Heavy in the Hills – Celebrating 1,000 Hours!

That’s a Whole Lotta Hours!

Right from Day One on KAAD-LP, Heavy in the Hills has aired every Tuesday from 8 PM till Midnight, hosted by DJ Jimmy Excess.

Heavy in the Hills has reached a significant milestone – 1000 hours! A special episode will air on Tuesday April 15th at 8 PM on KAAD 103.5 FM in honor of the occasion.

For nearly a decade, every Tuesday from 8 PM till Midnight, Heavy in the Hills has delivered crushing riffs, bone-rattling distortion, and deep dives into the extreme. The 1000th episode promises to be an unrelenting celebration of the genre, featuring special sets, an overview of the last 999 hours, and a sonic onslaught worthy of the occasion.

The show has been a pillar of heavy music radio since 2017 featuring a weekly dive into the darkest, loudest, and heaviest corners of music, featuring doom, sludge, black metal, experimental noise, and beyond.

Tune in at 103.5 FM and streaming on the internet at https://kaad-lp.org.

Traffic Jam 

Traffic Jam Host Dave Allen invites you to “listen in” on Friday, April 11 and 18 at 1 PM to a conversation he’ll be having with Roy Weber, manager of HuKi’Ku Dispensary, tribally owned and operated by the Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians in Jamestown.

Roy Weber Amid a Crop

According to Dave, cannabis is California’s largest cash crop and a growing number of native tribes are including the plant into their economic development plans.The Indigenous cannabis marketplace rose by 30 percent last year and HuKi’Ku (which means herbal medicine in the Me-Wuk language) has just entered this expanding industry.

In addition to Roy Weber, Dave will talk with local tribal members who have found employment at the dispensary and who are planning their upcoming Grand Opening Celebration on April 20th..

Breakfast Barney 

KAAD is delighted to start its weekend programming of information and eclectic music bright and early on Friday mornings with the Breakfast Barney show. Barney delivers music from every continent and from any time period including Cuban jazz, hillbilly, rockabilly, jump blues, swing, Gilbert & Sullivan, old soul and anything else musical mixed into a harmonious blend.

Breakfast Barney is an underground, free range, gluten free and de-gen-erated music show with songs to dance to, sing along with or just enjoy from 7 to 9 am on Fridays. But wait. There’s more. There are chirping birds, random moments of chit-chat, the most pathetic morning traffic and weather report anywhere, and as a KAAD exclusive, a community radio pet-sitting service for companion animals left alone with the radio on.

Want to chat with Barney? Send an email to
breakfastbarney@yahoo.com or info@kaad-lp.org.

Double Takes

We’ve been enjoying some reruns of what Jake Edmondson calls Season One of Double Takes on Thursdays at 5pm and Saturdays at 8am.

We’re pleased to announce that Jake has just created a Season Two with the same unraveling of song choices at the same times as above.

It’s complicated but here’s how it goes: Jake plays the original rendition of a song, then plays a cover of that song by another group. Then he plays a song by that group which calls forth a cover of that song by yet another group, and so on for an hour. Yep, hard to explain, but always a great show.

Vicarious Vacations

Vicarious Vacations is our show where you can travel virtually, get destination ideas and trip planning secrets through host Wendy Hesse’s interviews with intrepid locals.

Emily Buss, who works in KAAD’s youth broadcasting initiative, and her friend Ansel Carr went to Paris and experienced fashion, art, wine, food, history, friendship.

Vicarious Vacations airs at Noon on second and fourth weekends – April 12th & 13th and 26th & 27th.

Book Talk

What does the book Listen World: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman have to do with Tuolumne County?

Tune in to Joy Willow’s Book Talk: Inspirations on Saturdays and Sundays, April 19th & 20th and May 3rd & 4th to hear a lively conversation about an extraordinary woman, Elsie Robinson, who owned and lived on the property that later became home to Foothill Horizons Outdoor Education.

The office of Jess Hewitt, principal of Foothill Horizons, was once that of the prolific Elsie Robinson. She became a distinguished columnist, starting at the Oakland Tribune, with her work eventually becoming syndicated, an early day Ann Landers with a following of 20,000 readers in the Hearst newspapers. It’s a fascinating story of the challenges and triumphs that a gutsy woman survived, well before most women would have dared.