Playlist Archive

We kick off kpfa’s fall fund drive with new music from The War & Treaty, Marcus Mumford, Rhett Miller, Day Wave, Lake Street Dive, and Ondara. Other shiny objects from Amos Lee, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Kate Bush, OCMD, David Gray, Valerie June and other favorites. It all sparkles – until it doesn’t.

New music from Beth Orton, Mya Byrne, Bret McKenzie, and Amethyst Kiah. Then a lot of looking, touching, warnings, injunctions, advice, pleas, admonitions, imperatives & requests.

A lazy, hot-weather, dog-days kind of show, just ambling around from Linda Ronstadt to Willie Nelson, Valerie June, Sunny Sweeney, Guy Clark, OCMS, Frank Sinatra, Leonard Cohen, Tim Buckley, Linda Thompson, Brad Mehldau, Tom Waits, 10,000 Maniacs, and more.

A lil’ sneak peek at an forthcoming L Cohen tribute collection from Blue Note, a reminder that Saturday is International Honey Bee Day, and because they’re not just for Hallowe’en, the second hour is Wolves vs. Vampires. (Spoiler alert: wolves win)

Two hours of great music cobbled together with naught but love and respect – all for your enjoyment. And mine, of course.

The post-fund drive stew. New tracks from Andrew Bird, Plains, Loudon Wainwright III, She & Him, and Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Covers, tributes, a little bit of jazz, and more. Lots of songs about houses. Go figure.

Fundraising for KPFA + a whole stack of great music…what could go wrong? As it happens, not much. This show goes all over the place: a little country, a little soul, a bunch of fierce women, and a knock-out Cher cover! It’s easy (like walking)

A little fund drive show with some new music from Chad Price, Bonnie Raitt, Kelsey Waldron, Shemekia Copeland, and The Deslondes. Antique music from Charles Lloyd & The Beach Boys, The Waterboys, John Prine, Patty Griffin, Mable John, Tom Waits and more! We are sailing in a Strange Boat.

You are getting sleeeeeepy. Midsummer Night Dreams: reveries, yearning, heartbreak, memories, and sand…don’t dream it’s over.

Trying to balance anger and hope. We’ll see how it goes.

Trying to get in the Summer mood with Darrell Scott, Dar Williams, Scott Miller, new Patty Griffin, a little preview of the Black Opry Review at the Freight (6/30/22), and low-key sprinkled with LGBTQ+ artists for Pride month. Yum!

A bit of Bloomsday celebrating, on the eve of the best literary holiday ever; music associated with Ulysses, James Joyce and Dublin. A few Sunny songs not really about the weather… And a handful of miscellaneous tunes that suit my mood this week.

New songs from Wynonna & Waxahatchee, Tedeschi Trucks, S.G Goodman, Edgar Winter, Steep Canyon Rangers…plus treasures from Kelly Joe Phelps, Amy Winehouse, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Ray Charles, Nina Simone Jimmy LaFave, Tony Rice, Mavis Staples, and more.

A new track from Amanda Shires, but mostly old friends to provide a little rest in these weary times.

New sounds for the waning days of the fund drive! New (and new-old) music from Amythyst Kiah, Joy Oladukun, Mavis & Levon, Eli Paperboy Reed, Nicki Bluhm, Bret McKenzie and more. A neo-trad-70’s-mashup set from a handful of young Irish vocalists, and a sideways goodbye to Vangelis.