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Feb 14, 2025 | 
kxt.org | Lesley James |Preston Jones |Kaitlyn Matthews |Benji McPhail
February 14, 2025 by , , , and One anti-love song is, according to our dear, disenchanted readers and listeners, better than all the rest — at least for this year.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
kxt.org | Lesley James |Preston Jones |Kaitlyn Matthews |Benji McPhail
And then there were two. KXT’s Anti-Love Song Bracket is down to its grand finale, a face-off between a pair of tunes which are decidedly not feeling the love. The top two vote getters were Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” and “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus — very different vibes (and eras!), but also strangely simpatico. Both songs feature a kind of “stiff upper lip” mentality, which makes them ideal for those who have no interest in moping about a broken heart.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
kxt.org | Lesley James |Preston Jones |Kaitlyn Matthews |Benji McPhail
Who needs love? Not us — and not our listeners, either — as KXT’s Anti-Love Song Bracket enters its third week, and we zero in on our final four of broken-hearted misery.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
kxt.org | Lesley James |Preston Jones |Kaitlyn Matthews |Benji McPhail
January 27, 2025 by , , , and We’re down with love, as KXT’s Anti-Love Song Bracket rolls into its second week, and the field has been reduced to just eight songs. The remaining contenders run the gamut from ‘70s classics (Blondie’s “Heart of Glass”) to modern pop gems (Miley Cyrus, “Flowers,” Teddy Swims, “The Door”) and everything in between.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
kxt.org | Lesley James |Preston Jones |Kaitlyn Matthews |Benji McPhail
Ready to have your heart broken all over again? The time for whispered sweet nothings and gooey declarations of love, otherwise known as Valentine’s Day, is right around the corner. That means it’s time to bring back KXT’s Anti-Love Song Bracket. It’s probably not in keeping with the spirit of the thing to say we really loved — liked — winnowing down anthems of anguish in 2024, but hey, sometimes it feels good to feel bad, right?
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
kxt.org | Benji McPhail
The end of the year is looming and it’s giving us the opportunity to look back at 2024. Make sure you share your top artist and album picks before December 16th and then listen back as our yearly tradition of counting down your favorites continues on December 30th. Benji McPhailTop 3 Albums:Alejandro Escovedo – Echo DancingThis is a wonderful album of some reinterpretations of some of Alejandro’s previous material. It’s all good.
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May 30, 2024 | 
kxt.org | Preston Jones |Jessica Waffles |Kaitlyn Matthews |Benji McPhail
The mercury just keeps climbing as we enter the final week, and approach the conclusion of KXT’s inaugural Songs of Summer Bracket, a four-week competition to arrive at the most sizzling summer song of all. The third round of voting brought us to our final face-off, a straight-up generational clash between 1970s funk and 2020s psychedelic country-rock.
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May 9, 2024 | 
kxt.org | Lesley James |Preston Jones |Kaitlyn Matthews |Benji McPhail
Summer, the season of sunbathing, splashing in the pool and grilling out with friends and family — at least until it becomes too hot to form a thought outdoors — is not too far away. But what is summer without a soundtrack? Every year, there’s a flurry of prospects for the “songs of summer,” but KXT took a step back and thought: Instead of singling out what’s hot in 2024, what if we tried rounding up a piping hot playlist pulling from multiple decades?
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
kxt.org | Kaitlyn Matthews |Preston Jones |Jessica Waffles |Benji McPhail
KXT’s inaugural Anti-Love Song Bracket has reached its final week, which means – ugh – it’s almost Valentine’s Day. We’re down to the final two tunes you, our dear, disenchanted readers, have decided are the least lovey-dovey tunes out there. This last pair illustrates how someone can either let all the bile out, or turn anxiety inward, letting it fester.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
kxt.org | Preston Jones |Jessica Waffles |Benji McPhail |Kaitlyn Matthews
KXT’s inaugural Anti-Love Song Bracket heads into its third week, and we’ve got just four songs left to choose from — you love them, you love them not. The final four captures a whole spectrum of feeling that no one would confuse as lovestruck. There’s the ferocious kiss-off from Alanis Morissette (“You Oughta Know”) which boils with as much rage now as it did upon its release nearly 30 years ago.
