Off The Hook With Gage

There's nothing TERRIBLY STRANGE about playing CHRISTMAS MUSIC a week before Christmas, but the Christmas music you'll hear on Today's OFF THE HOOK might be! * New, unfamiliar Carols will give a FACELIFT to the saggy puss of Christmas Past and your jowls will snap to attention when we STUFF YOUR STOCKINGS with a sleighful of the Brightest Stars in the Birthday Segment! * All in all, it's gonna mak...

ARE YOU READY FOR IT? * You'd better be, because TWENTY TWENTY-SICK is here! * What it will bring no one knows, but the signposts may be heard on Today's OFF THE HOOK, which will include 2025's TOP TRACKS! * We will also hear tracks from albums not yet gotten to and not-yet-gotten-to tracks from albums gotten to, too! * Believe it or not, musicians are people, which means they have BIRTHDAYs, whic...

'TIS THE SEASON to kick the eff back for three hours! * You be settin' up yer tree -OFF THE HOOK is the perfect soundtrack! * No Holiday Sounds yet, but the JOVIAL MOOD you'll be put in as you SLURP your eggnog will have you LURCHING from limb to limb, hanging ornaments in HAPHAZARD fashion as you REEL AND BUMP your way to Flappy's Den! * You've been shoppin' and plannin' so doggone hard -give you...

GOOD FOR WHAT ALIS YOU! * Your overconsumption of merriment yesterday is exacting its toll today. * OFF THE HOOK is here to help! * The EASY BREEZY sounds heard on today's show will soothe the savage turkey breast that your poor beaten body is still struggling to digest! * And nothing's more DIGESTIBLE than OFF THE HOOK's Mellow Menu of Melodious Morsels! * Find relief on OFF THE HOOK and wash it...

The Show That Shows (OFF THE HOOK) has a few TRICKS up its sleeve! * Its SLEIGHT OF HAND is so deft that even WIZARDS cannot detect how it can conjure the ILLUSION of a top-shelf, professional operation! * With a wave of its hand, this slap-dash collection of unlikely sounds, hosted by an inane MC, appears to be a finely crafted, well-thought-out presentation of scholarly experience! * The MAGIC t...

Is it SEX you're after? * OFF THE HOOK has a very good record of matchmaking, bringing together saucy trombones and feisty castanets and other unlikely couplings! * Like to DANCE? * No one has ever prevented anyone from dancing to OFF THE HOOK! -we suggest the Crawl, except that's a swimming stroke, not a dance. * Is OFF THE HOOK all things to all people? * No.* I guess we can't be sure what OFF T...

Regardless of how it may sound to you, your host is not easily satisfied! * The music must be INTERESTING, and/or BEAUTIFUL, and FRESH! * He is willing to sacrifice a bit of professionalism in his presentation, but the music must never fall short! * If it seems to, you are clearly a newcomer who has not yet been indoctrinated into the WHIMSICAL ways of OFF THE HOOK! * Please tune in to the Idiosyn...

IF YOU'RE WEARING PANTS, you might as well take them off now, because Today's HALLOWEEN edition of OFF THE HOOK will scare them right off of you! * GHOSTS & GOBLINS, WITCHES & DEVILS, SPIDERS & BATS and DEATH DEATH DEATH will animate today's most unholy program! * Spells at  https://kxsf.fm/ Maybe bring a diaper.

Like the Umbrella Mouth Gulper Eel, OFF THE HOOK goes deep! * Wriggling its way to the depths to scoop up GLITTERING GEMS in its mighty maw, the OFF THE HOOK Gulper surfaces with its once-submerged spoils in a RESPLENDENT display of Sub-aquatic Sounds! * But it's no bottom feeder! * Its appetite is for the Freshly Spawned -the gulped guppies that are winnowed from the minnows in the Great Aquarium...

It's funny and squishy and full of goodness! * LISTEN TO OFF THE HOOK! * It's right Up Your Street! * By its reputation, you'd think it's a Music Show, but nominally it's about a hook! * WHAT IS IT? * OFF THE HOOK, The Show That Shows, hooks you! * The guy on it is worth a dime, at least! * Cruise on into the GOOD TIMES on OFF THE HOOK -you'll laugh a lot!  https://kxsf.fm/   Take part.

BEAUTY FOR THE FEW! * Even though OFF THE HOOK's listenership is not that great, each individual listener IS great! * That's why the Herculean effort taken to produce each OFF THE HOOK program is WORTH IT! * Scouring the interwebs for new and NOVEL sounds is exhausting and often dirty work, but Off The Hookers expect the UNEXPECTED and deserve the IDIOSYNCRATIC voice that speaks to and for them! *...

OFF THE HOOK carries on: no shutdown, no cancellation, no sweeping changes! * Just The Life of a Showboy (me) at 1:00 on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/   Business as usual!

