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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.

 

OUR PROGRAMS

The Shortwave Report

The Shortwave Report is a weekly review of global news stories recorded via shortwave radio. 

Live Tuesday 5-5:30pm
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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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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 3-5pm
Replays Wednesday 10am-12pm
DJ(s): 
RayK
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Bike Talk

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Broadcasting weekly from Pacifica station KPFK in Los Angeles, Bike Talk is a show about the most efficient form of transportation in the universe!

Live Tuesday 11pm-Wednesday 12am
Homepage URL: 
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Big Picture Science

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Through smart, intellectual, and engaging storytelling, Big Picture Science discusses today’s biggest scientific stories and breakthroughs by interviewing leading researchers and scientists. The program delivers the information in unorthodox yet clever ways, proving that science radio doesn’t have to be dry, even if the humor is. 

Live Monday 12-1pm
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Divine Intervention – May 24, 2024

Fri, 05/24/2024 - 10:04am | Jess Goddésse

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Please join us at 6 p.m. Pacific for Divine Intervention. We'll hear the latest from Shellac (RIP Steve Albini), Oakland's Shannon and the Clams, The Darts, The Libertines, Nick Saloman & The Bevis Frond, Charming Disaster, and local heroes Th' Losin Streaks — plus at least one guaranteed opportunity to tap your twinklin' toes — only on KDRT 95.7fm + KDRT.org, your grassroots radio refuge!

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Davis Garden Show, May 23, 2024

Thu, 05/23/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today’s topics: seeding over bermudagrass, critters digging holes in the garden, earwigs, watering tomatoes, and more.

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IMPLOSION – 22 May 2024

Wed, 05/22/2024 - 9:29am | Nick Saloman

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Join your host Nick Saloman this evening at 5 p.m. Pacific for IMPLOSION, your weekly excursion through psychedelic sounds and much more. You'll hear the likes of the Swell Maps, Lomax Alliance, Billy Nicholls, Dinosaur Jr., Red Guitars, the Ugly Ducklings ...

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Jazz After Dark, May 21, 2024

Tue, 05/21/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On this episode:

  • Louis Armstrong, Basin Street Blues
  • Louis Armstrong & Billie Holiday, Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
  • Louis Armstrong, Mahogany Hall Stomp
  • Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong, Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You?
  • Lee Morgan, All the Way
  • Gerry Mulligan Quartet/Chet Baker, My Funny Valentine
  • Pete Fountain, Milenberg Joys
  • Buddy Rich, Willowcrest
  • Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt, Autumn In New York
  • Don Ellis, Image of Maria
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Dorthaan's Walk
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Electric Divine Compost Intervention Heap for May 17, 2024!

Fri, 05/17/2024 - 5:24pm | Dug Deep

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From Compost to seed to root to bloom to seed to compost...Hey, tonight on the Electric Compost Heap on KDRT 95.7fm, Dug Deep will be joined by his timeslotmate, Jess Goddèsse, for a fundraiser-themed combined version of their respective radio shows, sort of an Electric Divine Compost Intervention Heap, if you will.  Whatever it is, they will be doing it tonight, and so please join them and consider making a donation to community radio for Davis, CA! Go to KDRT.org and click on the Support tab. The magic will unfold, we promise!

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Just some tunes that entered my ear canal, on Listening Lyrics, May 17, 2024

Fri, 05/17/2024 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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There's no guest this week, due to a change of plans. So I picked some tunes that caught my attention as something new, or as something I forgot about but liked.

Included are a couple of local artists, The Philharmonik and Rumi Shimada. Check out the playlist below . Clean your ears, sit back and enjoy.

Pieter

Listening Lyrics playlist for 05/17/2024
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Davis Garden Show, May 16, 2024

Thu, 05/16/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: cactus flowers, plants for hummingbirds, re-grafting a broken plant, avoiding the gopher zone, plants gophers don’t like, buffalograss, random tomato questions, and more.

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IMPLOSION – 15 May 2024

Wed, 05/15/2024 - 12:03pm | Nick Saloman

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Greetings, groovers and groovettes. IMPLOSION is back with a vengeance this eve — Wednesday, May 15, 5-6p Pacific. Join your phenomenal host Nick Saloman, fresh back from his Bevis Frond tour, for a sumptuous sampling of psychedelic sounds here on KDRT! (Love the show? Support the station!)

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Jazz After Dark, May 14, 2024

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Jazz masters on this episode:

  • Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, Ory's Creole Trombone
  • Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven, Potato Head Blues
  • Artie Shaw, At Sundown
  • Sidney Bechet, Si tu vois ma mère
  • Sidney Bechet - Martial Solal Quartet, I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues
  • Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, I Cover the Waterfront
  • Billie Holiday & Lester Young, Fine and Mellow
  • Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond, Line for Lyons
  • Gerry Mulligan & Ben Webster, The Cat Walk
  • Duke Ellington with Ella Fitzgerald, Drop Me Off in Harlem
  • Ella Fitzgerald, Misty
  • Duke Ellington, Mood Indigo
  • Duke Ellington and His Orchestra & Oscar Peterson, Take the "A" Train
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, Basie - Straight Ahead
  • Count Basie and His Orchestra, That Warm Feeling
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Old time bluegrass and Americana, this week on High Country Music Radio

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 11:00am | David A. Reynolds

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This week on High Country Music Radio are the Punch Brothers, Nora Brown, Late for the Train, Dom Flemons, Sister Sadie, Carling & Will, the Steep Canyon Rangers, The Honey Dewdrops, old school sounds with Ola Belle Reed, Bill Monroe & His Bluegrass Boys, Doc Watson and John Hartford.

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