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ABOUT US

KDRT 95.7 FM is grassroots radio from Davis, CA, airing an eclectic mix of music and public-affairs programming. A project of nonprofit Davis Media Access, KDRT streams worldwide via KDRT.org.

A saloon of songs and sounds from back then, focusing on anything recorded between the 1890s and the 1970s. All forms of jazz, blues, rock, surf, garage, punk, country, folk, film-radio-television samples, speeches, comedy, and anything grabbed from the ages and put to cylinder, wax or tape, colliding on top each other.

Night Train Cocktail Lounge is produced live at WXOX-LP FM in Louisville, KY. All local material is edited, including times and dates, making each episode an evergreen episode. All episodes are FCC compliant.

Live Wednesday 9-10pm

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Night Train Cocktail Lounge

3rd Streaming

Coined in 1957 by Brandeis University professor Gunther Schuller, “Third Stream” is a term used to describe the synthesis of classical and jazz. Join DJ Gary Chew to discover some Third Stream sounds for yourself.

Live Monday 1-3pm

DJ(s):

Gary Chew

In the Key of Folk

In the Key of Folk with Karen Leyse offers music that will keep you humming or dancing along — perhaps both! The focus is on traditional and current folk music, Americana, and bluegrass, with Celtic, Nordic, and Spanish infusions — wherever Karen's travels and interests take her. In addition, the music of contra dance, an American Folk tradition that came with English and other settlers, will often be threaded through the hour. Don’t know it? Check it out.

Live Wednesday 2-3pm

Replays Tuesday 11am-12pm

DJ(s):

Karen Leyse

Na Mele O Hawai'i

Join host Beth Post as she features the unique sounds of Hawaiian music — from early icons of island music to today's innovators — exploring styles, the history of the genre, and revered songs and performers.

Live Thursday 1-3pm

Replays Wednesday 10am-12pm, Saturday 11am-1pm

DJ(s):

Beth Post

Dashboard Diaries

Hop in for a trip through ever-changing musical landscapes, from familiar highways to roads less travelled. Dashboard Diaries host Ray K loves to share hand-picked tunes spanning broad styles of music, with a nod to the real, organic disc jockey-driven radio of his youth. It's all about the journey...

Live Thursday 3-4pm

DJ(s):

RayK

More programs ...

Jazz After Dark, Sept. 2, 2025

Tue, 09/02/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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West Coast cool jazz on tonight’s show:

Buddy Tate, Vine Street Breakdown
Shelly Manne & His Men, Summer Night
Art Pepper, Everything Happens to Me
Cy Touff, It's Sand'Man
Miles Davis, Just Squeeze Me
Shorty Rogers, Infinity promenade
Gerry Mulligan, May-Reh
Stan Getz, I Only Have Eyes for You
Dave Brubeck Trio, Indiana
Dave Brubeck, Zen is When
Chet Baker, Star Eyes
Cal Tjader, Morning
Tito Puente, Take Five

The Electric Compost Heap – Aug. 29, 2025

Fri, 08/29/2025 - 5:30pm | Dug Deep

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Tonight at 6 p.m. PT on KDRT 95.7FM, it's the latest edition of The Electric Compos t Heap, featuring new tunes from the Black Lips, the Smashing Times, Delicate Steve, and the Beths, whose new album, Straight Line Was a Lie, just came out today! We'll spin lots of other musical detritus from the last 100 years as well. Hope you can join us on the radio or online at KDRT.org!

MyDavisCalifornia on Listening Lyrics, Aug. 29, 2025

Fri, 08/29/2025 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Heads up: This live recording comes with a few “authentic” technical hiccups (let’s call it character, not static). Luckily, the enthusiasm more than makes up for it—it practically jumps through the speakers.

In the studio with me are Richard Jia and Gray Eby of MyDavisCalifornia, chatting—sometimes loosely, sometimes wildly off-track—about their website and the quirky little town we all love, Davis.

Now, this isn’t your average “local blog where someone posts about their cat and favorite burrito joint.” Nope. MyDavisCalifornia is a full-on content playground: stories, visuals, collaborations, insider tips—the works. Born in 2021 out of sheer enthusiasm (and possibly too much coffee), it’s become the digital buddy you didn’t know you needed for exploring Davis.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 08/29/2025

Davis Garden Show, Aug. 28, 2025

Thu, 08/28/2025 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: more on Brussels sprouts and other brassicas, redhumped caterpillar on redbud, tomato sunscald, plants with fragrant foliage, morning glories, and more.

