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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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Yolo Backyard Bulletin

Yolo Backyard Bulletin

Yolo Backyard Bulletin (YBB) seeks to address the ongoing demolition of local media by the communications/entertainment complex, which prioritizes profit maximization at the expense of local engagement and conversation. YBB features local news, commentary, music, gossip, and true stories from Yolo County, with the goal of rebuilding and restoring community communications in our public sphere, the lifeblood of democratic life.

Live Thursday 5-6pm
DJ(s): 
Jesse Drew
Homepage URL: 
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That's Life

Lois Richter’s format for That’s Life is mostly interviews. Recurring topics include Davis activities and groups; work and life choices; philosophy and theory; plus birding, cooking, art, and other passions. Lois occasionally breaks into music — from ballads to the slack key sounds of Hawaii to golden oldies rock 'n' roll — but mostly there is just talk.

To suggest a topic for discussion or a person to interview, text Lois or leave a message in the comments here.

Live Tuesday 12-1pm
DJ(s): 
Lois Richter
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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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Juke In The Back

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Matt The Cat presents the soul that came before rock n’ roll: 1950s rhythm and blues. Each week, this underrated and rollicking music plays on that old Rockola Jukebox in the back.

Live Tuesday 9-10pm
Replays Thursday 4-5pm
Homepage URL: 
http://www.jukeintheback.org/
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The Cerealist

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The Cerealist curates chilling broadcasts of loud + bizarre soundscapes from an ancient cave bellowing death metal from around the globe, with smoky stage lights on music from American, Swedish, and Norwegian shredders. Tune in every week for 30 brutal minutes of blast-beat heaven!

Live Wednesday 7:30-8pm
Replays Sunday 10-10:30pm
DJ(s): 
The Cerealist
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Davisville, Oct. 2, 2023: Meat is changing, and UC Davis is helping it to happen

Mon, 10/02/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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At a very simple level, we’re talking today about hamburgers, although the subject goes much deeper than that. Today’s show concerns food, taste, the environment, commerce, questions of how to feed the world — and it’s directly a Davis story, because the University of California at Davis is a national leader in this area of research, and their work is attracting food tech startups to the region. The subject is cultivated meat, or meat substitutes that barely exist beyond the lab for now, but should come eventually to a store or menu near you.

Our guests today are Denneal Jamison-McClung and Kara E. Leong. Kara is the executive director of the UC Davis Cultivated Meat Consortium; Denneal is the director of the UC Davis Biotechnology Program, and co-founded the consortium. They can help us understand what’s happening and why it matters.

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New Barrence Whitfield and the Savages!

Fri, 09/29/2023 - 5:33pm | Dug Deep

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Tonight at 6pm DJ Dug Deep jumps into another edition of the Electric Compost Heap. He'll feature a couple cuts from the newest release from Barrence Whitfield and the Savages! Yeah, you don't want to miss this one, really, you don't. See you on the radio at KDRT.org!

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Davis Garden Show, Sept. 28, 2023

Thu, 09/28/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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This week: Transplanting weather, jujubes and persimmons in the garden, pruning evergreens, hummingbirds, more on cool-season veggies, a bit about bulbs, planting cilantro, and more.

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Album of the Week, Sep. 27, 2023: Rising Sun Melodies by Ola Belle Reed

Thu, 09/28/2023 - 9:00am | kdrtradio

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Today's Album of the Week compiles performances recorded in the 1970s by Ola Belle Reed. It's called Rising Sun Melodies.

From Smithsonian Folkways: "Ola Belle Reed was a trailblazing force for women in bluegrass music, an Appalachian woman of hard-earned talent and generous ways who delivered honest music sung from the heart. Her songs 'I've Endured,' 'High on the Mountain,' 'My Epitaph,' and many others forge real-life experiences into music steeled with determination, family tradition, and commanding presence.

"[These] classic tracks ... remind us why the light of Ola Belle's music shines brightly to this day."

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IMPLOSION! – 27 September 2023

Wed, 09/27/2023 - 9:00am | Nick Saloman

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The Small Faces, Swell Maps, Silver Apples, Captain Sensible...

All this music and more on IMPLOSION! at 5p Pacific with your host Nick Saloman!

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Jazz After Dark, Sept. 26, 2023

Tue, 09/26/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Two featured artists on Jazz After Dark tonight: Pepper Adams and Ben Webster. We’ll hear Adams with Toots Thielemans, as well as an extended blues jazz set. Then Ben Webster with Ella Fitzgerald, and with Oscar Peterson, followed by some of his solo and live recordings.

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Sara opens autumn with ‘Lux Prima’ on The Awesome Patrol Show

Sat, 09/23/2023 - 2:41pm | kdrtradio

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“I love the fall,” says Sara TAPS, host of The Awesome Patrol Show. “It inspires the best playlists from me, and I love being able to witness nature’s physical transition of the colors, of the leaves turning, because it means we’re almost done with another year and hopefully we’ve changed a little bit too -- and so maybe our landscape is looking a little more colorful, or maybe we’ve simplified and gone monochrome and we’re just like totally in this favorite hue of whatever we want to be, and be doing.”

Sara starts this week’s program with “Nox Lumina” from Lux Prima (the picture shows the album cover) by Karen O and Danger Mouse, “one of my favorite records, and from there, we’ll ride a roller-coaster of sound.”

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Davis Garden Show, Sept. 21, 2023

Thu, 09/21/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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On this week's program: The fall planting of flowers and vegetables continues, tips for protecting pea seedlings, discussion about potting soil, persimmon problems, and more.

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‘He’s just a kid, but God can he play the piano’

Wed, 09/20/2023 - 8:54am | kdrtradio

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3rd Streaming presents 20th and 21st century classical, jazz, and motion picture music, and DJ Gary Chew has songs from all of the genres on this week’s show.

He starts with songs from two musicians from different eras who were born this time of year —  “I Want to Be Happy,” by the Chico Hamilton Quintet, recorded in 1955, followed by “Blue Nude” by Aaron Diehl, released in 2013. (The photo shows covers from their respective records.)

Hamilton would have turned 102 on Sept. 20, Gary says. Diehl was born on Sept. 22, 1985. “He’s just a kid, only 38 years old,” Gary says, “but God can he play the piano.”

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Jazz After Dark, Sept. 19, 2023

Tue, 09/19/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight’s show: Lester Young live At Carnegie Hall, 1946, then Duke Ellington with Lee Gaines on vocals, Dave Brubeck, Artie Shaw, Chet Baker Quartet, Tommy Flanagan Trio, Ella Fitzgerald, Teddy Wilson with Eiji Kitamura, Mel Tormé with Gerry Mulligan & George Shearing, and Erroll Garner.

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