Arya

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2 years 39 weeks

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Arya has been a KPSU DJ since December 2005.

He has hosted many bands on KPSU, including The Thermals, Sexton Blake, Bright Red Paper, The Wires, Nire, Junkface, Emperor Norton, The Whips and The Whales, Autistic Youth, The Shaky Hands, The Maybe Happening, Warcorpse, Horsefeathers, Hurah Hurah, Here Comes A BIG BLACK CLOUD!!, Cower, The Bustling Townships, John Callahan, Peter & The Wolf(Austin, TX), Bishop Allen(Brooklyn), Holy Ghost Revival(Bainbridge Island, WA), Clorox Girls, The Morals, The Revisions, Dinosaur Bones, The Shotgun, The John Grisham Experience, Crayonsmith(Ireland), Tiger Saw(Massachusetts), Nuclear Danger, Typhoon, Eskimo & Sons, The Black Black Black, The Estranged, World's Greatest Ghosts, Southern Belle, Newspapers, The Sun-Birds, Dirty Mittens, Jeffery Lewis(New York, NY), The Red River(CA), Johnny Bodacious & The Bad Attitudes(IL), Rachel Harrington(WA), Vib Gyor(UK), Blowback(D.C.), Delay(OH), PRF, The Wanters, Iraqasaurus, Adrian Orange, Hey Tiger!, The Vonneguts, Atole, Kiss Bank, The Golden Hours, Please Step Out Of The Vehicle, The Online Romance, IT the Living Collossus, The Ocean Floor, Chris Koza, The Rainy States, Rootvilla, The Old Believers, Red Dons, Starfucker, Nurses, New Century Schoolbook, Patterns, We Play Quiet, Michael The Blind, Reporter, Sukey Tawdry.

Arya has been called "the heartbeat of stumptown", "the king of Portland", "the root of all that's good in the world", "the center of Portland", "the centrifugal force that keeps things together", "the best thing that station has going for it", "man of the year", "God", "a totally swank gentleman", "well-connected[sic]", "the most popular man in town" "a big reason the Portland scene exists" "Portland Super Music Fan" "outlandishly credible", "Portland punk", "indie pop sensation", "indie pop superstar", "Portland heartthrob", "the John Peel of Portland Oregon", "an Indian social Godfather", "the Harold Bloom of Portland", "the only person that ever mattered", "The King of The Indie Scene", "everybody's big brother", "a superhero", "a man who can make or break any band in town" , "the quintessential man on the scene", "the grand chancellor", "the Michael Phelps of house shows", "King of the underground radio and music scene" and other things, many of them true, and most of them said by other people.

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Music & Talk on KPSU Program Schedule Monday 10pm-Tuesday 12am.