Recent Audio

To thank the generous supporters of community radio in Portland, the Old Mole Variety Hour is sponsoring gift prints of one of Bette Lee’s photos to 10 lucky listeners who contribute during KBOO’s 2021 fall membership drive, which ends on October 16. To view Bette’s photos ... Read more

Bill Resnick interviews Monica Pearson, an organizer for Oregon’s Rural Organizing Project, serving 82 member groups in small towns and villages across the state who are organizing around a broad range of progressive issues. Pearson, who has lived her life in small towns, p... Read more

At the end of World War I there were so many young widows and unmarried woman that they were dubbed “surplus women.”  Violet Speedwell is one of these women, and she joins a group of women called borderers, women who embroider kneelers for grand cathedrals. She crafts a lif... Read more

Line 3—History and Hope: Last Monday, on Indigenous Peoples Day, the five-year frontline resistance to Enbridge's Line 3 suffered a defeat. Having finished construction on the pipeline, Enbridge prepared to start pumping the highly toxic tar sands oil from Alberta Canada th... Read more

Featuring work by Big City Orchestra, EasyEW, Ekkehard Ehlers, The Found Sound Orchestra, John Oswald, Pflaphpschoen, Sacred Cowboy, The Tape-beatles, ToToM, Wax Audio, YITT and DJ Zebra. Read more

  Today marks the end of our Fall Membership Drive, and let's just say 'WE STILL NEED MONEY!'  Not sure why per se, but that's the reality. To honor The End, I'll play almost 2 hours of tunes from the end of a well-known tour, without touching the first set.  Yep. Still b... Read more

Please join me for lots of good morning music this Saturday on Swing 'n' Country! There's a mellow start from Olivia Newton John (Have You Never Been Mellow?) and a classy finish from Lefty Frizzell (Life's Like Poetry). You can savor a set of music from Loretta Lynn's sens... Read more

True giants of music make up much of today’s Songcircle playlist. Great American Songbook composers Irving Berlin and Johnny Mercer sing their own songs. Plus, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, The Rolling Stones, The Temptations, George Jones, The Clash, Dusty Springf... Read more

After a quick survey of some recent releases, including No Time to Die and The Card Counter, Jeff Godsil, from down in Los Angeles, discusses Preston Sturges's The Great McGinty, while Britta Gordon reflects on South Korea's 2017 Claire's Camera, and in the book corner, a n... Read more

Today's Cascadia Coffeehouse will feature some of my favorite fall and autumn folk songs, including Tom Russell, Tim O'Brien, I'm With Her, and more. We'll also showcase a few tracks from new albums recently released. Read more