Coming Attractions
Anna Harrell on KALX Live!

DangerVenture has hosting duties for KALX Live! on Saturday, June 21st. And making their way across the Bay from Marin is Anna Harrell. If you've been in need of a preview for the upcoming show with Mila Mincy at Sweetwater
Cowboy Junkies Interview

On Wednesday, June 18th at 2pm, Sex 14's speaks with Michael Timmins of Canadian alternative country/blues/folk rock band, Cowboy Junkies. Tune in to hear what the long standing band is currently up to and details on their Freight & Salvage show
Petite League Interview

On Monday, June 16th at 10:30am, Astral Projection speaks with Lorenzo Cook from New York based band, Petite League, ahead of their show later that same night at Brick & Mortar Music Hall in SF. Living together in famed Syracuse
Salami Rose Joe Louis Interview

Lindsay Olsen aka Salami Rose Joe Louis is a genre traveller multi-instrumentalist female producer and a signee to Flying Lotus's Brainfeeder label. She recently sat down with KALX DJ, Frontal Lobe, to discuss her latest album, Lorings, and upcoming performance at
The Wedding Present Interview: Now And Then

On Tuesday June 10th at 6:30pm, Last Will and Petra Core will feature their June 6, 2025 interview with longtime The Wedding Present frontman David Gedge before the sold out show at The Chapel in SF. Tune in for the
Catching Up With Tune-Yards

Tune in on Monday, June 9th @ 4:30pm to hear Ears of Maize in conversation with Tune-Yards' own Merrill Garbus & Nate Brenner. The Oakland-based duo is fresh on the release of their latest record, Better Dreaming (4AD). Together, they
Julian Primeaux Interview

Join B-Fly on Thursday, June 12th at 6:30 PM to hear a recent conversation with Grammy Award nominee and Louisiana Music Hall of Fame inductee Julian Primeaux. They will be discussing the definition of “Swamp Rock,” and Julian’s path from the
Fiat Lux Redux: A New Narrative for the Ocean

On the next episode of Fiat Lux Redux, Tuesday, June 24 at 9:00 AM, The Honorable Jane Lubchenko, renowned marine ecologist and Valley Professor of Marine Biology and University Distinguished Professor of Integrative Biology at Oregon State University, discusses a new
La Peña Cultural Center Celebrates 50 Years of Music, Resistance & Bay Area Culture

La Peña Cultural Center — one of the Bay Area’s most iconic grassroots arts and activism spaces — is celebrating its 50th Anniversary with a day-long anniversary festival on Saturday, June 7th. Join Sparkle Motion on Tuesday, June 3rd at
Friendship Games on KALX Live!

Desolation Girl and Ness continue the East Bay Emo Revival on KALX Live! Fremont four-piece Friendship Games is taking to the KALX Live! studio from 9pm to midnight on Saturday, June 14th. For fans of twinkly riffs, twee, and My Little
Cheugy on KALX Live!

Polly Vinyl is your host for the June 28th round of KALX Live! with San Francisco rock trio Cheugy. Haymaker by Cheugy Cheugy is a music sausage that stuffs hard rock, grunge and punk. It welds heavily distorted power chords,
Sarah Coolidge on KALX Live!

Good Juju is in charge of your weekly dose of KALX Live! on Saturday, June 7th. Tune in at 9pm as Sarah Coolidge joins us for an in-studio performance followed by an interview. While you're looking at your calendar make
Fiat Lux Redux: Noah Whiteman on his book Most Delicious Poison

Toxins are often both harmful and helpful, depending on dosage and context. In an evolutionary arms race between organisms and the animals that want to eat them, animals co-opt toxins to not only withstand poisons but repurpose them for their own
Laraaji: Light, Laughter And The Color Orange

This Thursday, May 29 at 4pm, Penny Royal brings the mellifluous laughter and the multi-dimensional ponderings of Laraaji to the KALX airwaves. We in the Bay Area are fortunate to have a visit from this musical mystic on Saturday, May
Farmer Arann Harris on KALX Live!

Farmer Arann Harris is on the way to KALX Live! Tune in on Saturday, May 31st, at 9pm as Ears of Maize hosts for a Sonoma County bounty of blue collar blues and dusty ditties. Don't F&^% with Tigers by
Sunflower Bean Interview

Join Excuse My French on Tuesday, May 27th at 1pm to hear a recent conversation with New York band, Sunflower Bean, before they play The Chapel in SF on June 7th. Sunflower Bean return reinvigorated with the most hard-fought and vulnerable
Leila Abdul Rauf and Naut Humon Interview

On Thursday, May 22nd at 2:30pm, Carnacki hosts Leila Abdul Rauf and Naut Humon to talk about their upcoming show at Gray Area on May 23rd with Maria Somerville. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Leila Abdul-Rauf enters a world all of her own weaving brass, piano and various other textures into filmic soundscapes that
Robyn Hitchcock and Emma Swift Visit KALX

Tune in on Wednesday, May 21st at 2pm when Robyn Hitchcock and Emma Swift drop by the KALX studios for a live interview with Bekestir and perform a few live songs over our airwaves. Robyn Hitchcock headlines two evenings at The
Florist Interview

On Friday, May 16th at 10am, katmoth speaks with New York minimalist folk quartet, Florist, ahead of their May 17th show at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. For their latest release, Jellywish, Florist invite listeners to question everything —
Fiat Lux Redux: Ocean Vuong and Cathy Park Hong in Conversation

On Tuesday, May 27, at 9 AM, Fiat Lux Redux celebrates Asian American History Month with poet and novelist Ocean Vuong and UC Berkeley English Professor Cathy Park Hong in conversation. They discuss the importance of genre fluidity and artistic experimentation, the role of disobedience