Join us for live music at Suds & Sounds – August 27!

Wed, 08/27/2025 - 3:00pm | Jess Goddésse

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You are cordially invited to join KDRT volunteers, friends, and fans for Suds & Sounds at Armadillo Music, 207 F St. in downtown Davis, on Wednesday, August 27, from 4 to 6 p.m. Grab K-DiRT stickers and swag, enjoy live music with Christopher Cassels, procure your beverage of choice from the Bootleg Bar... This gathering repeats every month on the last Wednesday — mark your calendars!

Jazz After Dark, Aug. 26, 2025

Tue, 08/26/2025 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight's show:

Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, The Man I Love
Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra, Nona
Buck Clayton, Buck's Bon Voyage
Red Garland, Stompin' At the Savoy (feat. Paul Chambers & Art Taylor)
Ahmad Jamal, Old Devil Moon
Ahmad Jamal, No Greater Love (Live)
Yusef Lateef, Oboe Blues
Ahmad Jamal, Rhumba No 2
Gil Evans, Chant of the Weed
Helen Merrill with Gil Evans, People will say we're in love
The Mills Brothers, Cab Driver
Chet Baker, Line for Lyons (Live)
Ahmad Jamal & Yusef Lateef, I Remember Italy (Live)

Davisville, Aug. 25, 2025: About 7 percent of rentals in Davis are vacant, says broker, who sees lower rents in '26

Mon, 08/25/2025 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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About 7 percent, and maybe as much as 10 percent, of rentals in Davis are currently vacant, says Davis real estate broker and manager Kit Boschken on this week’s Davisville. That's highly unusual for Davis, especially in August. The rate was under 1 percent a few years ago.

Why is the rate this high now? Kit lists several reasons on today’s program, where she’s joined by her husband Steve and their son James Boschken — they are a family of real estate professionals in Davis — to discuss Davis’ current real estate market. We also talk about home sales — prices and inventory are up from last year — the local impact of interest rates, the effect of the Trump administration’s cuts in research on demand for rentals and commercial space, the increase in student housing this decade, and even the allure of living in midtown Sacramento for Davis upper-division students who only need to be on the UC Davis campus a couple of days per week.

Kit Boschken believes rents will come down in Davis next year. She said she doesn’t know how much. “I think it’ll be a slow progression downward to a point. I don’t think we’re going to go from $1,000 a bedroom to $700 a bedroom. It’s not going to be that big of a drop,” she said. “But owners are going to have to be more realistic on what they want for rent, and are going to have to put some money into the properties.”

Radio Days! The Audio Ecotone for Aug. 22, 2025

Fri, 08/22/2025 - 9:29am | Eddy Owt

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Truetone Radio. Image from wikipedia.org

This past Wednesday was National Radio Day, the annual celebration of radio broadcasting. The date commemorates the first daily broadcast by the station 8MK in Detroit. Set up in the Detroit News building and operating under an amateur radio license, 8MK's daily "Detroit News Radiophone" broadcast news interspersed with music from phonograph records. Early broadcasts also included updates of the Jack Dempsey/Billy Miske heavyweight boxing match and play-by-play updates of the 1920 World Series. 8MK eventually received a commerical license with the call letters WBL and then WWJ, under which it broadcasts to this day.

On this week's Audio Ecotone, we celebrate our favorite broadcast medium with selections from Joy Division, The Blasters, Steve Early, the Southern Mountain Boys, Raphael Saadiq and more! Tune in live Friday @ 3 p.m. Pacific on 95.7 FM in Davis or kdrt.org online. Replays on Saturdays 6-7 p.m. and Tuesdays 7-8 a.m.

The Russ Tolman Goodtime Hour – Aug. 21, 2025

Thu, 08/21/2025 - 4:00pm | Russ Tolman

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This week on The Russ Tolman Goodtime Hour, it's our First Anniversary Special. Yes, time it do fly so quickly, don't it?! Hear tracks from Big Star, Lambchop, Nick Drake, Nick Lowe, Van Morrison, and more! Tune at 9 p.m. PT on KDRT 95.FM + KDRT.org + thereafter on the podcast apps.

Davis Garden Show, Aug. 21, 2025

Thu, 08/21/2025 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: Brussels sprouts, comparing new tomato varieties for flavor, our winter climate and subtropicals, Don’s grass seed blend, grassy plants under trees, virus and thrips, getting rid of bamboo, and more.

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