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Summer is officially here! Time to relax with your favorite libation and soak in the tropical sounds of surf, Hawaiian slack key, exotica, calypso, cumbia, highlife, and so much more. Join your travel guides in paradise, ((echoplex)) and Poindexter for their seventh annual Explorer's Cove special on Monday, June 27th @ 9am until noon.

This Saturday June 25th @ 9:00pm on the “KALX Live!” show DJ Evil Erik welcomes Cut-Rate Druggist from Oakland.

Join DJ Radar on Saturday, June 18th @ 2PM when he speaks with songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist, Emile van Dango of Cape Town based project, Yellow House.
Serving as a home of artistic experimentation, Yellow House maintains the folk ideologies of reflective poetry, whilst carving out a broad sonic spectrum.


On Friday June 24th at 6pm, join Sly Ida in conversation with Mark Gergis, one of the central minds and curators of the Sublime Frequencies label and a musician in his own rite performing under the name Porest.

Join Velvet Einstein on Friday, June 17th @ 2PM when he speaks with NYC based rapper // comedian, Schaffer The Darklord. Listen in on their conversation about Schaffer's origin story and how he transitioned from metal and punk to becoming a solo rap act.

Tune in on Friday, June 17th @ 1PM to hear Velvet Einstein speak with nerdcore musician, LEX The Lexicon Artist. Together, they discuss Lex's roots in undergraduate theater at UC Berkeley, going from a psychology degree into an entertainment career, and collaborations with other nerdcore artists.

Tune in on Wednesday, June 8th @ 4PM to hear The Muse interview guitarist and band leader, Will Bernard, ahead of his Freight & Salvage performance this Thursday, June 9th.

Join DJ Nickel Hardaway on Thursday, June 9th @ 1PM to hear his recent interview with jazz harpist, Brandee Younger.
Carrying on and expanding the tradition of pioneering jazz harpists Dorothy Ashby and Alice Coltrane, Brandee Younger made her public debut in 2007 as a grad student at NYU, when saxophonist Ravi Coltrane enlisted the then-23-year-old to participate in the memorial service for his mother Alice.