FREQUENCY UPLIFT!
10a - 1pm Pacific
FRI. 05.08.2026 in SF city limits @ 102.5 FM + online worldwide @ KXSF.FM
Community music and love with Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, opening it’s 26th season, this weekend. A chat with Cristina Ibarra, Managing Director, and digging into some festival artists, as well as local and visiting bands…
… and an upcoming festival for a fossil-fuel free future, next Sunday in Richmond, talking with Oil and Gas Action Network's Ilonka Zlatar.
… more new ecstatic and freedom sounds, from Kulintang Dialect (San Francisco), Neblinas del Pacífico y Eryen Korath (San Francisco/Colombía), Pixvae (Lyons), Clear Path Ensemble (Aotearoa / New Zealand), Pigeon (Margate, UK), Criolo, Amaro e Dino (São Paolo/Cape Verde/Lisbon) + some subversive salsa and Lusaphone resistance in code
… always broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!
10a - 1pm Pacific
FRI. 05.01.2026
May Day in SF city limits @ 102.5 FM + online worldwide @ KXSF.FM
Celebrating worker’s and people’s power, on this historic day.
Dialogue and poetics, agitation and art with Jodie Sheffels (UESF bargaining team, Washington HS math-teacher), Michael Avant ( AFSCME 3299 president), Nikita Shalimov (Tech Workers Coalition Bay Area), and Tongo Eisen-Martin (San Francisco poet, movement worker, and educator).
… new liberatory sound, red and green and black frequencies from La Doña (San Francisco), Michael Annotti (San Francisco), Azuka Moweta (Onitsha, Nigeria), Keith LaMar & Albert Marquès (death row, Ohio/Barcelona, Catalonia), Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian (Teheran,Iran), & certain new anthems.
… always broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!
10a - 1pm Pacific
FRI. 04.24.2026 in SF city limits @ 102.5 FM + online worldwide @ KXSF.FM
“We know ourselves as part and as crowd, in an unknown that does not terrify. We cry our cry of poetry. Our boats are open, and we sail them for everyone.” ― Édouard Glissant
… sailing in new sound and fury/rage and silences/organizing/creation from Mia Pixley (Oakland), The Neighborhood Kids (San Diego). Anthony Joseph (Trinidad and Tobago/UK), Rizomagic (Bogota, Colombia), Angélique Kidjo (Benin), Muyiwa Kunnuji (Nigeria/France), Rosa Brunello (Italy), MJ Pérez (Arzúa, Galicia), signifying.
… always broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!
10a - 1pm Pacific
FRI. 04.17.2026 in SF city limits @ 102.5 FM + online worldwide @ KXSF.FM
… diggin’ in with LEELA PAYMAI, aka ZHENIIA, San Francisco-based bassist, trombonist, composer, and arranger … going deep in the sounds of Persian Pop as meets modern jazz and debuting a first full release this coming week, “Saraab”, a project filtering ancestral memory through contemporary struggle and joy, music to grieve to, dream through, and rise with…
… AND yet more new liberatory harmonics/creative dissonance from JULIA KEEFE INDIGENOUS BIG BAND (Nimiipuu homeland / Native America), TEHRANI DROM & PARISA KARIMA MOLAN (Montréal/Iran ), AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE/MARY HALVORSON (Oakland/Brooklyn), BCUC/BANTU CONTINUA UHURU CONSCIOUSNESS (Soweto, South Africa), + love and flowers for ASHA BHOSLE, rise in power
… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!
10a - 1pm Pacific
FRI. 04.10.2026 in SF city limits @ 102.5 FM + online worldwide @ KXSF.FM
… talking with People's Life Fund/Northern California War Tax Resistance activist JIM HABER, as they come to collect our money to fund yet more madness
… but still some more new liberatory harmonics, and creative dissonance from TRIPLE RED FAST LUCK (San Francisco), MARYAM SALEH (Cairo, Egypt), BALU (Democratic Republic of Congo/France), LUCAS SANTTANA (Rio De Janeiro, Brasil), the MANDOLIN SISTERS (Chennai, India), DOCTOR NATIVO (Sololá Department, Guatemala), ARLO PARKS (London), MAYSSA JALLAD (Beirut, Lebanon) + ecstatic memories and balm for the fight from seventies Trinidad and Tobago, and eighties Lagos via Kingston ,
… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!
10a - 1pm Pacific
FRI. 03.27.2026 in SF city limits @ 102.5 FM + online worldwide @ KXSF.FM
… small talk, chisme, cacophony or polyphony
It’s all about the voice [yours], a standing [wave]
up. sharing. [yelling, crying, sighing].
be heard.
… more new liberatory harmonics, and ecstatically resistant counterpoint, against time, from
Selena Feliciano (Oakland), Cocanha (Occitanie), Nuevos Rios (Timbiqui, Colombia/Toulouse, Occitanie), Verito Asprilla (Tumaco, Colombia), 6hunesseq (Viljandi, Estonia), Carlos Niño & Friends (LA), Aja Monet (LA/NYC), Joy Guidry (NYC), others/elsewhere,
… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!
