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ABOUT US

KDRT 95.7 FM is grassroots radio from Davis, CA, airing an eclectic mix of music and public-affairs programming. A project of nonprofit Davis Media Access, KDRT streams worldwide via KDRT.org.

 

OUR PROGRAMS

The Russ Tolman Goodtime Hour

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Russ hoists anchor and sails the sonic seas near and far to discover and recover pleasingly eclectic, genre-defying musical nuggets new and old, fresh and classic. Russ will attempt to amaze with his smooth segues.

Live Thursday 9-10pm
Replays Friday 7-8am
DJ(s): 
Russ Tolman
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Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader is joined by co-hosts Steve Skrovan and David Feldman for a lively informative hour of interviews with some of the nation’s most influential movers and shakers, and thought provoking discussions of the weeks news.

Live Monday 11pm-Tuesday 12am
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Old-Time Radio

Old Time Radio KDRT Davis California

Immerse yourself in programs from radio’s Golden Age.

Live Sunday 10:30pm-Monday 12am
DJ(s): 
Jim Buchanan
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Night Train Cocktail Lounge

A saloon of songs and sounds from back then, focusing on anything recorded between the 1890s and the 1970s. All forms of jazz, blues, rock, surf, garage, punk, country, folk, film-radio-television samples, speeches, comedy, and anything grabbed from the ages and put to cylinder, wax or tape, colliding on top each other.

Night Train Cocktail Lounge is produced live at WXOX-LP FM in Louisville, KY. All local material is edited, including times and dates, making each episode an evergreen episode. All episodes are FCC compliant.

Live Wednesday 9-10pm
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A Constant Grin

DJ Chris Mussen presents all things modern indie, from shoegaze to psychedelic, dream pop to space rock, lo-fi to indie folk. Whatever you prefer on your indie playlists, A Constant Grin is sure to keep you smiling.

Live Friday 2-2:30pm
Replays Saturday 7-7:30pm
DJ(s): 
Chris Mussen
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Noah Byrd on Listening Lyrics Friday May 27, 2016 at 4PM

Fri, 05/27/2016 - 3:08pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Noah Byrd visits KDRT

Noah Byrd is back in the studio with us. Noah is a local songwriter (indie rock) and will be introducing to us his new EP Feathers. With a voice compared to Elliot Smith and Bradley Nowell, he combines melancholic vocals with punk-influenced acoustic guitar, giving an aggressive undertone to his otherwise laid-back sound.

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.

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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.

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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 Goddésse

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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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Rain Crow

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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