This week's episode landed on the 82nd birthday of Mr. Otis Redding, and no further introduction should be necessary,
Out of all the many artists we lost at or around that age of 26, losing Otis has to be one of the most heartbreaking....
2023-09-12 21:23:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all!
Continuing our 50-ish Anniversary deep dive into the Railroad archives, this week we unearthed a 2005 visit to the show from none other than Boots Riley. We started off with a full set of the revolutionary music m...
2023-09-08 23:12:19 +0000 UTC View PostAs you may have noticed if you follow my instagram, I've been inspired by all the 50th Anniversary love to dig through my own crates & hard drives for artifacts to s...
2023-08-28 21:28:22 +0000 UTC View PostThis week we broadcast live from the Bronx, NY! And we had a good long conversation with our fam Jesi Kelley about Hip-Hop's 50th anniversary celebrations, from her perspective as a fellow old-head who came from Jamaica to the BX back in the 70s a...
2023-08-23 20:25:37 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all,
It's been a month now since I lost Wallace. I'm definitely still feeling it, in those capricious waves you keep hoping will, over time, take on some identifiable arc that passes for a grieving "process."
I'll alw...
2023-07-06 22:34:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This past Saturday just happened to be the birthday of our greatest living artist Stevie Wonder, and there was no way I was gonna let that pass by without giving some flowers. This week we start out with a mix of Stevie's classics and then dig dee...
2023-05-18 17:21:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we paid tribute to one of our most formidable figures in the culture, Mr. Harry Belafonte, with his voice woven into the mix thanks to our old friend Amy Goodman of Democracy Now. As stated in the last missive I'm holdin...
2023-05-18 01:52:13 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all, before we get to this batch of uploads let me say: I was shocked to see that it's been since late February that I last posted here! I knew it had been a while but would've never guessed it had been that long.
This does track...
2023-05-18 01:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all this week we continued paying tribute to Trugoy the Dove and De La Soul, and I think I may have enjoyed this one even more than last week. We got into a bunch more hits, some of the classic/rare sample sources for my favorite De La track...
2023-02-27 21:12:23 +0000 UTC View Post"Years just blow by
My eyes stay fixed but the picture's kinda out of focus
I cry a lot but admit to it
Enjoying life now but I've been through it
Sometimes I wish that I can go back
No bills no kids just getting tore back
I want...
Hey Y'all on this episode we marked the beginning of a Black History Month that comes in the shadow both (what's been pegged as) hip-hop's 50th anniversary, and the threat of our history being erased and obscured as the right-wing keeps ramping up...
2023-02-24 02:10:43 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all!
As we settle into what's been coronated as hip-hop's 50th birthday(!), I'm gonna be looking for ways to dig into all that history and connect with voices who can really speak on it. And to start off this week I'm going into the ar...
2023-01-27 22:46:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey' y'all!
This week we carry on our tradition of digging deeper into the full message of the Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and building the mix around his "Why I Oppose The War In Vietnam" speech (delivered right up the road from here at ...
2023-01-17 00:26:49 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we took a deep dive into the catalog of Oakland's own Pointer Sisters, in honor of Anita Pointer who passed last week at the age of 74. They're best known for their crossover (yet still funky) 80s hit, but the Pointers have a deep well o...
2023-01-08 19:35:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all, in the first hour this week we paid tribute to one of the greatest record labels bar none, Memphis' own Stax Records, whose co-founder Jim Stewart passed earlier this month at the age of 92. (And in the second hour we had another bonus ...
2022-12-24 00:53:31 +0000 UTC View Post
This episode of the show was a special one for me, as we had the full live DJ experience for the first time in our Bondfire era!
Carlito TCK and A1 Supreme came through with their Technics 1200s and rocked strictly vinyl set...
2022-12-17 21:07:25 +0000 UTC View PostOkay y'all!
It's a been a long time, I shouldn't have left you.
I've been planning to make a video checking in and talking about my time away but, as these things go, that in itself has turned into another reason to put off starting ag...
2022-12-10 21:45:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay y'all we are back, with an episode we had a lot of fun with paying tribute to the great Dwight "Heavy D" Myers who would have been 55 last week. To make sure I don't keep falling behind on uploads while I work on the Secret Podcast Project, I...
2022-06-04 20:24:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all, this week we focused on the great Earth Wind and Fire in remembrance of their saxophonist Andrew Woolfolk who passed last week, w/ an emphasis on the earlier jazz/funk heavy side of their catalogue.
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2022-05-06 21:16:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all,
I know it's been a long time since the last upload, and I appreciate your patience. For the last month I've been getting started on a pretty big new project that I can't specify yet (it's big enough that I need the okay from...
2022-04-17 18:15:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This week as all the dark news kept coming in, we tried our best to represent for peace, with as many pro-love/anti-war jams as we could find and even some Ukrainian rap requests directly from our friends in Kyiv. Hope you and yours are safe, wher...
2022-03-04 00:30:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay y'all thanks for your patience and moral support as I was caught up in my kitty emergency, we should be ready to restore normal service now. <3
On this episode we devoted the whole show to two of our titans that passed in the same we...
2022-02-22 23:32:37 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we kick off BHM with another reading, this time putting the spotlight on James Mercer Langston Hughes, who would've turned 121 on 2/1/22, and give a little extra run to a couple of my favorite new releases from 2022-02-08 03:55:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we continue sprinkling history into the mix, through the voice of Angela Davis who marked her 78th birthday last week. This audio is from 1969, when Davis had just been suspended from teaching by the state of California, and brings a rem...
2022-02-01 20:43:45 +0000 UTC View PostHey y'all! This week we've got the customary dosage of funk from past present and future, and we're trying something new as well: as you may know I got to do some 2022-01-25 21:26:56 +0000 UTC View Post
"I was expected to be dead within two, three days. I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life. She went throughout the black sections of Miami, where I was born, looking for he...
2022-01-10 18:33:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all! So apparently it's another "New Year"? I feel like I have some vague memory of more innocent times, when I believed that was a thing. And I must say, despite all the madness that blends these past few years into a fog, I come into this ...
2022-01-07 19:42:55 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, like many of you I'm sure, we had our plans spoiled last minute by the coming of Omicron, and I had to scramble to set up a show from home...but we still got it in! And paid tribute to the incredible bell hooks and the genius of Robbie ...
2021-12-20 17:30:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we started out with some Rebellion Rapping to mark the anniversary of Fred Hampton's assassination, and looked back on the past year with our fam Jesi Kelley...the 12/11 show will come shortly after!
Partial Playlist: 2021-12-17 23:09:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey y'all! This week we sprinkled some Sondheim in with the funk to honor one of the GOAT songwriters, and celebrated one of the GOAT hip-hop djs with a special history lesson: a classic radio mix from Kool DJ Red Alert, taking you on a journey th...
2021-12-03 21:47:54 +0000 UTC View Post