another ¡ FLOR y CANTO poets TAKEOVER ! Lourdes Figueroa, hector son of hector, Josiah Luis Alderete all come through and read, celebrating poesía en español, and bilingual, Spanglish, all languages poetry from all countries and culturas, highlighting La Misión’s long literary lineage on Calle Veinte Cuatro.

AND Orchestra Gold’s Erich Huffaker, talking new music, their upcoming SF Jazz gigs and big international plans

… and the usual tickets, revelatory beauty across all genres,  & more more new and local music

…  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

    a conversation with La Doña,  the Mission’s Cecilia Peña-Govea, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, featuring her wide-ranging music, with deep roots in Latin folk traditions from corridos, rancheras, mariachi and rumba to modern reggaeton, cumbia, and hip hop … digging into reflections on her feminist path in the industry, sustaining radical joy, and her deep nurturance of and with community…  in advance of her hometown return at the Fillmore on Thursday 11/9.

    But to start out, our ‘first Friday’s poet',  Stephen Meadows, a Californian poet with roots deep in both the Ohlone and the pioneer soil of his home state. His poems are elemental visions that capture the essential truths of his life and the beauty of the natural world around us, words for our ever-present history, for legacy and for resilience

    …and a last hour’s visit from Mali’s Madou Sidiki Diabaté and the US's Salif Bamakora, beautiful kora duet music, here for a rare US appearance also on Thursday 11/9, at Oakland’s BAM (Black Arts Movement) House

plus new music from all over the Bay and well beyond, and beyond genre, plus tickets, and big community love.

…  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

   [ Love for our live and local culture, 

       community making art and making change]

10a - 1pm Pacific

FRI. 10.27.2023

   a conversation with Hak Baker,  up and coming East London musician with roots in grime on challenging preconceptions and breaking the mold with his self-styled anti-genre 'G-Folk',  digging into his debut full-length release 'Worlds End FM' !  Tune in & stay locked for old school pirate radio vibes and his community anthems of working class struggle and joy, that and a well-deserved good night out... 

    plus an update from City College of San Francisco educators, talking with AFT2121 VP Alan D'Souza on the year-long struggle to build back our gem of public education, post-pandemic, and possible upcoming strike action for just wages and restoration.... 

    plus new music from all over the Bay and well beyond, and beyond genre, plus tickets and big community love.

 …  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

   [ Love for our live and local culture, 

       community making art and making change]

FRI. 10.20.2023

   in conversation with Sona Jobarteh,  internationally renowned kora virtuoso, singer  and educational reformer,  and the first woman to be a lineage holder from any of the West African jeli (griot) dynasties.  As founder of The Gambia Academy, she is initiating a model for educational reform throughout Africa. As an artist upholding an evolving tradition over 1200 years old, released 'BADINYA KUMOO', a suite of her own compositions -7 years in the making-and pushing it forward. We'll dig deep into all that and feature her music, and others from West Africa and the diaspora(s), in advance of her just sold-out San Francisco appearance

plus the new music from  

Casey Neill & The Norway Rats, Musiq Soulchild, Genesis Owusu, Afrikan Sciences, Corinne Bailey Rae,

Pleazure/Afroliscious ...  and more all over the Bay and beyond, and beyond genre, plus tickets and community joy .

 …  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

   [ Love for our live and local culture, 

       community making art and making change]

10a - 1p Pacific

FRI. 10.13.2023

morning music, 

sweetness to end the week, sun sound and sf sonic happenings, and every bit of good luck we got... new releases from Oakland's Ambrose Akinmusire and Meernaa and The Seshen, MX's Sonido Gallo Negro, Chicago's Jamila Woods,  newness from South Africa to Morocco to Japan and AND ALL the free brilliance that is Sunday's SF Music Day

... and a happy woulda-been birthday, Pharoah Sanders, 

... and a happy eclipse.

 … all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

 reading and interview with this first friday's poet, MIMI TEMPESTT   !
    ...a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and daughter of California. Mimi has an MA in Literature from Mills College, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Creative/Critical PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz, with a visual and curatorial practice on the side, the fifth poetic element . Her debut collection of poems, the monumental misrememberings, was published by Co-Conspirator Press in 2020. Her second book, the delicacy of embracing spirals, is just out on City Lights Books.

