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KDRT is low-power grassroots radio located in Davis, California, airing an eclectic mix of music and public affairs programming, and building community by promoting dialogue, encouraging artistic expression, and acting as a forum for people who typically lack media access. Noncommercial radio KDRT 95.7 FM is a project of Davis Media Access (DMA.)  DMA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Our mission reflects our values: localism, social equality, public participation, media literacy, diversity, and, of course, community media. Read more...

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Divine Intervention alt. w/Electric Compost Heap

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On the Electric Compost Heap,  DJ Dug Deep hosts a dig through many sound forms — the delightful detritus of blues, soul, country, rock, reggae, jazz, funk, punk, psych, and more — concocting a rich and fertile musical humus. Dig it, Heapsters!

Live Friday 6-8pm
Replays Sunday 5-7pm
DJ(s): 
Dug Deep, Jess Goddèsse
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Cowboy Tracks

Join Nancy around the campfire to hear authentic Western Roots music and cowboy poetry. Something deep in your soul will resonate to stories from the early wranglers, Mexican vaqueros, old West adventurers, Silver Screen buckaroos, western swing bands, contemporary real cowboys, and all who appreciate wide open spaces, freedom, and the western lifestyle.

 

Live Wednesday 1-2pm
Replays Tuesday 10-11pm
DJ(s): 
Nancy Flagg
Homepage URL: 
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Eye on Sports

Eye On Sports is a talk radio show focused on various professional and amateur sports with a concentration on local athletics. Chuck and Cody have been involved with sports both nationally and locally for over 10 years, and we want to bring our opinions/discussion points to the public through conversation, outside interviews and investigation. Show will not be politically driven in anyway, locally or nationally. The conversation will be around the social environment, business side, strategy, and psychology of sports.

Live Friday 4-5pm
DJ(s): 
cswestergaard, ChuckGarcia7
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Davis Music Connections

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Davis has a very unique musical scene- from the Mondavi Center’s formal performances to the local clubs where bands and upcoming artists hone their craft. Up-and-coming local artists are covered by Listening Lyrics with Pieter Pastoor. The local and visiting musicians  are captured by Jim Buchanan on Live Tracks. On Davis Music Connections, we play past Davis bands of note, along with those who are currently touring, taking a little bit of Davis to the rest of the world. We also bring you a taste of world-reknowned artists who have appeared or will appear at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, especially the jazz performers due to Clyde's lifelong love of jazz and Latin music.  Also, we play whatever we want.

Live Tuesday 3-4pm
Replays Wednesday 2-3pm
DJ(s): 
Ned, Connections Clyde
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Jazz After Dark

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Join jazz aficionado Don Shor as he explores the diverse and fascinating world of jazz. Jazz After Dark spans the gamut, from roots in boogie woogie, blues, and ragtime, through traditional and straight ahead jazz, soul jazz, bossa nova, and more. 

Live Tuesday 8-9pm
Replays Thursday 11pm-Friday 12am, Friday 1-2pm
DJ(s): 
Don Shor
Homepage URL: 
Jazz After Dark on the Web (blog with playlists)
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Album of the Week - PUP

Thu, 05/26/2016 - 11:47am | Justin Cox

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I hadn't heard of the Toronto punk band PUP until a few months ago, when I was scanning Twitter and saw a bunch of musicians I like saying “holy hell, the new PUP song!” This band was being endorsed by five or six musicians I loved, so I felt it prudent to check it out. That song was called DVP, it it hit me like a freight train. It sums up the band pretty well: rapid and relentless, but with plenty of melody laced through from start to finish.

DVP is from their second album, which comes out tomorrow (May 27). After hearing it, I dove into their first album, which is self-titled, and have shared them widely ever since. Two-thirds of The Polyorchids (me and Tony, who plays bass) will be in the studio today playing that album and explaining its goodness. We’ll also play a couple of songs from the follow-up record that comes out tomorrow, which is called The Dream is Over.

Listen to DVP and watch the retro video game music video. It's a good starting point. 

 

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Jazz After Dark May 24, 2016

Tue, 05/24/2016 - 9:05pm | Don Shor

Some soulful jazz.

Vocals by

  • Billie Holiday
  • Rosemary Clooney
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Nat King Cole

Instrumentals by 

  • Roland Kirk
  • Art Pepper
  • Stanley Turrentine
  • Ruby Braff
  • Gilad Edelman; Sam Lazar on organ with Grant Green on electric guitar. 
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Davisville, May 23, 2016: Guitar Mac Plays the Blues

Mon, 05/23/2016 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan

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“Guitar Mac” MacKnally has played dozens of times in Davis since the 1980s—if you go often to the Farmers Market, you've probably seen him there. On today's show we talk about different kinds of blues, playing in Davis, the sounds he gets from his 1930s steel guitar, and more. "The blues is truth, you know," he says after talking about his sad love song I'm Guilty. "From everyday in life."

