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KBOO's 2025 Inauguration Statement and Resources

To everyone in our Beloved Community,   In light of the inauguration, the slew of executive orders, and the rise of misinformation in the United States, we here at KBOO are committed to continuing our legacy as an alternative to mainstream media. We have a duty to serv... Read more

Cathedral Park Jazz Festival

  Cathedral Park Jazz Fest is back in 2025, and so is KBOO's annual live broadcast! Tune in July 18-20 to celebrate PNW jazz!   2025 Festival Line Up Friday (7/18) 4:30 Taylor Newville and the Riders 6:00 NW Women Rhythm & Blues 7:30 The Strange Tones 9:00 Revival ... Read more

Waltzing with Roger Miller

Airs at: Sat, 07/19/2025 at 6:00am - 9:00am
Produced for:  Swing 'n' Country
Roger Miller opens Swing’n’Country today with In The Summertime, which it certainly is in Portland’s July ’25.  No surprise there.  And no surprises in the show this week either. There’ll be a couple more Roger Miller hit songs from the 1960s, a couple of sets of western... Read more

Jazzy Dead for the Cathedral Park Warmup

Airs at: Sat, 07/19/2025 at 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Hey now, Phil G here. THis week, KBOO is broadcasting live fromt eh Cathedral Park Jazz Festival; I've put together an hour of either Grateful Dead members being Jazzy of Jazz artists interpreting Grateful Dead songs. Lots of fun, lots of notes! Well worth a listen and, h... Read more

You Indi-Go, Girl

Airs at: Sat, 07/19/2025 at 10:00pm - Sun, 07/20/2025 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Queery
In celebration of the Indigo Girls and Melissa Etheridge swinging through Portland this month, we're exploring the evolution of female-presenting queer icons in music from 1930s Lucille Bogan, to 1960s Maxine Feldman, to the queer icons of the 1990s on through today's ge... Read more

Old Mole Variety Hour for July 21, 2025

Airs at: Mon, 07/21/2025 at 9:00am - 10:00am
Produced for:  Old Mole Variety Hour
  The authoritarianism of the Trump regime calls out for mass radical organizing, but with some exceptions, much of the left has not mounted a coherent response. Journalist Arun Gupta reflects on lessons from the last quarter century – from the Global Justice Movement t... Read more

The Continuing Struggle to Stop NEXT at Port Westward

Airs at: Mon, 07/21/2025 at 10:00am - 11:00am
Produced for:  Locus Focus
For years the fossil fuel industry has set its sights on Port Westward, just outside Clatskanie, Oregon, where there is a small industrial park along the Columbia Estuary. Port Westward has very little industrial development on what is primarily highly productive agricul... Read more

Building Bridges Inside and Out

Airs at: Mon, 07/21/2025 at 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Produced for:  Prison Pipeline
Adam Carpinelli interviews Danny Wilson and Tracy Schlapp with Bridgeworks Oregon. Bridgeworks Oregon partners with individuals and groups to run programs that focus on well-being and education by using art, music, and cultural awareness to bridge societal divisions in O... Read more

Walt Curtis reads Jack London

Airs at: Mon, 07/21/2025 at 11:00pm - Tue, 07/22/2025 at 12:00am
Produced for:  Gremlin Time
Tonight we honor the passing of long time KBOO on air host Walt Curtis of The Talking Earth. Ten years ago I brought Walt into the studio to record him reading a story by Jack London called Hobos That Pass In The Night. About London's own years riding the rails looking f... Read more