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On My First Travelogue in Nine Years

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I've been in Portland for a little over six and a half months, testing all the waters, getting all the sealegs. Nothing quite enforces the idea of radio being the medium all about the now with a job where everything changes so constantly. It's been a bubble unto itself that gets to isolate me to some degree from everything else in the world, and for that I'm entirely grateful. Nothing has stayed the same from month to month and I'm rolling with the tide and trying, in all things, to slow down. My time at KMHD gave me the time and ability to pull off something I realized I haven't done in nine years-- write a longread travelogue about a music festival. I'm forever haunted by projects I've failed to complete about travels past like heists gone wrong-- Montreal, New Orleans. I cherish my loving ramblings, my verbal snapshots of moments long past-- cold, expensive New York the first time around ; the most professionally fulfilling week I've ever felt in swee...

2024-- Finally Snagging the Brass Ring on the Carousel Ride

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It happened the way one would expect it to happen in a movie. I'm a middle-aged man with a particular set of skills, renowned in certain corners but technically on the outs, when I got a call out of the blue about a life-changing opportunity where I'd uproot my life for a shot at the brass ring, even if it has its own complications. Of course, if this were a movie, the call would have been a guy flying in on a helicopter and landing in the park across the street from my previous home in San Antonio, with my boss walking up my long driveway, taking off his sunglasses, hair tousled in the wind, and starting with "You're a hard man to find", but a phone call out of the blue also sufficed. Last year around this time, I was stuck in a rut. I had gotten the job I thought I wanted managing the adorable hot spring bath house resort/craft beer & wine bar on the Southside of San Antonio, Texas, that my landlord spent years dreaming into reality. People found it charming...

The Line-Up and Evolve for 19 & 20 July 2024

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The Line-Up for 19 July 2024 Makaya McCraven, "Three Fifths A Man" off In The Moment Teebs, "LSP" feat. Austin Peralta off Collections 01 ERIMAJ, "Black Super Hero Theme Song" off Conflict of a Man Chief Adjuah f.k.a. Christian Scott, "The Eraser" off Yesterday You Said Tomorrow The Bad Plus, "Flim" off These Are The Vistas Teebs, "Yellow More New" off Collections 01 Liberty Ellman, "Vibrograph" off Radiate Jeremy Pelt, "Ante Meridiem" off Tomorrow's Another Day Flying Lotus, "Zodiac Shit" off Cosmogramma Alan Braufman, the title track to Infinite Love Infinite Tears Ben Allison, "Some Day We'll All Be Free" off Action-Refraction Jonti, "Pássaros" off Twirligig Joe Sample, "Fly With Wings of Love" off Rainbow Seeker Evolve for 20 July 2024 3 o'clock hour Aleksi Glick, "Nordic Bossa" feat. Laureana off World Traveler The Roots, "H...

The Line-Up and Evolve for 12 & 13 July 2024

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The Line-Up for 12 July 2024 BADBADNOTGOOD, "Rewind Your Mind" off Mid Spiral: Order DJ Harrison, "She Think She Qtron" off Stashboxxx Milton Nascimento & esperanza spalding, "Outubro" off Milton + esperanza Jeremy Pelt, "Basquiat" off Tomorrow's Another Day Alex Sipiagin, "Lost" off Horizons Jonti, the title track to Twirligig Julius Rodriguez, "Champion's Call" feat. Georgia Anne Muldrow off Evergreen SML, "Herbie For Commercials" off Small Medium Large Mark Guiliana, "Introspection Station" off MARK Alan Braufman, "Brooklyn" off Infinite Love Infinite Tears Makaya (McCraven), "A New Movement" off Living Beats EP Phillip Golub, "Threads Gather off Abiding Memory Petter Eldh, "Ozean" feat. Philo Tsongui Jonti, "Pássaros" off Twirligig Hiatus Kaiyote, "Telescope" off Love Heart Cheat Code Evolve for 13 July 2024 3 o'clock hour Matt Wilso...