Our Shows
Our station is home to a number of KAOS-produced music and public affairs shows. Learn more about our shows and hosts below.
See our full program schedule here.
Tuesday
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Join KAOS GM Jonny H every Monday and Thursday morning for music exploration.
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Our new DJ trainees take to the board and get their chance to hone their hosting skills.
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Making your ears smile since 1994 ...
Straight-ahead long-form jazz, artist interviews and FUN!
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Playing Enough New Interesting Stuff is KAOS' spot for the hottest, freshest new releases from the past few weeks. Highlights from the gallons of tracks we get sent, and some that we don't. Tune in, PEN heads.
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Grand Dame DJ Domenica presents her curio cabinet of bedazzled and glitzy delights. Disco, synths, swoon-worthy music for the dramatic romantic.
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Dream Sequence showcases a dynamic range of musical stylings. A cohesive 2-hour mix highlighting contemporary independent artists and labels. DJ DIRT curates an engaging and pleasant sonic exploration perfect for afternoon inspiration.
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The Music Show is a freeform music program. Paul Pearson plays new and old music of all genres that typically doesn't show up in algorithmic playlists or commercial radio.
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Dance as a verb, a noun or a metaphor. There's a whole world of sounds to explore.
...presenting a wide variety of Art Rock, Psychedelic Global Fusion, Experimental and more.
Wear comfortable shoes or nothing at all.
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Ever Present Threat features transgressive audio. Music your parents would have confiscated if they bothered to listen to it. Tunes that get you referrals to therapy. Sound that forces growth. Guitar music, electronic music, non-music.
Thursday
Wednesday
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Resource Report is where we share with you important information about local nonprofits and resource organizations that support the community we share produced by Pathways to Agency.
At Pathways to Agency, we are driven by the belief that everyone should have the tools and support to achieve their goals and thrive in their communities. Our mission is to bridge the gaps in understanding accessibility and trust by connecting individuals to resources and sharing information and processes that can lead to personal and community growth. Resource Report offers information about existing and emerging nonprofits and resource organizations. Find out more at https://pathwaystoagency.org
Listen to the full archive of Resource Report episodes at https://rss.com/podcasts/resource-report/
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Thank you for tuning into Wednesday's With Wild from 1pm - 2pm where Wild scours the KAOS Archive and biasedly chooses albums by their looks, listens to the tunes and plays you what feels for the day.
Wild's interests in music are songs that give you that epic festival feel of summertime, hot breezes, and bouncing around with friends. They are also the Festival Producer of Capital City Pride. If you ride the LGBTQIA2S+ Rainbow and create music that dreamily electrifyinglyPOPS with festival vibes - please connect with WildTinyProductions@gmail.com -
FreeForm NW is a diverse all-Pacific NW music show: all genres, all time periods (ranging from the 1920’s to “releasing next week”), all great! The show features occasional interviews with PNW artists. It is hosted by Tom Dyer with his sidekick Stevie T. Tom has been releasing PNW music on his Green Monkey Records label since 1983, with over 200 releases, twenty -two by Tom and his various bands. Submit PNW music: greenmonkeytom@gmail.com
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Type II Era has been on the air at KAOS since 2012, with only brief hiatuses following the pandemic and once again over the past year. Featuring genres from 2000s indie rock, ‘70s avant garde and krautrock, and “thoughtful” pioneering hiphop and R&B of the last 30 years, along with occasional formless experimental ambiance.
A clerk at an unnamed record store in downtown Olympia was once heard exclaiming “Yeah, I know that show - the dj often dives into long forgotten, yet CMJ promoted “indie” rock of the 2000s. Samey and boring at times, but the show recovers before the two hours are over. I never miss that show”
A local wood worker was paraphrased: “I listen to Remy and Type II Era often - I only take breaks from the often featured ‘buzzsaw guitars’ to crank up and create my ‘chainsaw wood-scars.’” This is no joke, though admittedly it is poorly paraphrased. -
KAOS Live brings you live in-studio sessions from our performance studio.
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Join KAOS GM Jonny H every Monday and Thursday morning for music exploration.
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Fanning the flames of the divine feminine thru music!
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Kim Dobson has been a Public Affairs Host since 2002, providing air time to progressive voices ignored by mainstream media. Parallel University’s goal is to shed light on topics that may improve our understanding of the World to create a peaceful, sustainable and healthy place for all of Earth’s inhabitants.
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Playing all women, non-binary, & LGBTQIA2S+ artists in R&B, hip hop, electronic, jazz, soul, funk, disco, indie, rock, and more! Dunking your eardrums in independent, self-released and local music ~ perhaps not well known but should be widely recognized.
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A New Orleans native, Sweeney plays up-tempo tunes of various genres designed to get your toes and fingers tapping. He might even get your knees to bend and hips to shake. If you're looking for an end-of-workday shot of groove and pop, tune in 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursdays. Contact: sweeneygumbo@gmail.com. Website: sweeneygumbo.com
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Bluegrass, Old Time, Roots and Americana from the old school to the latest interpretations. American Anecdotes is the longest running program on KAOS.
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The Sound is a Pacific Northwest Variety show highlighting music of all genres from Washington and Oregon artists.
