Podcasts

Patrick Pirtle interviews each week a community member involved in sustainability and other community action projects and activities. Thursdays at Noon. Check it out and see what your community is up to!!
Local Impact Feb 09, 2012 Guest this week is Peter Bergel, of Oregon Peaceworks

KMUZ Open House Video, Part 1
KMUZ Open House Video, Part 2
We had a blast, the event was a success, and the proof is right here! Check it! Thanks to Ken Cartwright for filming, editing, and posting these videos.

Melanie in the Morning, 05/01/2012 Part 2
Melanie Belle interviews Moe Stellrecht, who is a wetlands manager in the Mid Valley, and talks with Melanie about Wetlands, how they are managed, traded, developed and their role in the land use laws of Oregon.
Melanie in the Morning, 05/01/2012 Part 1
Melanie interviews Bill Burgess and Valerie Unger, the County Clerks for Marion and Polk counties to talk about their roles in the electoral process.
Melanie in the Morning, 04/24/2012
Melanie Belle Melanie interviews Tom O’connor, former head chaplan for Dept. of Corrections and now consultant for Transforming Corrections. We’ll be talking about the death penalty in Oregon. Is it time to repeal it for the third time?
Melanie in the Morning, 04/17/2012 Part 2
Melanie Belle interviews David Cobb , co-founder of Move to Amend, a growing movement committed to overturning the concept of Corporate Personhood.
Melanie in the Morning, 04/17/2012 Part 1
Melanie interviews Virginia Green, writer and historian, about the origins of Salem. The series will continue every Third Tuesday with a feature about an important Oregon Woman.
Melanie in the Morning, 04/10/2012
Melanie Belle hosts Julian Snow, local musician and Willamette University Music Instructor. We’ll talk about his latest music projects produced under the Warble Records label and how music distribution is changing. Julian wishes to clarify that his comparison of Peter DeGroot to Daniel Johnston relates to Peter’s brilliance and fecundity as a “lo-fi” songwriter. Peter is pretty normal psychologically.
Melanie in the Morning, 04/03/2012
Tuesday April 3, join Melanie and her guest Ellen Miller, Executive Director of the GEM Foundation. Find out about this relatively new organizatition and how it helps parents of children with special needs.
Melanie in the Morning, 03/27/2012
Join me and my guest A.P. Walther, long term resident of Salem, former Coffee House Cafe owner and publisher of the Salem Weekly. We’ll talk about life in Salem and issues facing Salem’s downtown.
Melanie in the Morning, 03/20/2012
Melanie interviews Jim Schepkke, state librarian emeritus, and Virginia Green, Salem historian about their new KMUZ88.5fm radio show SHINE on Salem. Their first show, about 1935, will air immediately after the interview.
Melanie in the Morning, 03/13/2012
Melanie interviews Max Marbles the Bookbinder who restores old valuable books and documents in the Willamette Heritage Center… he has some great insights to people through books and photos…
Melanie in the Morning, 03/06/2012
Melanie interviews Cy Eberhart, author of “Will Rogers: Discovering the Soul of America” in a lively interview about Will Rogers, the importance of play, and other social phenomenon.
Melanie in the Morning, 02/28/2012
Melanie interviews Tim Knight, former owner of Guitar Castle as they remember the renowned musician John Fahey (Tim and John were musical partners in the 90′s) and Knight’s own band and their recently released CD – Bohemian Enclave
Melanie in the Morning, 02/21/2012
Melanie interviews Willamette History Professor Bill Smalldone about his new book “European Socialism, a Concise History”, exploring the history of the social democratic movement in Europe and related ides. This is a fantastic interview!
Melanie in the Morning, 02/14/2012
Melanie interviews Diana Dickey and Lori Beamer, discussing a social experiment where people sign up to experience poverty first hand for a period of several weeks. Check it out learn about your community!
Melanie in the Morning, 02/07/2012
Melanie in the Morning interviews Adria Farina-Miller. Adria was one of the 48 “media specialists” laid off by Salem Keizer School Districts. Find out what “media specialists” did and what lessons our young children are missing in the “information age.”
Melanie in the Morning, 01/31/2012
Melanie talks about Salem municipal airport issues with Valerie Brown, coordinator of Oregon Aviation Watch for Salem. What is happening at McNary field and how does it affect you? Listen in and see!
Melanie in the Morning, 01/24/2012
Melanie interviews Tom O’Connor, former Head Chaplan of Oregon Department of Corrections and current consultant for Transforming Corrections. The topic: Importance of “making meaning in life” to predicting recidivism rates of inmates in the system.
Melanie in the Morning, 01/17/2012
Melanie’s guest is Kerry Topal, Marion Polk Move to Amend Affiliate Chair and their discussion covers Move-to-Amend, international cultural issues, activism, and more.
Melanie in the Morning, 01/10/2012
Melanie romps through an interview with Mike Perron and Dave Jenkins, creators of the Salem hit flick, Salemia.
Melanie in the Morning, 12/27/2011
Melanie interviews Kimberly Fanshier, who upon graduating from college, could not find a job and ended up working in an oil operation that included hydraulic fracking in North Dakota. She has an interesting story to tell.
Melanie in the Morning, 12/20/2011
Melanie interviews author Linda Lindholm about her book “Widow’s Key” dealing with loss and grief, with an emphasis in the discussion about dealing with the holidays.
Melanie in the Morning, 12/13/2011
Melanie interviews author and historian Gus Frederick about his book on the history of Silverton, the old family farm, and other cool stuff.

