KALX Live will host San Francisco's Luke Sweeney on Saturday, February 4th. Luke first appeared on KALX Live in the ancient age of 2015 giving us a solo set of music from his record Adventure: Us. He's back two albums later with a full band who will need to be packed like a Tetris brink into the studio. - https://www.lukesweeney.com


Tune in on Monday, January 30th @ 8:30PM when Amazing Grace hosts San Francisco based musician, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, for an in-studio performance and interview. Joining Ernesto will be filmmaker and flautist, Marjorie Sturm.

On Thursday, February 2nd @ 10AM, Velvet Einstein airs a recent interview with Berlin based Belgian-Congolese composer, musician, author, lecturer, radio host, sound artist, mastering engineer, and organiser, Cedrik Fermont.

This Saturday, January 28th on KALX Live, Hot Laundry is hosted in-studio by Renée Black. Tune in around 9:30 PM to hear Hot Laundry take over the KALX studios with a live performance + interview. Sending you back to the 1960s bad girl garage band days, Hot Laundry is a San Francisco outfit kicking out a fresh new take on hi-octane rock-n-roll. With hints of Motown, revved up guitars in the vein of MC5, and a heavy dash of delta boogie.

Tune in to The Graduates next Tuesday for a rocking interview with Sarang Shah from the Department of Political Science at UC Berkeley. Sarang is a PhD Student in Political Science with experience in physics, law, journalism, politics, and technology. In our conversation, we look into how his research can shed light on the history of the Consumer Price Index as an economic indicator.

Tune into Film Close-Ups on Saturday, January 28th @ 5:30PM to hear an interview with Marc Capelle and Dina Maccabee of the musical collective, The Red Room Orchestra. For this year's SF Sketchfest, the collective will perform the music of Twin Peaks and Repo Man at Great American Music Hall on February 2nd and 3rd.


Photo by Viðar Logi, review by Jackie Greene

Review and photos by Mia Call.