Bakotunes on KPCR

This Week's Playlist: Interview with Shannon Harris of Spike 1000 "Sister Sister" - Spike 1000 "Eclipse/Dovefire" - Spike 1000 "Who Saw The Flowers" - Spike 1000 "Let's Pretend We're Dead" - L7 "I Was a Teenage Monster" - Oingo Boingo "I Turned Into a Martian" - The Misfits "Short Songs" - Dead Kennedys "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love" - Minutemen "Measure Me" - Spike 1000 "Make Me Suffer" - Spike 1000 "...

This Week's Playlist: DEVO / Freedom of Choice Bad Religion / American Jesus (Henry Rollins - Punk & The Next Generation) Parliament / Chocolate City Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings / This Land Is Your Land (What Would Jello Do? - Jello Biafra) "'Merican" / The Descendents Los Lobos / One Time One Night John Mellencamp / Rain On The Scarecrow U2 / Bullet The Blue Sky The O'Jays / Give The Peo...

This Week's Playlist: Oingo Boingo / Insanity Archie King / He's a Vampire The Fleshtones / Screaming Skull Bad Manners / Just a Feeling Screamin' Jay Hawkins / Feast of the Mau Mau Danny Elfman / Sucker For Mystery The Zanies / The Mad Scientist Madness / Grey Day Oingo Boingo / No One Lives Forever Frank Zappa / Peaches En Regalia (Live at The Palladium - 10-27-78) Oingo Boingo / Islands Oingo B...

This Week's Playlist: *Episode features Excerpts from the Johnson Smith Novelty Company "Horror Record", 1973 Oingo Boingo / Insects Leftover Crack / Crack City Rockers The Mummies / The Fly The Cramps / Rockin' Bones The Slackers / The Mummy The Cure / A Forest (Live) Cormae / RUT Cormae / Time Deleter Mento Buru / Chu Chu Moco Dub Die Spitz / Hair Of Dog Captain Sensible / Wot Sex Pistols / No F...

This Week’s Playlist: The Darts / Midnight Creep Scowl / Shot Down Broken Focus / Break Me Down The 5,6,7,8s / I'm Blue Primer Grey / Drugs In My Pocket GOLD / S.F.G. Burning Image / Mr. Dark Anthrax / Among The Living Pete Mad Daddy Myers / Record Acid Test Fishbone / Subliminal Fascism The Mainliners / Jesusita Reverend Horton Heat / Cruisin' For a Bruisin' The Schizophonics / Burning Floor Dami...

This Week's Playlist: Screamin' Jay Hawkins / Little Demon The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo / Squeezit The Moocher Squirrel Nutz Zippers / The Ghost of Stephen Foster The Forest Hillbillies / The Munsters The Misfits / Hybrid Moments The Jim Carroll Band / People Who Died Mento Buru / (It's a) Monsters Holiday The Specials / Ghost Town Book of Love / Tubular Bells Siouxsie & The Banshees...

Mikey Dread / Operator’s Choice Jackie Mendez / Closer Interview & Music with Andres: Andres / Mr. Meantime (from “Purgatoryland”) Andres / Homie Hopper (from “Purgatoryland”) Andres / The One Who Stayed Away (from “Purgatoryland”) The Darts / Haunt Me Dum Dum Girls / Coming Down Death Valley Girls / Sunday Brian Jonestown Massacre / Anenome Sprindrift / Red Reflection Wrecks / Punk Is An Atti...

This Week's Playlist: Jackie Mendez / Now I'm Stuck With Never Jackie Mendez / Goodbye Cruel Love Chuck Berry / Havana Moon Chuck Berry / Brown-Eyed Handsome Man (Live feat. Robert Cray) Los Fabulosos Cadillcas / La Vida Los Fabulosos Cadillacs / What's New Pussycat? The Skatalites / Tear Up Let's Go Bowling / Hot Buttered (Live) Suicide Machines / New Girl Bad Manners / Mambo No. 8 James Brown /...

