Frequency Uplift!

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !    SUN. 05.02.2021 > 10pm-12m.     ...  some voices and some sounds from the streets, from the workers' MayDay , from the earth's Beltane, from the green and red and the black, the sound of uprising, of uplift, of a great turning ...      … uproar from Ami Yèrèwolo (Mali),  Falle Nioke (Guinea), SarahYsha, (Brazil / La Réunion),  Little Simz (UK),   and notes from nowhere   ¡...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !   SUN. 04.25.2021 > 10pm-12m.    Spring sounds and love for our only home, the earth. In song and night's celebration   … new uplift sounds from Dandana collective (Gambia / Senegal), Samba Touré  (Mali), Khalab & M'berra Ensemble (Mali / Mauritania / Italy), Duo Perse-Inca (Peru / Iran), Anthony Joseph (UK), Ayuune Sule (Ghana), some love for Shock G and Prince (rise.in....

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 01.24.2021 > 10pm-12m.     … winter sounds and spring visions. pollen from all four corners. dancing towards the new day. ¡ UPLIFT !                 

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 01.10.2021 > 10pm-12m.    …a new year , love to our losses and props for our resilience. some second Sunday poetics and love. honoring the words and life of Q.R. Hand, Jr.  ... word sound and fire. and an honoring of a 10th anniversary of community radio, with some new music from Indonesia to the Bay, some old music to remind us. ¡ UPLIFT !  

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 01.03.2021 > 10pm-12m. … counting down the top 25 of our ‘KXSF top 102.5 songs of 2020'. [ … is it a tradition after our second year? ]… join our collective crew, radiobob, Gage, Bob N and Scarlett in shouting out our favorite songs, as chosen by collective acclaim and the sacred super-secret station ballot, your soundtrack for this dumpster fire of a year …and check out...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT !     SUN. 11.15.2020 > 10pm-12m.  …  another. Celebration of sound. and perhaps. a clarion Call for vote protectors and anti-fascists.  some talk with Scott Parkin of Diablo Rising Tide/green-and-red podcast,  on action and steps forward  and deplatforming hate.   new music and. Manifestos of musical freedom from Gaye Su Akyol (Turkey), Raúl Monsalve y los Forajidos (Venezuela...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 11.08.2020 > 10pm-12m. …  people power ! ...  a celebration of all those who worked to make our imperfect democracy stronger in this election, props for all those who did all that registration and hard door-to-door, person-to-person work on this election. And who protected the vote.     and for this moment of breathing and first rain and more new music from all over the...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 11.01.2020 > 10pm-12m. …  día de los muertos eve,  music for resistance and healing! hearing the ancestors' voices              and hosting María José Montijo and her new music for liberation ‘ Huracán ’, and upcoming ' Esotérica Tropical, plus some ancestors' sounds, first and last words from Diane DiPrima , some soundwaves from the free future ¡ UPLIFT !

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.25.2020 > 10pm-12m.  …  fall colors, change in the air !   renewal music, amid the loss, hope and more new panglobal sounds  from the USA and the Bay Area, South Africa, Brazil, Pakistan, Romania, Kosovo , the UK, collaborations across Latin America and all those stateless and borderless places of our imagination .   ¡ UPLIFT ! 

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.18.2020 > 10pm-12m.  …  bringing flowers and sounds from afar !  new music from SPAZA (South Africa), Afel Bocoum (Mali), Bosq y su Descarga Internacional (Colombia), Maalem Mahmoud Gania (Morocco), and more.   ¡ UPLIFT ! 

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.11.2020         > 10pm-12m.  …  a generational soundclash, a farewell !    … hangin’ with DJ [ the ] bastard chylde, Aidan. In the house and out the door.  … and bringing the usual newness and some banned music, and the funk, from all across genres and artificial borders , towards a green and pleasant land …. ¡ UPLIFT !

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 10.04.2020 > 10pm-12m.   … hosts Otura Mun, of grupo puertorriqueño ÌFÉ, debuting new live music-sets, from quarantine, and talking their mix of Yoruban praise-song, rumba and electronics forging into the decolonialized future, …and in the second hour, talking oceanic tracks and the revelatory ‘psicodelia tropical’ of Panama’s CIENFUE!            … and other newness and...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 09.20.2020 > 10pm-12m.   Home is where the music begins, from our neighborhoods and from across oceans. What does home sound like to you?        ‘Stop Evictions, Save Lives!’ coalition and Don Misumi of ‘Richmond District Rising’ joins us to talk about the resumption of evictions, AB 3088 , the selling-out of the COVID-vulnerable to banks and big landlords, and communiti...

FREQUENCY UPLIFT ! SUN. 09.13.2020  > 10pm-12m.   Smoke clearing sounds, sonic mutual aid.         Mourning and new day, a tribute to Toots,  and new music from Azu Tiwaline (Tunisia), Muzi and Madala Kunene (South Africa), Konte Family (Zimbabwe), Negro Leo (Brazil), Uncivilized / Jaimie Branch and   Miguel Frasconi / Wendy Tremont King (NYC), some strange lullabies for strange times …. ¡ UPLI...

Songs for labor , frequencies from an embodied International .         ... interview and call-to-action with Ted Waechter of Unite Here Local 2.  rank and file anthems,  and new music from Thiago Nassif  (Brazil), Zara McFarlane (UK), Oumou Sangaré (Mali), David Rovics (Portland), Vladislav Delay/ Sly & Robbie (Finland/Jamaica), Samora Pinderhughes (Berkeley/NYC), Cosa Nostra Strings (San Fran...