Arts and Culture

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Pacific Underground on 04/22/16

Airs at: Fri, 04/22/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Pacific Underground
Pacific Underground is hosting April's show LIVE from KBOO! Listen in for this special KBOO membership drive show where we talk to conductor Paul Kim of the Oregon Symphony about an upcoming John Williams concert, artist Stephen Poon shares his art and Portland experience, ... Read more

THE QUADRAPHONNES host The Outside World this Friday night!

Airs at: Sat, 04/23/2016 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  The Outside World
  The following is an IMPORTANT MESSAGE from your local Quadraphonne council :    Join us on KBOO from midnight on Friday, April 22 to 3am Saturday, April 23 for three hours of music and information on upcoming shows! First, the Quadraphonnes will be performing live in t... Read more

Tom Neely and Keenan Marshall Keller - Expanded Audio

Airs at: Thu, 04/14/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
  Tom Neely and Keenan Marshall Keller are superstars in the world of indie comics, separately responsible for such surreal horror, sci-fi, and punk-centric zines as Henry and Glenn Forever and Ever, Galactic Breakdown, The Wolf, and The Blot.  They've now teamed up to wri... Read more

All Tomorrow's Parties: A Memoir by Rob Spillman

Airs at: Thu, 06/16/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  “If you’ve ever been young, in love, and desperate to live an authentic life, this book is for you: a ravishing memoir about a young man’s quest for art, meaning, and a place to call home.”—Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See Rob Spillman, the award-win... Read more

Proxies by Brian Blanchfield

Airs at: Thu, 05/19/2016 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  A go-for-broke essay collection that blends cultural close reading and dicey autobiography. Past compunction, expressly unbeholden, these twenty-four single-subject essays train focus on a startling miscellany of topics —Foot Washing, Dossiers, Br’er Rabbit, Housesitting... Read more

Ways To Disappear by Idra Novey

Airs at: Thu, 05/05/2016 at 11:00am - 11:30pm
Produced for:  Between The Covers
  Deep in gambling debt, the celebrated Brazilian writer Beatriz Yagoda is last seen holding a suitcase and a cigar and climbing into an almond tree. She abruptly vanishes. In snowy Pittsburgh, her American translator Emma hears the news and, against the wishes of her boyf... Read more

Music for Time Travel, part 1

Airs at: Thu, 04/14/2016 at 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Produced for:  Africa-O-Ye!
A special series dedicated to various strains of polyrhythmic, trance-inducing, hypnotizing musics throughout West Africa. Time-warping Yoruba apala & waka  --- spirit-invoking Fon vodun rhythms --- Tuareg issawat desert drones --- Mood-altering Bambara mystical orchestras ... Read more

Radio Lost and Found for 04/14/16

Airs at: Thu, 04/14/2016 at 10:00pm - Fri, 04/15/2016 at 12:00am
Radio Lost and Found returns to the airwaves with strange sounds and other surprises. Read more

City Of Women: Who is Wendy Carlos?

Airs at: Fri, 04/29/2016 at 3:00am - 5:30pm
Produced for:  City of Women
Listening to music on the radio, if you are so inclined,  you will not hear many female led vocals. Especially if you are listening to mainstream music. Country Western, Blue Grass and RnB have more female voices. Punk Rock is getting there, some electronica, yes. But, it i... Read more

Tom Neely and Keenan Marshall Keller

Airs at: Thu, 04/14/2016 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Words and Pictures
Tom Neely and Keenan Marshall Keller are superstars in the world of indie comics, separately responsible for such surreal horror, sci-fi, and punk-centric zines as Henry and Glenn Forever and Ever, Galactic Breakdown, The Wolf, and The Blot.  They've now teamed up to write ... Read more