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Send us Fan Mail Fabian Vasquez Euresti is an independent filmmaker based out of Bakersfield, CA and current curator of FLIX at The Fox film series that features critically-acclaimed films from around the globe. In this interview, we'll be discussing his moviemaking background, working with the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah as well as his first selection for FLIX - "Sanson &...

Send us Fan Mail Alberto Herrera is an artist, musician and author based out of Bakersfield, CA. Widely known for his award-winning works of art, his passion for music dates back to his childhood and teenage years playing conjunto music with his family, as well as being a member of one of Bakersfield's first Chicano alternative rock and funk bands, FEO! Learn about his illustrated children&ap...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Bakotunes-Real Talk podcast crossover episode event! Get a preview of one of Bakersfield's longest-running fundraising events, Village Fest, happening Sept. 9, 2023 at the Kern County Museum. Village Fest steering committee member, Miranda Whitworth stops by to give us a preview of this huge beer, wine, food and music event that raises tens of thousands of dollars...

Send us Fan Mail Veronica Morley is a Senior Reporter at 23ABC News in Bakersfield, CA. Get to know this talented Multi-Media Journalist whose commitment to providing the community with the latest hyperlocal news has helped make her one the area's most trusted figures in news media. Stories? She's got them and more! Recommended listening for those interested in pursuing a career in journ...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Fest Fest 4 preview! Includes music by Hello Goodbye, Andres, Doc Samson, and Carson Hill! Ruben Val Verde is the co-founder of Fest Fest - independent music festival in Bakersfield, CA. He also runs promotions outfit Plan B Company and works with veteran central coast promoter, Eddy Numbskull, of Numbskull Productions. Fest Fest 4 takes place on Saturday, Sept. 2nd, 2...

Send us Fan Mail Entertainment columnist and my fellow Mento Buru bandmate, Cesareo Garasa, returns to Bakotunes to talk about the recent closure of longtime Old Town Kern restaurant and live music venue, Narducci's Cafe in East Bakersfield, that announced its sudden closure during a punk rock show at the venue on Aug. 12, 2023. Together we share memories stories, previous news stories and ou...

Send us Fan Mail It's a Bakotunes Bonus! Cesareo Garasa is a musician, cinephile, and freelance entertainment columnist at The Bakersfield Californian. In this episode, Cesareo shares his review of popular Anti-Human Trafficking film "Sound of Freedom" and his experience at the movie theater.  Support the show Sponsored by Chain Cohn Clark - Kern County's leading accident, inju...

Send us Fan Mail John F. Uranday is a filmmaker based out of Los Angeles, Ca. After getting his career started in hip hop and rap music in the nineties, he also helped kick off one of the first waves of independent streaming Web TV and no-holds-barred guerilla radio in the central valley through The Core Live and his interview show "The 99 Cent Show" in Bakersfield, CA before pursuing fi...

Send us Fan Mail Special  Bakotunes-Real Talk Crossover Episode! Andres Chavez is the Executive Director of the National Chavez Center in Keene, CA. Danny Rodriguez is founder of the longtime Lowrider car club, Classic Dreams from Bakersfield, CA. The duo stopped by Real Talk to talk Lowrider history and promote the upcoming Cesar Chavez and Classic Car Show happening August 12th, 2023 at The Nati...

Send us Fan Mail JFP (Julie Fucking Potter!) is a highly respected voice in the LGBTQ+ hip hop world. Hailing from the conservative red city of Bakersfield, CA. She has been a student of hip hop since discovering the sounds of RUN DMC and NWA. Her skill on the mic is a testament to her dedication and passion for authentic expression. She has been producing and performing her own music for over a d...

Send us Fan Mail Carmelo Alvarez is the founder of Youth Break Center, Inc., aka Radiotron in Los Angeles. Alvarez takes us through his early years in the West Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, breaking from gang life, embracing the arts, to taking on City Hall with the support of area youth who found a safe space to express themselves through hip-hop. Alvarez's story and the battle to keep t...

Send us Fan Mail Bakotunes welcomes a true queen of country music, the great Pam Tillis . If you're well versed in big nineties country music and its related history, you should already know her hits and her famous dad, Mel Tillis. But that's just part of a much bigger story that continues to be written today. She's on the road with her friend and fellow country diva, Lorrie Morgan...

Send us Fan Mail Bakotunes welcomes comedian, actor, podcaster Felipe Esparza for a 'What's Up Fool?' extravaganza. It's been thirteen years since our last interview after winning NBC's "Last Comic Standing" in 2010. Since then, Felipemania has spread across the country. We talk about everything: his shows, weird movies, George Lopez, Carlos Mencia, Fast Food Chi...

