WAM BAM ASHLEYANNE!
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Public radio roustabout, DEEJAY,
freelance producer & all-around heroine
KALW 91.7FM, San Francisco
KALX 90.7FM, Berkeley
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about me
- You can download a PDF copy of my resume here
When Ashleyanne isn't contributing to the public radio programs Crosscurrents, Chew On This, Life of the Law, and Audiograph, she can be found playing records for the sweetest dance parties across the Pacific Coast, including: Hard French (SF); Club Underground (LA); American Tripps (SF); Oldies Night (SF); and Sugar Town (PDX). She has been a reporter, producer, and on-air DJ in the Bay Area public radio community for more than five years. When a free moment flies her way, she's known to write too many letters and sculpt beehives the good, ol' fashioned way.
Recent Press:
Interview with San Francisco's, The Bold Italic (10/17/12)
Interview with Anna Sterling on Feministing.com (11/10/2012)
Winner:
Jonathan Toubin's Soul Clap & Dance-Off, San Francisco 2012
Hard French Winter Ball Dance-Off, 2011
Shout out to Lily Chou for lending her photography skills for this site, and Dick Vivian for the use of Rooky Ricardo's Records as an ideal backdrop.
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Tracks
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upcoming events
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Download my latest dance mix
- "Northern Soul rarities mixed for your dancin' pleasure"
Track List:
Soulville - Dinah Washington
Heaven Must Have Sent You - The Elgins
Helpless - Kim Weston
He’s Got the Power - The Exciters
My Heart is in Danger - Alder Ray
Look at Me Now - The Ethics
Foxy Girls in Oakland - Rodger Collins
Girl Don’t Make Me Wait - Bunny Sigler
Eenie, Meenie, Gypsaleenie - The Debonaires
Will You Be My Love - The Four J’s
(Come On and Be My) Sweet Darlin’ - Jimmy Clark
Just Because of You - Rocky Roberts & The Airedales
Your P-E-R-S-O-N-A-L-I-T-Y - Jackie Lee
Do I Love You (Indeed I Do) - Frank Wilson
Download this dance mix here
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"This Heart of Mine: A mix for those who are missing a little sumthin'-sumthin' this Valentine's Day"Track List:
My Heart Can Feel The Pain - The Tonettes
Open The Door To Your Heart - Darrell Banks
I Feel It In My Heart - Talking Heads
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter - The Anniversary
Heartbeat - Dum Dum Girls
Listen To My Heart - Maxine Brown
Souvenirs Of A Heartbreak - Thelma Jones
Deep In My Heart - Wendy ReneMy Heart is On Fire - Billy Bland
He Will Break Your Heart - Jerry Butler
Blue (& Broken Hearted) - Benny Goodmans Boys
Don’t Break this Heart of Mine - ? & the Mysterians
Heart Cooks Brain - Modest Mouse
Bad Heart - Royal Baths
Idiot Heart - Sunset Rubdown
Heads of Dust, Hearts of Lust - Elf Power
Which Way Your Heart Will Go - Mason Jennings
This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You) - Isley Brothers
You Can’t Dress Up A Broken Heart - The Loveables
Anyone Who Had A Heart - Dionne Warwick
Locking Up My Heart - Marvelettes
When Love Comes Knocking At My Heart - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
That’s What My Heart Needs - Otis Redding
How Can You Mend A Broken Heart - Al Green
Download the zip file of these songs here
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Posts
“Thank you” just doesn’t fully encapsulate how grateful I am to my friends who have shown their support to KALW. And I don’t just mean pledging $$, I mean those who listen, those who share shows and stories that interest them… Because of you, me and all my radio friends are able to continue dreaming up the most creative, interesting and experimental audio as possible. THANK YOU for doing your part to keep public media relevant. I promise that as long as you won’t stop listening, I won’t stop scheming.
Pictured above: Me and Matt Martin, the most baddest assest station manager around, pitching live during yesterday morning’s membership driveI’M ON THE RADIO LIVE tomorrow morning!
7AM-10AM, I’ll be at the side of the greatest station manager in the world, Matt Martin, helping get some bucks in the KALW piggy bank during this, our shortest membership campaign (aka pledge drive) ever!
