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Makirush, LLT, Carlo, Rebeld'd Punk, Metal Mexicano, Sub Lux

Airs at: Fri, 04/24/2020 at 10:00pm - Sat, 04/25/2020 at 12:00am

Produced for: La Ruleta

Menonite rock Makirush with the album Babushka, LLT with Ficción Remixes, Carlo with Toma lo que Quieras, Mexican Heavy Metal and Portland's Sub-Lux. Read more

Episode 7: Darrell Grant & Alexander Gedeon

Airs at: Thu, 04/23/2020 at 3:30pm

Produced for: Anything But Ordinary

When we recorded this episode of the Anything But Ordinary podcast with critically acclaimed composer and jazz pianist Darrell Grant and experimental opera director, songwriter, and performer Alexander Gedeon a few months ago, the world looked very different, and we were... Read more

Marjane Satrapi - from the Archive

Airs at: Thu, 04/23/2020 at 11:30am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Words and Pictures

Marjane Satrapi is the artist and writer behind such graphic memoirs as Persepolis, Embroideries, and Chicken with Plums, and is the co-director of the animated feature film version of Persepolis. She grew up in Tehran during the revolution that toppled the Shah and led... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Theo Downes-Le Guin of Upfor Gallery about Danielle Roney’s show Frequencies of Opacity

Airs at: Tue, 04/21/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Art Focus

On Tuesday April 21, 2020 in a special one hour show from 11:00 a.m. to noon PST Joseph Gallivan interviews Theo Downes-Le Guin of Upfor Gallery about Danielle Roney’s show Frequencies of Opacity. Le Guin talks about how Roney translated recorded voices of undocumented Amer... Read more

Mr. Jones's Neighborhood 4/24/20

Airs at: Fri, 04/24/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Mr. Jones's Neighborhood

On today's show, we welcome Chelsea Bieker, author of the new novel Godshot, from Catapult Press. Chelsea is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Foundation Award and her fiction and essays have been published in Granta, McSweeney’s, Catapult magazine, Electric Literature... Read more

Parts Per Million by Julia Stoops

Airs at: Thu, 04/23/2020 at 11:00am - 11:30am

Produced for: Between The Covers

Host Ken Jones talks with Julia Stoops, author of the novel Parts Per Million, from Forest Avenue Press. Julia is a recipient of Oregon Arts Commission Fellowships for visual arts and literature, and was a resident at the Ucross Foundation in 2016. She holds dual degrees in... Read more

Stay Off The Streets!

Airs at: Mon, 04/20/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Produced for: The Monday Sampler

The Monday Sampler is back again with another in or series of Stay Off The Streets and Listen to the Radio programs. Beside a selection of soul and jazz classics, Stories For Shut Ins will present David Chelsea reading a story by Damon Runyon, set in New York City's Broadwa... Read more

Murders In The Rue Morgue read by Katherine Dunn

Airs at: Mon, 04/20/2020 at 11:00pm - Tue, 04/21/2020 at 12:00am

Produced for: Gremlin Time

We will present two mysteries tonight. First the very first modern detective story, 1841's "The Murders In The Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allen Poe Tonight's version will be read to us in abridged form by Katherine Dunn. In our second half, an episode of the classic radio series ... Read more

SoundMachine

Airs at: Thu, 04/30/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm

Produced for: Between The Covers

Rachel Zucker sweeps all the corners in this maximalist project of poems and prose, navigating love, loss, and personal and political despair. Through heartbreaking, often comic, genre-non-conforming pieces spanning the past 10 years, she trains her relentless attention ... Read more