Nic Harcourt

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Nic Harcourt is the current Music Director for Santa Monica, California-based radio station KCRW. Since 1998, he has hosted the daily Morning Becomes Eclectic radio show which features his picks for the best new music spanning all genres. A weekly version of the show called Sounds Eclectic (launched in 2000) is broadcast on a number of other stations in cooperation with PRI. The shows, recorded from LA's The Village Studios, often include live performances by bands both popular and obscure. Many artists, including Dido and Travis, have credited Harcourt for putting them on air and helping them achieve stardom. Harcourt is also credited with helping to launch Coldplay's career as well as that of Norah Jones, Pete Yorn, and David Gray. He played a demo CD by Jem which launched her singing career, and was the first DJ in America to play Franz Ferdinand. He has been described by music writer Mark Weingarten as "the most influential DJ in America."

Harcourt has recently published Music Lust, a book of "recommended listening for every mood, moment and reason."

He was born in Birmingham, England in 1957, and lived in Australia for many years before coming to the United States. Before KCRW, he worked as News Director and then Music Director at WDST in Woodstock, New York, for 8 years.

Nic has also worked as music consultant/supervisor for several television shows and movies, including: Love Monkey, The Dukes of Hazzard (the movie), Life As We Know It, and Igby Goes Down. Harcourt is also the national voice of the current Land Rover advertising campaign.

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Sounds Eclectic website
Nic Harcourt at IMDB
"KCRW — A Tradition of Excellence", Santa Monica College, Profiles, 2002, cover story. Cf. part on Nic Harcourt and Morning Becomes Eclectic.