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KDRT-LP 95.7 FM is a project of community media center Davis Media Access, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation serving Davis and beyond.. Each year, we raise more than $30,000 to support KDRT, local election coverage, and youth media projects. KDRT receives the bulk of this funding, making this station truly listener- and community-supported radio! Your donation to DMA helps to keep KDRT on the air, and the grassroots growing. Thank you!

About Us

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...

OUR PROGRAMS

Twang Thang

Twang Thang features outlaw country old and new, featuring the folks who sowed the harder-edged musical seeds for what we today call Americana, as well as the newer artists who continue the tunes and outlaw ethos forward. George Jones, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Lucinda Willimans, Steve Earle, Dwight Yoakum, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Billie Jo Shaver...Americana music didn't just show up one day; it has deep and varied country music roots. Twang Thang explores both the originators and the newcomers, checking out a bunch of the music that happened along the way.

Live Sunday 8-10am

Replays Monday 10am-12pm, Wednesday 8-10pm

DJ(s):

DJ Dirk

Listening Lyrics

Welcome to an hour of LISTENING LYRICS. Right here on KDRT 95.7FM in Davis, California. Listening Lyrics is a genre free zone - we feature the artist. What makes them do their thing. Listen to the hope and satisfaction in their voices. Listen to what only commercial free community radio can bring you. Close your eyes - open your ears - relax your mind. Join host Pieter Pastoor and co-host Jeanne Pastoor. Now lets enter, the mother of all that is music and lyrics and the human capability of producing art.

Live Friday 4-5pm

Replays Sunday 1-2pm

DJ(s):

Pieter Pastoor

Homepage URL:

Listening Lyrics on Facebook

Dinner Bell Roundup

Join DJ Cliff and friends for Dinner Bell Roundup’s tasty plateful of swinging country, western, and Americana music. Come and get it!

Live Saturday 4-6pm

DJ(s):

Cliff Gamble

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 Monday 9-9:30pm, Saturday 11-11:30pm, Sunday 7-7:30pm

DJ(s):

Chris Mussen

Homepage URL:

A Constant Grin on Facebook

The Golden Road

Join Alligator and take a musical journey down the Golden Road and explore the music of the Grateful Dead, its roots and its many offshoots.

Live Sunday 5-7pm

Replays Friday 7-9pm

DJ(s):

Alligator

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Album Review: Gon' Boogaloo by C.W. Stoneking

Wed, 05/04/2016 - 11:48pm | Scott Korinke

Gon' Boogaloo is the third original album from Australian blues artist C.W. Stoneking. Record in only two days, the albums sound hearkens back to the swing and blues music of the 1950s, including artists like Eddie Cochran and Buddy Holly. The production is refreshingly straightforward, refusing to complicate itself with fancy or exprimental production techniques, allowing Stoneking's gravelly voice and blues guitar to standout with none of the cluttered and overproduced sound that haunts much of contemporary music. Part of the album's appeal is the refusal to be trendy, instead being unapologetically and uncompromisingly original and old fashioned. Standout tracks on the album include the frantic and energetic "The Jungle Swing" and "Tomorrow Gon' Be Too Late," a relaxed and introspective blues tune. Overall, C.W. Stoneking continues to impress with his blues skill and sensibility, making music that will delight fans of old school blues and roots music.

Woof It Up for the Big Day of Giving - Go BigDoG! - May 3rd

Tue, 05/03/2016 - 7:49pm | Jess Goddèsse

Come howl with KDRT on Tuesday, May 3rd, 5-9P at the Sudwerk’s dock, where we’ll Woof It Up for the BigDoG—the Big Day of Giving! It’s a community event with entertainment provided by Music Only Makes Sense—the fine folks who bring us the Davis Music Festival. The evening's lineup includes DMF alumni Richie Lawrence and the Yolos, Alicia Murphy, and the Toadmortons. There's even rumor of a BigDoG-themed photo booth... :-D The Sudwerk's taps will be flowing, with a portion of proceeds benefitting KDRT and Davis Media Access. Other local non-profits will be on hand to help us celebrate, including the Pence Gallery and Cool Davis. Due to technical difficulties on the Big DoG side, to donate now, please go directly to Davis Media Access. TY!

Adam Block visits Listening Lyrics on April 29, 2016 at 4:00PM

Fri, 04/29/2016 - 3:37pm | Pieter Pastoor

Talk about a musician’s musician, Adam Block knows his way around a guitar. KDRT is thrilled he will be in the studio this Friday. Adam has played guitar for 20 + years. After studying history and graduating from UC Davis in 2004, he continued studying guitar with Dave Lynch at Guitar Workshop and then decided to apply to Berklee College of Music in Boston. He earned a Bachelor degree in music and graduated from Berklee College in 2012. Adam has since studied and performed various styles of music: blues, jazz, rock, R&B, Funk and soul. He has also studied Senegalese music as well as different styles of African guitar playing. He has worked as a sideman in many bands on the East and West coasts, and has also led bands performing his original songs and compositions. Adam has taught guitar students of all ages, young and old and enjoys sharing his knowledge of music and the guitar with his students.