...transformative and disruptive words, the music of language and thought,

plus the usual POET'S PLAYLIST and new music for liberation from  Rhiannon Giddens, The Seshen, Meshell Ndegeocello, Azu Tiwaline  (y más)

 …  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

   [ Love for our live and local culture, 

       community making art and making change]

FRI. 09.29.2023

Interview and new music with SEABLITE, San Francisco ‘odd-pop’ quartet…  Galine, Jen, Lauren and Andy in the house, celebrating their 4th release, ‘Lemon Lights’, out on the town tonight

plus a chat with Noona Nolan, of the Bayview arts and performance collective 'Raining Chainsaws', opening the HSBG Horseshoe Hill stage Sunday

plus more HSBG bands and more new local music from Esotérica Tropical, La Doña, Karney, Nick Andre, with Jazz Mafia / Lyrics Born/Lateef the Truthspeaker.  (y más)

 …  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

   [ Love for our live and local culture, 

       community making art and making change]

FRI. 09.22.2023

LIVE in studio:  IDRIS ACKAMOOR,  alto and tenor saxophonist, composer, founder of legendary jazz and world music ensemble ‘Idris Ackamoor ☥ The Pyramids’, just celebrating 50 years as a band and today’s release of “Afro Futuristic Dreams". ….diggin' into all of that, deep dive some tracks, some improvisations , some future-visioning and ever artistic being

+ more ART + ACTION:

KIM SHUCK, lead poet/artist  of 'Manifest Differently', a new year-long project with 38 diverse, multigenerational visual/media artists and poets interrogating the history of Manifest Destiny, opening this Sat afternoon on Clarion Alley

      …  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

new music and interview with Bay Area mainstay guitarist/vocalist DAVID JAMES, on his 'Mission Rebel No.1' commissioned multi-media project and song-cycle, premiering next week, and set in the powerful Mission community organizing of the 60's/70's

plus climate justice organizer ILONKA ZLATAR of the Oil and Gas Action Network (OGAN), talks with us  about the international actions coinciding  with the United Nations Climate Ambition Summit in New York, demanding REAL climate action. AND about the actions and events here in the Bay and Sacramento this coming Climate Week

PLUS the start of the penultimate day of our legend 5th anniversary fund-drive, the usual give-away tickets, perhaps some special [other] OG-radio guests AND PRIZES for those who donate ...   and all the Bay-love you need 

…  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

UK jazz - poet / saxophonist / activist / human-being ALABASTER DePLUME  in interview (& at the Chapel Sat.!), on musical and other communication, celebrating our common humanity, challenging us to love, and featuring new music from his upcoming LP 'Come With Fierce Grace' ...

+ SF clarinet legend Beth Custer previews her new LP 'Sky', shimmering duets with 20+ year collaborator, guitarist Will Bernard, and 3 next-weekend shows

 … plus all the usual rad new music, from the Bay and beyond, and all the usual tickets, and uplift ! 

…  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

KASSA OVERALL in interview, featuring the cutting-edge hiphop of new LP 'Animals', a dive into process and roots ...

PLUS Thomas Delany & Patrick Machel of ANCHOR UNION SF (ILWU Local 6 ), talking about their ongoing struggle, their bid to take over the brewery as a workers' co-op, AND SOLIDARITY BEER !

… plus all the usual rad new music, from the Bay and beyond, and all the usual tickets, and uplift ! 

…  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

[ Love for our live and local culture, 

    community making art and making change]

FRI. 08.18.2023

¡ thank you, Bay Area, for being you !

 … radiobob back in the Bay and back in the saddle, some previews of features to come and all the usual tickets, and new music from all around the Bay and all around the world. back home.land back ....

…  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

[ Love for our live and local culture, 

   community making art and making change]

Fri. 04.28. 2023,  10a - 1p Pacific

Cristina Ibarra ! from the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, on opening a new season of free music and community happenings !

Jas and Emmalee and Eli from Gumby’s Junk   ! 

gigs, tickets, rad new music from the Bay and beyond  

   …broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

PEOPLES EARTH DAY all over the BAY:
 ...   Esotérica Tropical introduces new music to wake us up, as we touch in with peoples’ actions and struggles for environmental justice this earth week: in the streets with YOUTH VS. APOCALYPSE (youth media rep Cemre calls in from the march), then talking with ARIEANN HARRISON  (Bayview Hunters Point PEOPLES EARTH DAY coalition, Saturday march/rally), and ALFREDO ANGULO (Richmond Progressive Alliance / Environmental Action Team + Extinction Rebellion SF, Monday direct action ) taking on the banks, [all in the last hour]

 …plus songs for the future, old home week, a loving inter-generational soundclash with Aidan / 'DJ bastard chylde' [in the second hour] , 

ALL broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory. ¡ DESPIERTA !

