Off The Hook With Gage

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.

After slaying on the battlefields of Rock, suddenly presenting as a GENTLEMANLY WIZARD of ambient electronics may seem a curious turn, but an artist as multifaceted as GREG LISHER simply cannot be pinned down! * Yet, that is precisely what we will attempt to do when we put him in the HOT SEAT and grill him on the details of how he transformed from a DEBAUCHED Rockin' Road Warrior into the deep and...

After slaying on the battlefields of Rock, suddenly presenting as a GENTLEMANLY WIZARD of ambient electronics may seem a curious turn, but an artist as multifaceted as GREG LISHER simply cannot be pinned down! * Yet, that is precisely what we will attempt to do when we put him in the HOT SEAT and grill him on the details of how he transformed from a DEBAUCHED Rockin' Road Warrior into the deep and...

HUZZAH! The Summer Solstice is upon us! * And, as it HAPPENS TO FALL on the longest day of the year, that means you'll have more time to picnic in the park and DISCOVER STRANGE CREATURES in the tidepools of the LONGEST OFF THE HOOK OF THE YEAR! * Relax and leisurely enjoy that extra nano-nanosecond of OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM  https://kxsf.fm/   HUZZAH!

WHO NEEDS A HUG? * At the end of a week surely one of the rottenest since January -one that has instilled alarm, fear and sadness, courtesy of our commander-in-grief-, now the Fates have added injury to insult by taking from us two of the most INFLUENTIAL AND BELOVED creators in all of music: SLY STONE and BRIAN WILSON. * We offer our tribute to the latter on today's OFF THE HOOK, along with new m...

Oh, the Pride and Petulance that plays out on the world stage! * OFF THE HOOK refrains from Macho Posturing and, while it looks out for its constituents (Off The Hook World), as far as Abominations go, its BILL of fare can be said to be neither pork-filled nor disgusting! * OFF THE HOOK serves and Benefits everyone (except, perhaps, those wishing to hear Corporate radio favored by Oligarchs)! * Vi...

What's the difference between a Rainbow and a COW? * I don't know, but when I tell you Today's OFF THE HOOK is JAM-PACKED, I'm just talking out my ass! * How can we know if it will really happen? * It's laughable, really. * Either way, it's here:  https://kxsf.fm/ One makes milk and the other has Fear Of Fitting In.

No phony phone-ins or pre-programmed pap! * Just a STRUGGLING JUGGLER on a tightrope trying to keep all the plates spinning and not crashing down around your ears! * (And WITHOUT A NET! So brave!) * This is REAL LIVE RADIO just like mama used to make! * And when something does go amiss, the resultant clatter of broken platters is EXHILARATING! * Feel the rush of RECKLESS ABANDON where anything can...

A Tincture for your troubles, OFF THE HOOK is the BALM that calms and invigorates your interior, mates! * While its Essence would seem Evanescent, this POTENT POTION lasts long beyond the quickest three-hour run in all of radio! * With JOLLY JAMS and Cooing Croons, OFF THE HOOK is Mighty Medicine indeed! * The Doctor will see you on KXSF 102.5 FM https://kxsf.fm/ ! *  Down the hatch!

SPECIAL FREE OFFER! * KXSF will provides FREE PROGRAMMING of the OFF THE HOOK music show! * It's called "The Show That Shows" because they tell you everything that is good right now. * FREE TICKETS to events will be offered during the program. * Interested parties should set their FM radio dial to 102.5 on Fridays from 1:00 to 4:00. * It can also be accessed via this link:  https://kxsf.fm/

One thing that bugs me about the CHAOS AND CALAMITY our Current Administration has brought to the country is: that's OFF THE HOOK's brand! * But, while there's no trace of benevolence in their actions, OFF THE HOOK wants nothing more than to make you PROSPER by bringing you the coolest, up-to-datest sounds! * The HAPPY HAVOC of OFF THE HOOK brings a certain KINETICISM that keeps you on your toes a...

A WHIRLING FLURRY of imagistic slurry awaits listeners of OFF THE HOOK today! * SOUNDS YOU CAN SEE in aural 3D! * The sharp edges of a cloud, a shadow described. * Clarity turned back on itself, a reversal of intent, bound to itself, ever unspooling. * How can this be? * It can't! * LISTEN AND SEE at 1:00 on OFF THE HOOK on KXSF 102.5FM https://kxsf.fm/ if it can.