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Divine Intervention comes to a listening device near you at 6 p.m. Pacific. Turn it up for new music from Art D'Ecco, Hemlock, The Residents, The Tubs, Throwing Muses... a track or two from Goddess of the Month Dana Gillespie... a belated-birthday, post-performance Bevis Frond feast... assorted old faves... and Vinyl Vespers, of course. It's all here for you on KDRT 95.7 fm | KDRT.org — streaming thereafter on the podcast apps.

At 2:01 a.m. Pacific Time on March 20, the sun crossed the plane of the equator, marking the vernal equinox and the start of spring! Across the centuries and cultures, the vernal equinox and coming of spring has not only had practical meaning (time to start sowing seeds, coming of hay fever season, etc.), but has also naturally been imbued with including meaning and symbolism -- Rebirth, Rejuvenation, Renewal, Love, Youth and the Passing of Darkness. Couldn't we all use a little bit of that right now?

On today's Audio Ecotone, we will celebrate those themes and the coming of spring with music old and new from Elvis Presley, The Flaming Lips, Blossom Dearie, Cibo Matto, Caroline Polarchek and a few other surprises. Listen live at 3 p.m. Pacific on KDRT 95.7 FM in Davis or online at kdrt.org. The show will replay Saturday 3/22 at 6 p.m. and Tuesday 3/25 at 7 a.m.

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Photo, by N. Kapellas, shows silver bush lupine, Grassland Garden at Ninos Parkway, Natomas

After a week with a lot of great music to be heard out and about locally, join In the Key of Folk, coming up, for an hour of musical reflections. We start off with a couple of tracks from the newly released album by Countercurrent, a duo from the Pacific Northwest. We'll also be covering new releases by hometown favorite Kora Feder, and by New Englanders Jean Rohe and Sean Kiely. We'll include tracks by Kalos, Paddy on the Binge, Mad Agnes, Evie Ladin, Tom Jutz and Eric Brace. Some of these singer-songwriters and musicians may not be that familiar to you -- give it a listen and enjoy! That's this afternoon, Wednesday, at 2 p.m. on KDRT.org!

Coming up this evening on The Russ Tolman Goodtime Hour, a fine selection of tunes from Gill Landry, Mayer Hawthorne, Nick Lowe, Theo Lawrence, and more. Listen up at 9 p.m. Pacific on KDRT 95.7 fm | KDRT.org — streaming thereafter on your favorite podcast application. :-)

On this week's edition of Divine Intervention, hear the latest releases from Califone, Delivery, FACS, The Murder Capital, Prison, Black Viiolet, The Velveteers... two tunes from our Goddess of the Month, Dana Gillespie... a Vinyl Vespers track... Friday at 6 p.m. Pacific on KDRT 95.7 fm | KDRT.org... always streaming via your favorite podcast apps.

Laissez les bon temps rouler ... un peu tard! New Orleans's biggest holiday Mardi Gras happened this past Tuesday. And although we are supposed to be in the devotional abstinence of Lent, we're not observant and besides, our Mardi Gras celebration was pre-empted by our interview with Nicole Laurenne (which you should check out if you haven't already). Therefore on this week's Audio Ecotone, we're going to have a "Vendredi Gras" celebration of the music of NOLA, with selections from the Rebirth Brass Band, Irma Thomas, James Booker, Amanda Shaw, Better Than Ezra and a whole, whole lot more. So grab some boudin and beignets and tune in live on Friday at 3:00 pm Pacific Time on KDRT 95.7 in Davis or kdrt.org online. The show replays on Saturday at 6:00 pm and Tuesday at 7:00 am and will be available online for two weeks after broadcast on The Audio Ecotone program page.

Tonight on The Russ Tolman Goodtime Hour, we're spinning some Gill Landry tunes and chatting with the man himself direct from his rustic abode in the hills near Three Rivers, Calif. Gill is a two-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist who got his start busking on the streets of New Orleans and the Pacific Northwest. After immersing himself in American folk music, Gill worked with Nashville's Old Crow Medicine Show from their van-and-trailer days to Grammy wins and induction into the Grand Ole Opry. These day, he's dedicated to his own writing and solo creative pursuits. He'll join Russ Tolman as well as Jon Langford on stage tomorrow in Indio, Calif. Don't miss the fun at 9 p.m. Pacific here on KDRT 95.7 fm | KDRT.org – also available on your favorite podcast apps!

Tonight at 6 p.m. pst in the Electric Compost Heap on KDRT 95.7FM, host Dug Deep celebrates early signs of spring with new music from J Mascis, The Bug Club, and Mdou Moctar, plus he'll feature a few things from New Orleans just in time for Mardi Gras. Oh, and the official color for this evening's program is...orange. Hope you can join at KDRT.org.

This week's Audio Ecotone features Nicole Laurenne of The Darts (US) and Black Viiolet. Nicole sat down with KDRT DJs Eddy Owt and Jess Goddesse to discuss touring, musical parenting, her Davis connections, balancing legal and music careers, Journey, the pitfalls of dating a musician, the Michigan Marching Band and her mom's punk rock BFFs. Be sure to tune in Friday at 3 p.m. on 95.7 FM KDRT FM in Davis and online at kdrt.org. The interview will replay on Saturday at 6 p.m. and Tuesday at 7 a.m.

Additional exerpts from the interview will be posted on The Audio Ecotone program page following the broadcast.

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