Album of the Week - Bad Books II - 4/28 5-6P

Thu, 04/28/2016 - 1:54pm | Justin Cox

I got into Bad Books after years of listening to Kevin Devine, a Brooklyn indie/punk musician who is one of my favorite songwriters. The group is a side-project featuring Devine and members of the band Manchester Orchestra, whose singer is Andy Hull. This is the second of their two albums, and it's a great listen.

Both Kevin Devine and Manchester Orchestra have albums I like just as much (and some more) than this one, but Devine and Hull are playing a show together in SF next month, so it feels like a good time for Bad Books. Plus, it’s just a tight 11-song indie record.

Also, unlike others, it’s free of profanity, meaning I won't have to do any on-the-fly lyric censorship during the show. I’ll have my three-year-old son in the booth (it’s take-your-kid-to-work day at UC Davis) and I’m sure he’ll be trying to stir up a ruckus in there, so I’ll need to keep my attention on that.

Jazz After Dark April 26, 2016

Tue, 04/26/2016 - 7:26pm | Don Shor

Jazz from soul and folk tonight. Soul jazz from the early 60’s: Hank Crawford * Gene Ammons * Lou Donaldson. Leadbelly songs by Clifford Jordan and Sandra Douglass. Then some early Pat Metheny, followed by 1990’s work: Eva Cassidy * Winston Walls & Brother Jack McDuff * Abbey Lincoln.

Davisville, 4/25/16: After Auschwitz—talking with Bernard Marks (part 2)

Mon, 04/25/2016 - 6:05pm | Bill Buchanan

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Today we present the second half of our interview with Bernard Marks, who survived internment in the Auschwitz and Dachau concentration camps when he was a child (here’s part 1). Now in his 80s, he often talks to students in Davis and elsewhere about his experiences. Today we pick up the conversation with his months at Dachau, where his existence was much worse; followed by his life after he came to America, the information he wants students to know, and the questions they ask.

KDRT Benefit Barn Dance, Fri April 22nd

Fri, 04/22/2016 - 6:25pm | Jess Goddèsse

KDRT is throwing a Barn Dance, and you're invited! Join us Friday evening, April 22nd, at Odd Fellows in downtown Davis for an evening of swinging local music from Bonanza King and Bottom Dwellers. This all-ages event is a benefit for KDRT--admission is $10-20, sliding scale. Doors open at 7 p.m. RSVP on Facebook, and be there with boots on!

3rd Streaming with Gary Chew, Fri 4/22 3p PT

Fri, 04/22/2016 - 2:54pm | Jess Goddèsse

The new biopic about Miles Davis is opening, and Gary has several minutes of Miles and Gil Evans doing music that came from the mid-50s and was labeled "Third Stream." In addition, the amazing coloratura soprano Kathleen Battle sings a riveting song called “Take My Mother Home”--music by Andre Previn and words by Toni Morrison. Also in the mix, Arturo Sandoval blows his trumpet with Patrick Williams's big beautiful band in a piece composed and arranged by Mr. Williams in salute of his daughter. Finally, Gil Shaham fiddles his way through the first movement of Barber’s Violin Concerto as if he were playing “Happy Birthday.” You can’t hear this kind of music in such an interesting mix anywhere else except KDRT in Davis. What more need be said?

More Miles Davis!

Fri, 04/22/2016 - 7:30am | Don Shor

Davis Enterprise film critic Derrick Bang reviews Miles Ahead.

Coming up at 3 pm today, Gary Chew has some Miles on Third Streaming.

Jazz After Dark program featuring Miles Davis re-broadcasts Saturday at 9 pm, and Gary's show rebroadcasts immediately after.

Jazz After Dark archive. Just click and play!

Album of the Week: John Zorn's Naked City

Thu, 04/21/2016 - 1:38pm | Dug Deep

In 1990, experimental avant-garde jazz saxaphonist John Zorn released the album Naked City, a fun, schizophrenic and noisy collaboration with Fred Frith, Joey Baron, Yamatsuka Eye, Bill Frisell, and Wayne Horvitz. Naked City (as the group became known) was about the most far out you could get, and Zorn’s exploration of what he “could come up with given the limitations of the simple sax, guitar, keyboard, bass, drums format” became the pinnacle of avant coolness. The result was a post-modern hybrid that cut up sequences as he saw fit and treated all genres equally: jazz, grindcore, country & western, and much more were allowed to coexist, even in the same song. The album has 26 cuts, several that clock in at under 30 seconds. Naked City is melodic and dischordant, familiar and unpredictable, sweet and explosive.

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