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This Saturday's show will feature full sets by individual country and swing artists so we can really sink our teeth into their sound. We'll hear Wade Ray, Loretta Lynn, Bob Wills, Jean Shepard, George Jones and so many more great singers. Three hours will only scratch the s... Read more

El grupo Tecnopal, Short Wave de San Luis Potosí y Dean Style. Read more

Welcoming in the new President (and kicking the old one to the curb) with help from Nina Simone, Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen, Maya Angelou, Tom Jones (covering Todd Snider!?), Janis Ian, Simon & Garfunkel, Dan Bern, Chumbawamba, Anti-Flag, and more, including two breat... Read more

On today’s show we celebrate our local independent publishers and the authors whose work they publish. We did a similar show about two years ago when we welcomed four Portland-based indies -- Tin House, Future Tense Books, Hawthorne Books, and Forest Avenue Press -- to the ... Read more

This week an eclectic mix as Jeff Godsil talks about Lost in Translation, Matthew of Gremlin Time on the Marvel TV show  WandaVision, and finally the new BFI Film Classics on Max Ophuls's 1948 Letter From an Unknown Woman. Read more

Episode Ten out now! We look at the Coalition For Human Dignity’s move to Seattle, the merger with the Northwest Coalition Against Malicious Harassment and financial collapse. We hear reflections on the good, the bad and the ugly, with advice on moving forward today. Show... Read more

Join us on Friday morning for contemporary and traditional folk and roots music to start your day, including some brand new music from Ana Egge, Maya de Vitry, Tony Trischka with Maura O'Connell, and The Rough & Tumble duo, as well as plenty of other favorites. Read more

  Clackamas County Commissioner Mark Shull is facing calls to resign based on islamophobic, transphobic, racist and bigoted statements he made on Facebook in the past year. The Council on American Islamic Relations Oregon Branch (CAIR) is among those pressing Shull to resi... Read more

  Federal law enforcement predicted violence at Oregon's state capitol in Salem Wednesday for Joe Biden's inauguration. However, despite a slew of reporters and law enforcement, the expected crowd failed to materialize. KBOO's Ethan Sandweiss talks with demonstrators and b... Read more

  Salmon runs on the Columbia and Snake rivers have faced major habitat loss, channelized streams and infrastructure invasion to their native spawning grounds over the past decades. While preservation efforts persist across Washington, Idaho and Oregon to save salmon runs,... Read more