Law & Disorder

Appropriating Rock n Roll from Legendary Artist Willie ‘Big Mama’ Mae Thornton – Spring Fund Drive Special

We spend today’s show in a deep exploration of the blues. We’ll explore the racialized, gendered, sexualized, and overarchingly monetized, tension of that music, and its relationship to normative socials and economics of whiteness – and we’ll do that through the lens of one of the legendary creators and original influencers of music that became … Continued


Democracy Now!

Democracy Now 6am – May 14, 2025

On today’s show: U.S. and Saudis Sign $142B Arms Deal, as Trump Meets with Syria’s New Leader and Drops Syrian Sanctions While Israel Wanted to Bomb Iran, Trump Pushes Talks; But in Gaza, Israel’s Mass Killings Continue Salvadoran Journalists Exposed President Bukele’s Ties to Gangs; Then They Had to Flee to Avoid Arrest  


Background Briefing (5am)

Sarah Leah Whitson / Jon Hoffman / Alex Lawson

Trump Signs a $142 Billion Weapons Deal In Saudi Arabia, Not the Peace Deal With Putin He Expected To Sign, But He Still Hopes to Sign a Deal With Iran
As Trump Throws His Lot in With Rich Arabs, How Much is Netanyahu Out in the Cold?
The Good “Christians” Speaker Johnson and the OMB’s Vought Are Working Tirelessly to Hurt the Poor and Reward the Rich


Rhythm Machine

Rhythm Machine – May 14, 2025

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Rhythm Machine with hosts Ryan and Oliver(o-live-e-ay) aka Excuse My French. Wednesdays 2am-5am, playing all things on the electronic dance music spectrum.


City Cat Radio

City Cat Radio – May 14, 2025

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City Cat Radio, the weekly radio program of Oakland’s own DJ/Producer/Engineer DJ HENROC, is designed to celebrate plain old good music including Soul, Roots, Reggae, Dancehall, Soca, Afro Beat, Funk, House and Underground Hip Hop. For nearly 25yrs, DJ HENROC has played at some the world’s premier venues and has collected music from all musical … Continued


Today’s episode of La Raza Chronicles is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Brian Edwards-Tiekert speaks with photographer and author Josh Jackson, an advocate for public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Through his Forgotten Lands Project, he employs storytelling and visual narratives to inspire engagement with California’s … Continued


l Today on the Show: We continue our drum-beat coverage of a historic legal complaint that charges the U.S. Government with complicity in Genocide. Tariq Ra’ouf, human rights activist and son of a major plaintiff: “I did not consent to my tax dollars being used to commit violence against my own family.