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DJ Rapscallion digs in the crates to bring you your weekly boombox of Fresh Produce. No algorithm here, just a combination of freshly harvested and aged beats and rhymes to get your mind and body right. Playing independent tracks from hip hop's origins all the way to the avant-garde leading the new school, DJ Rapscallion invites you to turn the tv off and check out the melody.
Saturday
Friday
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The show’s motto is Live Locally, Groove Globally, and it’s taken seriously! Hear upbeat music from the world over on this spirited celebration of musical culture in traditional and hybrid forms. You will hear all kinds of music from around the world, from Quawwali to Cajun, from sacred to secular, from Pakistani brass bands to klezmer. I’m especially fond of music that’s been through the blender–on “blend,” not on “puree”–such as the Turkish funk of Brooklyn Funk Essentials or the funky Nubian wedding music of Ali Hassan Kuban. I keep your feet and heart moving at the end of a long week or the beginning of a fun weekend.
I also bring you interviews of musicians, authors, and others impacting the world of “world music.” Guests have included Jewish ethnomusicologist Yale Strom, the all-woman Tuvan throat-singing group Tyva Kyzy, accordian-playing Khmer Rouge survivor Daran Kravanh, African jazz great Hugh Masekela, and uncategorizable groups like Vagabond Opera, among many others.
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Low Profile with Markly Morrison began as a podcast in 2019 and became a terrestrial radio program on KAOS the following year. Markly conducts oral history interviews with the musicians that made a difference in his life and plays clips of their respective music careers, leaving you with an understanding of who the artist is as a person and a retrospective sampling of their body of work. Always informative, always eclectic and never predictable. Guests include indie god Jim O’Rourke, British singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan, synth punk pioneer Martin Rev of Suicide, Paych/Country/R&B legend Swamp Dogg, lo-fi tearjerkers The Microphones, Maggie Roche of The Roches, 90’s glam rockers Urge Overkill, and glitch music pioneer Markus Popp- just to name a few. Find your new favorite band on Low Profile.
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Two hours of kitsch sublimity; discarded obscurities just as funky as they are funereal.
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The best of underground psychedelic music from the 1960s and 1970s.
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Hang out with your radio friend Terry and listen to some good tunes and occasional story or inappropriate comment.
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Retroactive is my version of rock and soul music history from the 1950s explosion right up to current releases, celebrating roots rock elements like blues, traditional R&B, rockabilly, folk, jazz, pop, punk and pre-rock.
The show, which debuted in 1994, combines not only varied genres of music but different types of radio: Top 40 rock'n'roll (which jolted my world at age nine), free form (Detroit's WABX from 1968-1974, KAOS in the '90s), public radio and adult rock.
My enthusiasm for recorded music (the photo shows me playing records at age five) as well as imaginative radio is boundless, and I hope that passion transfers to the Retroactive listener.
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Join your host Dr. T G Hokum and take the cure with the finest in old time blues, country, jazz and gospel with a dash of the exotic. Right before your ears he'll brew up various batches of elixirs, calmatives and revitalizers specially designed to soothe the mind, activate the feet and touch the soul.
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Blast From The Past is a two hour music show featuring forgotten oldies and songs that were once popular, but rarely get played anymore. Consists mainly of music from the late 60s and 70s and each week's show highlights songs from one specific year.
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U.S. Highball (named after the Harry Partch composition) hosts a variety of oddities & experiments. Bad trip music, contemporary classical, ambient, novelty, and more deep cuts.
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Sunday
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A Journey through the Celtic year, with stops along the way, where we will weave the stories of the past together with our common future, and share the ideas that empower the spirit. Celtic and Earth Spirit music, and info for positive change!
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Eclectic music, live bands, a book review, and kids' music in the last 30 minutes!
I hosted a children's show on KAOS for over 7 years called "Cottleston Pie." I also hosted a show before that called "I'm not here to make friends" and a live band student staff show called "Donut Live".
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This show features Corwood Industries’ premiere artist, JANDEK. This show is 100% all JANDEK.
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Metal-Folk-Jazz-Zydeco - No Genre Nada!
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Highlighting Native News, Interviews and Native Events since 2008.
Raven Redbone is passionate about bringing awareness of indigenous issues to everyone and his show is his means of getting it done. “I would like to see all our human family come together, but its is important for those of us that are not the original peoples to know what truly happened here on the planet we call home. It is very important to get their voices out on the airwaves, and I am grateful that I can help make this happen at KAOS 89.3 FM”, Raven says. We talk at length about indigenous people all around the world and how, as Raven puts it, “With the indigenous view [of the world] we can begin to heal again – all of us”.
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Part first nation, spiritual, activist, healer, artist, father, drummer & poet. Raised in Texaztlan.
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God's Misfits is a live weekly radio show that features an eclectic mix of artists primarily with a faith in God
which are not typically heard on religious radio and also not widely represented in the commercial mainstream.
Local and Regional artists are highly represented, as are artists with upcoming live shows.
Music genres include Indie Rock, Alternative, Hard Rock, Metal, Punk, Emo, Hip-Hop, Electronic, Acoustic/Folk & more.
