This week we explore the history of electronic music. We don’t have time for a definitive chronicle of the innovations, composers and musicians who shaped what we now call ‘Electronica’ in the early part of the twentieth century so I decided to tell a more personal story about how I came to know about electronic … Continued


Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. World’s 6th largest fossil fuel company facing trial in France; Trump chairs first Board of Peace meeting, pledges funds and troops for Gaza as many fear mission creep; Amy Goodman speaks to KPFA on 30th anniversary of … Continued


Hard Knock Radio

Fund Drive Special – Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema

We speak with author and culture critic Odie Henderson about his latest book, Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema. Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras is a spirited history of a genre and the movies that he grew up watching, which he loves without irony (but with plenty of self-awareness and humor). … Continued


The Visionary Activist Show

Water and Money: Re-directing the Flow

Visionary Activist Show 2.19.26 #KPFA 2pm pt (2.20 #KPFK in wee hours & 1pm pt)   Raw sewage – literal and pervasive pandemic metaphor Water and Money: Re-directing the flow – from Cruelty, State Terror, Corruption – to infrastructure….health, protecting commonwealth…. Collective well-being… Empathic Sorrow be appropriate, and serves as incentive for dynamic kindness, dedicated … Continued