Tonight at 6 p.m. PST, DJ Dug Deep fills in for Jess Goddésse on her program Divine Intervention. He'll feature plenty of tunes about winter and all that that entails, plus a few Christmas leftovers, but we promise, only a few! Hope you can join us on KDRT.org.
Christmas doesn’t arrive as just one feeling.
It shows up in many forms—joy, melancholy, loneliness, and wonder—sometimes all in the same room.
This week on Dashboard Diaries, host RayK recharges your battery and checks your alignment with an hour of songs designed to relax and entertain…. Take a break from the hustle and bustle of the season and enjoy some Traffic, Taj Mahal, Drifters, Little Anthony and the Imperials and much more. Thursday, 3-4 p.m. on KDRT.org or anytime at Dashboard Diaries.
Today’s topics: dreary weather, asparagus, wolves as pollinators? Also Japanese maples, moss poles, Ginkgo trees and some tree talk.
It's almost time for IMPLOSION, bringing you wonderful tracks from The Balloon Farm, The Boston Dexters, The Curiosity Shoppe ... even The Dead Boys! Join your host Nick Saloman at 8 p.m. Pacific here on KDRT 95.7 fm + KDRT.org. Listen at will via the web + the podcast apps!
On tonight's show:
The Crest movie theater in downtown Sacramento has changed its mix of attractions several times during its long history — the vaudeville-era graffiti near the top of the curtains is one sign of that — and owner Bob Emerick has begun to revise the mix yet again.
Emerick, who bought the theater in 2011 and resumed managing it this year, says it’s still possible to run a movie palace like the Crest as a business. “I think it is. You have to look at the niche markets. I think ethnic programming is far too underrepresented in Sacramento. Bollywood, for instance.” So that’s one opportunity. Community events, such as graduations, are another draw, as are $2 tickets to movies that attract crowds of people who want to watch a familiar film with their friends. Plus concerts.
“You have to hustle. You have to adapt. You have to find entertainment for the venue,” he says. And a note for Davis: “Davis is absolutely key to keeping the Crest Theater alive,” says Emerick (an engineer who has three degrees from UC Davis), “because of the number of patrons from Davis.”
(Photo shows Davisville host Bill Buchanan inside the Crest before a Bruce Cockburn concert in November 2023.)
Last week, we played a few sets of songs about coal mining. Then the folk music police saw our playlist and informed us that we needed to be more inclusive, so this week we've diversified a bit and included a few songs about hard rock miners too. But mostly more songs about coal from the likes of Jean Ritchie (pictured), Jez Lowe, Caroline Herring, Doc and Merle Watson, Merle Travis, and Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard.
Tonight at 6 p.m. pst on The Electric Compost Heap, DJ Dug Deep will be the first to open the Winter Holiday/ Christmas/Christmas adjacent music vault for 2025! We promise, it won't be wall-to-wall Christmas shopping mall pablum. Rather, we will mix in some rarely heard holiday fare – we will not overdo nor overwhelm, but you will definitely notice a running theme. Hey, someone has to do it! Hope you can join us at KDRT.org
When we talk about Hispanic music in America, we’re talking about a story that’s been here all along.
In the 1950s and ’60s, this music lived mostly inside the community. Mexican rancheras and mariachi carried stories of home and heartbreak. Cuban rhythms like mambo and cha-cha-chá filled dance halls. Spanish-language radio became a cultural lifeline.
By the 1970s, identity moved front and center. The Chicano movement gave music a political voice. Santana blended Latin rhythms with rock, and salsa exploded in New York. This music wasn’t asking for permission anymore — it was claiming space.
In the 1980s and ’90s, doors opened wider. Artists like Gloria Estefan, Selena, Ricky Martin, and Shakira brought bilingual and Spanish-language music into the American mainstream.
In the 2000s, regional sounds took hold — reggaeton, banda, norteño — telling stories about immigration, work, and daily life.