Send us Fan Mail Bakotunes welcomes longtime LA ska and reggae music brethren Junor Francis, host of Reggae Connection (KSPC, Clairmont College) and The   Reggae Show (KLXU) , and Eric Kohler (Goldenvoice, Reggae Nucleus Magazine.) Junor Francis: After discovering his love for ska and rocksteady music by transistor radio as a youth in the lush Farm District of Manchester Parish, Jamaica, Junor Fra...

Send us Fan Mail It's a New Year at Bakotunes! Adriana Magana is a multi-talented singer songwriter known as Shexist and also one-half of Los Angeles experimental electronic music duo, Tigercide. Includes music from her various global music collaborations. She.xist Tigercide Support the show Sponsored by Chain Cohn Clark - Kern County's leading accident, injury, and workers' compens...

Send us Fan Mail Previously unreleased interview with late great Los Angeles radio legend, Art Laboe who passed away on October 7, 2022. Stories and recollections from his life during the golden age of rock n' roll, helping end segregation in Los Angeles through his live shows in the city and much more. In Memoriam 1925-2022. Recorded in 2013.  Support the show Sponsored by Chain Cohn Clark -...

Send us Fan Mail Bakotunes welcomes comedian Willie Barcena! Catch up with the latest antics of this comedy legend who appeared a record 12 times on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno! Catch him live on the road and at the Historic Fox Theater in Bakersfield, CA on Oct. 8th. Info: mattomunoz@gmail.com   Support the show Sponsored by Chain Cohn Clark - Kern County's leading accident, injury, and w...

Send us Fan Mail Bakotunes welcomes bassist and co-founding member of British reggae greats, UB40. Earl takes us back to the band's origins in Birmingham, England during the tumultuous 70s, finding a brotherhood through music alongside his longtime mates, before becoming globally recognized stars in the MTV 80s. An all-time favorite band from my musical youth and I'm sure one of yours as...

Send us Fan Mail Bakotunes welcomes Brian "Bri" Dalyrimple of best-selling RnB quartet Soul For Real. Formed in 1992, the Bri and his three brothers went from the local talent show stage to being signed to the Uptown Music roster alongside hitmakers Mary J. Blige, Notorious B.I.G., Al B. Sure and more. Listeners who grew up nineties radio will remember the hits "Candy Rain" and...

Send us Fan Mail Bakotunes welcomes Luis Correa, owner of Steady Beat Recordings and one of the unsung heroes of the Los Angeles music scene as well as a pioneering figure of the fiercely independent traditional California SKA scene.  Take a trip back to the backyards, East LA dancehalls and sweaty Hollywood Steady Beat shows and let's set some records straight. Plus music from the era. Info:...

Send us Fan Mail BRAND NEW! Bakotunes welcomes bassist Jorge Casillas of legendary California punk rockers, Voodoo Glow Skulls. Get a full helping of punk rock history, plus stories from the road, studio, their influences, family, friendships, losses, new beginnings and of course, music! Bakotunes is BACK! Thank You to our audio sponsor Chain Cohn Stiles. Information: mattomunoz@gmail.com.  Suppor...

Send us Fan Mail Bakotunes welcomes soul funk icon Lonnie Jordan - keyboardist, vocalist and co-founder of the legendary funk band, WAR! We go way back to the group's teenage beginnings, getting discovered by The Animals' Eric Burdon, touring with Bob Marley & The Wailers and inspiring a rebel anthem, thoughts on a WAR reunion and of course, the origins of "Lowrider" and mo...

Send us Fan Mail Bakotunes welcomes singer songwriter, guitarist and Stockton California native, Chris Isaak. Hear stories about his early music career making ends meet in San Francisco to getting dropped into the soundtrack for David Lynch's "Wild at Heart" and rolling around in the sand with supermodel Helena Christensen on MTV. Behind the guitar and cool exterior is an artist wit...

Send us Fan Mail Bakotunes welcomes Stray Cats drummer Slim Jim Phantom! Straight outta Brooklyn, he and bandmates - guitarist Brian Setzer and bassist Lee Rocker helped reintroduce American rockabilly to the world in the middle of the punk and new wave eras of the late-70s and MTV 80s. Their immense popularity would ultimately reignite the neo-rockabilly movement still going strong around the wor...

Send us Fan Mail Bakotunes welcomes best-selling singer songwriter and pop music icon, Barry Manilow for an interview about the art of writing Christmas music classics, the importance of music education in our schools, keeping up with the latest tastes in music and more - PLUS two Manilow music favorites. A previously unreleased interview from 2012. Info: mattomunoz@gmail.com  Support the show Spo...