KUT WINS 3 AUSTIN CHRONICLE 'BEST OF' AWARDS

Thank you, Austin, Thank you. Not only do you really love us, you love us three times over. Thank you for the warm fuzzies.

KUT takes home three Austin Chronicle Best of Austin Reader’s Poll awards this year:

Best Music Station Our readers have a favorite radio frequency, and it’s home to local singer-songwriters, talk radio, and even metal (AC/DC, Rush, UFO). Larry Monroe scholars out the first, morning man John Aielli inhabits all modes of the second, and last month’s superb Armadillo soundtrack took care of the last (“In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida,” yo). Jay Trachtenberg holds down the afternoons, Paul Ray hosts eternal Twine Time, and Michael Crockett dishes picante Tex-Mex (Horizontes). For those about to rock: KUT, we salute you.

Best Radio Music Deejay: John Aielli, KUT 90. 5 FM Though his playlists today might not be quite as free-ranging (and surprising) as they were when he spent 30 hours a week behind the mic, John Aielli still spins enough varied and unexpected music for his long-running KUT program to more than justify its title, Eklektikos. The public radio station’s morning host for the past 40 years is that rare deejay who is comfortable with and conversant about both classical and pop music, and, moreover, he can hear musical connections between disparate songs and scores and weave a tapestry of recordings over the airwaves that leads you to hear them, too.