Recent Blog Posts

Best of the Free Music Archive 2009

At the beginning of the year, KBOO joined WFMU, KEXP and a handful of other stations for an experiment that challenged the basic rule of the recording industry since its foundation: you must pay for music.I wasn't quite sure how musicians would react to the premise of th... Read more

20th Cascade Festival of African Films

KBOO is a proud co-sponsor of the 20th Cascade Festival of African Films The Cascade Festival of African Films honors the art and craft of filmmaking from that continent. The movies imported for the festival draw capacity crowds every year and are shown Thursdays through S... Read more

Best of the Youth Collective 2009

The KBOO Youth Collective: A 2009 Retrospective The KBOO Youth Collective has had a great year, with lots of energy from new members, and some transitions into the larger world of KBOO for other members. Outside of the Youth Collective broadcasts, you can check out Tony a... Read more

"Helping Haiti: A community concert for a critical cause"

NW Visitors Productions, KBOO, and Mt. Tabor Theater present..."Helping Haiti:A community concert for a critical cause"Sunday, January 245:00pm-10:00pmMt. Tabor Theater and Lounge4811 SE Hawthorne Blvd.Www.taborpdx.com21+Sliding Scale Requested Donation: $5+100% of conce... Read more

"Oh, I Believe in Yesterday"... 2009 Ends the 2000's Decade... Here is a look into our past

It doesn't matter what you call the last decade, "Zeros", "Nils", "Oh-Oh's", "Oughts", "Oughties", or "Naughties", 2000-2009 defied our predictions and perceptions of life on this planet and forced us to examine our future way of existing. The 21st century spent more int... Read more

Haiti: Disaster: Capitalism

A briefer audio version of this was broadcast on the Old Mole Variety Hour January 18, 2010. The Well-read Red has been reading up on Haiti. As many in the progressive press have noted, last week's earthquake was a natural disaster made much more disastrous by the poli... Read more

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