[ Love for our live and local culture, 

   community making art and making change]

Fri. 03.31. 2023,  10a - 1p Pacific

LALIN ST. JUSTE ! … out of Oakland and in conversation,  featuring her recent solo music, ‘Vertulie’ + ‘behind my eyes’, music for the ancestors, and Kreyòl culture, and into the community future (… and her upcoming showcase @ SF Jazz) 

   .. and in the first hour:  the Mission district’s DANIEL RIERA introduces new music, for cultural resistance and joy  ! 

     Some words on justice for AJ Stewart, for the upcoming People’s Earthweek, for moving forward  …  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

[ Love for our live and local culture, 

   community making art and making change]

Fri. 03.24. 2023 

Cardboard People ! …in the house, with an upcoming debut album and an [out-of-the-box] chat w/ Yunoka Berry and Jim Greer

   ¡ new music, and the sunshine ! [not taking credit here…but],  folks getting down in the sunshine !

…  all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

[ Love for our live and local culture, 

   for all people making art and making change]

Fri. 12.30. 2022,  10a - 1p Pacific

in SF City limits @102.5 FM,  always streaming @ KXSF.FM  

radiobob’s Bay’s best of twenny twenny too*

     * a wholly unscientific poll and self-indulgent review of LOCAL tracks that ruled my world and/or skewed my algorithm for global surveillance capitalism, made me dance around, feel inspired or just plain happy ... for  2022

a few shout-outs and call'd -in tracks

[I know I probably missed somebody].

Come along…

…as always, broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

[ Love for our live and local culture, 

   for all people making art and making change]

Fri. 12.23. 2022,  10a - 1p Pacific

 … community artists and community workers, music for the people. 

Pat Fahey brought his mandolin and we celebrated the community (and amazing holiday bands) of SF’s Martin de Porres’ soup kitchen, with volunteer Suzanne Korey.  Mónica María, brought her jarana and the spirit of community celebration in son jarocho, some lovely sones and songs. Poet Kim Shuck brought her words  and a gorgeous what-might be-called-‘seasonal-story’ (if the season is about celebrating life and light and connection and beauty), all for the sixth night and the returning light,

as always broadcasting from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory

[ Love for live and local culture, 

   for all our people making art and making change]

Fri. 11.04. 2022,  10a - 12noon Pacific 

 interview and new music with local jazz pianist/composer/educator and legend improviser Myra Melford, on her process and new quintet For The Love of Fire and Water, igniting this weekend at SF Jazz 

celebrating more women jazzartists and our amazing Bay Area musical culture in the first hour, 

always broadcasting from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory

      [ Love for our live and local culture, 

          all our people making art and making change]

Fri. 07. 22. 2022,  10a - 12noon Pacific

new local expressions and resonant tangents

[second hour only]  hosting  Seedsmen To The World, new Detroit drone-folk ensemble,  talking with troubadour/band-leader Ethan Daniel Davidson ... in SF Tues. 8/2,  accompanying the experimental films of Harry Smith, and joining a local all-star cast, in other synaesthetic delights...
 
 broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
tune in !

    [ Love for our live and local culture, 

         all our people making art and making change]

Fri. 07. 22. 2022,  10a - 12noon Pacific 

INTI BATEY, sun medicine-music from la Misión, live in the house

María José Montijo, musica esotérica tropical, calls in with deep healing sounds

     ...and other new musics, from backyard Berkeley to Borikén, Bogotá, Bolivia, maybe Bamako, and beyond…  

 broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory. 

tune in !

    [ Love for our live and local culture, 

         all our people making art and making change]

Fri. 07. 08. 2022,  10a - 12n Pacific

Climate rockers and piratical river circuses and Carnatic jazz !

(and some rad NEW local music), Oh my! 

     Hoist anchor for rocker Anna Karney and the Climate Folk Festival (Sat 7/9 1-4pm Golden Gate Park Bandshell), for accordion troubadour Jason Webley and the FLOTSAM! River circus (Sat/Sun. 7/9-10, 7pm in Aquatic Park SF) and for mridangam/jazz-drummer Rohan Krishnamurthy of the Alaya Project, at Yerba Buena Festival (Thurs. 7/14, 12:30p) and with a debut album…  

 broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory. 

tune in !