This Week's Playlist: Nortec Collective / Tijuana Bass Deela / El Mechanico Ska Cubano / Cumbia en Do Menor (Hispanic Heritage Month with Gustavo Arellano (Columnist, LA Times) Jackie Mendez / Red Flag Niko Rubio / Ring Ring Los Abandoned / Van Nuys Es Very Nice Los Abandoned / Me Quieren en Chile The Skatalites / Latin Goes Ska Lalo Guerrero / Chicas Patas Boogie Don Tosti / Pachuco Boogie El Chi...

This Week's Playlist: Los Lobos / Angels With Dirty Faces (Interview with Louie Perez of Los Lobos) Los Lobos / Will The Wolf Survive? The Blazers / Cumbia del Sol La Lom / Angels Point Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos / El Divorcio The Womack Sisters / If I Let You Pete Rodriguez y Su Conjunto / Pete's Boogaloo Stevie Wonder / Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing Hopeton Lewis / Sounds & Pressure R...

This Week's Playlist: Los Fabulosos Cadillacs / Calaveras Y Diablitos (live) Sex Pistols / Pretty Vacant (live) The Specials / Man at C&A (live) Frank Zappa / Heavy Duty Judy (live) WAR / Cisco Kid (live) Mento Buru / Wet Dream/Sally Brown (live) The Skatalites / James Bond Bob Marley & The Wailers / Lively Up Yourself (live) U2 / A Sort of Homecoming (live) Dead Kennedys / Bleed For Me (l...

The Specials / Enjoy Yourself Jacob Miller / We a Rockers Beastie Boys / Gratitude House of Pain / Who's The Man Cypress Hill / How I Could Just Kill a Man The Mainliners / Chrome Pit Dead Kennedys / Buzzbomb Die Spitz / Punishers Elastica / Spastica XTC / Respectable Street Oingo Boingo / No Spill Blood No Doubt / Everything's Wrong The The / This Is The Day INXS / The One Thing Wall of Voodoo /...

Los Abandoned / Como La Flor Girl In a Coma / Si Una Vez Pinata Protest / Trago Amargos Joe “King” Carrasco & The Crowns / Person Person Joe “King” Carrasco & The Crowns / Party Weekend Suburban Lawns / The Janitor Suburban Lawns / Gidget Goes To Hell Los Amigos Invisibles (w/Natalia LaFourcade) / Vivir Para Ti Mano Negra / Senor Matanza Café Tacuba / Futurismo y Traicion Royal Crown Revue...

This Week's Playlist: Peter Zaremba of The Fleshtones from “I.R.S. The Cutting Edge” (MTV) The Call / The Walls Came Down Translator / Everywhere That I’m Not Squeeze / Another Nail in My Heart Joe Jackson / Steppin’ Out Spandau Ballet / To Cut a Long Story Short XTC / Making Plans For Nigel INXS / Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain) Gary Numan / Metal Missing Persons / Walking In L.A. Talki...

This Week's Playlist: (Interview with Water Tower, Warped Tour, Long Beach, CA 7-26-26) Water Tower & Mike Herrera / Drink Smoke Water Tower / Sunflower Water Tower / AMPM Mento Buru / (It's a) Monster's Holiday (Interview with Chris Borbon (The Aggrolites), Warped Tour, Long Beach, CA 7-26-26) The Aggrolites / Musical Muse Jackie Mendez / He Used To Be My Baby Hepcat / Pharaoh's Dreams The Ag...

This Week's Playlist: The Disassociates / Trigger Warning The Disassociates / Close Friends The Disassociates / Ghost With No Stories The Disassociates / Inner Child The Disassociates / Burn It Down The Disassociates / 30mg The Disassociates / I Don’t WannaBook of Love / Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls Donna Summer / I Feel Love VNSSA feat. Trixie Mattel / I Wanna Have a Kiki Chk Chk Chk / Men and Gi...

This Week's Playlist - 2026 VANS Warped Tour Pre-Game Show! Jimmy Eat World / The Middle Underoath / Writing on the Walls Dance Gavin Dance / We Own the Night Reel Big Fish / Sell Out Stereotactic / Dead Men Circle Jerks / Operation Chase Petra / Famous Phantom Planet / California Bowling For Soup / 1985 Winona Fighter / Bombs Away Holy Wars / Ceremony Gym Class Heroes / Cupid’s Chokehold Expendab...

