Ticket Giveaway Alert! (Drawing Closes 12PM 5/12/25)
Enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets to these upcoming shows:
The Bad Plus @ Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley – 5/13/2025
Hurray for the Riff Raff @The Crocodile – 5/23/25
Sierra Ferrell @ Dune Peninsula at Pt Defiance Park – 7/20/25
Shinyribs @ Tractor Tavern – 7/24/25
The Caravan with John Gilbreath Returns to KBCS
We’re excited to announce that long-time KBCS program, The Caravan, hosted by John Gilbreath, will return to KBCS on Tuesday, May 13th.
KBCS Message on White House Executive Order to Cut NPR and PBS Funding
We are deeply concerned by the executive order to cut NPR and PBS funding. On May 1, 2025, the White House directed the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and federal agencies to end funding for NPR and PBS. While KBCS is not directly affiliated with NPR, we stand firmly with our colleagues in public media who are being targeted by this decision.
The goal is unmistakable: to dismantle public media as we know it.
Public media was founded on the principle that access to free, non-commercial journalism and educational content strengthens our democracy. Local stations across the country, including ours, rely on the infrastructure and support made possible by the CPB to serve diverse communities with trusted, fact-based information. NPR and PBS are pillars of that ecosystem, producing high-quality journalism and programming that reflects the breadth and complexity of American life.
The claim that public media is inherently biased misunderstands the mission and editorial standards that guide our work. Independence, accuracy, and public accountability are not threats—they are our commitments.
This decision threatens not only two nationally recognized institutions, but also the hundreds of local stations—urban and rural, large and small—that serve the public interest every day. We know the vital role that public broadcasting plays in civic life, from educational children’s programming to coverage of local issues that commercial media often overlooks.
We join with stations across the country in reaffirming our support for public media and our belief that it must remain a trusted, nonpartisan, and publicly accountable source of information for all.
We urge lawmakers, community leaders, and citizens to stand with us—and with NPR, PBS, and the CPB—in protecting the future of independent public broadcasting.
You can take action to stop this attack on NPR, PBS, and public media by contacting your local representative at protectmypublicmedia.org.
– The KBCS Team
50th Anniversary of the end of Vietnam War
April 30th marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon to the North Vietnamese Army and the end of the Vietnam war. Many thanks to Nam Nguyen, Executive Director of WA State Commissions on Asian Pacific Affairs, and Jennie Cecil Moore, Independent Journalist and Producer and KBCS Contributor for this interview featured on our community radio station.
Events
Local community organizations like Friends of Little Saigon are commemorating this milestone with events and exhibitions.
FILM SCREENING – Sàigòn to Seattle: 50 Years After the War – Saturday, May 3rd, 10am to 4pm at Hoa Mai Park, 1224 S King St, Seattle, WA 98144. Follow their YouTube account to view the official film trailer.
PHOTO EXHIBIT – We Were Soldiers, Too/Chúng Tôi Cũng Là Lính – April 5 to June 14 at Friends of Little Saigon. Featuring curated images and ephemera by Thanh Tan and portraits of South Vietnamese veterans by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Marcus Yam.
Auntmama – DJ Appreciation Spotlight
In 2001, Mary Anne Moorman (Auntmama) was awarded a contract with Bellevue College to create an operational plan for KBCS. Consulting led to telling stories on Walkin’ the Floor and in 2003 she began co-hosting Sunday Folks on Sunday’s, 9am to Noon. “Playing music for the KBCS community is an honor.” (more…)
Levi Sweeney DJ Appreciation Post
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. (more…)
Roots Rock + Soul-Wednesday Wax
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 evenings mix with My Cool Boogaloo! Tune in and listen to check out the other selections from this 1967 release from Cotique Records. And stay on KBCS to hear the rest of Roots Rock + Soul evening mix for an eclectic celebration of the sounds from the KBCS Music Library.
Lebron Brothers – Psychedelic Goes Latin
Flotation Device interview with Anna Thorvaldsdottir
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 to talk about her two new recordings, her early influences, her current projects, and the role of Björk on putting Icelandic music on the map.
DJ Chairman Moe Appreciation Post
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. (more…)
APM presents The Other Moonshot
91.3 FM KBCS presents a special 4 part series from American Public Media presents: The Other Moonshot on Fridays during the KBCS 5am Feature Program.