"What's up with that guy?  He's always shoving WILLFULLY OBSCURE music down our throats." * "His oldies-Birthday segment is good and he gives away good tickets to shows, but the NEW MUSIC he plays -where does he get it?  Nobody's heard of it before." * "And he's a little out of control, like he doesn't know what he's doing." * "Kind of amateurish. It's a little exhausting." * "Most of the BEST MUS...

Sure, you might have better things to do, but can you still do them? * As your freedoms erode, it's nice to know that OFF THE HOOK is still, for the time being, here. * It's impossible at this point to know what innocently careless thing your host might say or post that could get OFF THE HOOK shit-canned (dictators are capricious like that!). * It's not like KXSF has some big corporate merger pend...

SUPER FESTIVE STUFF happens on this week's continuation of the SUPER CELEBRATORY celebration of KXSF's 7th Anniversary of being on the airwaves! * (Mostly, I'm thinking, music.) * OFF THE HOOK BRINGS IT: the latest crop of NEW SOUNDS -and a smattering of old!! * Whether KXSF 102.5FM or https://kxsf.fm/ , It's three hours of RECKLESS WONDER!

SUPER FESTIVE STUFF happens on this week's continuation of the SUPER CELEBRATORY celebration of KXSF's 7th Anniversary of being on the airwaves! * (Mostly, I'm thinking, music.) * OFF THE HOOK BRINGS IT: the latest crop of NEW SOUNDS -and a smattering of old!! * Whether KXSF 102.5FM or https://kxsf.fm/ , It's three hours of RECKLESS WONDER!

When is OFF THE HOOK not off the hook? * When it has the responsibility of getting you to listen to this damn show! * Toward that end, may I entice OLDIES lovers with an extended, massive, Virgo-engorged Birthday Segment? * Plus, I could promise to refrain from begging you for station donations (haha / *wink* -you know it's fundraising week)! * Whatever it was, your excuse for not listening has ju...

Every week, OFF THE HOOK tries to ORGANIZE sets of music that let you MARCH to a different drummer! * We don't PROTEST the LABOR that goes into it, because, at the end of DAY, it's worth it! * The VOICES HEARD -lesser-known, struggling artists- need a PLATFORM and appreciate your SUPPORT! * They REPRESENT the DEMOCRATIC programming heard on OFF THE HOOK and make for a most DIVERSE three hours! * J...

HERE IT COMES AGAIN, ready to haul you out of this week's Pit of Despair! * OFF THE HOOK, the little tow truck that does, will never let you sink! * The Show That Shows (and showers every week FOR YOU) has your back! * It knows you (it's about the music, right?) and holds our weekly rendezvous dear (why not send a check or donate with paypal?) * In the cruddy quagmire that is Today, OFF THE HOOK t...

A MATTER OF RECORD * In this climate of historical erasure, cultural and otherwise, OFF THE HOOK goes to great lengths to produce UNFORGETABLE programs! * Their residency in your memory is indelible, legal and un-deportable, but to safeguard its legacy, it would be but a small matter of recording episodes of OFF THE HOOK for yourself, lest they are forever banished by our archival archrival Remand...

OFF THE HOOK wants to be your FEEL GOOD ISLAND, where, while the sounds may be harsh, the VIBE IS CHILL, and you don't need to listen through your hands! * You DON'T NEED A YACHT to get there and recurring features like the Birthday Segment bring a COMFORTING FAMILIARITY that allows us to pretend there is still a future! * Join the Illusion that is the Reality that is the Illusion that is OFF THE...

GOOD MUSIC for Good People! * Bad People stay away! Beat it! SCRAM! * It is incumbent upon you Good People to help OFF THE HOOK maintain a standard that upholds the standards that are in keeping with those set by those who are the final arbiters of that which constitutes Good Radio (namely OFF THE HOOK) by providing an example of Proper Listenershiphood that is a model of unquestioned Good Taste (...

Is it suspicious that last week's EXTREMELY LOCALIZED power outage occurred moments before the beginning of the HIGHLY OUTSPOKEN Off The Hook? * Or was it merely the Fates chuckling in my direction after tempting them? * Either way, it will have NO CHILLING EFFECT on today's OFF THE HOOK program! * KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/

OFF THE HOOK turned down two HOT DATE offers last night in order to fine-tune today's show in selfless dedication to its self-imposed remit: to drag those stubborn MULES away from their troughs of over-familiar feed, fill them with EXOTIC morsels, and slap their rears for them to run off and tell their sheepish friends! * Hungry? * This bib-optional metaphor is a feast for all on KXSF 102.5FM http...

Business as per usual on Today's OFF THE HOOK: a bunch of GREAT NEW JAMS (now, when you need them the most), the Birthday Segment, ticket giveaways, and ME! * Check ME out on  Off The Hook Fri Jul 4 with Gage Kenady on KXSF-LP 102.5 FM  or KXSF 102.5 FM https://kxsf.fm/   I hope it rains.