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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.

 

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Silver Nine Volt Heart

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Join your host Rodriguez as he swings the gate wide open for a cool musical trip featuring sounds from all points of the compass.  Being mindful that "everything connects to everything else," on Silver Nine Volt Heart  you will find the many colorful threads that make up the tapestry of recorded sound ... just click it on and let the music start. 

Live Tuesday 7-9am
Replays Saturday 3-5pm
DJ(s): 
Rodriguez
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Food Sleuth Radio

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Dietitian Melinda Hemmelgarn helps listeners “think beyond their plates,” connecting the dots between food, health, and agriculture and finding food truth.

FSR is a production of KOPN, mid-Missouri's independent community radio.

Live Wednesday 5-5:30pm
Homepage URL: 
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Democracy Now!

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Hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now is an award-winning syndicated news program that gives voice to perspectives rarely heard in corporate-sponsored media, including independent journalists, grassroots leaders and peace activists, artists, academics, independent analysts, and ordinary people from around the world.

Live Friday 9-10am
Homepage URL: 
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The Audio Ecotone

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Join Eddy Owt as he explores the rich genre diversity, cross-breeding, and hybridizing in the back waters and tributaries of the past 100 years of music: rock, jazz, pop, r&b, soul, country, ska, electronica, J-Pop/C-Pop/K-Pop, afrobeat, and much more.

"We have a tropical situation where there are thousands of 'species' of music around and they're all constantly cross-breeding and hybridizing. It's very exciting, but you can't keep up with it easily." -- Brian Eno

Live Friday 3-4pm
Replays Thursday 10-11am, Sunday 4-5pm
DJ(s): 
Eddy Owt
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Monday Morning Show

The Monday Morning Show with DJ Ned brings variety to morning drive with a mix of music (depending on Ned's mood), production pieces, discussion of current events, occasional guests, general musings on life in Davis, and Ned goofing off 100% of the time.

Live Monday 7-9am
DJ(s): 
Ned
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For all of you milestone enthusiasts: Eight songs about 600, on A Constant Grin

Mon, 07/10/2023 - 8:55am | kdrtradio

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Chris Mussen devoted the 600th episode of his program A Constant Grin to previously unknown musicians performing eight farther-afield songs, each with "600" in their name. Six hundred strokes, 600 miles, $600 short on rent ... you get the idea. It's a lot of fun.

"600 shows," he says. "It's pretty crazy, even for me, and I made all of them."

Chris includes his ruminations on 15 years of indie rock broadcasting free of charge.

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Davis Garden Show, July 6, 2023

Thu, 07/06/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today: Problems with Vinca rosea. The main topic is gardening as you age, with reduced mobility: paths, plant selection, tools to help out, and more.

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Jazz After Dark, July 4, 2023

Tue, 07/04/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight’s show: Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Edmond Hall, Lee Morgan, Ella Fitzgerald, Ben Tucker & Freddie Gambrell, Frank Strozier, Johnny Hodges & Wild Bill Davis, Frank Sinatra with Count Basie & The Orchestra, Harold Mabern.

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Timeout Radio explores UC Davis

Tue, 07/04/2023 - 12:37pm | kdrtradio

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On this edition of Timeout Radio, explore how a 5,300-acre university came to exist in the little farm town that was Davisville, Calif. Davis was designated as a University of California campus in 1959 and is now the largest campus in the UC system. Find out how its mascot Gunrock got his name and why the campus has red London double-deck buses. UC Davis Chancellor Gary May tells us about his path to engineering, his humongous comic book collection, and his favorite Star Trek character.

Then visit London, where Big Ben's clock is still adjusted with an old penny, and where half the London Underground is actually above the ground.

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Paul Simon explains his vision of mortality, June 30, 2023

Fri, 06/30/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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This week's guest is Paul Simon via his latest musical release, Seven Psalms. By sculpting his lyrics into his music, he explains his thoughts on mortality and his observations on life. This album has no majestic orchestrations as in Bridge Over Troubled Water, or snappy happy dance tunes, as so many of his songs do. Mr. Simon shares his thoughts and asks you to listen.

I imagined myself listening under a canopy of stars. He brings up reflections of his life we all see and feel in our own lives, and he admits we all interpret in our own way. His version is facinating.

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 06/30/2023
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Silver Nine Volt Heart, June 29, 2023: Music for the 4th of July and summer

Thu, 06/29/2023 - 6:10pm | Rodriguez

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Today Silver Nine Volt Heart presents its annual salute to our nation's Independence Day, with plenty of summertime music and words to celebrate the 4th of July with your families, friends and neighbors.

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Davis Garden Show, June 29, 2023

Thu, 06/29/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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This week: How to plant a tree, plus a discussion about fertilizers, drip irrigation terminology and issues, current pest problems, and more.

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Implosion explained: 'You don't want to hear the same old stuff all the time, do you?'

Thu, 06/29/2023 - 8:35am | kdrtradio

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Host Nick Saloman says he has received some feedback for this new show, Implosion. “I’ve had an email saying that, you know, they like it, but it’s a bit obscure. But then, you know, you don’t want to hear the same old stuff all the time, do you?”

We certainly don’t! KDRT exists partly so that we don’t have to hear the same old stuff. And we're not alone.

“We’re going to start, as is my want, with an instrumental," he says at the top of this week's program. "This is by the Syd Dale Orchestra. They did a lot of stuff for TV, and soundtrack stuff in the ‘60s, and Syd Dale was bandleader from York. This is a bit of a stormer for a TV show called The Hell Raisers, which came out in 1966 on the Decca record label.”

To continue this escapade, listen to this week’s Implosion.

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Meraki Radio marks five years of shows about people working 'with soul, creativity or love'

Wed, 06/28/2023 - 9:03am | kdrtradio

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Meraki Radio turns 5 years old this month. This KDRT program, hosted by Alison B, airs each Tuesday at 12:30 p.m., with repeats broadcast on Fridays at 8 a.m. Or you can listen online! Meraki (may-rah-kee) refers to doing something with soul, creativity, or love, and recent episodes display the variety of subjects Meraki Radio typically presents -- check 'em out, or go deeper into the vaults:

• Death rituals

• Gun violence in the context of suicide

• Men's health, focusing on prostate cancer, part 1 and part 2

• Debra McCarthy, on living with HIV since 1986

• Kate returns, and we talk gardening and crafting

• The Women Infants Children supplemental nutrition program, a discussion with professionals and participants

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Jazz After Dark, June 27, 2023

Tue, 06/27/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight’s show: Horace Henderson, Benny Carter with Cootie Williams, Bob Gordon & Jack Montrose, The Jimmy Giuffre 3, Bill Evans with Scott LaFaro & Paul Motian, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Jimmy McGriff, Count Basie, Jack Sheldon, Gerry Mulligan with Dave Brubeck, Larry McKenna, and Birelli Lagrene.

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