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International Collective Thursday January 13 10am-2pm Hosted by Merk... To highlight Foothill College's Jewish Heritage Month, Merk will play a set or two of Jewish, Klezmer, and some surf tracks by Meshugga Beach Party at the top of each hour during the International Music Collective.

Coming up at noon today is the eighth episode of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio series, followed by a tribute to the iPhone on the 15th anniversary ...of its public announcement. Then, at 1 p.m., it's the KFJC Hit List a look at some of the most played releases of the past eight weeks. Listen via your smartphone with the KFJC app, online at kfjc.org, and over the air at 89.7 FM.

If you missed it, be sure to check the broadcast archives on our website! Women in Techno part 2 Friday January 7 10pm-2am ... Hosted by Goodwrench Part two! To the casual observer, techno is dominated by the male persuasion. This special does a little extra digging to present 4 hours of female DJs and producers of note.

Ever wanted to be a DJ? Celebrate the new year by signing up for our winter radio training class at Foothill College! Class meets remotely on Wednesday nights and begins THIS Wednesday, January 5! Details on our main page -> KFJC.org

A new year means another opportunity to learn radio at KFJC. The next training class starts on January 5th. It meets remotely on Wednesday nights at 7:30pm. https://foothill.augusoft.net/index.cfm

78rpm Exploration Monday January 3 7PM-10PM Hosted by Sluggo... Join sluggo for an audio exhumation, as he explores a recent find - a fascinating small cache of one-off home-recorded 78 rpm, 7" hard and flexi discs. Without prior access to a 78 player our first listen will be together on air. Tune in Monday at 7pm as we crack open this 1940s time capsule live on air. Will sluggo be left holding the needle a'la Geraldo with nothing to show but a heavy coating of Shellac on the face mask? Tune in This Monday 7-10 pm to find out what sounds will be found! Read more at KFJC.org for details on some of the 78s that he will be playing.

Happy New Year from the KFJC coyote.

Women in Techno Friday December 31 10pm-2am Hosted by Goodwrench... To the casual observer, techno is dominated by the male persuasion. This special does a little extra digging to present 4 hours of female DJs and producers of note. Ring in the New Year with KFJC!

Coming up at noon today, comedy returns with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Followed by a half-hour of Christmas songs for your Boxing Day enjoyment. The...n, at 1 p.m., it's the final Hit List of 2021! Listen on your phone with the KFJC app, online at kfjc.org, and over the air at 89.7 FM.

Christus Minus Vesperum Friday, December 24 at 7pm to Saturday, December 25 at 9pm Hosted by Abacus Finch, Teachers AIDS, Monotone Heroine, Honey Bear, Whngr and more XXIII dissol vendae horae of Black Christmas carols swollen with metal, hardcore, doom, thrash, crust, noise, chaos, death, violence, protest, terror and destruction for all religions, plutarchs and humanity. All are included in the targeted center of Baphomet's wrath. None shall escape its cleansing filth. All hail immolavit agnus!

Krampus Naughty eX-Mas Wednesday December 22 10PM-2AM Hosted by Lurker... Krampus returns to the KFJC airwaves for his annual audible licking of naughty ears. Join Krampus as he serenades all the bad listeners that Santa doesn't like, with 4 hours of Rude, Crude, Dark, Naughty ear licking fun! Not for good kids ears.

Happy Solstice! Celebrate by signing up for our winter radio training class at Foothill College. Class meets remotely on Wednesday nights and begins in January. https://foothill.augusoft.net/index.cfm

Freak Week Special: Alive, He Cried Saturday December 4 Noon to 3pm Hosted by Carson Street... On December fourth from noon to 3pm Carson Street plays some of the best live recordings ever made. It's Freak Week so the interruptions will be minimal. From Aretha Franklin "Live at the Fillmore West" to Jerry Lee Lewis "Live at the Star Club Hamburg" we'll hit the highlights of live recordings. Tune in and see if you agree with Carson's picks. It's gonna be fun.

Ms Lombard is back in the studio playing all vinyl tonight 7-10pm PT.

It’s all 7-inch vinyl on No Way Out tonite!!

Teachers AIDS keeping it accessible. #vinylthon

Wall of Sound: 60s Girl Groups & Their Influence Sunday April 11 4AM-6AM Hosted by 50K Bonus... KFJC rebroadcasts a special that originally aired on May 18, 2006. Created mostly by producers, writers and arrangers, 60s Girl Groups combined female vocalists and studio production techniques. This special will explore the genre and in turn show how it influenced many more recent bands like L7, Xray Specks, the Ramones, Jesus & the Mary Chain and early female punk bands.