If you call and make a donation (to the sexiest public radio station in SF) during that timeslot, it makes me look really, really cool guys. Here’s the number to make the magic with: 800-525-9917.
Listen live at www.kalw.org or 91.7FM in San Francisco.If I have to keep a list of shit to do, I have decided that it should be as fun as possible to use.
Today, I made myself a new task/scheduler/book/thing. Materials: Moleskine (brown paper cover), Sharpie, custom cut vinyl stickers (designed and printed by me).
I highly recommend carving out two hours a month to treat yoself to creating something that makes TCBing way easier and actually, sort of fun.Yo, doods. I just got a bunch of new records and (spoiler alert) they’re fuckin’ awesome.
Come out to El Rio tonight for American Tripps (AKA Mission Mission’s) PING PONG NITE.
We’ll have indoor and outdoor tables, and plenty of tunes to soundtrack your victories at said tables.
FREE admission, 21+
9PM - 12AM
3158 Mission Street, San Francisco
Full details HERE.Custom, silk screened KALW t-shirt made by moi. I got sick and tired of forgetting to get some new station shirts to add to my closet, so I just made my own. I used an exacto knife to draw and cut out the design on vinyl. Then I silkscreened it right onto a plain, ol’ white t-shirt. Without the help of any computers! Analog win!
Made at TechShop, San Francisco. May 5, 2013.And then I played this one later on at Hard French… and it was mobbin’. Hard French is like the perfect playground for a soul DJ, absolutely everyone is clapping and dancing anywhere they can find a free space. </gush>
Thank you DJ Carnita & Brown Amy and all my pals at Hard French, yesterday was too much fun.Yesterday, at Hard French, Brown Amy absolutely blew my mind with this record. Little known “Mr. Clean” by Dickey & Gloria. The vocals are so raw, and the entire song feels like an unstoppable machine.
NEWSFLASH: I’ll be joining Daniel “Fancy” Bermudez on the turntables this Friday for the one and only OLDIES NIGHT.
Expect only thee finest RnB, rock n’ roll, and soul-soul-soul
May 3rd AT THE KNOCKOUT
Get ready to SWEAT & SPARKLE for only $3
Deets & RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/events/151105778404908
SHAZAM!This is totally happening today. Come see how DJs with hair higher than God fit their headphones on top. Is that why people are now using those Hello Kitty phones to cue?
ANYWAYS—My records and larger-than-average hair will be there, spinning from 8pm onwards.
Free. Free. Free. And fun. Fun. Fun.
Click here for the full deets.My last day in L.A. marked my first sighting of Miss Van.
Taken today on 7th Street, near the bridge.LA friends!
Tomorrow night is going to be beauteous.
Psychotonic’s *** BIG HAIR PARTY ***
With Special Guest DJs
• RUBY WHITE (Where My Ladies At, SF)
• WAM BAM ASHLEYANNE (American Tripps, SF)
Spinning the finest Girl Groups and Soul dancers!
• KOGAR THE SWINGIN’ APE (Lux & Ivy’s Favorites)
Spinning the best Rockabilly, Wild Instrumentals, Rhythm & Blues, Soul and 60s Garage Fuzz
+++ BIG HAIR CONTEST at 12:00 MIDNIGHT +++
Big Foot Lodge
3172 Los Feliz, LA
Cheap drinks!Let’s daaaance!
I’m a lucky duck. For months, I’ve been the assistant producer for the radio project, Audiograph.
Here’s the latest Audiograph feature story I produced with KALW’s Maya de Paula Hanika.
The best way I can describe the sound you’ll hear is a toilet barfing up a urinal. You can read the full story here: http://www.kalw.org/post/audiographs-sound-week-wave-organTONIGHT: MELISSA’S BIRTHDAY AT BEAUTY BAR!!!!!!!!
The perfect place for me and Miss Brenda Lee to work out our demons.
Records and the babes that spin them, 10PM - close @ Beauty Bar.
Join us, won’t you? No cover. 21+.I’m logging off for a week and pretending I live in suburb in 1987.
When I come back, this amazing night is happening in San Francisco. It’s basically unmissable, so I’ll see you there.
https://www.facebook.com/events/609906275701997To juxtapose all the violence in my tumblr lately. An altruism I hold very close.
