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Join KBCS at the 54th Annual Northwest Folklife Festival

May 18, 2025 - 2:45 am

Join KBCS at the 54th Annual Northwest Folklife Festival, taking place May 23-26 at Seattle Center. The theme and cultural focus for this year’s festival is Ikigai (Pronounced: Ee-kee-guy), meaning “A life worth living”. The concept of Ikigai marks the next phase in our cultural focus exploration that began by looking inward at our personal …

Elimination of Public Media Funding Requested by White House

Map of the U.S. with glowing network lines. Bold text reads "Public Media is at Risk" in red. A button below says "Learn More." Serious tone.

May 13, 2025 - 11:59 am

The White House has put forth an annual budget that requests eliminating public media funding at the federal level for FY26. The proposal asks Congress to eliminate nearly all $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which supports more than 1,500 non-profit stations across the country, including KBCS. As it stands,

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Levi Sweeney DJ Appreciation Post

A DJ Appreciation graphic in KBCS color palette of Lime Green, Brown, and White for Levi. There is a photo inside of an ellipse of a white man with blonde hair wearing glasses smiling with his mouth closed. Levi Sweeney, Host of Retro Radio Theatre, Saturday at Midnight

April 10, 2025 - 6:00 am

Hi, I’m Levi Sweeney. I’m one of the newest hosts at KBCS, and I host the 12 AM to 1 AM Saturday show The KBCS Retro Radio Theatre. I’m a pioneer in applied AI audio and radio dramas. If you tune in to my late, late, show at midnight, you’ll hear me playing the character of “Jack Newman,” unlicensed, back-alley dealer of Old Time Radio.

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Roots Rock + Soul-Wednesday Wax

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April 9, 2025 - 4:57 pm

KBCS 91.3FM Roots Rock + Soul brings listeners selections from the KBCS music library. Host Greg shares sound selections until 7pm Monday through Friday with Wednesday’s dipping into a selection from the KBCS Vinyl Library.   And today, April 9th, we share The Lebron Brothers Orchestra and their first release, Psychedelic Goes Latin!   Starting off this

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Flotation Device interview with Anna Thorvaldsdottir

April 7, 2025 - 10:44 am

Flotation Device interview with Anna Thorvaldsdottir If Björk is Iceland’s best-known pop singer, then Anna Thorvaldsdottir is its best-known composer, noted for her visceral music that conveys—in its own distinctive way—the sounds of the sea and the mountains that surrounded her growing up in a small coastal town. She joined Flotation Device host Michael Schell

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DJ Chairman Moe Appreciation Post

A DJ appreciation graphic in KBCS theme colors lime green, dark brown, and white. There is a photo of Chairman Moe inside of an oval which shows a light skinned man with blue eyes, glasses, and a beard wearing a hat. Chairman Moe, Host of Chairman Moe Wednesday's @ 9pm

March 31, 2025 - 6:00 am

DJ ChairmanMoe has been a part of the KBCS family since 2009, when his first show “Recycled Music” made its debut. At the time, the theme was Cover Tunes, and his show featured the music you loved, just not the way you remember hearing it. It was a good run but the show seemed to lose a little steam. In 2017, a format change was due and (at the encouragement of KBCS management) a new show format was launched under the title, Chairman Moe, with a focus on 80’s music, deep-diving into the world of post punk, early goth, power pop, garage/jangle and anything else that doesn’t typically appear on a AI-generated playlist from a corporate service.

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