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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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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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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
Homepage URL: 
http://www.jukeintheback.org/
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Night Train Cocktail Lounge

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
Homepage URL: 
Night Train Cocktail Lounge
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Listening Lyrics

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Welcome to an hour of Listening Lyrics, right here on KDRT 95.7 FM in Davis, California.

No musical passports required. Folk can sit next to funk, jazz can dance with rock, and a singer-songwriter might end up sharing a park bench with a reggae band. Listening Lyrics is your invitation to escape the noise of the day and enter a world of elaborate sounds, unexpected discoveries, and songs that have something to say.

This is the kind of journey only commercial-free community radio can provide.

So close your eyes. Open your ears. Relax your mind. Join me, Pieter Pastoor, as we send color to your ears and wander through the vast landscape of music and lyrics—the grand meeting place of rhythm, imagination, and the remarkable human ability to create art. Whether it's a whisper, a roar, a groove, or a melody you've never heard before, it all belongs here.

Remember: Real Music. Real Community. Real Good Music.

Live Friday 4-5pm
Replays Sunday 11am-12pm
DJ(s): 
Pieter Pastoor
Homepage URL: 
Listening Lyrics on Facebook
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The Awesome Patrol Show

Listen to The Awesome Patrol Show (TAPS) for fresh tunes to boost your spirits with your host Sara TAPS. 

Live Wednesday 6-7:30pm
Replays Saturday 7:30-9pm
DJ(s): 
Sara TAPS
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Jazz After Dark, April 2, 2024

Tue, 04/02/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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On tonight’s show:

  • Glenn Miller, Chattanooga Choo Choo
  • Artie Shaw, Back Bay Shuffle
  • Quintetto Ritmico di Milano, L'Uccellin volo' volo'
  • Quintetto Ritmico di Milano, Il Ritmo dell'amore
  • Sidney Bechet, Sweet Lorraine
  • Arthur 'Guitar Boogie' Smith , Here Comes The Boogie Man - 20 -
  • Benny Goodman, Wholly Cats
  • Erroll Garner, Somebody Loves Me
  • Erroll Garner, Stardust
  • Illinois Jacquet, Memories Of You
  • Tommy Dorsey, I'll Never Smile Again/Tico Tico
  • Ella Fitzgerald (with The Delta Rhythm Boys), For Sentimental Reasons
  • Mary Lou Williams' Girl Stars, Harmony Grits
  • The Mills Brothers, I'll Be Around
  • The Mills Brothers, Nevertheless (I'm In Love With You)
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Davisville, April 1, 2024: A year later, less panic about chatbots

Mon, 04/01/2024 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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In winter 2023 we talked with Andy Jones and Margaret Merrill of UC Davis about ChatGPT, a new artificial-intelligence app that was setting off alarms for its advanced ability to "write" reports and articles. On today’s Davisville they report that among the faculty they work with, the sense of panic present then has now eased “quite a bit.” People know more about the limits of chatbots, and are asking more about how and where to use the tools in teaching, instead of just fearing them as a plagiarism machine.

We talk about handling chatbot hallucinations, resisting the biases that chatbots suck into their text databases, and hear a few examples of how UC Davis instructors are using the tools in their classrooms.

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Divine Intervention – March 29, 2024

Fri, 03/29/2024 - 11:35am | Jess Goddésse

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Spiro says: Do not miss Divine Intervention, coming your way at 6p Pacific, Friday, March 29. At minimum, you will hear new music from Marbled Eye, Sierra Ferrell, and Uranium Club. You will also hear our Goddess of the Month, Miss Loretta Lynn. Most important, you will enjoy Vinyl Vespers — only on KDRT.

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Davis Garden Show, March 28, 2024

Thu, 03/28/2024 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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Today's topics: success killing slugs, issues with fireblight, local orchards being removed, orchard problems on a slope, and more.

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IMPLOSION – 27 March 2024

Wed, 03/27/2024 - 10:16am | Nick Saloman

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Get ready for IMPLOSION, slapping the airwaves with psychedelic sounds at 5p Pacific, Wednesday, March 27! We'll hear Fable, Hollins & Starr, the Muldoons, and much more — all presented by your host Nick Saloman of the Bevis Frond, all on your grassroots radio station, KDRT 95.7fm | KDRT.org!

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Jazz After Dark, March 26, 2024

Tue, 03/26/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight we’ll hear:

  • Billie Holiday, Good Morning Heartache
  • Benny Goodman, Oh! Baby
  • Ella Fitzgerald, My Funny Valentine (Live)
  • Django Reinhardt, Nuages
  • Chet Baker, How Long Has This Been Going On
  • Ahmad Jamal, Poinciana (Live)
  • Cannonball Adderley, Straight No Chaser
  • Yusef Lateef, Kongsberg
  • Ramsey Lewis Trio, You Don't Know Me
  • Gerry Mulligan, Walk On The Water
  • Ahmad Jamal & Yusef Lateef, Trouble In Mind (Live)
  • Charlie Byrd and the Washington Guitar Quintet, Correnteza
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Ballads and high lonesome sounds, on High Country Music Radio, March 26, 2024

Tue, 03/26/2024 - 11:00am | David A. Reynolds

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A square neck resonator, mandolins, banjos, fiddles and more are featured on this week's High Country Music. Tune into New Grass Revival, Andy Hall, The Crooked Jades, Tony Trishka, Mr. Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys, Lindsay Lou, The Travelin' McCoury's, Earl Scruggs, bluegrass band Barefoot, The Infamous Stringdusters, Otis Taylor, Rachel Harrington and John Hartford. 

Live Tuesday 11 a.m. to noon, with replays Monday 8-9 p.m. and Saturday 6-7 p.m.

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Live DiRT features Mike Clark of the Sugar Sounds

Fri, 03/22/2024 - 5:15pm | Dug Deep

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Saturday, March 23, 4 P.M. Pacific, don't miss Dug Deep's Live DiRT in-studio interview with Mike Clark, who'll perform with his band Mike Clark & the Sugar Sounds in a Davis Live Music Collective show at Sudwerk on Saturday evening.

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Jacob Johnson & Henry Humphrey of Cowboys After Dark, on Listening Lyrics, March 22, 2024

Fri, 03/22/2024 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Jacob Johnson and Henry Humphrey of Cowboys After Dark share their thoughts on how music is a language that is universally understood. These two gifted musicians can also articulate what they mean using the common language we know as English.

Jacob and Henry treated us by playing a couple of songs live on the air. Jacob allowed Listening Lyrics to debut "Fungus Funk," an original song from an upcoming rap/funk album aimed at communicating science (especially ecology) to middle- and high-school students and the general public.

Listening Lyrics playlist for 03/22/2024
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Davis Garden Show, March 21, 2024

Thu, 03/21/2024 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Today’s topics: hummingbird fountains, problems with indoor seedlings, passiflora in a pot, need for fruit thinning this year, and how to replace a lawn with a ground cover.

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