You can exhale. I’m doing fine and getting my groove on in our new “temporary” studio here at TwispWorks. Temporary? As if moving a radio station once isn’t enough. Right? (Danica, I’ve used the word) Yes, we’re currently located in the Gateway… Read More
The thrill of agony and the victory…wait? That doesn’t sound right. How does that ABC Sports intro go again? It was the BEST television an orchardists son could get outside of Yakima or Yakama if you are rightfully acknowledging the indigenous people.… Read More
There’s a lot of buzz in the Methow right now about local skiers going to the Olympics. You only have to be on Facebook for 10 seconds to see that EVERYONE is posting something about it – including The Root! I popped in… Read More
Most folks have one in their town–a radio station that switches from soft rock to all-Christmas-all-the-effing-time radio. Here in the valley we are spared this seasonal phenomena. I feel fortunate to have KTRT the Root, a world-centered,rockabilly-hippy-blues, locally owned and operated radio… Read More
For those of you on Methow time, I come bearing bad news. Brooklyn has lost one of its fine sons. The legendary Lou Reed, the artist, died Sunday in his home on Long Island after complications due to liver disease. He was… Read More
So in the hunt for this mysterious genre I’ve been rattling around, I can’t avoid the burlesque elements within this style. Of this missing genre, there is an unmistakeable air of showmanship that brings vaudeville, sideshows and burlesque to mind. Perhaps it… Read More
It’s that month, folks. The spookiest month of the year. It’s that one which crawls up your back with a chill and haunts you. The wind shrivels up all the leaves and the mornings find us with a dark mist blanketed over… Read More
Hey everyone, Dep here. It’s clear that you “Give a Hoot! and you want to help “Grow the Root!” Many of you have donated more than $10,000 to help get your community radio station back on the air! Sara and I feel… Read More
I’m just going to say it because there’s no way around it: I despise country music. Country music is that cousin you got drunk with when you were 16 and have since semi-accidentally forgotten to invite to Christmas ever since. Country music… Read More
Hey everyone – Dep here. Lot’s has happened since my last post on August 28th. Mother Nature struck us down and we are off the air completely at the moment. What the…? Well, our little station is not gonna back down and… Read More
Many of us remember when MTV was actually Music TV. Many of us remember how the music industry changed with the sensationalized and sexualized videos that we all relished watching back on our parents’ couches. MTV, for Gen-xers and their counterparts, was… Read More
Well folks the weeks around the Crash of 2013 have been filled with anxiety, brainstorming, flurried keyboard activity, messages, emails and Google searches. Not to mention much gnashing of teeth. To tell the truth, a couple of weeks before KTRT disappeared, I… Read More
K-Root was started with a vision of becoming a listener supported radio station serving the Methow Valley and beyond. We also built what we could “in house.” Getting an FM signal to a tower usually requires proximity between station and tower, but… Read More
So we all survived the weary days between hearing Dep’s melodious voice in our earholes. Congrats. We’ve earned a medal or something of equal or greater value. How bout some music? Sometimes when we suffer the lack of something as dear to… Read More
Here the last hour of the seCRet lOCation show #24. We will be back!
There’s a reason it’s named Twisp. Yellowjackets, wasps, bald faced hornets and their kin, thrive here. Here to help us with results of an encounter with an armed and armored flying unit.
Another shipment of vitamin R arrived… there’s not much around so use sparingly. In fact, share with a friend. Thx for your loyalty and support. If you want to give money to the cause, contact Dep Don here. Here is the middle… Read More
Weeelllll how’zit in the radio MIA Methow Valley? I guess you all noticed a bit of a rent in the fabric of radio waves available to catch here in the Valley. I noticed a big hole in my week. A hole kinda’… Read More