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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.

 

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The Golden Road

​Join Wayne Hagan and take a musical journey down the Golden Road and explore the music of the Grateful Dead, its roots, and its many offshoots. Past DJs include Alligator, Lee Maddex, and Rod Moseanko. What a long strange trip!

Live Tuesday 2-4pm
Replays Sunday 6-8pm
DJ(s): 
Wayne Hagen
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Dashboard Diaries

Hop in for a trip through ever-changing musical landscapes, from familiar highways to roads less travelled. Dashboard Diaries host Ray K loves to share hand-picked tunes spanning broad styles of music, with a nod to the real, organic disc jockey-driven radio of his youth. It's all about the journey...

Live Thursday 3-4pm
DJ(s): 
RayK
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Crossing Continents

In this World Music show, Gil covers the Middle East, the Mediterranean region, North Africa, Central Asia, and the Indian sub continent, including traditional and contemporary musical styles. This is not a pop music show!

Live Monday 10am-12pm
Replays Sunday 12-2pm
DJ(s): 
Gil Medovoy
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That's Life

Lois Richter’s format for That’s Life is mostly interviews. Recurring topics include Davis activities and groups; work and life choices; philosophy and theory; plus birding, cooking, art, and other passions. Lois occasionally breaks into music — from ballads to the slack key sounds of Hawaii to golden oldies rock 'n' roll — but mostly there is just talk.

To suggest a topic for discussion or a person to interview, text Lois or leave a message in the comments here.

Live Tuesday 12-1pm
DJ(s): 
Lois Richter
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IMPLOSION

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IMPLOSION is hosted by Nick Saloman, front person of The Bevis Frond. Born and raised in London, England, Nick started buying records as a small child in the late 1950s and began going to gigs and playing in bands as a teen in the late 60s. IMPLOSION is simply an hour of Nick playing the music that he loves (psychedelia, rock, folk, beat, jazz, soul, punk, and more), with a bit of chat thrown in for good measure. Nick says: "If I like it, then there have got to be a few other people who will too.

Live Wednesday 8-9pm
Replays Friday 8-9am, Sunday 5-6pm
DJ(s): 
Nick Saloman
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'Is It Alive? Tracks' brings out its annual Halloween show

Fri, 10/27/2023 - 8:51am | kdrtradio

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Dead Tracks.

It's Alive! It’s Alive! It’s Alive! Tracks.

Live Tracks That Head Off Into the Snow and Inexplicably Vanish.

It’s difficult to come up with a proper title for this week’s Live Tracks, the KDRT program nearly as old as that derelict house in the woods that has been empty for decades but where a faint light sometimes flickers in the attic window after midnight.

Songs, skits, Vincent Price recordings, atmospheric sounds ... as host Jim says, it’s one heck of a Halloween program. “Turn out the lights and grab a recreational beverage. A lava lamp is sweet, also.”

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Davis Garden Show, Oct. 26, 2023

Thu, 10/26/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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On this week's program: Gardening info from the internet, pollarding trees, composting leaves, and more.

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Album of the Week, Oct. 25, 2023: Paul McCartney's 'Kisses On The Bottom'

Wed, 10/25/2023 - 5:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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This week's host is Pieter playing Paul McCartney's Kisses On The Bottom, the 2012 collection of standards Paul grew up listening to as well as the two new McCartney compositions "My Valentine" and "Only Our Hearts."

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IMPLOSION, 25 Oct 2023

Wed, 10/25/2023 - 4:00pm | Nick Saloman

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It's almost time for this week's edition of IMPLOSION with the one and only Nick Saloman of Bevis Frond fame. Tune in at 5p Pacific for a marvelous musical mix, including the Only Ones, the Isley Brothers, the Knickerbockers, and more, more, more!

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Jazz After Dark, Oct. 24, 2023

Tue, 10/24/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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We have the music of Cole Porter tonight, with performances by Julie London, Tal Farlow, Django Reinhardt with Stéphane Grappelli, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong & Oscar Peterson, Sonny Stitt, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, June Katz, Bireli Lagrene, Steve Gadd, Harold Mabern Trio, and Terry Gibbs.

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Community radio, volunteers, and Doug Kelly, on Imagining Yolo Davis, Oct. 20, 2023

Fri, 10/20/2023 - 6:10pm | Pieter Pastoor

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Doug Kelly joins us this week to discuss the importance of community radio, and to share his insights, experience and long history with radio.

Doug is a board member of Davis Media Access, a nonprofit community media center that includes KDRT. He also hosts Electric Compost Heap.

Imagining Yolo Davis playlist for 10/20/2023
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Electric Compost Heap, Oct. 20, 2023

Fri, 10/20/2023 - 5:45pm | Dug Deep

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Tonight at 6pm on the Electric Compost Heap, Dug Deep will play a wide variety of old and new sounds. He'll also highlight tunes from the Death Valley Girls and the Snares (from Sacramento!), playing in Davis on Halloween. Big thanks to the Davis Live Music Collective for making this event happen!

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Davis Garden Show, Oct. 19, 2023

Thu, 10/19/2023 - 12:00pm | Don Shor

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This week we talk about October in your garden, fig trees near vegetable beds, California fuchsias (Epilobium, formerly called Zauschneria), fruit trees in public spaces and school gardens, and more.

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Jazz After Dark, Oct. 17, 2023

Tue, 10/17/2023 - 5:00pm | Don Shor

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Tonight’s show: Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five, Gerry Mulligan with Chet Baker, Anita O'Day, Phineas Newborn Jr., Lou Donaldson, Ella Fitzgerald, Earl "Fatha" Hines, Nancy Wilson & The Great Jazz Trio, McCoy Tyner, Piano Connection, and Ahmad Jamal.

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Davisville, Oct. 16, 2023: After enduring 50 years of cinematic bafflers, reviewer Derrick Bang calls ’em out

Mon, 10/16/2023 - 5:30pm | Bill Buchanan

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All the baffling cliches you’ve seen in movies — idiot plots, hobbled assailants able to chase down a healthy person trying to escape, bloated tension-killing dialogue — these are all things Derrick Bang has endured over and over during his 49 years of writing movie reviews.

He recently listed several of these cinematic headscratchers in an article for the Davis Enterprise, and on today's Davisville he enjoys going over a few of them with program host Bill Buchanan (the photo shows Derrick on the right, Bill on the left). We also get Derrick’s suggestions for movies for the Halloween season, and his thoughts on the Chinese government’s efforts to punish filmmakers for work it finds offensive, even when the movies in question aren't shown in China. Such pressure could help explain why so many mainstream Hollywood movies are superhero stories, he says. “It’s not just because they’re popular. They’re safe.”

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