Please come out and support KUSF today at 1:00 p.m. We are going to rally before the meeting of the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco at City Hall. As you know, the University of San Francisco sold the station to a classical station run out of USC (with some major corporate backing). If you are in SF and can come out to represent, we would really appreciate it. It takes ALL of us to make community radio happen in the Bay Area. Thank you!
Jan
24
KUSF | THE FINAL FIVE MINUTES. by Howard Ryan, KUSF DJ Schmeejay Bobby Goldsboro’s birthday that day, and as I have a couple of old 45’s of his, I decided to bring one down to the station and celebrate his 70th on the air with a song. When going through my records at home that morning, I also grabbed Vangelis Papathanissiou’s “Lapocalypse des Animaux” to play underneath us at the breaks of my sets. It was already looking out to be another emotionally charged Radiodrome. At about 9:50, after playing Goldsboro’s weepy “Danny is a Mirror to Me”, I announced the song and the rest of the set over the top of Vangelis’ ambient greek genius. The piece continued as I turned around to see Trista Bernasconi, KUSF Program Director, standing in the doorway of the studio. She asked me to step outside, and looked upset. I went over and she told me, “this is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. The station has been sold, and I have to turn the transmitter off.” I was stunned. Immediately, other people from the university who were there in the wings were telling me, “everything else will stay the same, don’t worry - we will be online within hours, but only online”. I looked behind me into Studio A and the signal was already gone as my record continued to play silently on Turntable One. My fellow Music Director, Irwin Swirnoff happened to be there that morning in our workroom and after he found out we kinda just stood in there and stared blankly, in disbelief, occasionally pacing the room. Like you would in a hospital after a finding out about a loved one’s hit and run accident. We were finally being coaxed by security to leave the premises while they changed the locks, and headed to Lone Mountain to see the president of the university, Father Privett. A cop was waiting for us outside his elevator. We waited and waited and an assistant eventually came out and told us he was there but was busy. She assured us that would tell him that we were requesting his presence at their “informational meeting” that was planned for the following night in Fromm Hall. We wanted some answers, and not just from their PR tank. Now joining up with Deia de Brito from KALW, we then went to the Vice’s office, Charlie Cross. You can see the YouTube video everywhere now. Witness first hand the dehumanizing and antagonistic response we received from his office. Sad and pathetic. At a prestigious institute of higher learning. Despicable. It’s been a few days now, and I’m amazed at how unreal it all seems. In San Francisco, we’re often kept from the all-to-common reality of anti-community greed. If it can happen here, this country is really, just completely and irrevocably, gonna be in the hands of the few. While they silence the many. Chinese Star Radio. Radiotochka, Radio Goethe. Franco Fun. The Pastor Tom Show. The Love Letters Squad. Diva Radio. The Classical Cowboy. I’ve still got two hours of Radiodrome that I’d like to air, records still sitting in the corner of my living room awaiting their chance. We will not be silent.
Jan
23
I posted a new podcast in two places: www.kusf-archives.com and http://djstevil.podomatic.com
Jan
18
The University of San Francisco has acted in an underhanded way by selling the license and the transmitter for KUSF without telling any of the DJs or volunteer staff. I did my show this morning and half way through the following DJ’s shift, they cut the signal and forced everyone to leave the building. There is a meeting on the campus tomorrow night (Wednesday 1-19-2011) in Fromm Hall behind the church at 7:00 p.m. Come out and support if you are able. Perhaps we can fight this with enough support. Thank you.
Jan
1
A. Kirk & His Twelve Clouds of Joy - All the Jive is Gone
Serge Gainsbourg - Comic Strip
God Bullies - Pretty on the Inside
The Legendary Pink Dots - Leap of Faith
The Billy Nayer Show - Glue
Les Georges Leningrad - Cocktail Vampire
Paul Dutton - Wolf Chant
Marnie Stern - Cinco de Mayo
Death - Let the World Turn
Moon Duo - Winter
Warpaint - Shadows
Flight of the Conchords - Business Time
Apache - Finger Banger
DMBQ - Mo-Ya Mo-Ya
Erase Errata - Ouija Boarding
Marvin Pontiac - Runnin’ ‘Round
Sun City Girls - The Street Plano
Spectrum - Like…
Taxi Girl - 1/2 Sur Mes Souvenirs
Hoppy Kamiyama - A Meaningful Meaningless
J.C. Satan - Odyssey of Love
Television - Friction
Screaming Females - Fall Asleep
The Soft Moon - Parallels
The Birthday Party - King Ink
Kluster - Eruption 1
The Butthole Surfers - Human Cannibal
Hank IV - Down in the Dumps
Royal Baths - Nikki Don’t
Mugstar - Paradox
Animal Collective - Street Flash
Alice Coltrane - Isis and Osiris
Jan
1
Hoppy Kamiyama- Sometimes I’m Happy
The Satelliters - Six Days are Gone
Deerhunter - Basement Scene
King Khan & The Shrines - Fear and Love
Aias - Quan Tornis Dema
Uz Jsme Doma - Reel
Captain Beefheart - Hey Garland, I Dig Your Tweed Coat
Ornette Coleman - Rock the Clock
The Billy Nayer Show - Henry Joe
Tom Waits - Diamonds on My Windshield
Sun City Girls - Ben’s Radio
The Electric Prunes - (I had too Much to Dream) Last Night
Ganglians - 100 Years
Screaming Females - Wild
Joy Division - These Days
Husker Du - Never Talking to You Again
Television Personalities - Three Wishes
Marnie Stern - Gimme
Warpaint - Undertow
Landed - Blow Your Burger
Hank IV - Twice as Quit
J.C. Satan - Can You?
Mission of Burma - (That’s When I Reach for My) Revolver
The Fresh & Onlys - I’m All Shook Up
Les Rallizes Denudes - Enter the Mirror
John Coltrane - Out of this World
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Christine
The Legendary Pink Dots - Leap of Faith
Taxi Girl - 1/2 Sur Mes Souvenirs
Gary Numan - M.E.
Tom Ze - Roquen Rol Bim-Bom
Valley of the Giants - Westworld
Little Claw - Brackish Stratum
The Dirtbombs - Wreck My Flow