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NEW in KBOO music library November 18, 2013

Bardo Pond Peace On Venus Fire Alt Rock Boo Frog Valley Of Sickness Skullman Alt Rock Cosmonauts Persona Non Grata Burger Alt Rock Cross Record Be Good ... Read more

Pi and Building for Burning Man

Airs at: Sat, 06/29/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for Experience Points
Every year, tens of thousands of people flock to the Nevada desert for the Burning Man art festival. Who are they and why do they build a temporary city? Host Ren Green talks to Pi, a Build Lead on a large scale community art project in Portland, about building art, burning... Read more

New Releases March 23, 2013

ARTIST    TITLE    LABEL    GENREAl-Mo7it, Mo7it    Jeruselem In My Heart    Self Released    ElectronicAmatorski    TBC    Crammed Discs    Alternative RockBajo Fondo    Presente    Masterworkd    ElectronicBalsam Range    Last Train to Kitty Hawk        BluegrassBanco de... Read more

C&B 10

Airs at: Mon, 01/28/2013 at 12:00am
Produced for The Melting Pot
  This week on The Melting Pot we touch base with a Benefit that has been going on for a decade called "COVERS and BLANKETS 10" Well hear from the founder Christian Parkinson about its inception, evolution and what you can do now and throughout the year. Stay up to date wi... Read more

David Lin Interview

Airs at: Thu, 11/15/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Between Us
David Lin is a Chinese American businessman in Corvallis, OR. In 2012, he commissioned a mural on the side of his business that highlighted Chinese abuses in Tibet. That act prompted threats on his life by Chinese agents, coercion by Chinese authorities and diplomatic discu... Read more

Paul Bracken Interview

Airs at: Thu, 11/15/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Between Us
Paul Bracken is an academic at Yale University with a warning; nukes are back. In his book, "The Second Nuclear Age," Bracken says profileration, political instability overseas, an outdated American arms control policy and improved technology is making the possibility of a ... Read more

Jon Schwartz Interview

Airs at: Thu, 11/15/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Between Us
New York Times writer Jon Schwartz and his wife Jean suspected that their son Joe might be a little different from other toddlers.  By the time his wife was hiding his sister's Barbies so Joe wouldn't take them to school, they knew their son was probably gay.  Thus began th... Read more

New CDs in music library September 19, 2012

  Beats Antique Contraption v. II Antique Cars And Trains We Are All Fire Fake Four Cat Power Sun Matador David Byrne and St Vincent ... Read more

Occupy Portland Radio Air Broadcast 08/15

Airs at: Wed, 08/15/2012 at 12:00am
Produced for Occupy Portland Radio
"End the Camping Ban" Vigil Block Party at Alicia Jackson's Police Piece: Foreclosure in North Portland "Occupy This Album" Lindsey Walker Interview & Music Read more