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Gary Chew's Third Streaming - March 20, 2016

Fri, 05/20/2016 - 2:23pm | Gary Chew

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Gary has programmed more music this week that channels the Third Stream well.

Motion-picture love themes have about ten minutes time: Alex North, John Barry, and Andre Previn give 3rd Streaming a romantic touch with music from Spartacus, Out of Africa, and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. That's music from the 60s and the 80s.

Leonard Bernstein's early piece from 1942 will be played by Stanley Drucker and Leonid Hambro. That's Bernstein's "Sonata for Clarinet and Piano."

Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu titled his 20th-century work "Three Ricercari" even though the term "ricercare" comes from the Baroque Era. The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra performs it.

"Impressions of the Puna" by Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera (pictured) is another piece you'll want to hear. "Puna" refers to the high-altitude grasslands of South America's Andes Mountains. Ginastera's work is totally beautiful and played as much so by the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

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What Rough Beast visits Listening Lyrics on May 20, 2016 at 4:00PM

Thu, 05/19/2016 - 8:48am | Pieter Pastoor

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What Rough Beast visits KDRT

A group of local Sacramento musicians featuring A wide variety of Rhythmic vibrations is about to hit the airways. If you enjoy a little jamming, this up and coming group will fit your earbuds. Keith - Guitar/Vocals, Bryant - Bass, Jon - Keys/Vocals, Bob - Drums

All Listening Lyric shows are live on Fridays from 4:00PM to 5:00PM.(PST) on KDRT 95.7FM. For those outside the listening area, the show will stream live online at KDRT.org . It will also be available for replays in the show archives or as an podcast on iTunes under LISTENING LYRICS.

Listening lyrics on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter
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Jazz After Dark May 17, 2016

Tue, 05/17/2016 - 7:51pm | Don Shor

Jazz from the 30’s and 40’s tonight!  

  • Harry Roy & His Orchestra
  • Billie Holiday
  • Benny Goodman
  • Dizzy Gillespie
  • Charlie Christian
  • Bunny Berigan (Kay Little vocals)
  • Erroll Garner
  • Artie Shaw
  • Glenn Miller
  • Thelonious Monk
  • King Cole Trio
  • Miles Davis
  • Charlie Parker
  • Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, MIlt Jackson
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Getz, Quinichette & Sims

 

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Live DiRT: Armadillo ArtAbout with Steve Kotarek - Fri May 13, 2016

Fri, 05/13/2016 - 7:40pm | Jess Goddèsse

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KDRT broadcasts live from Armadillo Music for 2nd Friday ArtAbout with the local voice and strums of Steve Kotarek. Join the Live DiRT crew in downtown Davis from 6:30-7:30 p.m. The event is free, open to all... RSVP

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Album Review: Rain Crow, by Tony Joe White

Wed, 05/11/2016 - 11:41pm | Scott Korinke

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The King of Swamp Rock, Tony Joe White, has returned for his 19th studio LP over his illustrious 50 year career, and the haunting guitars and deep voice that have defined both White's sound and the genre are still as mysterious and engaging as ever. During his many years of work, Tony Joe has worked with artists as varied as Eric Clapton, Tina Turner and the Foo Fighters and toured with Steppenwolf, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Roger Waters, but on Rain Crow, it feels as if White never left his native Louisiana swamps.

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Gary Chew: Third Streaming

Wed, 05/11/2016 - 2:45pm | Gary Chew

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A varied and listenable mix of music streams your way on "Gary Chew: Third Streaming" Friday at 3pm. 

Gary has creations by Prokofiev, Howard Hanson and Ernest Chausson.  Then from the world of film, two pieces by Thomas Newman, as used for the movie In the Bedroom and Miklos Rosza's Main Theme from Double Indemnity, that 1944 noirish delight with Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. 

Tailing out the hour:  Oscar Peterson does "You Stepped Out Of A Dream" as only Oscar can tranfix lovers of piano jazz; the 1st movement of Calendrelli's "Concerto for Jazz Clarinet and Orchestra" will astonish your auditory system as Eddie Daniels solos; the Quartetto Italiano re-establishes the aural beauty of that final movement of Claude Debussy's "String Quarter in G Minor." 

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Jazz After Dark May 10, 2016

Tue, 05/10/2016 - 7:36pm | Don Shor

Great jazz from live performances tonight! 

  • Joe Williams with The Count Basie Orchestra
  • Ella Fitzgerald in Japan 
  • Ramsey Lewis 
  • Chet Baker & Gerry Mulligan at Carnegie Hall 
  • George Benson at Carnegie
  • Dave Brubeck Quartet 25th Anniversary Reunion
  • Mel Tormé, the Classic Concert Live
  • Jaki Byard and Tommy Flanagan
  • Toots Thielemans
  • The Taylor Eigsti Trio, Live at Filoli
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