Retro Radio celebrates 45th anniversary of Monterey Pop Festival

Retro Radio celebrates the 45th anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival this Saturday December 1st, starting at a special time, 12:30pm.

The 5 hour special features live recordings from that historic festival, that took place in Monterey, California in June of 1967. The festival featured Jefferson Airplane, The Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Byrds, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Simon & Garfunkel, Lou Rawls, Canned Heat, and more.

This special presentation originally aired on WJCU over the summer in a two part special. This Saturday, re-live it again as both parts of the special will air back-to-back starting at 12:30pm this Saturday December 1st on 88.7 WJCU and online at wjcu.org.

On the Air

Schedule Playlists

Indie Heat of Da Nite
Fresh Mix of Independent Music
The Thermals Our Power Doesn't Run on Nothing @5:47
Neutral Milk Hotel The King of Carrot Flowers pts. 2 @5:44
Sonic Youth Dirty Boots @5:38
The Bouncing Souls The Freak @5:35
Hot Water Music Driving Home @5:32
Death Cab for Cutie Cath... @5:28
The Decemberists The Mariner's Revenge Song @5:19
The Faint Total Job @5:16
Of Montreal So Begins Our Alabee @5:12
Patrick Wolf The Railwayhouse @5:10
Wolf Parade Fine Young Cannibals @5:03
The Mountain Goats Love Love Love @5:00

The Heights
@6 am Adult Album Alternative and Community News

New Letters on the Air

New Letters on the Air, from the University of Missouri Kansas City, is the half-hour radio companion to the literary quarterly magazine New Letters. Past guests include U.S. Poet Laureates Ted Kooser, Rita Dove, Billy Collins; Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tony Kushner; and novelists Jim Harrison, Jane Smiley, and Richard Russo. The program, which also features emerging writers of poetry, fiction, drama and creative non-fiction, is produced by the University of Missouri-Kansas City and distributed via the Public Radio Satellite System's Content Depot, and the Public Radio Exchange.
@12:30 pm w/Angela Elam - Poetry, Fiction, Drama, and Creative Non-Fiction