stuff we can get our hands on are featured as well as our own sound collages created in the studios of KRVS.

A sampling of modern and traditional Classical Music.

Interview with Paul Anastasio and Tina Pilione about their duo Los Gringos Calentanos and their consrt at Cite des Arts on Saturday August 4th

Lee Maynard's 1988 semi-autobiographical novel Crum is set in the small, poor West Virginia town where he grew up. The people of Crum who know the book tend to love it or hate it. It was even banned for several years in a state-run store. The sequel, Screaming With the Cannibals, which came out five years later, got his protagonist Jesse Stone out of West Virginia, across the Tug River into Kentucky.

Interview with Dr. Frankie Rholden about a free skin cancer screening at the Lafayette Community Health Care Clinic