10a - 1pm Pacific
FRI. 03.27.2026 in SF city limits @ 102.5 FM + online worldwide @ KXSF.FM
… interview and deep dive into the music with drummer-composer TOM SKINNER, co-founder of bands Sons of Kemet and The Smile, and deep into his second full album as a bandleader with ‘Kaleidoscopic Visions’, coming to SF’s The Independent, Wed. April 1st under the pink full moon
… more new liberatory frequencies, and ecstatic resistance, from Caroline Davis (Brooklyn), Laura Misch (London), Irreversible Entanglements (Philly), Omar Sosa (Cuba/Paris), Leo Middea (Rio de Janeiro/Barcelona), Nusantara Beat (Indonesia/Amsterdam), Neba Solo / Benego Diakité (Mali), and everything for everyone, all at once
…and more, tickets and joy .
… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!
10a - 1pm Pacific
FRI. 03.20.2026 in SF city limits @ 102.5 FM + online worldwide @ KXSF.FM
… interviews and some live and new music with activist/artists/singers on this Equinox / Nowruz / Eid al-Fitr day, on the bright moments and new futures we make together with voice and intention:
PETE KRONOWITT, local activist song-writer, part of AMPLIFY / Music Declares Emergency, activating the arts around climate justice, and an organizer for the March 28th ‘NO KINGS’ day. Helping people stand up and make change, through song as a catalyst
NAOMI WESTWATER, making folk music as a Black, queer singer-songwriter, working through ritual and storytelling to aid nature in the end of capitalism and the return to community, creativity, and collective joy … and “RECLAIMING FOLK’ to its black, brown and indigenous roots.
… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!
10a - 1pm Pacific
FRI. 03.13.2026 in SF city limits @ 102.5 FM + online worldwide @ KXSF.FM
In interview with non-binary and beyond-genre musician AroMa, hearing the debut of their new EP ‘Smitten’ and digging into their polymath practice
… as always, other brand (k)new liberatory frequencies from Tanya Tagaq (Iqaluktuuttiaq, Nunavut), Shy One (London), Daughters of Donbas (Ukraine), Seera (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), ọmọlolú (Brooklyn), Ana Tijoux (Santiago, Chile), older music from Mahsa Vahdat (Tehran, Iran / San Francisco), Niloufar Nourbakhsh (Karaj, Iran / NYC)
…and other women and non-binary and queer artists (and a few allies).
… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!
10a - 1pm Pacific
FRI. 03.06.2026 in SF city limits @ 102.5 FM + online worldwide @ KXSF.FM
these songs, that voice
ecstatic, mad, made
of what makes us human
… more new liberatory frequencies, and tools, from anaiis (Oakland/London), Diana Gameros (San Francisco), Cocanha/Los Sara Fontán/Tarta Relena (Occitania), MWSOG (Cardiff, Cymru/Wales), Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino (Salento, Southern Italy), Hannah Peel / Beibei Wang (Graigavon,Northern Ireland/Hefei, China ), Yamila (Brussels/Madrid), Flying Lotus (LA), Muzi (Empangeni, KwaZulu-Natal)
…and others, polyphonous and dub-adjacent, freeing.
… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
UPLIFT!
FREQUENCY UPLIFT!
10a - 1pm Pacific
FRI. 02.27.2026 in SF city limits @ 102.5 FM + online worldwide @ KXSF.FM
how we sing to each other,
across lines and despite the dull everyday violence
is all of it
… is what makes the changes, and some other newness and freedoms from La Doña (SF), Ekcentrik (SF), The Three Seas (Sydney /Santiniketan, West Bengal), Cochimea (Brooklyn/Hiakim), KINACT (Kinshasa), Mexican Institute of Sound / Meridian Brothers (Mexico City/Bogotá ), OHYUNG (Brooklyn/Iowa City) Healer Oran (Johannesburg)
…and others, marking time with beauty, intervals and rhythms
… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
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FREQUENCY UPLIFT!
10a - 1pm Pacific
FRI. 02.20.2026 in SF city limits @ 102.5 FM + online worldwide @ KXSF.FM
In interview and last hour live session with CLARISSA BITAR, queer Bay-Area based Palestinian oud-player, multi-instrumentalist, and producer, celebrating a new album, ‘Bachaf al Layl’ and upcoming tour. Tune in for revelation and liberation, tickets, joy …
…and some other new liberatory frequencies from THE SHADOW BAND (SF), ZHENIIA (SF), CORAZÓN de CEDRO (SF), LISA MEZZACAPPA 5(ISH) (Berkeley), ALABASTER DePLUME (London), SOFÍA REI / DAYMÉ AROCENA (Buenas Aires/NYC, Havana/London), TINARIWEN / SULAFAl ELYAS (Mali/Sudan), ILHAN ERSAHIN (Istanbul/NYC), MEHRNAM RASTEGARI (Iran/NYC), aja monet (LA) …and more noise and love and resistance, sonic solidarity
… broadcasting live from YELAMU, on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone territory.
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