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The latest in electronic pop, R&B, and other soulful music. Always brand new music! Feels-talk, moon-talk, and sultry jams.
Underground obscurities and above-ground psych, prog, funk and rock from the 1970s and beyond.
Progressive rock over 4.5 decades. Or a 12 step addiction program? Your choice and your fix.
Punk, New Wave, No Wave and other rich wholesome cherry goodness from the Golden Era
A variety of vintage music anchored in 1950s/1960s rock ‘n’ roll and soul music, occasionally extending backward or forward in time. Step Inside the Wizard’s Hat!
Ear inserts (may affect balance), exhumations and curios.
Go find yourself a new band! Sessions From The Box is the live concert experience without the sticky floor. Live sessions and interviews from local and touring bands. No genres, just great music.
Very Good Plus explores a mix of minimal and experimental synth, folk, electric jazz, kosmische, tribal ambient, disco, soul & funk, and related genres, typically with an international reach to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.
Hipsters Suck = postpunksynthpsychnoisewhatever; punctuated with pretentiousness (See, I used a semi-colon!).
We highlight the best new music released each week with an eclectic mix of synth-pop, hip-hop, indie rock, R&B and garage. All genres unified by the freshness. Bangers only.
Wild, weird, psych, soul, country jammers, easy on the ears, rock n' roll.
No genre exclusions, just serious quality control. Tune in, Turn on, Drop out!
Sweet ska and rocksteady from the sixties, the deepest roots reggae from the seventies and the best dancehall from the eighties and beyond. Get ready to move your dancing feet to the sound that can't be beat: The IMPACT! Sound.
DJ YETI AKA Mike McGonigal plays a selection of killer rare, raw gospel music from his collection of thousands of records. He’s overseen reissues of gospel for Tompkins Square, Mississippi, Penniman, City Hall, Honest Jons and his own Social Music label.
Kristin B. spins new and old favorites from the wide worlds of pop, indie, psych, soul, strum and drum, drone, twang, and lo-fi for your hi-fi. Special emphasis on the News (Zealand, Jersey and York).
Classic rock and heavy metal collide on the Heavy Metal Sewïng Cïrcle. Great singing and songwriting in loud and heavy music will help the faint of heart ease into things, and killer nuggets will be unearthed for the initiated. No earplugs required. \m/
Melted Radio Melted Radio explores “the space between taste", a hazy zone where 60's psych & country co-exist peacefully alongside 80's synth, weirdo folk, and international pop hits.
New and newly unearthed jams from all over to put you in a dancing mood.
Since 2014, Hoot 'N Howl is XRAY FM's original oldies radio show! Tune in every Sunday for real, rare, and rockin' vinyl of the 1940's thru late 1960's in a cross genre blend of scratchy classics and hidden gems!
Warning..this is not a Radio Show. It's a state of mind.
Repping hard for haunting beauty, magic, and the weird.
Record Lections is a weekly zine where DJ hell books extrapolates vinyl gems that have influenced him as a devotee to the music idiom.
60 minutes dedicated to post-punk, darkwave, cold wave and whatever other signifiers, Dave Cantrell and Victor Montes bring you the best, most wide-ranging playlist you can imagine. Known by goths and wavers everywhere, SFUTF is your FINEST resource.
A live interactive radio show broadcast from the Slingshot Lounge in beautiful southeast Portland! On most Thursday nights we come to you from the back porch of the lounge where host Arthur Bradford welcomes calls, text messages, and live conversation with patrons who come in to see the show. Sometimes we have planned guests and those have included Zia McCabe, Viva Las Vegas, Stephen Malkmus, Thomas Lauderdale, Joy Bryant, Moon Zappa, and more! We love to talk about Drugs, Sex, and Basketball, but we don't mind if things go astray either.
A two-hour mix designed to feature a wide variety of styles and flavors. Hope you enjoy the ride!!
Rad music (or close enough). Join the hunt for lost gems and new treasures every Wednesday at 7pm. We serve indie rock, global psychedelica, lo-fi, art punk, a particular sort of americana, Portland-centric, international pop, folkishness, and real rock and good radio.
Power-Pop, Punk and Mod Revival from the late 70s and early 80s, spinning primarily 7" singles
A deceptively sweet concoction of indie musics, from twee to postpunk, for middle-of-the-night snacking.
Unvarnished sounds, unsung singers, demo obscurities, vanguard traditionalists, buried history.
All original vinyl, from all over the world. Player of places from parts unknown, from Fuzz to Handclaps all come together in the hands of MorningRemorse .
An intoxicating mix of psychedelic & experimental sounds new & old: Krautrock/kosmische, acid folk/weirdlore, hauntological delights, popsike pipedreams, analog electronics, surreal sound collage/drone, avant-rock oddities, & unusual international sounds.
This hour long show dives deep into lesser known music of yesteryear and today.
Time & Place is a program that aims to take you on a journey through the most distinctive and fascinating music scenes from any point in time, anywhere on earth and potentially beyond!
Get your day started with XRAY! We'll talk local news, Portland's creative scene, preview new releases, interview local changemakers, and plenty more. This program is actively in development, so we want to hear what you think: text in at 971-220-5979 with your feedback!
Year 8 of our Teach-In celebrating International Women's Day. Regular programming is preempted from 7am-8pm to platform conversations centering women, with particular focus on BIPOC, trans, queer, immigrant, poor, working-class, & disabled women.
Hello Cruel World brings the worlds of singer/songwriters and acoustic music to you every Thursday from 3-4pm with conversations and in-studio performances as often as possible.
2 hours of hip-hop, funk & soul with a heavy focus on the Portland scene.
