Join your host Nick Saloman at 5p Pacific for a brand new edition of IMPLOSION! Hear groovy sounds from Devo, Guided by Voices, the Moving Sidewalks, and more, right here on KDRT 95.7 fm | KDRT.org!
Come socialize with KDRT DJs, friends, and fans; pick some vinyl to spin; and sip a beverage at our monthly Suds & Sounds event starting at 4p at Armadillo Music in beautiful downtown Davis! (Yes, of course the air conditioning is ON!)
This event happens on the last Wednesday over every month — mark your calendars!
This afternoon at 2PM, on In the Key of Folk, we have a variety of songs related to the upcoming holiday, Labor Day. The songs variously touch on the subjects of migration, jobs, settlement of the country, and the workers' sacrifices. Selections are by musicians including Tim O'Brian, Dick Gaughan, Woody Guthrie, Lady Maisery, Nanci Griffith, Los Cenzontles, Jez Lowe, Gordon Lightfoot, and the Harris-Parton-Ronstadt trio. Again, tune in at 2PM Wednesday on KDRT.org I hope that you'll join us.
1950s jazz tonight:
Davis has two local tax measures on the ballot this fall and today we talk about the one for the library, Measure T. (We looked at the other one, sales tax increase Measure Q, last month.) Measure T would raise about $1.1 million a year to pay for operations at what will eventually be Davis’ two public libraries — the existing one in north central Davis, and the new one in south Davis due to open in 2026.
Measure T would raise an existing property tax by about $49 per house or $24.50 per apartment, to $172 or $86 respectively per year. Today on Davisville we talk with Jim Provenza, a Davis member of the county Board of Supervisors, and Katie Caceres, a student at the University of California at Davis and an intern in Provenza’s office. They’re both part of the campaign. We talk about what the money would buy, how the county calculated the amount needed, libraries as town squares for speech and information, and how people use libraries as print gives way to digital.
After the Deluge is a music podcast about songwriting, albums, and whatnot hosted by Justin Cox, a KDRT friend. I replay most of this podcast in this week's Listening Lyrics. Seasons about Bright Eyes, Jackson Browne, and Against Me! are in this feed, plus other interviews.
We talk about my failed attempt to interview poets in the “late 1900s,” open mic nights, recording live and not overthinking it, interviewing locals > interviewing pros, KDRT, Rita Hosking, don’t be lame just make stuff, biking across Holland, Jackson Browne (ding ding), The Lovin’ Spoonful, Bright Eyes’ “We are Nowhere and it’s Now,” Paul Simon’s “Graceland,” Pieter reads a poem, Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan’s “Tempest,” Herb Alpert, The Avett Brothers, and: what was the best five-year stretch of your life?
Join your hostesse Jess Goddèsse at 6 p.m. Pacific for another fine edition of Divine Intervention, featuring new releases from King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, MAITA, Thee Oh Sees, Soundcarriers, Guided by Voices, Redd Kross... some sumptuous tunes from our Goddess of the Month, Ms. Dinah Washington... and a mystery track as we celebrate Vinyl Vespers... all this and more on KDRT 95.7 fm | KDRT.org!
The Russ Tolman Goodtime Hour debuts this week with shout-outs to Steve Wynn, Tom Gracyk, Jon Klages, Nick Lowe, and Richard Lloyd plus sweet, solid tunes from the Flamin' Groovies, the Stones, Tom Verlaine, Sly & the Family Stone — and, of course, general good times! Join Russ at 5 p.m. Pacific, right here on KDRT!
Today's topics: growing Japanese maples, indoor ficus trees, dwarf persimmons and walnuts and avocadoes, and more.
This afternoon on In the Key of Folk, we'll start off with a set of pieces by contra dance musicians past and present. Then we'll move into more contemporary singer songwriters for a bit, and end with a variety of music from the Galicia and Asturias, the Celtic areas of Spain.
Planned music includes Jamie Laval and Ashley Broder (Hoyer), Nightingale, Stringrays, San Miguel Fraser, Chatham County Line, John Gorka, Roseanne Cash, Faltriqueira, Riobó, Felpeyu, and Scotland's Tannahill Weavers. Come join us for an hour this afternoon, 2 p.m. Wednesday on KDRT.org.