    [ Love for our live and local culture, all our people making art and making change]

Fri. 06. 17. 2022,  10a - 12n Pacific

 
  … in conversation and featuring the work of Chief Xian (Scott) aTunde Adjuah,  architect of a new jazz sound, Stretch Music theoretician and DIY entrepreneur, (re)designer of brass instruments and of the new Adjuah Bow (a kamele n’goni gravi-hybrid), Chieftain and Idi of the Xodokan Nation, Black Tribes of New Orleans’ 9th Ward ... going deep and wide (and coming to Yoshi's next week), ...@42min. in

    Plus a first hour sample of all the amazing live and local music coming up this week, and weekend, including words with producer Naut Humon, on new/electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick's final work, performed by the artist (@ Gray Area, next week). ... and poets and breath and the ecstatic moment, all ...

    broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory. 

tune in and immerse, expand !

…this morning, local jazz and jazz-adjacent jams, a cosmos.
a tribute to legend pianist and harpist Turiya Alice Coltrane; in interview with Jay Gandhi, in the last hour: bansuri virtuoso and member of the Brooklyn Raga Massive, talking about their new work celebrating Alice Coltrane .... all free Fri./Sat. @ MoAD and Yerba Buena, collaborating with legend Reggie Workman and Bay mainstays: tenor saxophonist Richard Howell, pianist Kev Choice, bassist David Ewell, and jazz harpist/vocalist Destiny Muhammad,

all spun this morning, broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
tune in and elevate

it's LOVE month, it's Pride month, squeeze the person next to you on the radio ! [ just be sure to get. consent ]

FRIDAY MORNING FREQUENCIES

10am - 12noon PACIFIC

Friday 06.03.2022

did we mention we love you?

It's LOOOOVE month, people !

     [ Love for our live and local culture, for people making art and making change]

Fri. 05. 27. 2022,  10a - 12n Pacific

102.5 FM, in San Francisco city limits; and always streaming @ KXSF.FM  

San Francisco celebrates CARNAVAL con todos los Colores de Amor, 

       .... chatting with Per Sia (LGBTQI+ Stage-host, educator and Drag Queen Story Hour originator), about CARNAVAL's return to the streets, with a historic first. time LGBTQI+ Stage [in the FIRST HOUR!]   PLUS MÁS CARNAVAL TUNES ! ¡Vamos a bailar!

           [AND in the second hour]  MUZI  back in the house, South African afrofuturist genre-fluid soul/house-artist and DJ/producer,  back in the US after pandemic 'Interblaktic' tour shut-downs, calling in from SoCal and in Oakland Thursday 6/2, digging deep with the Zulu skywalker  … 

spread the love, win tickets, ... and big props/Mission LOVE/ backing-image credits to Richard Segovia & 'Casa Bandido' (Latin Rock House) Mural on 26th and York, and the Chata Gutierrez memorial "La rumba No Para" mural (big up Carlos “Kookie” Gonzalez and the “Walls of Respect” Youth Mural Project ) on 24th and South Van Ness, and big up and big up todos los muralistas, músicxs, artistas, bailarinxs! ❤️ !

all broadcasting live CON AMOR from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

    [ Love for our live and local culture, for people making art and making change]

Fri. 05. 20. 2022,  10a - 12n Pacific

102.5 FM, in San Francisco city limits; always streaming @ KXSF.FM  

   … SF-OG (r)evolutionary take over, interviewing: 

            BROUN FELLINIS ( David Boyce, Kevin Carnes, Kirk Peterson) in the house,  longtime legend local jazz/hip-hop trio outta outer Boohabia into your ear and  uplifting your imagination!  AND brothers in beats:      

           CONSOLIDATED! (Adam Sherburne Mark Pistel), the activist industrial hiphop overthrow returns…  

all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.

    [ Love for our live and local culture, all our people making art and making change]

Fri. 05. 13. 2022,  10a - 12n Pacific

102.5 FM, in San Francisco city limits; always streaming @ KXSF.FM  

   …from Birmingham to the Bay, jazz and hiphop master, Soweto Kinch in interview,  talkin' beatz and barz, composition and change before next week's SF Jazz residency and the deep history, incisive politics, scintillating music of the 'Black Peril' 

    ... and starting off with the Jazz Mafia on the line, new LP 'Family Business', and celebrating Stevie Wonder's birthday !

all broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory. 

tune in !

@martyoreillymusic @the.vinguard

 …  second hour interview with ÌFÉ’s Otura Mun, introducing new album 0000+0000 (pronounced Yay-koon May-yee), going deep into Yoruban roots and NOLA expressions, music for the future

     …   & new LOCAL MUSIC with an interview and debut track introduction  from  SF's Mild Universe,  and other rad local music;  a new Friday morning radio-expression, broadcasting live from unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory