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Press**Watch: smash the mental handcuffs

Our minds have been tasered and handcuffed into a state of paralysis.  We need to start breaking through the mental handcuffs before we can even begin to make progress against the ultra-greed class that is destroying this planet.  Smash the tasers and snap the handcuffs of ... Read more

Kenny Fresh Selects this Saturday on the Soundbox

Fresh Selects is at it again!!   First you remember Fresh Selects at The Fix right?   Yeah it's where you saw Erykah Badu, and Madlib, Guilty Simpson- Georgia Ann Muldrow.    You remember the Do-Over huh??  summer time Sunday Fun.  Now get ready to check out the latest from... Read more

NEW in KBOO music library October 12, 2015

Alex G (Giannascoli) Beach Music Domino Alt Rock Apa Kabar We Are Apa Kabar Self Released Alt Rock Bezunartea, Amy New Villain Kiam Alt Rock Cornwell, Hugh ... Read more

We Like Our Music Innapropriate, Thank You Very Much

Uptight parent sends her daughter to The Rock N’ Roll Camp for Girls and she’s shocked that she comes back with some decent music: A mother who sent her 8-year-old daughter to a Portland rock music-themed camp for girls says she is shocked by what she thinks is age-inappro... Read more

Richard Francis ~ 1948 - 2009

(NOTE: I originally posted this on my personal blog last week and intended it for those who might not necessarily be familiar with KBOO or its programming, hence the  preamble that might seem superflous (and perhaps inaccurate - Sorry!) to those closer to the subject.) As I... Read more

The Holland Hour

The Holland Hour - the Dutch show with New Year's fun and songs. I will translate for you... Read more

Thinking of the classics

 On today's Stage and Studio, I talked with Connor Kerns and Debbie Hunter who have been running Quintessence Language and Imagination Theatre concentrating on the classics and Connor's original plays. They started in 2001 and it's been a labor of love for most of this deca... Read more

Tillicum Wawa Updates

Due to one technical difficulty after another as well as when I have time to make it to KBOO there aren't any computers available with Audio, I will no longer be podcasting "Tillicum Wawa: Voices of the People." I apologize for any inconvenience. The frustration of one tech... Read more

STREAMING NOW 'TIL 10 AM KBOO Tournament of Roses Parade

Join the Different Nature Collective as they provide live alternate sounds from the Tournament of Roses parade in Passadena, California. Local Portland TV ABC Channel 2.1 Turn down your TV sound and click on this link to hear the alternate reality soundtrack. http://live.... Read more

the war on our minds

Rape a woman, go to jail.  The woman goes to jail, that is.  Turn to the foreign press to find out what it means for Uncle Sam to be in charge in Afghanistan: The Independent/ Terri Judd/Afghanistan"....Two-thirds of the women in Lashkar Gah's medieval-looking jail have be... Read more