record player, kalx dj & producer, & all-around heroine
As you already know, I’m a gigantic dork for public radio, especially in the Bay Area. I’ve been lucky enough to begin an internship within the incredible newsroom at KALW 91.7FM in San Francisco. KALW is a glowing example of an organization dedicated to creating unique, entertaining, informative and expertly produced news programming covering local news issues that other media outlets don’t deliver.
If you already can’t make it through your day without a dose of NPR, please consider adding KALW 91.7FM to your daily radio diet. And if you never have tuned into public radio before, just do it already! It instantly makes you 78% more babely. You can stream KALW’s programming at www.kalw.org.
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Support local public radio — tune in to your local station and donate if and when you can. I do, and I know that my contribution goes a looooong way.
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A short film by Elaine Constantine of a 70’s dance craze to 60’s music, brought to modern-day London.
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2012/03/23/magazine/100000001448239/northern-soul-revived-again.html
Every time I watch this video, my jaw drops to the floor. The soul kids in London are wilddd.
My big, turquoise butt can be seen dancing last month in Portland’s Willamette Weekly! The article is a lowdown of some of the most fun, and established queer dance nights around town.
You can catch the incredible Sugar Town - PDX Queer Soul Dance Party (pictured above) first Saturdays at the Spare Room — you better go go go to the next one on June 2nd!
Tomorrow night you can catch this charming ditty, along with many other deep-crate Girl Groups 45’s on my live radio show!
It’ll be the last WAM BAM Ashleyanne show on KALX, so be sure to set your dial to 90.7FM Berkeley or http://kalx.berkeley.edu.
The Wiz at work on the turntables last night for the all-vinyl affair, Where My Girls At (Taken with Instagram at Beauty Bar)
I had the Clowes’ exhibit all to myself this morning (Taken with Instagram at Oakland Museum of California)
My favorite selection from the recently
released, Modern Cartoonist.
I can’t wait for the Clowes’ exhibit opening this weekend at the Oakland Museum of California.
A MAJOR HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who came out to Sugar Town last week!
Just so’s you know’s, the event will be happening the first Saturday of each month at the Spare Room in Portland!
And a soulful thank you to Shannon & Annie for showing me an incredible time and 45 rpm heaven in PDX. I am extraordinarily lucky to have friends in the universe like you.
xoxo
SUGAR TOWN! 9PM tonight @thefoggynotion! I can’t wait to make everybody shimmy! (Taken with instagram)
Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel. Sentimental people call it inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.