In the midst of #vinylthon! Celebrating the wax 24/7 today, and even spilling unofficially into tomorrow!

KFJC will be participating in this year’s Vinylthon, a day set aside for college radio stations to highlight vinyl records! KFJC plans to play vinyl records for at least 24 hours straight. Stay tuned for more details, including a special all colored vinyl portion of the event. Starts tonight at 2am!

Our Spring 2021 online training class is still open for registration, but TODAY, Wednesday (4/14) is your last chance to join for this quarter. Join us! Details here: https://kfjc.org/about/training/

The Return Of The Return Of The Invasion Of Maximum Louie Louie Sunday April 11 12AM-4AM Hosted by Pete Dixon & friends... KFJC rebroadcasts a special that originally aired on April 11, 2011. KFJC PRESENTS: The Return of the Invasion of MAXIMUM LOUIE LOUIE (a celebration of International LOUIE LOUIE Day) featuring Eric Predoehl (pronounced "pre-dell"), producer /director of the upcoming "Meaning of LOUIE" documentary, Jeff "Stretch" Riedle and Frank "Phil Dirt" Luft, originators of KFJC's 1983 event "Maximum Louie", as well as Nikki Teen (aka Robyn Braverman,) Maximum Louie alum and voice talent extraordinaire. Broadcasting live with streaming simulcast, this show celebratesInternational LOUIE LOUIE Day like no other radio station can, recycling remnants from the KFJC past, embracing contemporary versions of the legendary rock song, including never-before-broadcastRichard Berry music, and unveiling exclusive previews from the anxiously-awaited upcoming documentary. Expect some surprises. Expect special guests- living and otherwise. Expect the unexpected. (April 11th as "Louie Louie Day" is now officially registered with the National Special Events Registry and Chase's Calendar of Events, the two leading sources of special events, holidays and observances)

It’s a KFJC Music Review! Ah-mer-ah-su "Star" [Dero Arcade] Reviewed by Ann Arbor... Ah-Mer-ah-su is a (Black) Transgender Woman from Oakland. This is her debut release from 2018. It’s 13 tracks: 3 spoken word and 10 music. The spoken word tracks are 3 different (trans? pre-trans?) people talking about how they feel about who they are and how life has treated them. The album showcases Ah-Mer-Ah-Su’s imagination, audaciousness, and her personal journey to self-acceptance. She says: I think the true issue is that trans people are often dehumanized, and our experiences are Othered. People in power choose not to disseminate [our] message to wider audiences, because they don’t see themselves in transgender creatives. They believe that music from LGBTQ artists are specifically for LGBTQ people. Once people realize that they can identify with someone else’s experience, regardless of their differences, we will have more diversity in the music industry. The spoken word tracks are very authentic. The music is a bit heavy-handed, not subtle at all. The record itself is beautiful raspberry colored vinyl.

It’s Spring up at Foothill College! That means our Spring training class starts this Wednesday! Details on how to sign up are at KFJC.org! Classes held weekly over Zoom! Join us & play some tunes on the air!

Why not join us? KFJC is more than a radio station - it's a learning institution. Our primary function is to teach the art of radio to students of all musical tastes and skills. Whether it's learning to be a DJ, going though our public affairs department, our engineering ranks - in fact, KFJC operates through a total of ten different departments, each with its own skill set and all needed to run a radio station. All new station members are expected to complete basic training, which has a focus on on-air operations. Training classes are over Zoom, every Wednesday evening. First class is next week! Find all the details, and how to sign up at KFJC.org!

From 6pm to 10pm tonight, tune in to hear the time that Patty Waters co-hosted the Jazz Collective with Cynthia Lombard-KFJC.

It’s a KFJC Music Review! weiss, ruth We Are Sparks In The Universe to Our Own Fire [Edgetone Records] Reviewed by Mickey Slim... Absolutely amazing record off Rent Romus’ Edgetone Record label released last year after the passing of word shaman and beat poet goddess ruth weiss. In the late 1940s Chicago, weiss was one of the first to recite her poetry to jazz music, a tradition she brought with her when she moved to San Francisco. This inspired the then-unknown beat generation writers to do the same. Although she was incredibly inspirational, she (quite sadly) never gained the notoriety she deserved (Ferlinghetti himself at one point even refused to publish her b/c she was a woman). Despite the discrimination she faced throughout her career, weiss’ dedication to her craft remained unwavering. This release is 9 poems performed in two sets. The first with Doug Lynner on synth and Hal Davis on the wooden log, and the second with Rent Romus on saxes and flutes, Doug O’Conner on double bass, with Hal David returning on the wooden log. As natural as her voice sounds to the more traditional jazz music sounds, I am drawn to her voice contrasted with the electronic/log music, at least for this record. Because she was getting up there in age, her voice has a very jazzy/smoky quality that was very obviously her instrument, and her handle of it is pure art. There will never be another poet quite like ruth weiss.

