IMPLOSION!, Oct. 4, 2023
Wed, 10/04/2023 - 9:10am | Nick Saloman
Tune in at 5 p.m. sharp(!) for this week's edition of IMPLOSION with The Bevis Frond's Nick Saloman! There will be Dollies, Firebirds, Rats, and other musical creatures—only on KDRT!
Jazz After Dark, Oct. 3, 2023
Tue, 10/03/2023 - 5:00pm | Don ShorTonight’s show: Sam Butera, then piano from Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk with Gerry Mulligan, Erroll Garner, and Sonny Clark. Vocals by Anita O'Day, then Cornell Dupree, and Abdullah Ibrahim with Buddy Tate.
Davisville, Oct. 2, 2023: Meat is changing, and UC Davis is helping it to happen
Mon, 10/02/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan
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.
New Barrence Whitfield and the Savages!
Fri, 09/29/2023 - 5:33pm | Dug Deep
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!
Davis Garden Show, Sept. 28, 2023
Thu, 09/28/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor
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.
Album of the Week, Sep. 27, 2023: Rising Sun Melodies by Ola Belle Reed
Thu, 09/28/2023 - 9:00am | kdrtradio
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."
IMPLOSION! – 27 September 2023
Wed, 09/27/2023 - 9:00am | Nick Saloman
The Small Faces, Swell Maps, Silver Apples, Captain Sensible...
All this music and more on IMPLOSION! at 5p Pacific with your host Nick Saloman!
Jazz After Dark, Sept. 26, 2023
Tue, 09/26/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor
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.
Sara opens autumn with ‘Lux Prima’ on The Awesome Patrol Show
Sat, 09/23/2023 - 2:41pm | kdrtradio
“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.”
Davis Garden Show, Sept. 21, 2023
Thu, 09/21/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor
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.