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Join Massari on Thursday, January 11th @ 4pm when he pays tribute to one of the original founders of the New Age music movement, Iasos.

Massari will rebroadcast his in-studio interview with Iasos from June 25th, 2019 and will play a handful of Iasos selections.

Iasos (pronounced ya’ sos) was a Music Creator, specializing in celestial, heavenly, inter-dimensional music.  More recently, he had been focusing on creating celestial visuals.

In 1967, to his surprise, Iasos began spontaneously hearing a new type of music in his mind, which he then referred to as “paradise music”.  After graduating from Cornell in anthropology in 1968, Iasos decided to move to California and to dedicate his life to manifesting this “heavenly music” he was experiencing internally, since he was convinced it would have an uplifting, healing, spiritually-invigorating and harmonizing effect on many potential listeners.  And that in many cases, this music would help people to connect to heavenly realms of existence.

In 1975 Iasos, along with his colleague Steven Halpern, pioneered and began what is now known as “New Age music” – with both Iasos and Steven each releasing their first album at that time.

Since 1968 Iasos remained focused and dedicated to his original intention – composing and recording his music, giving seminars, and performing multimedia concerts around the world.

RIP Iasos (January 9, 1947 – January 6, 2024)

Join Jon The Reptilian on Wednesday, January 3rd @ 4pm to hear his recent conversation with UK based Gambian multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and educator, Sona Jobarteh.

Sona Jobarteh is a unique and pioneering musical icon of her time whose renown has been rapidly flourishing globally. Jobarteh is the first professional female Kora virtuoso to come from any of the West African Griot dynasties. Her lineage carries a formidable reputation for renowned Kora masters, most notable amongst these are her grandfather Amadu Bansang Jobarteh and her cousin, the legendary Toumani Diabaté.

Sona is reputed for her skill as an instrumentalist, her distinctive voice, infectious melodies and her grace onstage, and she has rapidly achieved international success as a top class performer.

Born into a Griot family from the Gambia, a tradition that dates back seven centuries, she is the first female within this tradition to become a professional virtuoso on the Kora. Her music is uniquely poised between the preservation of her rich cultural heritage and an accessible, modern style that relates to the current era and to audiences from all over the world.

At the heart of her success as an artist is her dedication to humanitarian activism in the areas of social development and educational reform on the continent of Africa.  She is the Founding Director of The Gambia Academy, an institution dedicated to educational reform for Africans on the continent of Africa.

Latest album, Badinyaa Kumoo, is out now on African Guild Records.

Join DJ B-Fly on Tuesday, December 26th @ 6:30pm for a talk with Grammy award winning, blues legend, Charlie Musselwhite.

Together, they’ll discuss blues as a way of life, the Bay Area versus Chicago music scenes, Musselwhite’s  brief early career as a moonshine runner, his role in the new movie Killers of the Flower Moon, what it’s like to work with Cyndi Lauper, his upcoming shows at the Freight & Salvage — December 30 and 31st!— as well as playing tracks from his musical career, now spanning 50 years!

Charlie Musselwhite is renowned worldwide as a master harmonica player, a seasoned, truth-telling vocalist and an original songwriter rooted deep within the blues tradition.  He doesn’t just sing and play the blues; he is, in every sense of the word, a bluesman.

Growing up, he not only learned the music first-hand from many of the genre’s most influential artists, he also absorbed the lifestyle. “It’s an attitude,” Musselwhite says of playing the blues. “A way of living life.” Musselwhite’s life story reads like a classic blues song: born in Mississippi, raised in Memphis and schooled on the South Side of Chicago. A groundbreaking recording artist since the 1960s, Musselwhite has never stopped creating trailblazing music while remaining firmly rooted in the blues.

As many of Musselwhite’s fans know, he is also a country blues guitarist of great depth, warmth and subtlety.  On his latest Grammy-nominated Alligator Records release, Mississippi Son, Musselwhite’s straight-from-the-soul vocals and deep blues harmonica playing are the perfect foil to his deceptively simple, hypnotic guitar work.

