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December 15, 2019 - 10:07 am

Auntmama – Sunday Folks Mavis Staples We Get By Anti- Andrew Bird My Finest Work Yet Wegawan Leyla McCalla The Capitalist Blues Self Rising Appalachia Leylines Self Che Apalache Rearrange My Heart Free Dirt Records Our Native Daughters Songs of Our Native Daughters Smithsonian Folkways Lula Wiles What Will We Do Smithsonian Folkways Rhiannon Giddens & Frencesco Turrisi There Is No Other Nonesuch The Avett Brothers Closer Than Together American

Read More about KBCS Sunday Folks DJ Aunt Mama Picks Eleven Albums from 2019

December 14, 2019 - 7:18 pm

DJ Niko – Nothing But ’90s Colleen Green Blink 182’s “Dude Ranch” as Played by Colleen Green Bandcamp A Giant Dog Neon Bible Merge Thom Yorke ANIMA XL Better Oblivion Community Center Better Oblivion Community Center Dead Oceans Angel Olsen All Mirrors Jagjagjuar Jenn Champion The Blue Album (Weezer Cover) Turntable Kitchen Titus Andronicus An

Read More about Nothing But 90s DJ Niko picks 10 albums from 2019

December 14, 2019 - 7:13 pm

J-Justice City Soul Sault 5 Future Living Originals Flying Lotus Flamagra Warp Thom Yorke Anima XL Resavoir Resavoir International Anthem Sunking Sunking Self released Kassa Overall Listen To Jazz And Eat Ice Cream Self released The Comet Is Coming Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery Impulse Floating Points Crush Ninja Tune Jamila Woods

Read More about KBCS City Soul DJ J-Justice picks 10 albums from 2019

December 13, 2019 - 10:12 am

Stay tuned here or on the KBCS Facebook and Instagram pages to see more from your favorite DJs! Judy Lindsay – Weekday Afternoons 4-7PM Juke Ross Drifting Apart RCA Joseph Good Luck, Kid ATO Black Pumas Self Titled ATO Maggie Rogers Heard It In a Past Life Debay Sounds Michael Kiwanuka Kiwanuka Polydor Kishi Bashi Omoiyari Joyful

Read More about KBCS Weekday Afternoon DJ Judy Lindsay picks 10 albums from 2019

December 13, 2019 - 9:36 am

KBCS is giving away a pair of concert tickets every thirty minutes today, 12-7pm. Donate now, to keep the diverse music you count on from KBCS going strong, and you’ll be automatically entered into every ticket drawing for the entire day. Some of the shows you could win tickets to include: Alanis Morissette Cracker/Camper Van

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December 12, 2019 - 6:22 pm

Tune into the Reggae Party every Thursday at 9:00 PM or catch it anytime on our archive!   Rankin Mark – The Reggae Party Clinton Fearon History Say Baco Records Ras Teo and Lone Ark 10 Thousand Lions A-Lone Productions Steel Pulse Mass Manipulation Rootfire Cooperative Koffee Rapture Columbia Jahcoustix Reunion Oneness Records Tiken Jah Fakoly Le

Read More about The Reggae Party’s Rankin Mark picks 10 albums from 2019

December 2, 2019 - 11:39 am

Oneda and Winona of Gospel Highway, with alum Cathy Gaylord, celebrated 14 years of inspiring gospel music from Bellevue College on kbcs.fm and 91.3, with a night out at the Seattle Rep’s production of “Shout Sister Shout!”

November 30, 2019 - 9:52 am

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the World Trade Organization or WTO ministerial conference in Seattle. The WTO is an international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. Decisions made by unelected trade delegates at this conference impact the worldwide economy, working conditions and the environment. Leading up to the WTO ministerial, hundreds

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November 14, 2019 - 10:12 pm

Writer, Rasheena Fountain discusses what shapes our view and relationship with the environment with KBCS’s Yuko Kodama. Producer: Yuko Kodama Photo: Yuko Kodama

November 7, 2019 - 12:47 pm

Tiffany Midge, of the Standing Rock Sioux nation, is a humorist and writer.  Her latest book, Bury My Heart at Chuck E Cheese’s cuts into and wryly  grins at our world and its microaggressions, through the indigenous lens. Producer – Yuko Kodama and Jesse Callahan Photo – Tiffany Midge