Ms. Lombard’s spring 2013 show was inspired by Cy Thoth. Tune in 7-10pm PT.

Coming up sooon... new show from Ms. Lombard tonight.

It’s a KFJC Music Review! Greenleif, Phillip "Bellingham For David Ireland" [500 Capp Street Foundation] Reviewed by Pax Humana... This is a fascinating jazz experience made richer by reading the liner notes as you listen to the 60+ minutes of jazz diffusing throughout the David Ireland House (which is an art installation created by the late artist David Ireland) in the Mission District of San Francisco. Greenlief composed this map-work, which, if you look closely at the album cover, is just thata score based on the jigsaw pieces of maps of Bellingham, Washington, where Ireland grew up. The live performance was based on the score, but also on the conversations among the musicians placed in various locales of the house, along with the ambient noises such as sirens coming from both the inside and outside of the house. Greenlief set up in the entryway with his sax where he hoped to be able to hear the gongs, percussion, contrabass, violin, voice, tuba, and electronics emanating from different rooms in the two-story house. This is an ineffable aural treat.

What? KFJC has a classical library? Part 2 Saturday December 5 6PM-9PM Hosted by Cousin Mary... KFJC rebroadcasts a Mayhem special that originally aired on Mayhem 24, 2014. On the highest shelf in the KFJC pit, there are 100s of classical LPs. Many have been at the station for years, some have been more recently rescued from dumpsters, most have never been played. Join Cousin Mary on an archeological dig through this time capsule of recordings of classical music from all eras. Followed by the Reverb Hour at 8pm.

It’s a KFJC Music Review! Coughin’ Vicars Post Omission Overtures [Self Released] Coughin Vicars... Reviewed by @_whngr_ (Whinger) Rock from Britain reminiscent at times of Killing Joke or early Wire, elsewhence The Cure, Joy Division, ersewhile Echo and the Bunnymen or maybe The Fall. Building on the well-laid foundations of their forebearers, there is a something slightly retrospective about CV but not necessarily derivitive. An homage to post/death/goth/punk perhaps while still offering their own unique, and in my miserable opinion, exceptional voice to the arena (killing floor). A majestic sermon for the lost, an admonishment for the defeated, draped in lavish guitar effects. A shouting chant bellows above the angular and terse rhythm. Reverb and chorus swell and fade like shadows in the dreary pre-dawn of a deserted Liverpudlian landscape. We are being watched

It’s a KFJC Music Review! Every Wednesday, our staff meets (online these days of course), and we add about 15-30 new/old pieces of music to our station’s library! Many like to post their reviews on our website, which you can check out at https://kfjc.org/music/ ! We’re going to be sharing a few with you on here, every few days! Enjoy! *****... Horrid Red "Radiant Life" [Soft Abuse] reviewed by THURSTON HUNGER https://m.facebook.com/BLADESSPORTSMAN/ Fourth full length from this band with Bay Area roots and a distinctly Teutonic tincture. Bunker Wolf sings in his native German tongue (while titling the songs in English) his voice is perhaps the most rough, brazen instrument on the record. Edmund Xavier (Glenn Donaldson) along with Clay Ruby veer far from their Jeweled Antler daze and Burial Hex nights respectively. The drum machines here are happy little robots, not hammering industrial death magnets. No trace of sonic cthonics, or hazey texture-based Blithe drone drifters. These songs have pep. And polish, while they would fit in with ein track from Cassettencombinant, they eschew the raw for refined. The German words I cannot decipher, I will say their songs Still Suffering and Last Flower of Youth both feel really happy to me. Hell End of the Age even has digital handclaps. Maybe Wolf is singing poems from Rilke, somehow I don’t think so? The title track has a nice slinky vibe to it (cool clinking percussion and a bass line that prowls). The song before it Pity The Sun rang a doppelganger bell to Under the Milky Way. That might just be me. It also kinda echoes Nothing in My Heart from Horrid Red’s debut. That album had a more punk bent (or see the older Teenage Panzerkorps with Bunker Wolf aand Edmund/Glenn), this is solidly pop, but both have the unmistakable bite of Wolf’s vocals. BTW: This one’s on the stellar Soft Abuse label, just saying a FreakWeek focus on that label would be mighty tasty. -Thurston Hunger

Ms. Lombard is on the air with a new show from home. Tune in or catch in the archives.