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Blues Junction Special: The Halloween Blues

Airs at: Sat, 10/31/2020 at 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Blues Junction
HAPPY HALLOWEEN from The Blues Junction on KBOO 90.7 FM. Join me, Dr. Jane, to celebrate this fun filled holiday. THIS Saturday October 31 from 5 to 7 pm. See if you can guess the artists. All Treats, no Tricks! The Devil is an Angel Boogie Man Everybody's Got a Little ... Read more

Randomonium Halloween Special: Forgotten Italo Disco

Airs at: Fri, 10/30/2020 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  Randomonium
On July 12, 1979 they declared it the day disco died...and people burned all of their disco records and disco gear throughout the country...but it did not die!  I am hear to show you an alternative world, a world where disco lives on and grows and turns into something amazi... Read more

Randomonium Halloween Extravaganza

Airs at: Sat, 10/31/2020 at 10:00pm - Sun, 11/01/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Randomonium
Evan is bringing you some dark tunes to get you in the halloween spirit, With a combination of experimental, ambient, dark wave, industrial, electronic, and underground obscurities. strange samples, eerie dark sounds, screams, spoken word, horror, death, mind altering soun... Read more

A Different Nature for 11/02/20

Airs at: Mon, 11/02/2020 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for:  A Different Nature
Guitarrorism! A look at extreme guitar. We'll hear some of guitar’s adventuresome players (Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore, Lydia Lunch, Arto Lindsay, Glenn Branca, Elliot Sharp, to name a few – plus members of NY’s then-burgeoning Noise guitar scene), via the 1985 Tellus Cass... Read more

Folk Songs and Stories of Hallowe'en

Airs at: Fri, 10/30/2020 at 5:30am - 7:00am
Produced for:  Lark In The Morning
Hallowe'en is a time to confront the reality of our mortality, a reminder from the ancients that there is a spirit world that can intersect with our everyday life. Pre-industrial culture had a well-developed sense of this other world, and taught us about it with songs and r... Read more

HALLOWEEN “SPOOKTACULAR.”

Airs at: Sat, 10/31/2020 at 6:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Swing 'n' Country
Join Dad (Robert Parish) and Graham (Graham Parish) for a three-hour ride down a pickin’, grinnin’ and screamin’ supernatural highway as the father-son duo digs deep into their Halloween-themed country music archives. They’ll be featuring music about ghosts, ghouls, grave... Read more

Persephone Rising: A Global Sonic Retelling of the Underworld Myth

Airs at: Sat, 10/31/2020 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  "Starry Wheels" artwork used by permission of the artist, alumni audio contributor and Portland-based local, Peter Nevins. [Show Transcript] Hello and welcome back to Threshold Shift, where we give the mic to nature and amplify earth, on KBOO 90.7 FM Portland, 91.9 FM H... Read more

Returning from the Underworld

Produced for:  Threshold Shift
  Threshold Shift's Blue Moon Halloween Episode-A Sonic Retelling of the Persephone Myth For those that want to set the spooky mood early this Halloween, come join us at Threshold Shift from 12-3am Saturday, October 31st. We'll be journeying through the Underworld with Pe... Read more

Buena Vista Social Club - Eliades Ochoa from Cuba to the World

Airs at: Wed, 10/28/2020 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  Jazz in the Afternoon
   Always plenty of great jazz on Wednesday afternoons on KBOO!   Bob Riddle hosts this week... featuring Cuban son, Night Train, Top local talent. Read more

The Apocalyptic Vote

Airs at: Fri, 10/30/2020 at 10:00pm - Sat, 10/31/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Hardcore Variety Hour
On this edition of MattC, Wolfman & Janie B.'s Variety Hour, we are back with a pop-up show about the upcoming election, and maybe a sprinkling of Halloween.  For the first hour (yes, its two hours) we have our usual three DJ's, but for the second hour we have music sets fr... Read more