Installation by Jenny Holzer, (1983-85, Manhattan).My friends and their Oakland Toothpicks.
At Linden Street Brewery, Oakland.
See more on my flickr.“How Do You Ruin Me” by Black Prairie from the band’s official site.
I can’t stop listening to this album over and over.
- I’m a lucky duck. For months, I’ve been the assistant producer for the radio project, Audiograph. Here’s the latest Audiograph feature story I produced with KALW’s Maya de Paula Hanika. The best way I can describe the sound you’ll hear is a toilet barfing up a urinal. You can read the full story here: http://www.kalw.org/post/audiographs-sound-week-wave-organ
(No streaming audio available)13 plays - It took blood, sweat, tears, and seawater to finish this story on the past and future of the bay’s Mothball Fleet. It just aired this evening on KALW’s Crosscurrents, and now you can listen to it anytime. Click below and sail away. kalw.org/post/remembering-bay…story-it-floats-away After World War Two, Suisun Bay was a west coast port for the navy’s largest ships. The first grey goliaths arrived in the bay in 1946, and continued coming in over the following decades. They were meant to be a reserve fleet – so in theory, if the Navy ever needed extra ships, this is where they would get them. But for the most part, they never have needed them. And over time, the fleet has become a graveyard – a graveyard that needs a lot of upkeep. In 2007, an environmental group sued the government over the condition of the fleet. In 2010, they won, and now almost all of the Mothballed boats are on their way out. And as they go, so will a hefty part of the Bay Area’s naval history.
(No streaming audio available)36 plays - It’s the last day of February. That means tomorrow people will gather in the streets to celebrate arts and culture at Oakland Art Murmur’s public event, First Friday. The day carries extra weight this time around, because of what happened at the last First Friday. Things were going well until about ten minutes before 11pm, when a shooting resulted in one death and three injuries, and the incident shocked people who have been patronizing the event since its beginning seven years ago. In the aftermath of the Art Murmur shooting, will people stay away? Or will First Friday continue to draw thousands? I hit Telegraph Avenue yesterday to find out what residents are really thinking. This originally aired earlier today on Crosscurrents on KALW 91.7FM in San Francisco. See the full story at kalw.org/post/talking-about-quieter-art-murmur
(No streaming audio available)23 plays - In July 2012, I sat down with my maternal grandparents, a stack of photographs, and my recorder. Here’s one of my favorite excerpts. Thomas & Bonnie Coppola in Ione, California.Recorded by their dutiful granddaughter, Ashleyanne Krigbaum.
(No streaming audio available)50 plays - La Mer, from an untitled band in an early 1960’s-era LP of French accordion music called “Holiday In Paris”Thanks to a radio pal and favorite audiophile of mine, I can listen to this all day. And so can you.
(No streaming audio available)46 plays - A highlight of 2012 for me was recording the discussion between Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware on the future of comics, held at the Oakland Museum of California. July 27, 2012. Here’s the entire conversation in one big, nerdy chunk.
(No streaming audio available)344 plays - Last night, Ira Glass paid me a compliment.
(No streaming audio available)119 plays - You can stream my KALX 90.7FM show from last week anytime on SoundCloud for your cochleal pleasure. 2+ hours of Noisepop picks, rare vinyl soul and R&B selections, and new music from Of Montreal and the Royal Baths. Go on, treat yoself.
