KCRW

KCRW

About this app

KCRW: Music, news, culture from Los Angeles

The official app from KCRW, NPR for Southern California.

Introducing new features to discover eclectic events, view KCRW Member Perks, and access more content at your fingertips.

*Listening powered by Spotify - Connect your or Spotify account so you can play and save songs you hear on-air without leaving the app.

*Pause live radio - Life getting in the way? Now you can pause and resume live radio.

*Discover the latest from KCRW - Top tracks, trending stories, and latest episodes are now just a click away with new Music and Podcast discover tabs.

*Custom feed of shows & music - Podcast fans unite! Add your favorite KCRW shows to your custom feed and never miss a new episode

*Be your own DJ - Save and play the songs you hear on-air directly from the KCRW app using Apple Music or Spotify.

*Benefits all around you - Your Fringe Benefits card, interactive map and directory are now on your phone, so you can lose the card and keep the benefits.

About KCRW:

Santa Monica based KCRW features an eclectic mix of independent music, news, talk, arts and culture programming. KCRW is the National Public Radio (NPR) flagship station for Southern California, reaching a worldwide audience across 220 countries.

Ratings and reviews

Crashes and streams don't work a lot of the time. Easier to just use the website from your phone. Update September 2024: Still absolutely terrible. Streams don't work randomly and app crashes. Please get a new app developer. Update February 2025: Have a brand new phone and the app still crashes, fails to stream, or buffers constantly.

This app crashes. I use it to listen to Henry Rollins and Dan Wilcox. It functions mostly if you don't touch the app. But if you pause it, or if you exit the app and come back to it, it crashes. Worse, it doesn't remember where in the show you were, so you have to scroll till you find it. And the scroll function doesn't work all that well, either. Ultimately, this is a pretty-looking yet flawed app. As far as sound quality, there is noticeable compression on the drums. Kind of sad, actually.

Samsung s10+ Android 12 App seems to work very well for all Apple OS users. GRRR! In 2019 to 2020 ish the app worked- live listening, archived DJ shows, My playlist , Spotify fav list . Listening is a chore. Unless the phone is restarted or the Device Care option is used prior, the app will play for a few minutes then shut down. It only sends song to Spotify. Cant play My feed. Reinstalled App doesnt work.All settings tweeked. This App seems to be using too much Ram memory ?? Please address

What’s new

Bug fixes to improve app reliability.