This Week's Playlist: The B-52's / 52 Girls Weezer / I Just Threw Out The Love of My Dreams Lana Del Rey / Doin' Time Black Lips / Bad Kids The Untouchables / Tropical Bird Mary's Danish / Yellow Creep Around Medicine / Time Baby III Lone Justice / Teenage Kicks MIllionaires / Alcohol Kreayshawn / Gucci Gucci Vanity 6 / Make Up The Time / The Stick Prince / I Could Never Take The Place of Your Man...

This Week's Playlist: Wall of Voodoo / Animal Days The Plimsouls / Shaky City Big Country / Harvest Home Stray Cats / Runaway Boys The Untouchables / Lebanon Los Fabulosos Cadillacs / Los Condenanitos Jimmy Cliff / King of Kings The English Beat / Sole Salvation Tom Waits / Chicago Cake / Comfort Eagle Die Spitz / Riding With My Girls Scowl / Psychic Dance Routine Echo & The Bunnymen / Never S...

This Week's Playlist: Third World / Now That We've Found Love (Extended Version) Frank Zappa / Stairway To Heaven (Live) Mento Buru / Wet Dream-Sally Brown (Live at Slo Brew '94) M.A.R.R.S. / Pump Up The Volume (Extended Pump Up Mix) Malcolm McLaren / Buffalo Gals (Extended Mix (Do Fundo do Bau) Oingo Boingo / Dead Man's Party (Party Til/ You're Dead Mix) Fishbone / Party at Ground Zero (Vapor Mix...

In celebration of PRIDE, Bakotunes host Matt Munoz gets possessed by the ghost of Divine (Pink Flamingos, Multiple Maniacs, Hairspray) for fun, mayhem and god knows what! Join us as KPCR become KGAY ! Happy Pride! Book of Love / Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls Donna Summer / I Feel Love VNSSA feat. Trixie Mattel / I Wanna Have a Kiki Chk Chk Chk / Men and Giuliani Down By The Schoolyard - A True Stor...

This Week's Playlist: (Interview with comedian Felipe Esparza !) Dead Kennedy's / Short Songs Frank Zappa / Why Don't You Like Me? (Live) Frank Zappa / Bolero (Live) Zapp / A Touch of Jazz (Playin' Kinda Ruff Part II) Richard Pryor / The Exorcist Tower of Power / Only So Much Oil in the Ground Eddie Murphy / Amityville Horror Brick / We Don't Wanna' Sit Down (We Wanna Get Down) Earth Wind & Fi...

This Week's Playlist: (Guest Interview with Tommy Chong of Cheech & Chong!) Cheech Marin / Born in East L.A. Bersa Discos / Cumbia Mix Jimmy Cliff / King of Kings The Germs / Lexicon Devil Zeena Schreck - LaVey / These Boots Are Made For Walking Bad Brains / God of Love Bad Religion / I Want To Conquer The World Circle Jerks / Coup D'Etat The Mighty Mighty Bosstones / Illegal Left Dance Hall C...

This Week's Playlist: Newen Afrobeat / Opposite People Babaloo / Lonely Girl Babaloo / Samba Formosa (Interview with Earl Falconer (UB40) uB40 / If It Happens Again Los Fabulosos Cadillacs / Los Condenanitos The Plugz / Reel Ten The Plugz / El Clavo y La Cruz The Cramps / Rockin' Bones Mento Buru / Chu Chu Moco Dub Art of Noise / Peter Gunn Theme (Extended Version) Twin Temple / I Am a Witch Twin...

This Week's Playlist: Lou Beauty / Mr. Miracle (Bakotunes PREMIERE) (Interview with Wendy Garay (LGBTQ+ Student Resource Support Provider, BCSD) The Clash / Know Your Rights (Unreleased Extended Mix) The Clash / This Is Radio Clash (Extended Mix) Sex Pistols / Bodies Sex Pistols / No Feelings Siouxsie & The Banshees / Happy House Siouxsie & The Banshees / Arabian Nights She Wants Revenge /...