(No streaming audio available)154 plays - Expect to hear this heart-melter by Wendy Rene, originally on Stax Records tonight on my KALX showYou can listen live at http://kalx.berkeley.edu, 9:30PM-12AM (PST)
(No streaming audio available)2567 plays - WAM BAM Ashleyanne’s Best of 2011 Show on KALX 90.7FM Berkeley The show I have the most fun compiling, all the best of the best of the best released in 2011, certain to make your hips sway and your heart thump. Highlights include tracks from: Beach Fossils, Youth Lagoon, Real Estate, Shannon and the Clams, Sea Lions, Alvarius B., Still Corners, Coathangers, Bare Wires, Grass Widow, Metronomy, Bearsuit, Timber Timbre and many more (whew!) Live show recorded on Friday, January 27, 2012 9:00PM - 12:00AM (PST) Track Listing can be found here: http://kalx.berkeley.edu/programs/wam-bam-ashleyanne And you can find my condensed, best albums of 2011 list here: http://kalx.berkeley.edu/bestof/2011
(No streaming audio available)109 plays - Ring in the New Year with my latest show on KALX 90.7FM Berkeley! Stream anytime on @soundcloud, my little jewel babies
(No streaming audio available)0 plays - Lacking certifiably rad Xmas Muzak today? Stream my holiday-flavored KALX show anytime from SoundCloud. Stuff your stocking with sassy tracks from Shannon & The Clams and The Coathangers; holidays tracks from The Knife, Low and Eux Autres Live show recorded on Friday, December 16, 2011 9:00PM - 12:00AM (PST) http://kalx.berkeley.edu Track Listing can be found here: http://kalx.berkeley.edu/programs/wam-bam-ashleyanne
(No streaming audio available)0 plays - Listen to last week’s KALX show anytime you’d like. Stuff your silk stockings with The Bare Wires & Glenn Miller.
(No streaming audio available)1 plays - Find my latest sacrifice to the @KALXradio gods, from earlier tonight, streaming now on #soundcloud
(No streaming audio available)0 plays - Reading is Neato! Public Service Announcement | WAM BAM Ashleyanne My new sounds
(No streaming audio available)0 plays - Krigbaum, Ashleyanne Mic Break KALX 111111 | WAM BAM Ashleyanne My new sounds
(No streaming audio available)0 plays - WAM BAM Ashleyanne Live on KALX 90.7FM Berkeley - 11/11/2011 Listen to my latest KALX show anytime you please! Brazilian Bossa Nova, new Dum Dum Girls, Odetta and <3. Tracklisting can be found at http://kalx.berkeley.edu/programs/wam-bam-ashleyanne
(No streaming audio available)0 plays - WAM BAM Ashleyanne Live on KALX 90.7FM Berkeley - 11/4/2011 | WAM BAM Ashleyanne Hey, lazypants! Stream my latest @kalxradio 90.7FM show straight from @soundcloud. For freesies; no foolsies.
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Tweets
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- @primopreems Catch is sexy! Thank you for continually innovating the most fun dance nights. I don't know what my booty would do without you.
- @AmericanTripps' #PINGPONGNITE also means that I get to hang out with my wang out with @jesskelso. Score.
- @AmericanTripps @missionmission @elriosf PING PONG NITE, 9PM-12AM. No cover. I'll be in charge of the jams. http://t.co/oXxVyxTV3E
- RT @colinmeloy: Wow, guys: go ahead and waste half your day in this goodness: http://t.co/DgHF4ANhAj (feat. @cfellis @llaurappark @squinkye…May 08, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Today I realized that Little Eva had the best gap in the soul biz. Listen tomorrow night @ #OldiesNight @knockoutsf http://t.co/jACNQZO026
- @chrisdelbuck It must have taken a super sleuth to find that one. A badass of the highest caliber.
- This song rules the universe! And you can dance to it at 45RPM this Friday at the one-&-only #OldiesNight @knockoutsf http://t.co/2nsGi49PKQ
- Four minutes of complicated, discordant folk rock for a golden hour. #BonniePrinceBilly http://t.co/ANm1nB49l3
- @ellingson You can't get weaners like these in Austria. http://t.co/mD5u2Ji29l
- @TheTruthAPM You give me the sonic equivalent of goosebumps. 'Falling' might be my favorite episode to "date". http://t.co/xmCrPp0tqw
- RT @TheLifeoftheLaw: What happens when you break the virtual law of virtual worlds? Listen in real life to our latest podcast to find out. …
- @radiolab Choice: "A gut feeling is a shorthand average of past wisdom" http://t.co/R4B5VCjbgi
- Just found: Earliest known footage of Tyrannosaurus Rex from 1967. Internet, at this moment, I'm so happy you exist. http://t.co/8X1qwsAV7A
- Records & the babes that play them tonight @beautybarsf. It will look just like this flyer: http://t.co/jy6lbTe7N1 I start spinning at 8PM.
- RT @chewradio: You can hear today's episode about self-employment anytime you'd like on our website. Listen up and T.C.B.! http://t.co/h ...
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