Fridays, 2-4 pm Playlists of this show are on Spinitron: Mash Up with Marc Playlists.
MashUp with Marc, Jan 13 2012 Part one of Podcast
MashUp with Marc, Jan 13 2012 Part 2 of Podcast
MashUp with Marc LIVE SHOW with country singer/songwriter Tom Arnold, Eugene Native via Alaska Robin Greene and from Vancouver via the midwest Dan Weber, trading songs and sharing stories all live…
Labor Day Interview/Performance with Melissa Greener, Part 1 Click for the Podcast
Labor Day Interview/Performance with Melissa Greener, Part 2 Click for the Podcast
MashUp with Marc Interviews Melissa Greener of Detroit, Nashville, and Austin about music and life, and she performs 9 songs LIVE ON THE AIR for us… Look for more explorations into the musical minds of artists from all over the country now that we’re on the air! whooopee!

Melissa Greener bringin’ it to us live on KMUZ!!

Chef at the Salem Saturday Market Click for the Podcast
KMUZ covers Chef Marc of Baklava Central - while he demonstrates his Zucchini Pancakes at the Salem Saturday Market. Look for more arts and cultural coverage when KMUZ gets back on the air after Halloweeen!!

Eric Lovre Click for the Podcast

The Eric Lovre Band - which grew out of the Dharma Bums – are featured before their appearance at the KMUZ Beggar’s Ball April 16th.

Please make your plans to join us!

Fixed and Dialated Click for the Podcast

KMUZ sat down with one of the featured bands at the upcoming Beggar’s Ball on April 16th. Fixed and Dilated – rumored to be the house band at Cafe Noir – will play along with the rest of the lineup at the Ball.

Please make your plans to join us!

Rich McCloud Click for the Podcast

Rich McCloud plays a few tunes and discusses his music in this podcast in advance of the upcoming Beggar’s Ball, April 16th at Cafe Noir, downtown Salem.

Rich brought his guitar along and played a few songs in-studio.

PLEASE NOTE: the third song contains some R-rated language! While it wouldn’t make the cut for actual airplay due to the language, it is perfectly legal to play on a podcast. Just don’t say you weren’t forewarned.

Find Rich McCloud here on Facebook.

Monoplane Click for the Podcast

In advance of the upcoming KMUZ Beggar’s Ball, we check in with headliner Monoplane. The band, consisting of Doug Hoffman, David Ballantyne, Mitch Duafa and Matt Hall, yuk it up with 70s music trivia, explain where the name ‘Monoplane’ came from and play some exquisitely thrashing tunes from their new CD.

Find Monoplane and ‘like’ them here on Facebook.

DSRP Click for the Podcast

Here’s another sampling of one of the musical acts that will be appearing at the KMUZ Beggar’s Ball on Saturday, April 16th. Daniel Rafn of D.S.R. spends some time discussing his music – and plays a few tunes for us. D.S.R. is set to play at about 5 PM on the 16th at Cafe Noir.

Click here to check out D.S.R.’s website and listen in on some more music!