On Tuesday, December 26th @ 10am, Pacifica interviews local musician, Lynda Carson.

Lynda Carson is a longtime acoustic steel string guitarist, former guitar builder and stringed instrument repair person who graduated from the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery in 1977, and repaired guitars and stringed instruments in Hollywood at Guitar Villa, and Studio Instrument Rentals (S.I.R.), in the early 80s.

In 1985, Carson built an acoustic steel string guitar in the guitar workshop of famed Master Luthier, Ervin Somogyi, that was similar to a guitar that Somogyi built for guitarist Michael Hedges, who passed away a number of years ago.

She also spent a number of years as a member of local filmmaker Rob Nilsson’s film acting groups called the “Tenderloin Action Group” and “Tenderloin Group”.  “When Just Cause Oakland” (JCO) formed back around 2000, as a tenant activist, Carson became the interim press officer for JCO, and helped to bring a Just Cause anti-eviction ordinance to the public that was passed by the voters.

As a longtime Oakland resident, community activist, and local journalist, Lynda Carson is excited to spread some love and good vibes with some of her eclectic original solo acoustic guitar music.

Tune in on Monday, December 18th @ 7pm to hear Jack The Stripper go toe to toe with singer // guitarist, Scott Holt, of long standing British rock band, Foghat.

Foghat is a band. In 2023, Foghat turned 52 years old. In November of this year, they will release a new album titled Sonic Mojo. They are still out on the road, traveling across the land and bringing their infectious boogie to packed houses full of adoring fans nearly every night. A Foghat concert is every bit as much fun and intense in 2023 as it was in 1977 when their classic multi-platinum album, Foghat Live broke them around the world. Looking back, it’s only fitting that it was a live album that made Foghat a household name. The band wouldn’t have it any other way.

Foghat continues to appeal to fans of all ages because their music is timeless. They play with an energy that perpetuates youthful exuberance, no matter how old they may be. This band loves to play music. This band lives to play music. Those in the audience, whether they discovered Foghat in the video game Guitar Hero III, from the movie Dazed & Confused, or they discovered them when they purchased their 1972 debut album, knows they are the real deal. That’s why a Foghat audience is so diverse, yet unified. Baby Boomers, Gen X’ers and Millennials and on down all come together with a single purpose when the band comes to town. They wanna boogie…and boogie they do!

Join Sex 14s on Thursday, December 14th @ 1:30pm when he speaks with performance duo, Kiki & Herb, ahead of their Christmas concert at The Castro Theatre in SF on December 15th.

This holiday season, as the world burns darker, we turn not to the savior we need, but to the saviors we deserve. Kiki & Herb, created and performed by Justin Vivian Bond and Kenny Mellman, will lead us to salvation with their cutting, deranged and at times violent musical stylings. “A hyper-magnified cabaret concert that has the heat and dazzle of great balls of fire” (New York Times), their annual Christmas concerts have become that of legend. This year, Kiki & Herb are sending out a rallying cry to red states and blue states alike: O Come Let Us Adore Them.

Whether it’s a sold-out evening at Carnegie Hall, a flop-house in Pittsburgh, or Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway (2007 Tony nomination), Bond and Mellman’s booze-soaked banter, pop-culture shmaltz, and claws-out cultural critique has been “scaring the bejesus out of audiences nationwide” (Vanity Fair) for three decades.

Kiki (played by Bond) is a washed-up, boozed-up chanteuse, with a voice that is a mixture of Tom Waits and Ethel Merman with a dash of Judy, whose middle age passed her by some time ago. Herb (played by Mellman), her piano-battering, lifelong accompanist provides support both musically and emotionally.

This year includes a brand new show and setlist, featuring covers of songs like Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie, Lou Reed’s “Heroin” plus others from Annie Lennox, Kate Bush, Low, Radiohead, Miley Cyrus and more.  It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before…unless you’ve seen them before!  Kathleen Hanna has called the act “weird, brilliant, even devastating” in The New York Times.