How DJ Brendan Miller pulls together his King of Pressia show each week
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By Brendan Miller
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King of Pressia is a weekly new music show, so my show construction is reliant on whatever music the Divine Sonic Spirits have bestowed each week. However, I assure you: There is a method in madness!
After King of Pressia airs Wednesday night, I take Thursday to enjoy listening to whatever I want (usually Phish, My Morning Jacket, Radiohead, The Rapture, Bowie to name some favorites), and on Friday I get down to work.
As I’ve never been someone who listens to singles (listening to them out of the context of their album often leaves me underwhelmed) every Friday morning I open up the new release sites from Album of the Year, AllMusic, and Metacritic and start listening to every album I’m interested to hear.
The listening hierarchy is usually:
- Bands I’m excited to hear new material from
- Bands I’ve heard others discuss online
- Albums posted by my favorite labels (think Mexican Summer, Beyond Beyond is Beyond, Rough Trade, Bella Union, Matador)
- Captivating album art
As I listen to each album while going about my day, the moment I think Ooh this! I like this! I immediately add that song to the setlist for my next show. Sometimes it’s a single that was released, often times it’s just what I dug on the B-side of the album (and those songs deserve love too!).
The real catch comes trying to put these disparate sounding one-offs together into a flow that works. I try to properly peak and trough my show and group songs with others I could see being part of the same bill.
It doesn’t always work perfectly, but more times than not I find myself thinking “oh wow, who would have thought that would have worked so well!”
Rinse. Repeat.
Brendan Miller is DJ BK, and King of Pressia airs Wednesdays 8–10 p.m.
![Brendan Miller, aka DJ BK](https://kxsf.fm/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/PXL_20220324_225120547_2-1-708x1024.jpg)
Brendan Miller is DJ BK, and King of Pressia airs Wednesdays 8–10 p.m.