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OSP Uhuru Sasa Talent Show

Airs at: Mon, 06/25/2018 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for Prison Pipeline
On June 12, 2018 the Uhuru Sasa Cultural Club held its annual Talent Show inside the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.  Host Karen James recorded the show at OSP and interviewed the men about their performances.      Uhuru Sasa, which means ‘Freedom Now’ in Swahili, is a ... Read more

What The Festival?! Retrospective

Airs at: Fri, 06/15/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
  We were extremely blessed to have 6 phenomenal years of What The Festival here in the NW, such an incredibly ingenious and innovative event, there had been NOTHING like it before and nothing will ever come close to replicating this uniquely immersive and entertaining and... Read more

Radio Lost and Found for 06/14/18

Airs at: Thu, 06/14/2018 at 10:00pm - Fri, 06/15/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for Radio Lost and Found
Since I last spoke to you I learned a friend, Noise Music artist Mark Howe, aka Loop Letcher, aka aka ImLooLoo, We Are Pitbull, Spider Tombs, Fetid Rope (and probably more nom de plumes that we don’t know about) had passed away from cancer at age 49. He was a cool dude. He ... Read more

Seeing Beyond the Obvious: The Music of Andrew Hill

Airs at: Wed, 06/13/2018 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for Jazz in the Afternoon
     The reference to a Sonny Fortune tune to introduce the music of Andrew Hill is to persuade you to find the originality and musicality inside his complexity.      This late former Portlander did not produce background music. Intense listening may lie ahead.      A... Read more

NEW in KBOO music library June 11, 2018

CDs       Billy & Dolly Five Suns Shit Krystal Alt Rock Holt, Randall Inside The Kingdom Of Splendor And Madness Self Sabotage Alt Rock LUMP LUMP Dead Oceans Alt Rock MEERNAA Strange Life Native Cat ... Read more

McCoy Tyner

Airs at: Mon, 06/11/2018 at 5:45pm - 6:45pm

John Frame - Faust and Mephistopheles

Airs at: Thu, 06/14/2018 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for Words and Pictures
  Sculptor, composer, and animator John Frame last talked with S.W. Conser in 2012, when the Portland Art Museum hosted his exhibition Three Fragments of a Lost Tale.  Now, Frame has returned as production designer for Charles Gounod's Faust, a co-production of Portland Op... Read more

The Quartet Birthday Show

Airs at: Tue, 06/12/2018 at 3:00am - 5:00am
Produced for Vinyl Pajama Party

Sounds Unsound late June 2018

Airs at: Sun, 06/24/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for Sounds Unsound
Music, noise and other sounds. New releases and more. Read more

Sounds Unsound

Airs at: Sun, 06/10/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for Sounds Unsound
Tonight to celebrate KBOO's 50th birthday we'll do a couple sets of music from 50 years ago... 1968.. and the usual mix of new releases and other stuff. Read more